UNIT X UNIT 6 | 207 Use the Vocabulary A • Apply knowledge of vocabulary Direct students’ attention to the questions in Activity A. Explain to students that they will work with a partner to take turns to ask and answer each question in a complete sentence. Model item 1 using the sentence starter in the box. Call on a volunteer to read question 1 aloud. Say: I celebrate Independence Day by going to a baseball game and watching fireworks at night. ANSWERS Sample answers: 1. I celebrate Independence Day by going to a baseball game and watching fireworks at night. 2. The government’s job is to make laws and keep people safe. 3. People can honor a hero by putting up a statue or naming a building after them. 4. You mail a letter by writing the address on an envelope and putting a stamp on it. Then you take it to the post office or put it in your mailbox. 5. An education can help you better understand your career. An education might help you get further in your career or find a better job than if you didn’t have an education. 6. You need a recipe to cook because a recipe tells you how much of each ingredient to use and how to make the dish. 7. I know about Benjamin Franklin’s experiments with electricity where he flew a kite in a thunderstorm and it was struck by lightning. 8. Electricity can give us shocks that can hurt us and even kill us. • Connect to society Have students brainstorm if their school or sports clubs give out any honors. Discuss when and why honors are given. Develop Vocabulary: Find Similar Words A Build background knowledge Write Franklin invented many things on the board. Underline invented. Say: If I am not sure what invented means, I can use the dictionary to help me understand and find similar words. Direct students’ attention to the dictionary entry in their book and write the similar words on the board. Say: Use one of the words on the board to replace invented. (Franklin discovered many things.) ANSWERS Sample answer: Franklin created many things. B Use a dictionary Have students use an online dictionary to complete the activity. ANSWERS Sample answers: career: occupation, job, vocation, employment, work, livelihood; battle: fight, conflict, combat, encounter Practice Book pp. 112–113 Assessment Program p. 102 PRACTICE FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT DIFFERENTIATED INSTRUCTION Scaffold To support students with Activity B, you can add sticky notes to pages in the dictionary that contain the original words that students are looking for. Guide students to use the pages marked in the dictionary to find the words quicker. Practice finding several different words to that are similar to the original word. Amplify Have students explain the difference between the original vocabulary words and the words they find which are similar. Talk and write: New vocabulary Ask and answer with a partner: What career do you want to have? Write the meaning of career using your dictionary. Write a sentence. Use the Vocabulary A Answer the questions. 1. How do you celebrate Independence Day? 2. What is the government’s job? 3. How can people honor a hero? Think of two ways. 4. How do you mail a letter? 5. How can your education help you in your career? 6. Do you need a recipe to cook? Why? 7. What experiments do you know about? 8. How can electricity be dangerous? Develop Vocabulary Find Similar Words You can use a dictionary or a thesaurus to find words with similar meanings. A Read the sentence from Great Americans and the dictionary entry. Then, say the sentence using words to replace invent. Franklin invented many things. B Use a dictionary to find similar words for career and battle. Similar words for career are job, . . . SENTENCE STARTERS • I celebrate Independence Day by . . . • The government’s job is to . . . • People can honor a hero by . . . and . . . invent, / in 'vent / verb to create or think of something using the imagination Similar: create make discover develop 207 UNIT 6 UNIT X6 / BEFORE YOU READ
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