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Unit 3.1 Hatchet
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Vocabulary Words:
1. hatchet – a small ax with a short handle, for use with one hand
2. ignite – to set on fire
3. painstaking – very careful; particular; diligent
4. quill – a stiff, sharp hair or spine like the pointed end of a feather
5. registered – to have made some effect; to have made an impression
6. smoldered – burned and smoked without flame
7. stiffened – to have been made or become rigid; fixed
More Words to Know:
1. exasperation –extreme annoyance; irritation; anger
2. imbedded – enclosed in a surrounding mass; fastened or fixed firmly
3. flammable – easily set on fire
4. blustery - blowing violently
5. temperatures – degrees of heat or cold
6. tracks - footprints
Spelling:
Unusual Spellings
Comprehension Skill:
Sequence
Grammar:
Principal Parts of Regular Verbs
Comprehension Strategy:
Visualize
Writing Trait of the Week:
Conventions
Science Standards:
Organisms in Ecosystems
Interdependence
Vocabulary Strategy:
Word Structure - endings
Spelling Words:
1. crescent
2. language
3. vehicle
4. exhibit
5. examine
6. Michigan
7. parachute
8. unique
9. conquer
10. rhyme
11. penguin
12. exertion
13. exotic
14. brochure
15. symptom
16. antique
17. exhausted
18. heirloom
19. rhinoceros
20. bureau