ELA - Fluency Practice and Homework Assignments

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Parent, please initial each night after listening to your child read. Thank you! Also, students are responsible for the daily work on the back of this page.

My child has read the primary source below with fluency and expression.

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In the time of the first planting of corn there will come a tribe from the bay of the Chesapeake. This tribe will build their longhouses on the land of the Powhatan. They will hunt and fish and plant on the land of the Powhatan. Three times the Powhatan will rise up against this tribe. The first battle will end and the Powhatan will be victorious. But the tribe will grow strong again. The Powhatan will rise up. The second battle will end and the Powhatan will be victorious. But the tribe will grow strong once more. The third battle will be long and filled with bloodshed. By the end of this battle, the Powhatan kingdom will be no more.

-Prophecy delivered to Chief Powhatan, ruler of the Powhatan empire, by his trusted priests, sometime before the Christian year 1607 Source: Blood on the River: James Town 1607 by Elisa Carbone – Chapter 1, page 1 DIRECTIONS: Read the prophecy aloud and have your parent initial each night. You will need to bring this handout daily to class in order to discuss and analyze with your peers.

Monday: According to Dictionary.com, a “prophecy is the foretelling or the prediction or what is to become.” The prophecy delivered to Chief Powhatan is a primary source. Primary sources are original documents, official records, or physical objects created by individuals who participated in, or witnessed, past events. The following are examples of primary sources: diaries, journals, advertisements, buildings, artwork, cartoons, court records, clothing, letters, receipts, recipes, tools, speeches, tombstones, wills, newspapers, oral histories, interviews, etc.

1. What type of primary document is this? ______

2. Why do you think this document was written? Use evidence from the text to support your answer. ______

Tuesday: Summarize the prophecy in your own words.

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Wednesday: 1. Name two or more things that are important about the prophecy and why.

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Thursday: 1. What does this document tell the reader about life at the time it was written? ______

2. What questions do you have about this document? ______

Rockin’ Researcher: According to www.oceanservice.noaa.gov,” the Chesapeake Bay is the largest estuary in the United States.” What is an estuary? ______

Where is the Chesapeake Bay located? ______