1. LEAD21 Unit 3: Community Life Week 1 Day 1

2. Spelling Words shop rush chip bunch with thin pitch itch thought when 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

3. Challenge Words dishwasher marshmallow hopscotch sandwich touchdown 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. kitchen 7.stopwatch 8.another 9.breath 10. clothes

4. Theme Question: What makes a good community? Is your community big or small? Is it a city or a town? What kinds of buildings, places, jobs, and transportation does your community have? How is your community similar to or different from other nearby communities?

5. Theme Vocabulary O Resources are things that can be sold or used to make other things. Example: Water and land are important resources for farmers. O Population is the number of people living in a place. Example: The population of the United States is about 300 million people. O Need is to have to have something. Example: People need food in order to stay alive.

6. Prepare to Read Theme VocabTheme Vocab-resources, population, need A Community Like Mine-nonfiction book about real communities, pages 4-11  A community is a place where people live, work, and do things together. How is the picture like our community?  What do you see? Which are found in our community? How will this chapter help answer the Theme Question: What makes a place good for building a community?

7. Phonics /ôr/ /ôr/ spelled or, ore, oar, oor, our forcore roar floor your Dora and I went to the sports store. Near the door we saw an oar. We saw four snowboards on the floor.

8. High Frequency Words: friends, out, tall, walking Decodable Reader #12: “Mack and Nick” Fluency: “This is the Place!” Practice Page 146

9. Writing– Biography Read Writing Models Chart p. 16-19 “Pierre L’Enfant” O Why is Pierre L’Enfant famous? O What else did you learn about Pierre L’Enfant?

10. Writing– Write a Biography Characteristics of Good Biography: O Tells about the important events and experiences in another person’s life. O Usually is about a person who is famous or has done something special. O Tells why this person and these events are important. O Tells events in the order in which they happened. O Written in the third person; uses the pronoun he or she.

11. Early Years Born in France in 1754 Studied art; became architect 1777 Joined American Army Liked George Washington’s ideas 1791 Published plans for design of Washington, D.C Designed buildings, streets, statues 1825 Died Sequence Events