Sacagaweas Journey

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Sacagaweas Journey
Open Court Level 5 / Unit 5-Going West/ Lesson 1
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• Story Vocabulary
• provisions
• capable
• portage
• desperation
• scouting

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• provisions use context clues
• The captains had taken charge of the final
  packing, carefully separating the maps, papers,
  and wildlife specimens that would be sent back to
  President Jefferson from the provisions that
  would go further up the Missouri with their Corps
  of Discovery.
• The explorers had enough provisions for a journey
  of six months. However, the food and supplies
  were difficult to carry.
• provisions supplies such as food, water, and
  medicine

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• capable - use context clues
• Sergeant Ordway became a capable commander
  whenever the captains were not around.
• Sacagawea was a capable guide. She had grown up
  along the Missouri River, so she knew all its
  twists and turns.
• capable skilled or able to do something well.

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• portage- use context clues
• Back at camp, he reported that there was no way
  to pass this point by water. They would have to
  organize a portage around the falls, but they had
  followed the true Missouri.
• A portage was required to get the boats around
  the fifty-foot waterfall. It took two days to
  carry the boats to a part of the river that was
  passable.
• portage the act of carrying boats over land when
  water passage is dangerous or impossible

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• desperation use context clues, word structure
• Finally, in desperation, Captain Lewis had
  mineral water brought from a nearby sulfur spring
  and poured it down her throat.
• In desperation, the men ran from the grizzly
• bear, frightened for their lives.
• desperation a hopeless feeling, when you
• are ready to try anything to help the situation

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• scouting use context clues, word structure
• Captain Clark and a few others
• moved ahead by land, scouting
• for signs of the Shoshones.
• Scouting for the best way to cross the river, the
  guide found a place where the channel was
  shallow.
• scouting when someone on a journey is
• going ahead to look for information

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Word Knowledge

• What do the following words have in common?
• explore to travel over new territory for
  discovery
• explorers How does the suffix -er change explore?
• exploring How does the suffix -ing change
  explore?
• exploration How does the suffix -tion change
  compete?
• These words build on the word explore, which
  comes from the combination of the Latin prefix
  ex- meaning out and word plorare meaning to
  cry. What other words contain the prefix ex- ?

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Word KnowledgeWhat do the following words have
in common?

• curtain
• campfire
• crime
• contact
• command

These words begin with the /k/ sound spelled c.
C is pronounced /k/ at the beginning of a word
when it is followed by a, o, u, and any consonant
except. What other words begin with the /k/
sound spelled c?
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Word KnowledgeWhat do the following words have
in common?
They are closed compounds, which is when two
words are placed together without a hyphen or a
space.

• afternoon
• homecoming
• hailstones
• rainstorm

Identify the single words in each compound word.
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Word KnowledgeWhat do the following words have
in common?

• plain plane
• waist waste
• herd heard

These words are homophones. Homophones are words
that are pronounced the same but have different
meanings.
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Sentence Analysis

• The exploration party buried a cache of food near
  the campfire.

Which word is derived from explore? Which words
begin with the /k/ sound spelled c?
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Sentence Analysis

• This afternoon there was a shower of hailstones
  outside.

Identify the closed compound words in the
sentence. afternoon, hailstones, outside
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Sentence Analysis

• From the window of the plane, we could see the
  river winding through the plains.

Identify the homophones. plane, plain
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