5.2.2 WW Quiz, "People on the Move," Conjunctions

Word Work Quiz, "People on the Move" Close Read, Conjunctions

Lesson 5.2.2

Reading:
"People on the Move" Close Read

Learners can:

• identify a text's structure

• identify the main idea and key details in select passages

• When a text is structured by description, it will introduce the topic in the first sentence and then give examples and data to support it

• This structure can be also called "Definition" if a word is defined in the topic sentence.

Text Structures

​Description

​Chronological

• ​Chronological or sequence organization refers to a text structure in which events are told in time order or in a step-by-step process.

In a compare-and-contrast structure, a text highlights how two topics are similar and different.

​​Compare and Contrast

In a problem-and-solution structure, the author first starts the text by describing an issue and whom it affects

Then, by the end of the text, they talk about ways to solve the problem.

Problem and Solution

​Text Structures Cont.

​When a text is organized by cause and effect, it means that it shows how one event creates or impacts the next one.

​Cause and Effect

• Look at the headings from Chapter 1

• Each of the headings, “Our Ancestors on the Move,” “The First Settlements,” and “Resources for Settlements,” addresses an aspect of human migration

• Each of these sections works to give more detail about the main topic, so this chapter's structure would be considered description-based

Structure

Just like there is an overall structure for a text, each paragraph has its own structure, too. Take a look at the first section of Chapter 1. Because the text is set up in time order, it can be classified as having a chronological structure.

Paragraph Structure

​The heading "Our Ancestors on the Move" helps readers identify the general topic of the section. This section will be about the history of people moving from place to place.

​Notice how words like "first," "then," and "later" are used to show the order of events.

​Notice how the text uses specific dates to help you follow important events and the order in which they occur.

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is the best classification for this paragraph's structure?

• cause and effect

• chronological

• compare and contrast

• description

Main and Supporting Details

​The highlighted section is the main idea because it is the overall topic of this paragraph. This main idea is directly or explicitly stated. The text says, "In densely populated regions . . . much of the landscape had been artificially created by people."

​Then, the paragraph includes three supporting details. The first detail explains how long people in Europe have been modifying the landscape, the second detail explains why people changed the landscape, and the third detail gives another example of an artificial landscape.

​It is important to notice that each of the supporting details connects back to the main claim about the landscape's modification over time.

If you are writing and notice that not all of your details connect back to your main idea, you might have included irrelevant information that can be eliminated.

Multiple Choice

What is the main idea of the following excerpt?

• "Today in China, millions of people are leaving their rural homes to live in cities where they hope to find better jobs, and are able to send money home to support their families."

• "Migration can be voluntary because people have chosen to move, but it can also be forced, due to war or environmental disasters."

• "Human migration is the movement of groups of people from one place in the world to another for the same reason."

• "During the 1500s and 1600s, migrants left Europe to travel to the Americas, or 'New World,' in search of gold and silver, or more land and a better life."

Writing: Conjunctions

Learners can:

• identify coordinating and subordinating conjunctions

• combine clauses to create compound and complex sentences

• If you wrote short, independent clauses all the time, your writing might look like this:

  • I like soccer. My friend likes lacrosse. My sister likes lacrosse, too.

• While using simple sentences can be effective, using too many in a row can make your reader uninterested in what you are writing. 

• One way to fix this is by connecting your ideas:

  • I like soccer, but my friend and my sister like lacrosse.

• This sentence includes the same information, but the connecting words “but” and “and” help blend the sentences together.

• These connecting words are called conjunctions.

Conjunctions

• Coordinating conjunctions connect two equally structured pieces of information.

  • Example: My friend and my sister like lacrosse.

  • Here, “and” is used to connect the two similar phrases, “my friend” and “my sister”

• Coordinating conjunctions can also be used to connect two independent clauses.

• One way to remember them is to think of the acronym FANBOYS.

Coordinating Conjunctions

• Subordinating conjunctions connect two clauses that are not equal, and they appear at the beginning of a dependent clause.

  • Example: Even though Harry is going to the movies, Charlotte is going to the park.

  • Here, “even though” makes the first clause dependent

• When you connect a dependent clause and an independent clause, that is called a complex sentence.

Subordinating Conjunctions

Categorize

Options (6)

for

or

so

because

until

if

Sort the conjunctions according to how they function.

Coordinating

Subordinating

Word Work: Quiz!

You CANNOT submit this section of the edio lesson blank today!!!

• The rest of class is independent work time to complete your Word Work Quiz

• Once you have completed and submitted your quiz, the rest of class is choice time. You can be working on:

  • iReady Reading Practice

  • Silent Reading

  • Overdue Edio Lessons

Quiz and Choice Time!