Week 1:

Essential Question: What is a Community?

Writing Skill: Narrative Essays

Vocabulary Words: composer, outdoorsy, primly, residents, adjust, tucked, transform, gazing, squawk, constructed, plenty, shuffling

Grammar Skill: Review Verb Tenses

Spelling Words: (Words with Suffixes -er, -or)

emperor, character, visitor, inventor, soldier, actors, painters, players

Week 2:

Essential Question: What is a Community?

Writing Skill: Historical Fiction

Vocabulary Words: current, firsthand, witness, characteristic, culture, geographical location, history, unique, founded, realtor

Grammar Skill: Possessives

Spelling Words: (Homophones)

board, bored, do, due, tail, tale, wood, would, wear, where, eight, ate

Week 3:

Essential Question: What is a Community?

Writing Skill: Historical Fiction

Vocabulary Words: plow, midwestern, wind, whickering, prairie, scattered, hooted, crept, hitch, dawn

Grammar Skills: Speaker & Quotation Marks

Spelling Words: (Words with Variant Vowel /o/)

crawl, ought, pause, straws, pitfall, thawing, called, taught