1. How can our determination affect our ability to succeed?
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How can our determination affect our ability to succeed?
Turn to page
How can you improve a natural capability?
If people respond enthusiastically to your efforts, how will it affect your perseverance as you face new obstacles?
Can expectancy for success help you become successful? Explain.

2. Get Ready to Read
Amazing Words
Upraised – a person or object that has been lifted to a higher level
How might achieving a personal goal, such as successfully running a marathon, make a person feel upraised?
Why might Duke Ellington have felt upraised after selling his first song?
Who has been upraised: a player named most valuable player or a spectator at the game?
What experiences at home, as school or on the playing field have upraised you? In what ways were you upraised?
Ideals – goals or principles that guide a person’s life.
The student dancer had high ideals of becoming a ballerina.
Talk about a time when having ideals is important.

3. An audience hears a performance
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Word Analysis
Greek and Latin Roots
Aud – means to hear
An audience hears a performance
Root
Origin
Meaning
Examples
Non-Examples
Aud
Latin
Hear
Audience
Fraud
Duc
Lead
Conductor
Education
Gram
Greek
Letter, written
Grammar
Program
Jud
Judge
Prejudice
Judo
Poli
City
Metropolitan
Policy
Vis
See
Invisible
Visit

4. Get Ready to Read
Simile and Metaphor
Types of figurative language that authors use to compare things.
A simile uses the word like or as. Gentle as a lamb, crazy like a fox
A metaphor is direct. Spring is a lamb
Look for examples in From a Different Planet.

5. Text Structure Sequence
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Text Structure
Sequence
What are some clue words for sequencing?
When you read, you can watch for sequencing and use it to better understand the text.
Look at page What is the sequence of events there?

6. Vocabulary Strategy Suffixes
Read and Comprehend
Vocabulary Strategy
Suffixes
-ic means pertaining to or associated with (dramatic)
-ous means full of (momentous)
-ation means the state of being (application)
What are some words with these suffixes?

7. Follow along as I read paragraph 2 of From a Different Planet.
Read and Comprehend
Fluency Practice
Follow along as I read paragraph 2 of From a Different Planet.
Read the paragraph with your group using expression.

8. How might people be prejudiced toward or against certain things?
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What is prejudice?
How might people be prejudiced toward or against certain things?
How do people show prejudice toward or against other people?
Can your own prejudices hurt you? If so, how?

9. The story of a real person’s life written by another person
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Biography
The story of a real person’s life written by another person
May cover a person’s whole life, a part of it or just one incident
Preview the selection title and the illustrations.
What do you think When Marian Sang will be about?

10. Find a generalization. What clue words helped you?
Read and Comprehend
Read page 369.
Think about:
Find a generalization. What clue words helped you?
Many successful musicians began as children: Mozart, Judy Garland, Marian.
What might be some common challenges faced by young performers?
In the fifth paragraph, what does the author mean by:
As Viola sang the high part and Marian sang the low, their harmony blended like a silk braid.

11. Read and Comprehend
Read page 370.
Think about:
Draw a conclusion about why Marian sang with her eyes closed. What makes you think so?
Look at the song lyrics. Why did the author likely decide to include these lyrics at this point?
What do the text and illustration on pages tell us about the relationship between Marian and her mother?

12. Principal Parts of Irregular Verbs
Language Arts
Principal Parts of Irregular Verbs
James brought his pillow. What tense is this verb?
He had already brought his blanket. What tense is this verb?
Had brought is a past participle in the past perfect tense. Explain this statement.
Choose the correct verb:
Sasha (growed, has grown) taller.
Who (taked, took) my lunch?

13. Study each part of the word, then practice spelling the whole word.
Language Arts
Take your spelling list and divide each word into parts. Circle any prefix or suffix. Loop under the other word parts.
Study each part of the word, then practice spelling the whole word.

14. Language Arts
Biography
When Marian Sang is a biography of classical singer Marian Anderson. Think about an important person you know about. Write a biography of that person.