A Royal Mystery

A Royal Mystery

Play

Big Idea

  • We never stop learning.

Essential Question

  • How can art and performance help people understan a text?

Target Vocabulary

  1. interior - the inside of a space, such as a home or building
  2. honored - accepting or enjoying respect or distinction
  3. primitive - simple; unsophisticated or crude
  4. immersed - fully absorbed or occupied
  5. contagious - spread by contact; communicable
  6. discomfort - distress or unease
  7. secretive - concealing; not open or frank
  8. brandishing - waving about in a bold or daring manner
  9. bungled - botched; handled badly
  10. imprinted - marked on a surface by printing or pressure


Comprehension

Target Skill

Theme- The big idea or lesson the author wants the reader to know.

Question - Students can stop at any point while reading to ask questions. Asking questions can lead to a deeper understanding of the author’s ideas.

Characterization – Refers to the ways in which an author shows what a character is like. We learn about characters from details in the text. You can better understand a character by analyzing what they say, how they say it, what they do, and how they inter act with each other.

Elements of a Drama – Plays are divided into scenes, in the same way that books are divided into chapters. Scenes fit together to form the structure of the plot.

Accuracy - Good readers know they may have made a mistake when something they read does not make sense.


Spelling / Decoding

  • Long a and Long e
  • awake feast stray greet
  • praise disease repeat display
  • braces thief ashamed sleeve
  • waist beneath sheepish release
  • remain sway training niece


Vocabulary Strategies

  • Prefixes– un, dis, mis
  • Greek and Latin affixes are added to base words or root words to change the word’s meaning. Un, dis, and misall mean “not” or “wrong”.

Grammar

  • Kinds of Sentences-
  • imperative sentence gives an order and ends with a period
  • exclamatory sentence expresses strong feeling and ends with an exclamation point
  • declarative sentence tells something and ends with a period interrogative sentence asks something and ends with a question mark

Writing

Writing a Description

• A description has a lead sentence that introduces the topic and main idea and grabs the reader’s attention.

• It has supporting sentences tell events in order and include sensory words, or words and details that appeal to the five senses.

• It has a closing sentence that shows the writer’s attitude toward the experience.