Name Summary Boom Town The discovery of gold in California brought new settlers with dreams of striking it rich. Some prospectors brought their families and everything they owned. The new settlers needed food, clothes, banks, and schools. In one short year, a town would rise where there had been only a field of wildflowers. Activity Build a Boom Town Imagine that your family just sold all of its possessions and hopped on a stagecoach going to California. Together, talk about what you will need when you get there and where you might find those things. Comprehension Skill © Pearson Education 3 Realism and Fantasy Realistic stories tell about something that could happen. A fantasy is a story about something that could never happen. Activity What Happened Today? Ask family members to tell you about things that happened to them today. Ask them to tell things that really did happen and some things that could never happen. Guess which happened and which did not and explain how you could tell. Practice Book Unit 1 14519_U1W1_PB_001-002 1 Family Times 1 9/14/05 8:31:58 PM Lesson Vocabulary Grammar Words to Know Sentences Knowing the meanings of these words is important to reading Boom Town. Practice using these words to learn their meanings. A complete sentence tells a complete idea, begins with a capital letter, and ends with an end mark. Vocabulary Words Not a Sentence: chewing on a bone playing on the grass business the work one does to make money coins pieces of metal used as money fetched to have gone after and brought back something laundry place where clothes are washed and ironed mending fixing; repairing Activity Making Sentences Players take turns offering a sentence or a part of a sentence. The other players say “sentence” if the sentence is complete. If the phrase is not a sentence, they offer ways to make it a complete sentence. pick a pointed tool used to break rocks and loosen dirt skillet a shallow pan with a handle, used for frying spell