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Compare and Contrast Comprehension: Compare and Contrast Read the Selection Below Lesson 16 PRACTICE BOOK Name Date The Real Vikings Compare and Contrast Comprehension: Compare and Contrast Read the selection below. Vikings and Pirates Vikings and pirates led similar lives traders, and settlers. Many had families at sea. Yet, they are unique groups of as well. people with their own stories to tell. Unlike Vikings, pirates didn’t focus Both Vikings and pirates carried out their robbery in one area. They raided their thievery at sea, taking goods from ships in many parts of the world. The late other ships by force. They led exciting 1600s to the early 1700s is known as the and adventurous lives, but they also “Golden Age of Piracy,” but pirate ships experienced danger and poverty. have been around for as long as people Vikings came from Scandinavia, have been sailing to trade goods. Vikings which includes the countries of Norway, do not exist today, but pirates are still a Sweden, and Denmark. They mostly problem. raided European ships between 800 and Vikings and pirates are two similar 1050 A.D. This is known as the “Viking groups with their own unique place in Age.” Vikings were also craftsmen, poets, history. Fill in the Venn diagram to compare and contrast Vikings and pirates. VikingsBoth Pirates Introduce Comprehension 181 Grade 6, Unit 4: Treasures of the Ancient World © Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved. 66_246475NLEPB_U4W1_IntroComp.ind181_246475NLEPB_U4W1_IntroComp.ind181 118181 112/14/092/14/09 44:24:04:24:04 PPMM First Pass Lesson 16 PRACTICE BOOK Name Date The Real Vikings Compare and Contrast Comprehension: Compare and Contrast Read the selection below. Viking Ships The Vikings are well known for only his eyes to help him figure out the their dragon-headed longships. Most of ship’s shape and size. This unique way of the time, these boats were used to carry building was the secret of the Viking ships. soldiers on their raids. However, some The finished ships were light and flexible, longships were used as burial ships for the which made them very seaworthy. The rich and powerful. Vikings’ method of ship making has been At first it was thought that these tested in the present day. The longships ships were made in the same way as were easier to move in the water than modern ships—by nailing wood boards to modern sailboats. a frame. However, when archaeologists The Vikings’ ship-building skills found actual Viking burial ships and led them to develop other ships, such as studied them, they discovered that the an ocean cargo vessel used for trading. Viking ships were put together by a Despite the success of later ships, it is the simple process of nailing one plank famous “dragon ship” that is most often onto another plank. The boats had no connected with the Vikings. frames. The ship builder would have had Use a Venn diagram to compare and contrast Viking longships and modern-day boats. Then answer the questions. 1. What makes the construction of Viking ships different from the construction of modern-day ships? 2. Which words in the selection are signal words used to contrast modern-day ship building with Viking ship building? 3. Why do you think the Vikings are so well known for their ship building? Deepen Comprehension 182 Grade 6, Unit 4: Treasures of the Ancient World © Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved. 66_246475NLEPB_U4W1_DeepenComp.in182_246475NLEPB_U4W1_DeepenComp.in182 118282 112/14/092/14/09 44:27:04:27:04 PPMM First Pass Lesson 16 PRACTICE BOOK Name Date The Real Vikings Word Origins Vocabulary Strategies: Word Origins Many English words come from other languages. Read each hint below, and fill in the blank with the word that it describes from the box. Then write a sentence using each word. You may use a dictionary to help. jurist bachelor brunette labyrinth addendum al dente 1. This word comes from the Latin root that means to judge: . 2. The French origin of this word means brown: . 3. The Latin origin of this word means to add: . 4. This word from Italian means slightly underdone: . 5. In Old French this word referred to a young squire: . 6. This word comes from the Greek for maze: . Vocabulary Strategies 183 Grade 6, Unit 4: Treasures of the Ancient World © Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved. 66_246475NLEPB_U4W1_VocabStrat.in183_246475NLEPB_U4W1_VocabStrat.in183 118383 112/14/092/14/09 44:30:35:30:35 PPMM First Pass Lesson 16 PRACTICE BOOK Name Date The Real Vikings Suffixes: -ent, -ant Spelling: Suffixes: -ent, -ant Basic Write the Basic Words that best fit the spaces in each sentence pair. Spelling Words 1–2. Mom could sense my and hesitation 1. confi dent before the art show. I was always to 2. confi dence show my art to other people. 3. fragrant 3–4. Mom always says that I need to build my . 4. fragrance I’ve never been that in my drawings. 5. excellent 5–6. My friend Steve is a artist. It’s easy to be 6. excellence envious of his . 7. decent 7–8. I felt a little better when my classmates said that my art was 8. decency . Maybe they are just practicing common 9. truant . 10. truancy 9–10. Wow! I was awarded a fi rst-place ribbon for 11. brilliant . This has turned out to be an 12. brilliance day! 13. resident 11–12. I didn’t want my pride to be too , so I 14. residence kept my thoughts to myself, but my enormous smile was 15. evident of how happy I was. 16. evidence 17. occupant Challenge Write a paragraph about a family outing on a lake. Use 18. occupancy the four Challenge Words. Write on a separate sheet of paper. 19. reluctant 20. reluctance Challenge inconvenient inconvenience buoyant buoyancy Spelling 184 Grade 6, Unit 4: Treasures of the Ancient World © Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved. 66_246475NLEPB_U4W1_Spell-D1.indd184_246475NLEPB_U4W1_Spell-D1.indd184 118484 112/14/092/14/09 44:32:28:32:28 PPMM First Pass Lesson 16 Name Date PRACTICE BOOK The Real Vikings Spelling Word Sort Spelling: Suffixes: -ent, -ant Write each Basic Word beside the correct heading. Spelling Words 1. confi dent -ent 2. confi dence 3. fragrant 4. fragrance 5. excellent 6. excellence -ant 7. decent 8. decency 9. truant 10. truancy 11. brilliant -ence, -ency 12. brilliance 13. resident 14. residence 15. evident -ance, -ancy 16. evidence 17. occupant 18. occupancy 19. reluctant Challenge Add the Challenge Words to your Word Sort. 20. reluctance Challenge inconvenient inconvenience buoyant buoyancy Spelling 185 Grade 6, Unit 4: Treasures of the Ancient World © Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved. 66_246475NLEPB_U4W1_Spell-D2.indd185_246475NLEPB_U4W1_Spell-D2.indd185 118585 112/14/092/14/09 44:33:06:33:06 PPMM First Pass Lesson 16 PRACTICE BOOK Name Date The Real Vikings Proofreading for Spelling Spelling: Suffixes: -ent, -ant Find the misspelled words and circle them. Write them correctly on the lines below. Spelling Words How did the Vikings come to dominate most shipping and 1. confi dent 2. confi dence trade? The evadent answer is the eksellence of their ships. Their 3. fragrant longships made it possible for them to take up residance even 4. fragrance in North America. Also, many a Viking became an ocupent of 5. excellent 6. excellence Iceland. They were able to trade for fragrent spices and take 7. decent occupency of other lands with ease. Never ones to be truent 8. decency from a battle, the fierce crews of the warships sailed wherever 9. truant 10. truancy they wished—and no residant of a coastal area was safe. 11. brilliant Yet much evidance shows that trade was as important to 12. brilliance 13. resident the Vikings as conquest. The key was their exsellent ships, made 14. residence of split oak wood. Just imagine the fragrince of the shipyards! 15. evident Imagine the noise and activity! Imagine, too, how these harsh 16. evidence 17. occupant warriors dealt with truansy among the workers. 18. occupancy 19. 1. 7. reluctant 20. reluctance 2. 8. 3. 9. 4. 10. 5. 11. 6. 12. Spelling 186 Grade 6, Unit 4: Treasures of the Ancient World © Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved. 66_246475NLEPB_U4W1_Spell-D4.indd186_246475NLEPB_U4W1_Spell-D4.indd186 118686 66/15/09/15/09 88:01:54:01:54 PPMM Lesson 16 PRACTICE BOOK Name Date The Real Vikings Principal Parts of Verbs Grammar: Principal Parts of Verbs Verbs have four basic forms, or principal parts: present, past, present participle, and past participle. For regular verbs, the past tense is formed by adding -ed to the present tense. The past participle is formed by using the past tense verb with a helping verb. present tense I work hard every day. Thinking Question past tense Which principal part of I worked late last night. the verb fits the context of this sentence? present participle I am working right now. past participle I have worked all my life. Activity Write the correct form of the verb on the line. Then tell whether the verb tense is present, past, present participle, or past participle. 1. The archaeologist all day. (dig) 2. We new facts during last week’s trip. (discover) 3. I’m a career in archaeology. (consider) 4. We something new every day. (learn) 5. Jordan every artifact that was found. (list) 6. Yesterday, the teacher us where to look. (tell) 7. The archaeologists have so many facts. (memorize) 8. The area was during construction. (close) Grammar 187 Grade 6, Unit 4: Treasures of the Ancient World © Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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