The City of Ember
The City of Ember
Citizens of Ember shall be assigned work at twelve years of age... Lina Mayfleet desperately wants to be a messenger. Instead, she draws the dreaded job of Pipeworks laborer which means she'll be working in damp tunnels deep underground. Doon Harrow draws messenger and asks Lina to trade! Doon wants to be underground. That's where the generator is, and Doon has ideas about how to fix it. For as long as anyone can remember, the great lights of Ember have kept the endless darkness at bay. But now the lights are beginning to flicker.
Character Analysis
Summarizing Fiction
Elements of Fiction
Inferencing
I can summarize fiction texts.
I can make inferences using my background knowledge and text details.
4.RF.1 - Apply foundational reading skills to build reading fluency and comprehension.
4.RL.1 - Read and comprehend a variety of literature within a range of complexity appropriate for grades 4-5. By the end of grade 4, students interact with texts proficiently and independently at the low end of the range and with scaffolding as needed at the high end.
4.RV.1 - Build and use accurately general academic and content-specific words and phrases.
4.RV.2.1 - Apply context clues (e.g., word, phrase, sentence, and paragraph clues) and text features (e.g., charts, headings/subheadings, font/format) to determine the meanings of unknown words.
4.RL.4.1 - Describe how visual and multimedia presentations and representations can enhance the meaning of a text.
In-class student resources are teacher-based novel units. They are available upon request.
The City of Ember Chapter Read Alouds
Blooket
EdPuzzle
Google Apps
Interactive Notebook Materials
Baamboozle
WordWall
Reading Counts