1. Why is it important to stay calm during a crisis?
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Why is it important to stay calm during a crisis?
When have you faced an emergency? How did you react?
How were your reactions useful? Which reactions would not be useful?
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What are the attitudes of people giving CPR?
What challenges does an emergency dispatcher face?
What types of workers are responding to the emergencies?

2. Staying Calm in a Crisis
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Staying Calm in a Crisis
Attitude
Challenge
Professions

3. Amazing Words Listen for the following words as we read Dragon Slayers
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Amazing Words
Listen for the following words as we read Dragon Slayers
Tundra
Trauma
Attitude
Challenges

4. Trauma – physical injury or shock
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Trauma – physical injury or shock
What might have happened to a trauma victim?
What kind of help might a trauma victim need?
Give an example of a trauma victim (from the movies or TV).
Tundra – vast, treeless plain in the Arctic region where the ground beneath the surface stays frozen.
The caribou migrated across the tundra in search of food.
What other kinds of arctic landscapes are there besides tundra?

5. Attitude – a way of thinking, feeling or acting
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Attitude – a way of thinking, feeling or acting
She had a can-do attitude and completed every task.
Use the word attitude in a sentence.
Challenges – calls or invitations to games or contests or any things that take effort or interest.
The new boy in class found many challenges in making new friends.
What kinds of challenges have you experienced?

6. Sequence – the order of events in a story.
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Sequence – the order of events in a story.
What are some clue words that help you find the sequence?
As you read “Slow Down”, look for sequence clue words.
To predict is to think about what might happen next.
To set a purpose is similar, it means to think about what you want to learn.
What predictions did you make as you read “Slow Down”?
Were they right?

7. Follow along as I read paragraph 3 of Slow Down.
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Fluency
Follow along as I read paragraph 3 of Slow Down.
Notice the expression.
Now, read paragraph 3 with your group. Use expression and stay together.

8. Vocabulary Which word fits the following lists?
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Vocabulary
Which word fits the following lists?
Frenzied, shocked, horrified - ______________________________________
Regular, ordinary, expected - _______________________________________
Floated, crawled, dog-paddled - ____________________________________
Calm, bored, nervous - __________________________________________
Stressed, highlighted, point out - __________________________________

9. 1. nuclear 2. helicopter 3. anxious 4. appreciate 5. plastic
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Spelling Pre-Test
Take out a piece of paper and put your heading on it.
1. nuclear
2. helicopter
3. anxious
4. appreciate
5. plastic
6. familiar
7. athletic
8. escape
9. apologize
10. Washington
11. pastime
12. exquisite
13. lantern
14. fulfill
15. souvenir
16. tragedy
17. sherbet
18. algebra
19. icicles
20. escort

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11. Autobiographical Sketch
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Autobiographical Sketch
Describes a true event or events in the author’s life
Includes the writer’s thoughts and feelings
May be part of a longer autobiography
Uses the first person point of view

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13. What details in the first paragraph grab your attention?
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What details in the first paragraph grab your attention?
What is the beginning of this story? (one sentence)
What is the middle? (one sentence)
What is the end? (one sentence)