Week 20: Welcome Back Wolves, Wolves Don't Belong Here and Class Party

 Hello everyone,

It is our last full week of classes this semester and we will spend some time going over the final reading of Grade 3: "Welcome Back Wolves" and "Wolves Don't belong" which is a dual reading.

There is a conversation activity next week as well.

During Thursday and Friday, we will have a class party with a different activity for each day.

Vocabulary List

1 government (n.): the group that rules a country or area 

 2 decade (n.): a period of ten years 

 3 dam (n.): a barrier that holds back water 

 4 beaver (n.): a large rodent that builds dams 

 5 outweigh (v.): to be more important or significant 

 6 bill (n.): a proposed law; an invoice 

 7 ecotourist (n.): a tourist interested in nature and conservation 

 8 restaurant (n.): a place where meals are served 

 9 percent (n.): a part per hundred (%) 

 10 eliminate (v.): to remove completely 

 11 reintroduced (v.) past tense: to bring back into an area 

 12 intelligent (adj.): smart; able to learn and understand 

 13 cattle (n.): cows and bulls raised for meat or milk 

 14 rancher (n.): a person who owns or works on a ranch 

 15 grizzly bear (n.): a large, brown bear of North America 

 16 affect (v.): to influence or change 

 17 worrisome (adj.): causing worry or concern 

 18 scavenger (n.): an animal that eats dead organisms 

 19 in spite of (phr.): despite; regardless of 

 20 debate (n./v.): a formal discussion; to discuss 

 21 reduce (v.): to make smaller or less 

 22 drought (n.): a long period without rain 

 23 instead (adv.): as an alternative 

 24 argument (n.): a reason or a disagreement

"Welcome Back Wolves" Story Summary

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozSMu9NCHw0

Yellowstone National Park, with its plentiful food and wife-open spaces is an ideal habitat for wolves.

For many years, though, they were banned from the park because the U.S. government thought wolves did more harm than good.

The government rethought its decision, and the ban was lifted. (in 1995)

In the early 1900s, the U.S. government started a program to control predators in Yellowstone National Park.

The government believed that wolves and other predators destroyed other park wildlife.

Farmers and ranchers supported the program.

They said that wolves threatened their livestock.

To control predators, hunters hunted them.

By 1926, the last Yellowstone wolf pack was gone.

For decades after that, only a few solitary wolves were sighted.

In the 1960s, scientists began to focus on protecting nature.

They wanted to bring back wolves to Yellowstone.

By late 2014, there were 104 wolf packs in the park.

Wolves helped to control the wild elk population and this caused more willows to grow and more beavers to stay in the park because elk ate too many willow trees before.

Week 20	Homework 回家功課
Monday June 22nd	1. Vocabulary #1-8 x3 + definitions x1 2. 5 sentences
Tuesday June 23rd	1. Vocabulary #9-16x3 + definitions x1 2. 5 sentences
Wednesday June 24th	1. Shared Worksheet
Thursday June 25th	No Homework
Friday June 26th	No Homework