Guiding Comprehension

If you are teaching the selection in two days, discuss any comparisons and contrasts in the selection so far and review the vocabulary.

Make Inferences • Inferential

Why do you think the boy's family greets the explorers so warmly?

Possible response: Perhaps they are welcoming, friendly people, or perhaps it is the custom where they live.

Sequence • Literal

Retell the events from the point when Bingham asks about ruins to when he sees the temple.

Bingham follows the boy. He first sees stone terraces and jungle, but no ruins. Then, in the jungle, he sees beautiful walls, a staircase, and, finally, a stone temple.

then… use
the skill and
strategy
instruction on
p. 551.

If… students have difficulty identifying the sequence,

Sequence

Model Phrasing, 559a

Writing

Grammar

Fluency

Comparative and Superlative Adjectives, 559f

Connect to Writing, 559j

Prewrite and Draft, 559h

Spelling

Fluency and Language Arts

SKILLS

STRATEGIES IN CONTEXT

Sequence

TEACH

Sequence is the order in which things happen. Model sequencing using the series of events on pp. 550–551.

MODEL This is an important part of the story, so I really want to understand what's happening. I read slowly, trying to visualize what Bingham does and sees after he asks about the ruins. The boy tells Bingham to come, so he follows the boy. First, he sees stone terraces and jungle. That's disappointing because he wants to see ruins. Bingham continues to follow the boy. Next, he sees stone walls, then a staircase, and finally a huge temple. I can picture Bingham getting more and more excited as he finds each part of the ruins.

PRACTICE AND ASSESS

Have students read
pp. 548–549 and retell the
sequence of events. (After
crossing the bridge, the men
climb the steep bank into the
jungle. After a few hours, they
break out of the jungle thicket
at the top of the mountain.)
To assess, use Practice Book
p. 216.

Practice Book p. 216

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"Lost City: The Discovery of Machu Picchu"
by Ted Lewin

Student Edition
Unit 5, pp. 542–553

Narrative nonfiction can tell the story of a real event, such as the discovery of a lost city in the Andes Mountains. Look for cause-and-effect relationships as you read.

Professor Hiram Bingham had a great curiosity about a long-lost city of the Inca. It was called Vilcapampa, and it was in the Andes of Peru. He wanted to be the first to discover it. So, in 1911, Bingham and his Peruvian Expedition set out. They arrived in Cusco, the first capital city of the Inca.
What Bingham noticed was a huge wall of stone. It was carved perfectly, even though the Inca had not had iron tools or wheels to move the giant stones. He was amazed. This must be what Vilcapampa would be like, he thought. He and his men went by mule train to an old village with terraced granite walls. He began to ask about ruins. Were there any to see? No one knew of any. He and his party asked for days.
Then one day a local farmer told them of good ruins at the top of the mountain called Machu Picchu. The farmer agreed to lead the group to these ruins. First he led them through thick jungle. They had to follow him across a shaky log bridge over a roaring torrent below. Then they went through more jungle. They cut through thickets and vines. The farmer told them to watch for snakes. They kept climbing. It grew so steep that the men had to crawl. Sometimes they could barely hold on.
Finally, the men reached a clearing. A young Quechua boy, a descendant of the Inca, stood beside a stone hut. He called out a greeting to them. He and his family gave the men water and food. Bingham asked about ruins. The boy smiled. He led the party into more jungle. Bingham grew discouraged.
Then, under the dense overgrowth, he saw more Inca stones. Then he saw walls. The boy led them to a temple to the sun. Still the boy kept going. "See, see!" he said over and over in his language. Bingham climbed a staircase to see a huge temple. He followed the boy to another. He kept climbing and looking. And then he saw the most glorious sight of all: an entire terraced city of stone streets and cottages. Vilcapampa!
But Bingham did not discover Vilcapampa after all. What the boy led him to was even more remarkable. It was the lost city of Machu Picchu, hidden by five hundred years of jungle growth.

From Lost City: The Discovery of Machu Picchu by Ted Lewin, copyright © 2003 by Ted Lewin. Used by permission of Philomel Books, A Division of Penguin Young Readers Group, A Member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc., 345 Hudson Street, New York, NY 10014.



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	Access Content Explain the phrases in italics are what the boy says in his native language, Quechua. Their English meanings follow in parentheses the first time each phrase appears. Sequence Have pairs reread pp. 550–551 and write the sequence of events in order. Encourage students to use visualization to picture what Bingham does to help them sequence events correctly. Legendary Vilcapampa Hiram Bingham believed that his discovery at Machu Picchu was the legendary Vilcapampa, the lost city of the Incas. After Bingham's death in 1956, American archaeologist Gene Savoy excavated Espíritu (uh SPIR uh too) Pampa, another site Bingham discovered in the region. Savoy and others were convinced this site was more likely to be the legendary Inca city than Machu Picchu.

"Lost City: The Discovery of Machu Picchu"by Ted Lewin

"Lost City: The Discovery of Machu Picchu"
by Ted Lewin