Big Question: How does facing challenges help us learn about ourselves? Author: Gary Paulsen Genre: Realistic Fiction Question of the Day How does facing challenges help us learn about ourselves? More vocab to Know Chapter 1-6Vocabulary Words lurched audible drone turbulence swooped hurtling dramatically wallow spiraling clammy hordes hummocks consuming slewed pulverized (P.53) smashed into small pieced lushly (P.58) lavishly productive, thriving twinge (P.61) a sudden ache or pain wincing thrumming Build Concepts Flashbacks Visualize Build Background Vocabulary Spelling: Unusual Spellings What it takes to Survive in Nature 1-minute timed reading with your partner - today retell to your partner for 1 minute When Brian struggled to get to the side of the L shaped lake. What did he have to go through? These are external Challenges (Conflicts) In chapter six Brian remembers his best friend Terry and wishes he was with him. How might he feel? These are internal Challenges (Conflicts) What could Brian do to face these challenges? These are actions Finish your Chapter 5&6 Comprehension /Vocab page and submit it through google classroom. Work on Figurative Language page #14-24 Finish Reading Chapter #6 Pages 52-62. Start your Chapter 1-6 Sequence list of important events in your journal with your partner. After reading chapter six add your first rising action to your plot page. Lastly start studying Chapter 1-6 vocabulary words Sequence is the order of events in a story. Clue words such as next, then, and yesterday help to indicate the sequence in which events occur. Some events in a story happen simultaneously, or at the same time. Clue words such as meanwhile and during signal simultaneous events. Sequencing – Important Events so far in the novel: With a partner Create a timeline for Brian’s – Important events. Ch1 Beginning – The Pilot has a heart attack and the small plane crashes. Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 (First Rising Action) Protection Nourishment Survival Shelter Question of the Day Do you think Brian will survive? How does facing challenges help us to learn about ourselves? Animals Survival in Nature Weather People This week’s story explores survival tips during a surprise trip to the Canadian wilderness. After you read it, we will discuss what you learned about surviving in the wilderness. hatchet – a small ax with a short handle, for use with one hand ignite – to set on fire painstaking – very careful; particular; diligent quill - a stiff, sharp hair or spine like the pointed end of a feather registered – to have had some effect; to have made an impression smoldered – burned and smoked without flame stiffened – to have been made or become rigid; fixed exasperation – extreme annoyance; irritation; anger imbedded – enclosed in a surrounding mass; fastened or fixed firmly flammable – easily set on fire Besides cutting firewood, what other ways could you use the hatchet if you were stranded in the wilderness? TURN AND TALK TO Word Structure: Endings Sequence Visualize Plot Vocabulary Fluency: Choral Reading Spelling: Unusual Spellings Flint Personification is a figure of speech in which human traits are given to animals, inanimate objects, or abstract ideas. The human traits may include personality, intelligence, emotion, Authors may use words that imply humanness, such as words that describe what an animal is feeling or thinking. Authors may include conversations between an animal or inanimate object and a human Ice can crack but it can’t moan. The stars danced playfully in the moonlit sky. The run down house appeared depressed. The first rays of morning tiptoed through the meadow. Turn to page 339. ◦ What kind of words describe and image of Brian Alone in the wilderness? ◦ What are we experiencing with Brian? What lessons does Brian learn from crying in the dark cave? Why is his lesson important? Look for the turning point in the story where Brian goes from feeling sorry for himself to realizing that he must be self-reliant What clues lead Brian to believe that his father and Terry are telling him to build a fire? ◦ Use examples from the text to support your answers. Question of the Day Do you think this is a believable story? Why or why not? Sequence Visualize Vocabulary Fluency: Model Phrasing Spelling: Unusual Spellings Survival in Nature Unrestrained – not restrained - held back ◦ Talk about a time when you have had unrestrained laughter. Uncontrollable – one has no power over it. ◦ What things could Brian Control? ◦ Pages 346-347 The author describes cutting bark as painstaking work, What evidence in the text supports this claim? What does the photogragh on page 347 help the reader better understand? Pages 348-349 ◦ Cite Evidence from the text – Tell how the challenges of survival in nature can help people learn about themselves. ◦ Why do you think the Author calls Brian’s fire a friend or a guard? Model Phrasing Turn to page 282, first paragraph. As I read, notice how I group words together. Again, commas and periods are helpful in determining the meaningful groups. Now we will practice together as a class by doing three choral readings. Question of the Day How is school knowledge and book learning different from self-knowledge? Expository Nonfiction/Text Features Reading Across Texts Content-Area Vocabulary Fluency: Partner Reading Spelling: Unusual Spellings Exasperation – extreme annoyance or anger. ◦ Describe different causes of exasperation. ◦ Self-Reliant - depends on his or her own powers and resources. When have you shown self-reliance? Turn to page 354, paragraph 1. Read this paragraphs three times with a partner. Be sure to read with proper phrasing and offer each other feedback. Question of the Day How does facing challenges help us learn about ourselves? Build Concept Vocabulary Sequence Personification Word Structure: Endings Grammar: Principal Parts of Regular Verbs Spelling: Unusual Spellings Posters/Announcement Survival in Nature Principal Parts of Regular Verbs remember too take your compass or you may get lost Remember to take your compass, or you may get lost. when i was in brazil i bought this waterproof watch When I was in Brazil, I bought this waterproof watch. The verb’s tenses are formed from its principal parts. Some principal parts of a verb are the present, past, and past participle. A regular verb forms its past and past participle by adding –ed or –d to the present form.
