The Cowboy Era

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The Cowboy Era
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Vocabulary
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• a states or nations business and money system

• people who farm land that other people own
  sharecroppers get part of the crap as pay.

• cows raised on a ranch.

• useful and sensible

Barbed wire

• metal rings where you put your feet when you ride
  a horse

Fencing

• Cattle

Economy

• kept safe from damage

Herded
A head

• people who own or work on large cattle farms

ranchers

• animals made to move together as a group by
  humans on horseback and by their dogs

Ranchers

• Wire with short, sharp points on it

Drives
.
each animal
Practical

• catching an animals with a circle of rope(lasso).

Stampedes

• acts of herding large groups of animals to
  another place.

Protected

• not needed.

Stirrups

• sudden movements of large groups of running
  animals

Roping

• Building wood or wire structures to stop people
  or animals from entering or leaving an area.

Unnecessary
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Reflection
Title of Selection Genre Fiction or Nonfiction Purpose of Selection Most Interesting Part
From Bill The Greatest cowboy of All Time
The cowboy Era
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Discussion

• Discuss in pairs or small group.
• The Pecos Bill excerpt and The Cowboy Era both
  tell about animals. List all the animals
  mentioned in both readings. What do you know
  about them?
• Pecos Bill and the cowboy described in The
  Cowboy Era had to face dangers. Compare the
  danger of meeting the Wouser with that of being
  in a cattle stampede.
• What did you learn about life in Texas in the
  1800s from the two texts you read in part 2?
  Would you want to have lived in Texas during that
  time? Why or Why not?

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Grammar

• Practice
• Copy the sentences into your notebook. Use the
  correct words in parentheses.
• This is (my / mine). (Your/ Yours) bandanna is
  blue.
• This is (our / ours) covered wagon. (Their Theirs
  ) is across the river.
• (Him / His) horse can run fast. (Her / Hers) is
  slow.
• This hat isnt (my / mine). It is (your / yours).
• (Thir / Thirs) cattle are forty dollars a head.
  (Our / Ors) are four dollars a head.

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Writing Assignment Outline You will
write a sentence outline f the text The cowboy
Era on pages 208-210. IN a sentence outline, you
write a sentence that summarizes each important
subtopic. Write each point in the form of a
sentence, too. 1. Read Review page 196 on how
to make a subtopic web. What is the main topic of
The Cowboy Rea? What are the three or four main
subtopics? Writing Strategy Outline Follow
this outline to organize the information in The
Cowboy Era. Notice that there are at least
two main points under each subtopic.
Each subtopic is numbered with a roman numeral.
The main points under each
subtopic are indented and listed as A, B, C,
and so forth.
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• Main Topic
• Subtopic
• A.
• B.
• C.
• Subtopic
• A.
• B.
• Subtopic
• A.
• B.
• 1. How many subtopics would be
  examined in
• the report outlined above?
• 2. How many main points for each
  subtopic
• would be
  examined in the report?

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• 2. Make an outline Use the outline above and
  the subtopic web on page 196 as models. Make a
  subtopic web for The Cowboy Era.
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• Write Write your outline, using a roman numeral
  for each subtopic and A, B, and so forth for the
  most important points under each subtopic.

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Check Your Knowledge

• Language development
• Why is it helpful to summarize an article? A
  story?
• What is a tall tale?
• What is hyperbole? Give a example.
• What is a possessive adjective? Give three
  examples and use them in sentences.
• What is a possessive pronoun? Give three examples
  and use them in sentences.
• How is a response different from a summary?
• How does making an outline help you write a
  research paper?

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Academic Conten

1. What new social studies vocabulary did you learn
   in Part 2? What do the words mean?
2. What did you learn about cowboys in part 2? What
   kindof work did they do? What was their clothing
   like?
3. What were some things that were happening in U.S.
   history during the cowboy era?

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• a states or nations business and money system

• people who farm land that other people own
  sharecroppers get part of the crop as pay.

• cows raised on a ranch.

• useful and sensible

Barbed wire

• metal rings where you put your feet when you ride
  a horse

Fencing

• Cattle

Economy

• kept safe from damage

Herded
A head

• people who own or work on large cattle farms

each animal

• animals made to move together as a group by
  humans on horseback and by their dogs

Ranchers
Drives

• Wire with short, sharp points on it

.

• catching an animals with a circle of rope (lasso).

Practical

• acts of herding large groups of animals to
  another place.

Stampedes
Protected

• not needed.

• sudden movements of large groups of running
  animals

Stirrups

• Building wood or wire structures to stop people
  or animals from entering or leaving an area.

Roping
Unnecessary