Unit 4 Week 4 Deep-Sea Danger Reading 6th Grade

Vocabulary Words

  1. ego a person’s idea of his or her own importance or worth
  2. hatch a door or opening in the floor or ceiling of something, especially on a boat or other craft
  3. intrepid very brave; bold
  4. propulsion the force by which something, such as a ship, is moved forward
  5. silt very fine particles of earth or sand, carried by moving water and deposited as sediment
  6. submersible a submarine; underwater
  7. tentacles long, slender, flexible growths, usually occurring on the head or around the mouth of an animal, used to touch, hold, or move

More Words to Know (Greek and Latin Roots)

A root is a word part that gives a word its basic meaning. Prefixes and suffixes are added to roots to form words. Words in a word family share the same root. Many roots in English have come from other languages, especially Greek and Latin.

Root / Origin / Meaning / Examples
mers
gram
functio / Latin
Greek
Latin / dip or plunge
drawn or written
perform / submersible
program
functional
  1. emerge to move out; to rise or come forth from
  2. immerse to dip or plunge into
  3. emergency serious situation
  4. malfunction not work correctly
  5. merge join together; blend; unite

Comprehension Skill: Draw Conclusions

  • When you draw a conclusion, you form a reasonable opinion about what you have read. Use what you know about real life to help you draw conclusions.
  • Be sure that there are enough facts and pieces of information in the text to support your conclusions.

Drama isa story written to be performed by actors for an audience.

  • Characters are people who take part in the action.
  • Dialogue is the words characters say; the words of each character appear next to the character’s name.
  • The script is a printed form of the play.
  • Stage Directions are sets of bracketed information that tell what the stage looks like and how the characters should move and speak.
  • The set is the construction on stage that suggests the time and place of the action.
  • Props are the movable items such as a book, a suitcase, or a flashlight, that the actors use to make their actions look realistic.
  • Acts are units of the action in a drama.
  • A scene is a section of uninterrupted action in the act of a drama.

Text-Based Response

  • Look Back and Write (Pg. 132, #5) Look at page 131 to find out who is in the final picture. Explain how and why the picture at the beginning of the play is different. Provide evidence to support your answer.