Ten Mile Day Day 1

What challenges do immigrants encounter?

Discuss the question of the week with your partner What things would be difficult for you if you went to a foreign country? Have you known any new immigrants, or seen them in books or movies?

Turn to page Let’s look at the pictures. What are the immigrants in this picture doing?

Immigrants have to learn about their new country to become citizens. They learn the language and culture.

Concept Map Let’s add New Country, New Language, and New Culture to our concept map.

What does the Statue of Liberty stand for? It is an emblem for welcoming new people to America. Most immigrants are anxious and excited about coming to their new country.

What do you think these immigrants are thinking about? Immigrants probably miss their homeland and family. They may be anxious about finding work in America. Let’s add Missing their homeland and Finding work to our concept map

What challenges do immigrants encounter? This week we will be reading about immigrants facing different challenges.

Listen: The story Journey to Ellis Island is about an immigrant family’s experience at Ellis Island. Listen for the words: Immigration Ellis Island Belongings anxiously

Immigration- means moving from one country to another People came to Ellis Island as a checkpoint for their immigration. Teach your partner what this amazing word means.

Ellis Island- a small island in the harbor of New York. In the past, it was the entry point for immigrants to the United States My grandfather came through Ellis Island when he came from Ireland to the United States. Teach your partner what this amazing word means

belongings- things that someone owns, their possessions He packed all of his belongings in a suitcase and left for America. anxiously- means having fears about what might happen Georgia waited anxiously to give her speech before the student body. Teach these words to your partner.

An effect is something that happens. What question can we ask to identify an effect? We should ask “what happened?”

A cause is why something happens. What question can we ask to identify a cause? We can ask “Why did this happen?” What other clue words can we look for?

Take a look at page EI-5. We are going to read “Coming to the United States”

Today as we read about immigrants who come to the United States, we will look for cause-and- effect relationships. Let’s read together. At the end of paragraph 2, we learn that many immigrants came to the United States between 1880 and Then the text asks, “Why?” Since we ask “Why” to identify a cause, we can predict that the cause will be in paragraph 3. Look in paragraph 3. Why did so many immigrants come?

With your partner read the story “Coming to the United States.” Don’t stop until I tell you to. Read aloud either together or one at a time. Make sure to use good pacing and correct voice inflection

Barren- unable to produce fruit Syn-fruitless The farmer’s trees were barren and looked empty in the field. Deafening- very loud Syn-earsplitting The jet roared over the house with a deafening roar.

Lurched- rolled suddenly Syn-blundered The car lurched forward in the garage. Previous- occurs before in time Syn- earlier She enjoyed the previous show better.

Prying- to look at closely Syn-inquiring The girl looked into the closet with prying eyes. Surveying- looking carefully at Syn-appraise He was surveying the hill for his cat.

Contractions This week we will use words that are a shortened form of two words. They contain apostrophes that show where letters have been left out.

Examples: Didn’t Wouldn’t They’re

Let’s take our spelling pretest now.

Lets take a look at our Daily Fix it

Collective nouns are nouns that represent groups of people. Army audience board class company Corporation council department firm Group jury majority navy school team

Take two minutes and write as many words as you can think of under each of the headings (common nouns, proper nouns, collective nouns) BEGIN

While the music plays, walk around and find a friend, take one of their words, give one of yours. Then move on to another friend, take one of their words, give one of yours. When the music stops, sit down in your seat.

Start Now

Now, look over the list with your partner. Do all the words on yours lists fit in the columns? If not, put them where they belong.

This week you will write an expository composition. An expository composition is a nonfiction writing that informs readers about a topic.

An expository composition tells about: Real people Real events Gives readers a description about something Gives readers an explanation about something

Expository compositions contain: An introduction with a topic sentence Body with main idea and supporting details conclusion