Monday, Oct.6
1)Reviewed character trait words
2) Spelling Rule #5 & practice
3) Read “The Zoo” pg. 131 in the Crossroads textbook.
Discuss questions 1, 2, 4 that follow it. Complete the
questions on the board.
Double the final consonant when the word is
just one syllable, the last two letters are ONE
vowel and ONE consonant, and you add a
suffix that begins with a vowel (such as –ing,
-ed,-er,-est,-al,-y)
Swim, swimming, swimmer
Drag, dragging, dragged
Hot, hotter, hottest
Rob, robbing, robber
Mop + ing
Act + ed
Write + ing
Shop + ed
Whip + ed
Warm + est
Jog + er
Talk + er
Nap + ing
Sap + y
Intention + al
Mug + y
Hope + ing
Hop + er
Ski +er
The Zoo
• Use only context clues (clues from the sentences
before and after the word) to define the words
below:
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Clutch (pg. 131)
Clustered (pg. 132)
Scurried (pg.133)
Babbled (pg. 133)
Garments (pg. 133)
Embrace (pg. 133)
Commocs (pg. 133)
Setting and Character Analysis
• 1) What is the setting (time & place) of this
story?
• 2) Describe the characters using details found
in the story. You can use things they say/do,
what the narrator says about them, and what
others say about them. Aim for 3 descriptions
of each.
• Professor Hugo
Creatures
Summarize
• 3) Summarize (retell in your own words) the
main events of the story in NO MORE than 10
sentences.
1st - The interplanetary zoo came to Chicago
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