Connect Reading and Writing

Vocabulary

  • contact

  • crops

  • forever

  • route

  • settlers

  • spread

  • starve

  • tools

Critical Thinking

  • 1. SUM IT UP Use your Question-Answer Chart as a tool to help you summarize the selection.

    Question-Answer Chart

    QuestionAnswer
    When did Europeans come to the Americas?Europeans came in the late 1400s.
    What did Europeans see when they got there?They discovered many Native American cultures.

  • 2. Compare Both “When Cultures Meet” and “Old World New World” are about settlers in the New World. How does each selection suggest that life changed in the Americas forever?

  • 3. Explain Revisit the KWL Chart you made on page 386. In the L column, write what you learned from the selection. Discuss your completed chart with classmates.

  • 4. Make Judgments Do you think contact between Europeans and Native Americans was positive or negative? Explain.

Reading Fluency

Phrasing Read the passage on page 662 to a partner. Assess your fluency.

  • 1. I read

    • a. great

    • b. OK

    • c. not very well

  • 2. What I did best in my reading was _____.

Reading Strategy

Ask Questions

Ask a partner a question from your Question-Answer Chart. Have your partner tell you how he or she would find the answer.

Vocabulary Review

Oral Review Read the paragraph aloud. Add the vocabulary words.

On our field trip, we walked down a very old path. It was a _____ used by early _____ to travel back and forth to their fields. They grew _____ of corn and beans so that they would have food and would not _____. It wasn’t easy to grow them. They did not have machines or modern _____ to help them. They had to _____ seeds by hand. Sometimes, they came in _____ with birds that ate the seeds. It must have taken _____ to plant an entire field!

Written Review Imagine you are a Native American living one hundred years ago and European settlers have come to live near you. Write a journal entry about the encounter. Use four vocabulary words.

Illustration of the pen icon Write About the Guiding Question

Explore the New World What would the world be like if Columbus had taken a different route? Write your opinion. Use examples to support your ideas.