Theme 1

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Theme 1

• Day 1
• Facing
• Challenges

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Turn to page 18 and 19

• The name of this sculpture is Olympic Wannabes.
• What are the children in the picture doing? How
  do they seem to feel? Turn Talk to your
  neighbor. Bumbles start.
• Facing challenges requires you to look inside
  yourself to find your hidden strengths and
  abilities. Some challenges must be overcome on
  your own, while others are best resolved with the
  help of others. In this theme, you will read
  about characters who have the courage to face
  their challenges and learn something new about
  themselves.

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What are some challenges that people face today?

• What are some qualities that might help us
  successfully face these challenges?
• Now take a minute to skim through the selections
  in this theme (pages 1-149).
• Which selections might be about making new
  friends? Playing a sport? Being lonely when a
  friend leave? Or moving to a new country?

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Chart

• We will begin an ongoing chart to identify
  certain problems and what we learn about
  ourselves from these problems. While we read the
  selections in this theme, remember to record in
  your chart any new information about problems and
  the resulting self-discovery.
• Copy this chart in your notebook.

Problems What we learn about ourselves
Get in trouble at home Honesty is important
Get hurt on the bus Always follow the rules
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Listening Comprehension

• You will listen to a poem. When you listen to a
  poem, you should listen to enjoy the rhyme and
  rhythm and to understand the poems message.
• Ill listen to understand the poets message.
• The poem is titled Be a Friend by Edgar Guest.

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Remember that good readers read each word
accurately when reading aloud.

• Read the first stanza with me
• Be a friend. You dont need money
• Just a disposition sunny
• Just the wish to help another
• Get along some way or other
• Just a kindly hand extended
• Out to one whos unbefriended
• Just the will to give or lend,
• This will make you someones friend.
• To befriend someone means to act as a friend to
  that person. An unbefriended person has no
  friends. Lets read the 2nd stanza.

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• Be a friend. You dont need glory.
• Friendship is a simple story.
• Pass by trifling errors blindly,
• Gaze on honest effort kindly,
• Cheer the youth whos bravely trying,
• Pity him whos sadly sighing
• Just a little labor spend
• On the duties of a friend.
• A trifling error is a small mistake. How does
  the poet advise the reader to deal with their
  friends mistakes?
• Lets read the last stanza.

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• Be a friend. The pay is bigger
• (Though not written by a figure)
• Than is earned by people clever
• In whats merely self-endeavor.
• Youll have friends instead of neighbors
• For the profits of you labors
• Youll be richer in the end
• Than a prince, if youre a friend.
• What does the poet mean when he says that the pay
  that a friend gets is not written by a figure?
  Turn Talk to your partner. Bees begin your
  conversation.

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Authors Message

• What is the poets message? Talk to your
  partner. Bumbles begin.
• Why might it be better to have friends instead of
  just having neighbors? TT. Bees start.

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Characters Traits Motivations

• Turn to page 22. Read along in your head as I
  read this page. When I stop you make sure to
  fill in the blank.
• A reader can tell what kind of person a character
  is by thinking about his or her traits.
• A characters motivations are the reasons the
  character acts as he or she does.
• Sometimes authors state a characters
  motivations other times readers must use what
  the character says, does, and thinks to figure
  out the characters motivations

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• Do I have a volunteer to read the paragraph on
  page 23?
• James brags about his science project. When
  James realizes that Pauls project is better than
  his, he tries to persuade Paul not to enter the
  science fair. Jamess bragging shows that he is
  boastful. What he says to Paul shows that he is
  jealous.
• Do you think James really believes that model
  solar systems are boring?
• Why do you think that James said that?

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Story Structure

• As we read this week I want us to think about
  story structure. Story structure is the way a
  story is organized.
• Characters, setting, and plot events are 3
  elements that are common in all stories.
• Thinking about story structure helps readers
  understand what is happening in a story, and why
  it is happening.

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• Do I have a volunteer to read the first 2
  paragraphs of this passage?
• Transparency R3.

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• The main character is Bella. The setting is her
  house on the morning of the first day of school.
  Bellas problem is that she doesnt know anyone
  at her new school, and she is afraid that she
  wont make friends.
• We can use the story map to keep track of story
  elements as we read.
• Lets fill in the characters and setting and the
  first major event.
• Read the other paragraphs and continue filling in
  the story map.

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Look at the vocabulary words on our class chart.
Which word matches the picture below? Which word
does not belong? queasy annoyed pact
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depriving venture foisted
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pact annoyed venture
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• Small group activities

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Grammar

• Correct the following sentence in your BEAR book.
• The boys made a packed not to speak to Bolivia.
• The friends spilt a pizza in half.

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Declarative Interrogative Sentences

• Transparency LA2
• Sentence 1 is a complete sentence because it
  expresses a complete thought Juan ran.
• Sentence 2 is a sentence fragment because it does
  not have a subject it does not tell who swam in
  the pool.
• Help me find the complete sentences and fragments
  in 3-5. What are some ways we can make each
  fragment into a complete sentence.
• Rewrite the fragments 6-8 to be complete
  sentences.