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
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lurched
audible
drone
turbulence
swooped
hurtling
dramatically
wallow
spiraling
clammy
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hordes
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hummocks
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consuming
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slewed
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pulverized (P.53) smashed into small pieced
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lushly (P.58) lavishly productive, thriving
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twinge (P.61) a sudden ache or pain
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wincing
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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
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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)
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In chapter six Brian remembers his best friend Terry
and wishes he was with him. How might he feel?
 These are internal Challenges (Conflicts)
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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
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 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.
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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
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ignite – to set on fire
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painstaking – very careful; particular; diligent
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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
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smoldered – burned and smoked without flame
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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
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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
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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.