Lesson 1

• Reading
• 6th Grade

Lesson 1

Write the following words in your notebook, leaving enough spacing to add definitions:

• teeming
• fathom
• reverberating
• cumulative 

Pay attention to the words as you read and decide what you think they mean.

Read Carl Sandburg poems.  This poet was born in 1878.

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Look at the word monotone in poem 5. The rain is monotone and is being contrasted with a rainbow, which has lots of colors. What does monotone mean? The prefix “mono-” means one. This man is wearing a monocle.

• Look at the word monotone in poem 5. 
• The rain is monotone and is being contrasted with a rainbow, which has lots of colors. 
• What does monotone mean? The prefix “mono-” means one. Click above to see a picture of a monocle.

• Look at the word catalpa in poem 6. 
• I don’t know what it is. Do you? 
• But the poem gives us clues. It says, “grass, catalpa and oak.” We know what grass is. Oak is referring to the tree. 
• So we can assume catalpa is some sort of plant. Click above to see what a catalpa is.

This is a mastodon. How would you imagine a mastodon moved?

• Look up the words you wrote in your notebook to find their definitions. 
• Add the correct definition to your notebook along with the word.
  
• Choose two poems you read today and write what each poem is talking about in your own words.