Inside Words

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Word Sort: The Rise of Rome Examine and discuss the words listed below. Group the words into categories so the words in each category share common elements. Your group should be able to explain your categories and justify your reasons for including the words in each category.

Emperor Gladiators

Colosseum legislative

Ambition

rivalry

republic

executive

Overthrow tripartite

patricians judicial

Julius Caesar

assassinated

citizenship branch social class plebeians balances

toga Rome checks forum senate

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Vocab-O-Gram Use the vocabulary words in the word bank to make predictions about the book we are reading. You can use the words more than once to make your predictions. Think about how you think the author of the book will use the words in the story. List words that you think will go with each category of the story structure and then use those words to make predictions and answer the questions about structure. If there are words your group can’t use because they are too unfamiliar, list those words at the bottom as Mystery Words. Word Bank:

Setting How will the author describe the setting?

Characters What predictions can you make about the characters?

Conflict What will the conflict be? Who will be involved?

Plot What will happen in the story?

Resolution How will the story end?

Questions What questions do you have about the story?

Mystery Words Adapted from Blackhowicz, C. L. Z. (1986). Making connections: Alternatives to the vocabulary notebook. Journal of Reading, 29, 643-649.