Reader Genre Build Background Access Content Extend Language Memoir • Family Travel • Graphic Aids • Compound Words • Regions of • Captions • Words for Sounds the U.S. • Definitions • Culture Scott Foresman Reading Street 4.1.3 ISBN-13: 978-0-328-49701-0 ISBN-10: 0-328-49701-0 9 0 0 0 0 9 780328 497010 49701_CVR.indd 1 10/10/12 7:00 PM Question of the Week Why do we want to explore new places? Key Comprehension Skill Character, Setting, and Plot Concept Words skyline station wagon lullaby chamomile Learning Goals • We see new and interesting things in new places. • Life in a city is different from life in the country. • Some people take trips with their families. Copyright © Pearson Education, Inc., or its affiliates. All Rights Reserved. Printed in the United States of America. This publication is protected by copyright, and permission should be obtained from the publisher prior to any prohibited reproduction, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or likewise. For information regarding permissions, write to Pearson Curriculum Group Rights & Permissions, One Lake Street, Upper Saddle River, New Jersey 07458. Pearson, Scott Foresman, and Pearson Scott Foresman are trademarks, in the U.S. and/ or other countries, of Pearson Education, Inc., or its affiliates. ISBN-13: 978-0-328-49701-0 ISBN-10: 0-328-49701-0 Glenview, Illinois • Boston, Massachusetts • Chandler, Arizona 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 V0G1 13 12 11 10 09 Upper Saddle River, New Jersey 49701_01-16.indd 1 05/11/12 3:53 PM I think it was such a happy trip because Abuelita came with us. Abuelita was Mami’s mother. She lived in Mexico. My family had moved from Mexico to the United States in 1956, but Abuelita stayed in Mexico. Mami missed her very much. Mami sent postcards from Chicago, inviting Abuelita to visit us there. Finally, Abuelita came to visit. She joined us on our trip out East. Pela, Goly, and me Leaving Chicago This is a photo of me and my sisters Pela and Goly in 1959. I was four years old. We lived in Chicago. That summer, my family and I took a car trip. We traveled from Chicago to the East Coast. It was a happy time for my family. I think of Mami and Papi when I look at this photo. 2 3 49701_01-16.indd 2 05/11/12 3:53 PM 49701_01-16.indd 3 05/11/12 3:53 PM Pela, Goly, me, and Mami, who is holding Cristi Goly, Pela, Cristi, and Abuelita with our station wagon In this photo, you can see Mami, me, and my sisters. We are next to Lake Michigan in Chicago. We started our trip when Abuelita arrived in We liked to go there and watch the sailboats. Chicago. My family left Chicago because Papi When the sun went down, we watched the found a job in New Jersey. Papi was excited buildings of the Chicago skyline light up. Mami because he loved to see different places. sent photographs like this one to Abuelita in Our car was a sky-blue station wagon. Mexico, so that she would know what we The seats were very hard. It did not have air looked like. conditioning. Our car was not very comfortable compared to cars today. station wagon: automobile with extra room behind the skyline: outline of city buildings against the sky back seat 4 5 49701_01-16.indd 4 05/11/12 3:53 PM 49701_01-16.indd 5 05/11/12 3:53 PM James Bay R GULF OF Lake ST. LAWRENCE O Lake Winnipeg Winnipegosis Banf Calgary Saskatoon Prince Edward Vancouver CANADA Island C We thought our station wagon was Vancouve Nanaimo r Kelowna Penticon Lake wonderful. It was pale blue, like the summer sky. Manitoba C. Medicine Hat Victori K Regina Halifax Lethbridge Kenora It had big round headlights that looked likeQuebec eyes. Lake Timmin Dryden Seattle Weybur Winnipeg Nipigon St. John Brandon We tied our suitcases to theKirkland roof, lake to make more Nova Thunder Bay MAINE Y Havre Olympia Spokane Kalispell WASHINGTON room inside. That wonderful car took us from Bangor Williston Minot Mt.Rainier Cape Yakim Chicago to Flemington, New Jersey and never Missoula M i s s o u r i NORTH DAKOTA C o l u m b i a Richland Lewiston Helena M Portland broke down. Pendleton i Butte MONTANA s Salem Bismarck s M Jamestown Miles City o Eugene u Bend Billings r OREGON i r AberdeenJ a m e s CASCADE RANGE Boise O Sheridan e d Pierre S n aIDAHO k e Klamath Falls w h Idaho Falls Rapid City a t o m U a l WYOMING P SOUTH DAKOTA Flemington K Twin Pocatello PENNSYLVANIA Eureka Casper Cleveland NEW JERSEY Akron Philadelphia Trenton C. N . P l a t t e Harrisburg Redding Chicago Toledo SIERRA NEVADA N Great Gary OHIO Elko Salt Scottsbluf Here are Goly and Cristi on the hood of the station Lake Ogden Rock Springs Laramie amento Reno Cheyenne INDIANA wagon. Abuelita is smiling as Goly teaches Cristi how Sparks Salt Lake City Carson City T e ILLINOIS Sacr Fort Collins t t to show that she is one year old. Sacramento l a NEVADA P S . Boulder San Francisco Oakland UTAH Denver C o l o r aA d o San José My sister Goly and I rode in the back of the Grand Junction Mt. Salinas Colorado Springs Fresno COLORADO station wagon. There was a wide, flat space Mt. I A r k a n s a s Saint George Pueblo Bermuda CALIFORNIA behind the back seat. Goly and I sat there and Durango Trinida Las N C i m watched the road. When we got sleepy, we Bakersfield a r r Vegas o n Pt. o would lie down. We heard the sound of the tires n Santa Barbara d C Gallup i a H a S Santa Fe C d on the road. The low, steady hum put us to sleep, A a r a n N Los San Bernardino Albuquerque N o Amarillo E L Long Beach l NEW MEXICO Angeles ARIZONA like a lullaby. IS o L A C N R e d R i v e r DS Phoenix San Diego Mesa GULF OF G i l a Tijuan Lubbock SANTA Mexicali Yum Wichita Falls Texarkan B r a z o s GEORGIA Ensenada R i o G r a n d e Meridian Montgomery Dallas Shreveport P e c o s lullaby: soft song that helps a baby sleep Tucso Jackson Albany ATLANTIC OCEAN Las Cruces Abilene Fort LOUISIANA El Paso Big Spring 6 Jacksonville 7 Ciudad Juárez Midland Douglas Odessa TEXAS Wac Alexandria Mississippi Mobile Tallahasse St. G San Biloxi e Daytona Beach U Baton Rouge Pensacola New Orleans L Austin Beaumont Cape Isla de Guadalupe Orlando F Houston Baja California 49701_01-16.indd 6 B05/11/12 3:53 PM 49701_01-16.indd 7 05/11/12 3:53 PM R i o G r a n d e Port Tamp Grand A San i H Isla Cedros O Hermosillo Galveston p St. Petersburg Bahama M i i p A Chihuahua Antonio s s i s s FLORIDA Island Punta Eugenia F M Lake West Palm Fort Myers A Okeechobe C S Cuidad Obregón s Nassau A Miami C o Nueva Laredo Laredo Corpus Christi L o n c h Monclova Andros Island I s y F e PACIFIC OCEAN GULF OF MEXICO Key K O d a TURKS & CAICOS MEXICO r i a R Brownsville l o d ISLANDS F o r i o f F l N S t r a i t s Torreó Monterrey I Great Inagua Island A Havana Metanzas Santa Clara Cienfuegos Pinar del Rio Cabo CUBA In this photo, Goly and I are watching Cristi walk. In front of the farmhouse in Flemington Papi rented part of a farmhouse for us in Flemington. We lived in one part of the house. The owners of the house lived in the other part. We loved to walk through the fields near our The owners were nice, but spoke only English. farmhouse. It was so different from Chicago. One My family spoke only Spanish. Somehow, we day, we found a place where chamomile grew. understood each other. We picked handfuls of the tiny flowers for Mami. She liked to use the flowers to make chamomile tea. When we opened our hands, they smelled Extend Language Compound Words sweet, like apples. Compound words are made up of two words. One time, we found a robin’s egg. We were Farmhouse is made up of two smaller words, farm amazed that an egg could be so small and so and house. Knowing the smaller words can help you understand a compound word. blue. What do these compound words mean? sailboat skyline postcard suitcase chamomile: plant with flowers and leaves that can be used for tea 8 9 49701_01-16.indd 8 05/11/12 3:53 PM 49701_01-16.indd 9 05/11/12 3:53 PM When Papi’s job ended we moved back to Chicago. Abuelita stayed with us for a while. Then she went back to Mexico. We all went with Abuelita to the train station. The train rumbled and hissed as Mami and Abuelita cried. Abuelita hugged each of us tightly, then got on the train. We never saw Abuelita again. She died three years later. One day, Papi took us to see New York City.