Challenges and Obstacles Unit 3 Week 5 Day 1
Question of the Week: What obstacles do we face in our daily lives? How might a bad attitude be an obstacle in school? Can we be our own obstacle?
Skill: Drawing Conclusions Drawing conclusions means forming reasonable opinions after thinking about facts and details in what you are reading and considering what you already know Ex: What conclusion might you draw if you read about a character waving and racing after a bus? Read “Twice Lost; Twice Won” pg. 451
Story Structure Examining a story’s structure can help you draw conclusions about characters and why certain events happen Plot is important to a story’s structure Exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution Most stories are arranged sequentially
Tested Vocabulary: pawn rummage reception rustling remote simultaneous resume
Spelling Homophones: Words that sound alike but have different spellings and meanings heel vs. heal aisle vs. isle symbol vs. cymbal stationery vs. stationary herd vs. heard sheer vs. shear patients vs. patience bread vs. bred capitol vs. capital straight vs. strait
Conventions: Prepositions A preposition shows a relationship between a noun or pronoun and another word in the sentence, such as a verb, adjective, or other noun Ex: The boy placed the book on the table. A prepositional phrase begins with a preposition and usually ends with a noun or pronoun
Independent Work: Finish 3.5 Tested Vocabulary Work on 3.5 Spelling Menu Read choice novel