Unit 2- Chapter 1 Notes
- The theme of Unit 2- Chapter 1 is discovery (to find something).
- Theme- lesson or message from the story.
- Revise- to change something to make it better
- Confirm- to make sure something is right by checking it
- Reading Strategy: Making Predictions
When you make predictions, you try to guess what will happen next.
- Text Genre: Play
The features of a play are: scene, act, narrator, and stage directions
Reading Questions Page 79
1. Six characters Little Red Ant speaks to are Cat, Mouse, Deer, Second Ant, Third Ant, and Fourth Ant.
2. The setting of both the first and last scenes of the play is inside the ants’ hole. Setting = time and place of a story
3. *****TEST****
3 sentence summary-
The Little Red Ant wants to go out to see which one is the strongest. The ant asks each character if they are the strongest. The ant learned that everything is stronger than something else.**THEME
4. Some phrases the characters repeat are:
· Are you the strongest of all?
· No, I am not the strongest.
· Who is stronger than you?
· Here it comes!
5. Each character has a different idea of who is the strongest one because no one is the strongest. Everything is stronger than something else.
Circles and Circumference
-A symbol is something that represents something else.
= pi
Key Vocabulary: circular, consist, distance, ratio
Reading Strategy: Talk through a problem- putting the problem in your own words
Text Genre: Math Textbook
The four features of a math textbook are: chapter headings, words in bold, examples, and exercises
Circumference- the distance around any circle
Radius- a segment (piece) that connects the center of the circle
Diameter- a chord that passes through the center of a circle
Circumference of a Circle:
C = d
C = 2r
Page 85- Questions 1-4
1. The ancient Greeks discovered pi.
2. The relationship between a radius and diameter is the length of a diameter is TWICE the length of a radius OR the radius is HALF the length of a diameter.
3. Formulas for circumference of a circle:
C = d
C = 2r
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