The Search Unit 6 Lesson 5 Sangre de Cristo Mountains.

The SearchUnit 6 Lesson 5

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Sangre de Cristo Mountains

Word Knowledge

• Line 1– breathing – listening – walking – cracking

These words all contain the suffix-ing

Word Knowledge

• Line 2– grabbed – stopped – slipped – running – getting

Double the last consonant and add -ed or -ing

Word Knowledge

• Line 3– what’s – didn’t – they’re – couldn’t – don’t – I’d

Each of these words are contractions

Word Knowledge

• Line 4– pepperoni – polka – ravioli – pizza – opera

These word are of Italian and German orgin

Sentence 1I slipped and fell as I was running down

the sidewalk.

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Sentence 2I was breathing quietly and listening to

that strange noise.

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Sentence 3What’s the use in looking if you don’t find

anything?

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Sentence 4Alberto decided to order ravioli instead of

pepperoni pizza for dinner.

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Selection Vocabulary

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“Then tell me, where are the sheep?” “Give me a chance. I saw across the river. Maybe fifteen, ewes and lambs.”

How many baby sheep does an ewe have at one time?

Ewe

Ewe–A female sheep

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I slipped, grabbed at another bush. Slid a couple of feet, and then took off again. And then I landed. On my face. I landed in a whole piled up bunch of mesquite.

Miguel tumbled down the cliff into the mesquite bushes which scratched his arms and legs.

Mesquite

Mesquite–Spiny trees and shrubs found in the southwest.

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All I had to do was to get up there, on the mesa across the river, round up the bunch and march them back to where everyone could see.

Climbing up the steep, cliff like sides of the mesa was hard, but once we reached the top, it was flat enough to lie down on.

Mesa

Mesa–A flat topped hill will steep sides

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It was steep in this place and wet and slippery with the rain, the stones high and smooth with nothing to grab on to except sometimes a juniper bush.

My favorite site of the winter landscape was the juniper trees on the hill.

Juniper

Juniper– Evergreen shrub or tree

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This mesa spread out, as far as you could see, with many breaks, everywhere like little canyons and washes.

Over the centuries, the river has cut a deep canyon with steep sides through the mountain rock.

Canyon

Canyon– Deep, narrow valley with high steep sides

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