BLACK COWBOY, WILD HORSES BLACK COWBOY, WILD HORSES

One Land, Many Trails

Story

Genre

Strategy

Skill

Biography

Evaluate

Making

Judgments

Black Cowboys Black Cowboys

Key Vocabulary

• Bluff

• Herd

• Mares

• Milled

• Mustangs

• Ravine

• Remorse

• Skittered

• Stallion

Bluff

• A high cliff or bank. The bluff that rose above the forest could be seen for many miles around

Herd

• A group of animals of single kind.

Mares

• Female horses.

Milled

• Moved around in

confusion.

Mustangs

• Wild horses of the

plains whose

ancestors were

brought from Spain.

ravine

• A narrow, deep valley, usually worn

away by water.

remorse

• The unhappiness that

comes with wishing

that one had not done

something.

skittered

• Moved lightly and

quickly.

Stallion

• An adult male horse.

Grammar Skills

Double Subjects

We will:

• Identify and avoid using a noun and a

pronoun to name the same subject

These words are a double subject.

The sentence can be corrected by removing

either part of the double subject.

Nick and Shaunte and they are a double

subject.

Identify the double subject in the next sentence

• Do not use a double subject—a noun

and a pronoun—to name the same

person, place, or thing.

T

hi

n

k

DIRECTIONS:

•Indentify the Double Subjects.

Correct the sentence on your

whiteboard

They live on a ranch.

Or

Edna and Vicki live on a ranch.

DIRECTIONS:

•Indentify the Double Subjects.

Correct the sentence on your

whiteboard

Buddy works on the ranch

during the summer.

Or

He works on the ranch during the

summer.

DIRECTIONS:

•Indentify the Double Subjects.

Correct the sentence on your

whiteboard

No Double subject!

Grammar Skills

Using we and us with Nouns

Sometimes it’s necessary to use a pronoun

before a noun to make clear who is being

talked about.

Write we or us to complete each

of the following sentences

We

Write we or us to complete each

of the following sentences

us