Vocabulary Bell-Ringer 10/20/16 Directions: Write down the following sentence Make a guess about the definition of the underlined word Write your guess in your notebook “The mother chastised her son for stealing his little sister’s candy on Halloween night.”

“The mother chastised her son for stealing his little sister’s candy on Halloween night.” Chastise (Verb): To criticize someone harshly for doing something wrong.

First Day- Step One: Read the essay “With Friends Like These” together as a class

First Day- Step One: Read the essay “With Friends Like These” together as a class Step Two: Re-read the essay to identify characteristics of a good friend Step Three: Record those characteristics on your graphic organizer. Include a definition in your own words.

Let’s Try One Together!

Character Trait Exact quote from the essay that supports a character trait. Definition of the trait in your own words

With Friends Like These… Analysis Example “A friend told me how her husband had used her password and pin to drain their bank account and fund his secret gambling habit. Losing her savings was a terrible blow, but far worse was her loss of trust in the person she saw as her best friend.” From the text, what trait do you think is important to friendship?

With Friends Like These… Analysis Example “A friend told me how her husband had used her password and pin to drain their bank account and fund his secret gambling habit. Losing her savings was a terrible blow, but far worse was her loss of trust in the person she saw as her best friend.” From the text, what trait do you think is important to friendship? Define in your own words:

First Day- Step One: Read the essay “With Friends Like These” together as a class Step Two: Re-read the essay to identify characteristics of a good friend Step Three: Record those characteristics on your graphic organizer. Include a definition in your own words. Step Four: Find five pieces of textual proof to support your chosen characteristics.

With Friends Like These… Analysis Example “A friend told me how her husband had used her password and pin to drain their bank account and fund his secret gambling habit. Losing her savings was a terrible blow, but far worse was her loss of trust in the person she saw as her best friend.” From the text, what trait do you think is important to friendship? Which piece of text could we use as evidence for our trait? Define in your own words:

Character Trait Explain the trait and why you think it is important for a friend to have. Name other characteristics that are important to friendships and explain why.

What are the characteristics that make a good friend? Mini-Discussion What are the characteristics that make a good friend? If there is time…

Let’s Share our traits with Wordle! If there is time… Let’s Share our traits with Wordle! http://www.wordle.net/create

2nd Day- Step One: Review the friendship characteristics on our handout.

2nd Day- Step One: Review the friendship characteristics on our handout. Step Two: Read your informational article with your group members. As you read, highlight any information that shows people in the article are displaying the good friendship characteristics that we read about in “With Friends Like These” from the textbook Step Three : After you have read fill out the analysis chart comparing the two texts AND answer the multiple choice questions.

2nd Day- LAFS.910.RI.1.1: Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text. letter In your own words, explain how that quote displays that friendship characteristic Characteristic Textual evidence supporting your answer. Direct quote from the text that reveals that characteristic This is your inference! The text wont explicitly say what the characteristics are. You must make your own conclusions based on their actions.