Satchel Paige
Day 2
How do we face personal
challenges?
• I’ve added the words hostility
and hardships to the map
under social barriers
• Discuss the question of the week with your
partner
• What are some barriers people face to get
to a goal?
• Tell about some things you might do to
overcome hostility.
• How does it feel to face hardships? Have
you ever endured a hardship?
Amazing Words
• Ambition- means a strong desire to succeed
• You need ambition to be a world class athlete like the
jumper in the photograph or Jackie Robinson.
• Strive- means to work hard
• I strive to succeed on my math tests by studying hard
for them.
Amazing Words
Teach your partners what
the amazing words mean
• Use context clues to help you figure out
what a word means.
• A phrase or expression that has an
accepted meaning outside the literal
meaning of words.
• For example, when we say a job is “a
piece of cake” we mean it can be done
easily. It doesn’t have anything to do with
cake.
• In the story “Play Ball” I read that a great
player has “a style that stands out”.
• What does “stands out” mean here? Does
it have anything to do with standing?
• It means the style is better than or different
from that of other players.
As we read Satchel Paige, be on the look
out for idioms.
Give me a thumbs up when you think you
hear one in the reading.
In literary nonfiction authors usually tell
about real people’s lives using sequence, or
by arranging events in time order.
Lets look at “A Special League” on page 113.
What dates do you see on this page?
Are they listed in order? Why does the author
include these dates?
What other literary language helps you
understand this sequence?
Our story this week is a biography.
They are usually told in sequence because
that is how life unfolds.
Let’s Read
We are going to read “Play Ball”.
One way we can understand words we don’t
know is to use the antonym of the word to
help us.
With your partner, read Play Ball.
• Confidence- firm belief in yourself
• Fastball- a pitch thrown at high speed with
very little curve
• Teach your partner what these words
mean.
• Mocking- describes something done in a
way that laughs at or makes fun of
someone
• Outfield-part of the baseball field beyond
the bases
• Teach your partner what these words
mean
• Unique- something that is only one of a kind or is
rare or remarkable
• Weakness- a weak point or slight fault
• Windup- a swinging movement of the arms while
twisting the body just before pitching the ball
• Teach your partner what these words mean.
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With your partner discuss:
• What makes a great baseball player?
• What makes a great baseball team?
• What kinds of challenges do baseball
players and other athletes face?
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• Fact or Opinion?
• Satchel Paige was once a semipro pitcher.
• Fact
• Satchel Paige’s slow ball seemed almost like
magic.
• Opinion
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Should you expect this biography to have
more facts or opinions? Why?
Discuss with your partner…
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Which word in the second sentence on page
118 tells me that the statement might be an
opinion?
An opinion is what someone thinks, feels, or
believes. It cannot be proved true or false.
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On page 121 the crowd tells Satchel to “give
it to ‘em Satchel, show your stuff.”
Does Satchel have any stuff with him on the
mound ?
What do you think that idiom means?
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Cause and Effect:
Remember an effect tells what happened
and a cause tells why it happened.
Reread paragraph 2 on page 123 to
understand the cause. What happened
before the Negro Leagues were formed?
African Americans have played baseball
since the sport began.
This sentences is a complex sentence. It contains
an independent and a dependent clause. The
clauses are connected by the conjunction since.
Adding –ed, -ing
This week we will use words
that end with –ed and –ing
Decide admit qualify
Add –ed to each word
• Decided
• Admitted
• qualified
Lets take a look at our
Daily Fix it
Think about a person who is interesting to
you. Write a news article about that person,
giving details, facts, events, and quotations
to describe their experiences and
personality.
Brainstorm in your notebook :
Person
what they did why they are interesting
Today in our small group time, work on your
newsletter article.