Get Ready to Read Look back at Stones

Get Ready to Read Look back at Stones, Bones and Petroglyphs. 1. Why is it important to learn about America’s past? 2. What do these students’ experiences in Mesa Verde help them learn about America’s past? 3. How can you learn about America’s past? 4. What can the work of archaeologists teach us about the passage of time and its effects? 5. Why is it important to remain inquisitive about America’s past?

Get Ready to Read Use the following words in sentences. Show that you know the meanings. Archaeologist Preserved Mesas Irrigate Anthropologist Inquisitive Potsherds Earthenware Dwelling Reconstruction

Read and Comprehend Graphic Sources Turn to page 241. What information is shown visually? • How do these graphic sources help you understand the selection? Reread the text on pages 240 -241. Name a type of graphic source you find helpful. The ancient Pueblo people lived in the Four Corners area in the past. • What have you learned this year about an ancient civilization somewhere else in the world? • What is Stones, Bones and Petroglyphs about? • Would you like to go on an archaeological dig?

Read and Comprehend Unknown Words Use a dictionary to determine the correct meaning of the word plazas on page 245. Graphic Sources Look at the photograph on page 244. What does it help you understand? On page 244 -245, we see two photos that help us understand the ideas. What is another selection where photographs were important? What qualities do you think an archaeologist needs to have?

Read and Comprehend Look at Space Tourism. What does the diagram show? In what type of text structure is Space Tourism written? What is the meaning of centrifuge? What advancements in travel do you think people found shocking before space travel?

Language Arts Action and Linking Verbs • The main word in the predicate is a verb • An action verb tells what the subject does • A linking verb links the subject with a word or words in the predicate that tell what the subject is or is like • A predicate nominate is a noun or pronoun that follows a linking verb and identifies or explains the subject Underline the action verbs and circle the linking verbs: 1. Dennis Tito traveled into space in 2001. 2. Richard Garriott was the sixth space tourist. 3. When space travel is cheaper, more tourists will venture into space.

Language Arts Write a final draft of your updated writing piece. If you finish in time, do the following: Write about an archaeologist who found an important clue to America’s past. Give details about what the find was, what it told the archaeologist and what he or she did with it.