Getting Started

1.Take out your assignment book and copy the following homework:

Due Friday, October 30

Reread pages 32-34.

Sketch what you think Morning Girl looks like based on the description from the selection.

2. Take out your Social Studies notebook and fill in your Table of Contents with the following information:

10/28 Chapter 4 & 5 27

Students will explore Morning Girl to explain how the Taino

Indians lived before Columbus’ arrived.

Vocabularycoil – “worked the dry grasses in her lap into a tight coil,” (pg.25)

means to curve or wind something into loops

concentrated – “I closed my eyes and concentrated on being a rock,” (pg. 26)

means to quietly focus your thoughts on one topic or subject

anchor – “solid enough to anchor any boat,” (pg. 27)

means an object that keep a ship or floating object in place

vanished – “even if it had vanished beneath the waves,” (pg. 28)

means to disappear suddenly

Morning Girl

Read Chapter 4.

Morning Girl

Food & Water Shelter Family Nature Names

Vocabularypatience – “he lost his patience and walked away,” (pg.31)

means being able to wait without becoming annoyed

horizon – “like white clouds on the horizon,” (pg. 34)

means the line in the sky where the land appears to meet the sky

lance – “use as a hook at the end of his fishing lance,” (pg. 35)

means a long weapon with a metal point used for hunting or fishing

Morning Girl

Read Chapter 5.

Morning Girl

Food & Water Shelter Family Nature Names