2. Open Court 5th grade Unit 5, Less. 3; Michelle Wohlgemuth--Cawston Elementary “The Journal of Wong Ming-Chung” Vocabulary claim levee rocker prospect nugget

3. Open Court 5th grade Unit 5, Less. 3; Michelle Wohlgemuth--Cawston Elementary claim In 1852 he joins his Uncle on a gold claim outside of San Francisco. The gold prospectors built a shack on their claim. Context clues claim: a section of land declared as belonging to one person or group of people

4. Open Court 5th grade Unit 5, Less. 3; Michelle Wohlgemuth--Cawston Elementary levee He decides to take his company to the Sacramento Delta to build levees. The levee on the riverbank protected our town from flooding. Context clues levee: an embankment built along a river to keep the river from overflowing.

5. Open Court 5th grade Unit 5, Less. 3; Michelle Wohlgemuth--Cawston Elementary rocker The only signs that humans had been here were the rotting rockers and ruined shacks. During the Gold Rush, prospectors used rockers to separate gold from soil. Context clues, word structure rocker: a device used to separate gold from sand and dirt

6. Open Court 5th grade Unit 5, Less. 3; Michelle Wohlgemuth--Cawston Elementary prospect This morning he told the Fox that he was going to stay and prospect. Uncle said he would search around here for a new claim. During the Gold Rush, many people moved to California to prospect. Context clues, word structure prospect: to look for gold

7. Open Court 5th grade Unit 5, Less. 3; Michelle Wohlgemuth--Cawston Elementary nugget I said that the owner had probably thought there would be nuggets just waiting to be picked upriver. “Maybe even big as melons,” Uncle had to laugh. Her favorite necklace was a gold nugget on a string. Context clues nugget: a solid lump

8. Open Court 5th grade Unit 5, Less. 3; Michelle Wohlgemuth--Cawston Elementary Spelling pattern -ent or -ant 1.agent 2.tolerant 3.resident 4.present 5.assistant 6.different 7.permanent 8.prominent 9.apparent 10. dependent 11. confident 12. represent 13. violent 14. recent 15. continent 16. immigrant 17. important 18. protectant 19. insistent 20. hesitant

9. Open Court 5th grade Unit 5, Less. 3; Michelle Wohlgemuth--Cawston Elementary Word Knowledge What do these words have in common? writing glittering spending climbing They all end in -ing. Words ending in –ing are the participle forms of verbs. They can function as verbs, adjectives, or nouns (called gerunds). Example: I was spending money (verb). I went on a spending spree (adj). Spending money frivolously is dangerous (gerund). Can you come up with your own examples of 3 sentences using the same word as a verb, adj., and gerund?

10. Open Court 5th grade Unit 5, Less. 3; Michelle Wohlgemuth--Cawston Elementary Root word mount mountparamountmountainmountaineer The root word mount comes from the Latin word montmons, meaning “to project or threaten” Use the Latin root to develop your own definition of the word mount. Can you think of other words that contain mount as either a noun or a verb? Prefixes and suffixes change the meaning of root words. For example, mount means “a hill or rising of land,” and the prefix para- means “closely related to.” Therefore, paramount means “something of high status” or “very important.”

11. Open Court 5th grade Unit 5, Less. 3; Michelle Wohlgemuth--Cawston Elementary / l/ spelled -le Uncle trampleamble grumble regrettable Can you think of other words that have this spelling? Notice: a consonant precedes (comes before) this spelling. BONUS QUESTION: Can you think of a suffix that contains this spelling pattern?

12. Open Court 5th grade Unit 5, Less. 3; Michelle Wohlgemuth--Cawston Elementary Spelling Patterns What do these words have in common? immigrant protectant insistent hesitant

13. Open Court 5th grade Unit 5, Less. 3; Michelle Wohlgemuth--Cawston Elementary -ing words He was writing about spending the glittering gold. What words have -ing? Notice: Writing is used as a verb. When –ing words are used as verbs they always have a helping verb. Helping verbs are forms of the verb “to be.”

14. Open Court 5th grade Unit 5, Less. 3; Michelle Wohlgemuth--Cawston Elementary Root Words It is paramount that the climber make it to the mountain peak before the sun sets. Identify the words with the root word mount. Can you make up your own sentence using these words?

15. Open Court 5th grade Unit 5, Less. 3; Michelle Wohlgemuth--Cawston Elementary With a chuckle, Uncle copied me. Which words have the / l/ sound spelled –le? / l/ spelled -le

16. Open Court 5th grade Unit 5, Less. 3; Michelle Wohlgemuth--Cawston Elementary Suffix -ant The Statue of Liberty was a welcome sight for an immigrant arriving in the United States. Which word has the suffix -ant?