The Fire Builder

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The Fire Builder

• Open Court Unit 1_Lesson 1

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Word Knowledge

• Line 1 signal significant mimic pantomime
• Line 2 beliefs cliffs wolves knives
• Line 3 swiftly abruptly goodwill
  friendship
• Line 4 cosmos disappeared reasoning
  fearlessness
• S1 The insignia of four gold stars indicates a
  generals ranking in the U.S. Army.
• S2 Amaroq, the Wolf is a story from the book
  Julie of the Wolves
• S3 Take this cookie before the dog seizes it
  from your hand.
• S4 He gave a look of fearlessness, but his
  quickening heartbeat told him that he was afraid.

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Vocabulary

• ambrosia (am-bro-sia) a sweet-smelling
  substance (pg. 47)
• conserve (con-serve) save (pg. 34)
• cosmos ( cos-mos) universe (pg. 32)
• dispelled (dis-pelled) driven away (pg. 43)
• semaphore (sem-a-phore) a signal made with
  hand-held flags or lights (pg. 43)

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Spelling Words Short Vowel sounds

1. withstand
2. rapid
3. mathematics
4. ancestor
5. accent
6. athletic
7. significant
8. possible
9. establish
10. publish

1. object
2. dismiss
3. shipwreck
4. suspense
5. messenger
6. gesture
7. segment
8. tinder
9. stiffness
10. expression