OCR Unit 1

OCR Unit 1, Lesson 1 Study Guide

Short Vowels

cactus	lettuce	doctor	punish	principle
cockpit	minimum	solid	billion	hundred
contact	rustic	windmill	traffic	tablet
victims	pasture	bottomless	shrubs	silver

Vocabulary

fierce	prospect	treacherous	ineffectively	alarmingly
glare	scatterbrain	flutter	weary	capacity
dubious	authoritative	grasp	surge	banked
alarm	dose

Assignment #1-----Due___________

For words 1--15, neatly and correctly write the word and its definition in your Language Arts notebook.

Assignment #2-----Due___________

For each of the words 1—5, write a wonderful sentence which uses the word. Carefully underline or highlight the vocabulary word in the sentence.

Assignment #3-----Due___________

Answer your choice of four of the Study Guide questions. Remember, your answers need to be great, complete sentences. Check your work for accuracy, spelling and punctuation.

Study Questions

What is the genre of the story?

What are the names of the characters mentioned?

Why does Mrs. Frisby need to cross the farmyard?

What risks does she take in crossing the farmyard? How had she planned to reduce the risk?

What situation causes the risk to become much greater?

Do you agree with the choice Mrs. Frisby made? What decision would your mother have made in the same situation? (Discuss with your mother.)

Research Links

Rosa Parks

http://www.time.com/time/time100/heroes/profile/parks01.html

http://teacher.scholastic.com/researchtools/articlearchives/honormlk/rosa.htm

Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh

http://www.kyrene.org/schools/brisas/sunda/mrs_frisby/home.htm

Robert C. Obrien http://home.t-online.de/home/familie-bode/zfz/details/rob.htm