1) The document discusses content from the story "The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere" including vocabulary words and comprehension questions. 2) It provides examples of how authors can promote freedom through battles, voting, making laws, and acquiring information. 3) Students are asked to analyze rhyme, rhythm, and cadence in the poem and discuss how understanding word endings helps with comprehension.

1. The Midnight Ride of
Paul Revere
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Week 2.5

2. Day 1 – How can people promote
freedom?
 Page 288 – 289
 What are the
children doing?
 What is the
elderly man
wearing on his
uniform?
 Who is sitting at
the desk and
what is he doing?

3. Concept Map
Read Aloud: “Molly Pitcher”
p. 289b
Amazing Words: battlefield,
freedom, beloved, battle
How people can promote freedom
Battle Vote Make Laws Acquire
Information

4. Comprehension Skill: Author’s Purpose
Comprehension Strategy: Background Knowledge

5. Before The Midnight Ride
 Weekly
Concept:
Promoting
Freedom
 Read
“Before the
Midnight
Ride” on
page 291

6. Vocabulary
 Use an online dictionary to define the words below.
fate fearless glimmer

7. Vocabulary
 Check your vocabulary definitions with the definitions above!

8. Spelling – Take your pretest on SpellingCity
Conventions – finish WS 10 after reading groups
Handwriting – Work on the next two pages in
your cursive packet

9. Day 2 – Content Knowledge
Oral Vocabulary
 How can people promote freedom?
 “In between the sounds of the battle, Molly could hear cries. “Water!
Water!” Men were falling, falling from the heat.” - “Molly Pitcher”
 What sounds do you think would be heard in a battle?
 What do the sentences tell you about Molly’s surroundings?
 Why do you think the author told us about what was going on around
Molly?

10. Concept Map
Amazing Words:
vote, acquire
Many soldiers have fought
for the right to vote. Why is
the right to vote an
important freedom to have?
Discuss with a partner:
What is something our
class votes on?
When is a time you have
voted?
How people can promote freedom
Battle Vote Make Laws Acquire
Information

11. Vocabulary
lingers magnified somber steed

12. Vocabulary
 Check your vocabulary definitions with the definitions above!

13. Word Analysis: Word Families
 A word family is a group of words that have a similar or
related pattern.
 What is the word family in the first column below?
 What are the word families for the rest of the columns?
 Add words to each word family in the chart. Use a dictionary
to help you.

14. Vocabulary Skill: Endings –s, -ed, -ing
 Model:
 The stars were
glimmering in the
nighttime sky.
 By covering the –ing we
can see the root word
glimmer.
 What context clues in the
sentence help you
understand what the
word means?

15. Vocabulary Skill: Endings –s, -ed, -ing
 Read “War Heroes in
Stone” p. 293
 Words to know: fearless,
glimmer, somber, fate,
lingers, magnified, steed
 After you have read,
write a paragraph
describing a statue
you’ve seen. Describe
what it looks like and
what it represents. use
words from the Words to
Know list in your writing.

16.  A poem is the
arrangement of
carefully chosen words
in lines that express
thoughts and feelings.
 The lines in a poem
may rhyme, and the
rhymes can occur at the
ends o the lines or
within the lines.
however, not all poems
rhyme. some poems
have a regular rhythm,
while others do not
follow a rhythmic
pattern.
 Look at the title and
illustrations and predict
what Paul Revere did
on his ride.
 Read pages 294-301

17. Spelling – Get on SpellingCity and practice
your spelling words
Conventions – WS 156
Vocabulary – WS 159

18. Day 3 – Content Knowledge
Oral Vocabulary
 How can people promote freedom?
 “Soldiers who died in battle gave their lives for their country and for
freedom.” – “War Heroes in Stone” p. 293
 What is freedom?
 What does the context tell you about the phrase in battle?
 Why is it necessary sometimes for people to have to be in a battle for
freedom?

19. Concept Map
Amazing Words:
Look at the photographs on
page . Discuss the word
Discuss with a partner:
How people can promote freedom
Battle Vote Make Laws Acquire
Information

20. Literary Terms: Rhyme, Rhythm,
and Cadence
 Rhythm is the pattern of sounds.
 Rhyme is the repetition of the final vowel or consonant sounds in
words.
 Cadence is created by rhythm. It is the flow of language.

21.  A poem is the
arrangement of
carefully chosen words
in lines that express
thoughts and feelings.
 The lines in a poem
may rhyme, and the
rhymes can occur at the
ends o the lines or
within the lines.
however, not all poems
rhyme. some poems
have a regular rhythm,
while others do not
follow a rhythmic
pattern.
 Look at the title and
illustrations and predict
what Paul Revere did
on his ride.
 Read pages 294-301

22. Think Critically – Answer the think critically
questions on page 308
Conventions – WS 103
Type to learn – Practice your typing for 15
minutes

23. Day 4 – Content Knowledge
Oral Vocabulary
 How can people promote freedom?
“He heard the bleating of the flock,
And the twitter of the birds among the trees
And felt the breath of the morning breeze
Blowing over the meadows brown.”
-The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere p. 305
 What does the “bleating of the flock” mean?
 What does “twitter of birds” mean?
 The words bleating and twitter are examples of the same
sound device. What is this device?

24. Concept Map
Amazing Words:
liberty
government
Yesterday we read about
how Paul Revere risked his
life so he and the other
colonist could achieve
liberty. They did not want to
be under British control
anymore.
Do we have the liberty to
steal something?
Do we have the liberty to
attend school?
How people can promote freedom
Battle Vote Make Laws Acquire
Information

25. Vocab and Listening
 Vocabulary
 You can use the structure of words
to help you understand a word’s
meaning.
The endings –ed, -ing, and –s come
from Old English The ending –ing
shows that an action is happening
now or continuing to happen.
The ending –ed on a verb shows
that an action happened in the past.
The ending –s shows that an action
is happening now.
 Find three verbs in The Midnight
Ride of Paul Revere that end with –
ing, -ed, and –s. How does
understanding the endings help you
understand these words?
 Media Literacy
 A documentary is a film or TV
show that tells a true story
about real people and events.
Usually, a documentary
contains interview with the
people who lived through an
event or with experts on the
subject.
 Practice it! Work with a team to
write a proposal for a
documentary about a day in the
life of a student at your school.
Think of whom you will
interview and what information
is most important. Create a
proposal and share it with the
class.

26. Spelling – Practice your spelling words quietly
with a partner and a dry erase board.
Conventions – WS 163
Vocabulary - WS

27. Day 5 – Content Knowledge
Concept Map
 Amazing words: battlefield,
freedom, beloved, battle,
vote, acquire,
representation, revolution,
liberty, government
 Use the concept map and
what you have learned from
this week’s discussions and
reading selections to form
and – a
realization or big idea about
doing the right thing.
 In your spiral write down a
few sentences about your
beginning
with, “This week I learned…”
Ba
How people can promote freedom
Battle Voting Make Laws Acquire
Information
Battle field Represen-
tation
liberty books
Revolution government speech newspapers
president Internet

28. REVIEW – Comprehension Skill
Author’s Purpose
 Author’s purpose is the reason or reasons an author has for writing.
Most selections have one main purpose.
 Authors can write to entertain, inform, persuade, or express feelings.
 Find an example in The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere of the author’s
purpose.
 Extra Practice WS 105

29.  The word endings –s, -ed, and –ing may be added to verbs to
change the tense, person, or usage of the verbs.
 How does the ending –ed change the word magnified?
 Work with a partner to determine the meanings of the words below.
Write each word in a sentence.
 gazing, gleamed, lingers
REVIEW – Vocabulary Skill
Endings –s, -ed, -ing

30.  A word family is a group of words that have a similar or related
pattern.
 With a partner, look up the word pay. Write down words that
belong in the word family pay.
 Use 3 of the words you find in a sentence.
REVIEW – Word Analysis
Word Families

31.  Reread The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere on page 296.
 What words rhyme in the selection?
 How does the rhythm of the poem create a mood or feeling?
REVIEW – Literary Terms
Rhyme, Rhythm, and Cadence