1. Passage to Freedom by Ken Mochizuki

2. Help and Encourage Others
Team Cooperation Goal
Help and Encourage Others

3. Title: Passage to Freedom
Reading Goal: Problem and Solution
Team Cooperation Goal:
Help and Encourage Others
Genre: Narrative
Author: Ken Mochizuki

4. Passage to Freedom
This week we will read Passage to Freedom by Ken Mochizuki. As we read, we will identify the central problem of the story and the actions the main character takes to solve the problems. Good readers identify the problems that drives the story so they can see how events connect and how the problem is resolved.

5. Review Vocabulary independently
Can you say it?
Can you define it?
Can you say it in a sentence?

6. Active Instruction Set the Stage
Rate and review the vocabulary words independently clung peering issue exhausted entire encouraged

7. clung: gripped
Jean clung on a pole, he gripped on to it because there were hungry alligators under him.

8. Jesse’s dog was peering at the cat, he was staring at his next meal.
peering: staring
Jesse’s dog was peering at the cat, he was staring at his next meal.

9. Javier issued his dog a bowl, he gave him food.
issue: give
Javier issued his dog a bowl, he gave him food.

10. Andy’s mom was exhausted, she felt tired after working 15 hours a day.
exhausted: tired
Andy’s mom was exhausted, she felt tired after working 15 hours a day.

11. Richard ate the entire pizza, he ate the whole darn thing!
entire : whole
Richard ate the entire pizza, he ate the whole darn thing!

12. Mr. Mena encouraged me to keep trying, he urged me to never give up.
encouraged : urged
Mr. Mena encouraged me to keep trying, he urged me to never give up.

13. Vocabulary Vault

14. Building Background
Pretend you are a kid lost in a department store. What would you do to find your parents?
Model clarifying puddles

15. Building Background
Marla was tossing and turning. She couldn’t sleep. She had a huge basketball game the next day of the season. She knew she couldn’t be tired for the game, yet she couldn’t sleep because she was thinking about it. Then she remembered a trick her mother had taught her. Marla imagined walking through a field with a flock of sheep in it. She imagined counting the sheep one by one. Soon Marla’s eyelids began to close.

16. Building Background
What was the main problem in the passage?

17. What examples of Problem and Solution do we see in West African Trickster Tales?

18. Passage to
Freedom

19. Partner Read- 15 minutes
Put 2 sticky notes on words that are new or unfamiliar to you
Read and restate pages 168
Read page 169 silently
Discuss with team words you clarified
find vocabulary words

20. Team Discussion-15minutes
Discuss answers to team talk questions
Write answers to question 1 and 4

21. Team Talk
How did Mr. Sugihara respond to the young Jewish boy? What does this shoe about Mr. Sugihara? (write) {CH}
How did the narrator’s life change? {CC}
The refugees wanted help from -
Mrs. Sugihara
The narrator
Mr. Sugihara
The government
What was Mr. Sugihara’s problem in the story? (write) {PS}

22. Class Discussion
What words did your group clarify?

23. Writing Adventures- 15 min
Think about a time in your life when something changed. What happened? Did you start school? Did you make a new friend? Did you move to a new house? Include at least two details about this event.

24. Scoring Guide
You answer the question 25 points Your answer explains or describes with at least two details 25 points Your answer makes sense and has Part of the question in it 20 points Your answer is written in complete, correct sentences 20 points Your writing has correct capitalization and punctuation 10 points

25. Vocabulary Practice-10 min
Divide your words with partner. Choose a word from your list to use in a meaningful sentence.

26. Fluency – 5 min
Page 169

27. Fluency Rubric 100 points Expressiveness Smoothness
Rate and correctness
90 points Smoothness
80 points Rate and correctness
70 points Correctness