1. What is the bond between animals and humans?
Getting Ready to Read
What is the bond between animals and humans?
How was Hachiko’s dedication to Dr. Ueno uncompromising?
How did Hachiko become a notable animal?

2. When two events are symmetrical, they balance or reflect each other.
Getting Ready to Read
Amazing Words
When two events are symmetrical, they balance or reflect each other.
How is there symmetry in the way Hachiko waits for his master and the way people bring Hachiko food every day?
How might the friendship between two people demonstrate symmetry?
Which word is the best antonym of symmetry – unevenness, difficulty or frequency?
Salvation is the act of saving or the condition of being saved
When she really missed her grandmother, Lydia found salvation in writing her a letter.
How do you find salvation from difficult or painful situations?

3. Narrative Non-fiction
Getting Ready to Read
Narrative Non-fiction
Genres are categories used to classify different types of literature.
Categories include:
Poetry, drama, realistic fiction, historical fiction, informational text, interviews, biographies and autobiographies, folk tales, fantasy and fables
Narrative nonfiction is a factual story about real people, places or events.
Can include biography, memoir, magazine and newspaper articles.

4. Choose from the Brain Bucket. No more than 2 minutes!
Brain Break
Choose from the Brain Bucket.
No more than 2 minutes!

5. Narrative Nonfiction Getting Ready to Read Uses vivid description
May be short anecdotes or long stories
Recounts true events
Uses chronological order

6. Read and Comprehend

7. How can you tell that this selection is narrative nonfiction?
Read and Comprehend
How can you tell that this selection is narrative nonfiction?
Read pages
Identify a statement of opinion that appears among the facts on page Explain what makes it an opinion.
How would you describe the author’s purpose?

8. Brain Break
Dance Break!

9. Read and Comprehend

10. What conclusions can you draw about the author’s interest in animals?
Read and Comprehend
Read pages
How does the writer’s style make the passage about Ursula the octopus engaging?
What conclusions can you draw about the author’s interest in animals?
How does the structure of this selection help readers quickly locate information about specific animals?

11. Suffixes –ly, -ous Gladly Famous Quietly Angrily Furious Steadily
Read and Comprehend
Suffixes –ly, -ous
Gladly
Famous
Quietly
Angrily
Furious
Steadily
Rapidly
Marvelous
Use suffixes to determine the meaning of these words and use them in sentences. Share these with your group.

12. Write a summary of your research findings.
Language Arts
Research and Inquiry
Create a spreadsheet to illustrate what you learned about the animal you researched.
List different animals behaviors in one column, in the next column, explain what those behaviors indicate.
Write a summary of your research findings.

13. Common and Proper Nouns Proper nouns are capitalized
Language Arts
Common and Proper Nouns
Proper nouns are capitalized
Nouns function as objects of verbs

14. OR, write them 3 times each.
Language Arts
Spelling Practice!
Get your spelling list and practice the last 10 words by spelling them out loud and golf clapping on the apostrophes.
OR, write them 3 times each.

15. Get ready to play Sparkle! Study tonight for your spelling test. ☺
Language Arts
Get ready to play Sparkle!
Study tonight for your spelling test. ☺

16. Where can you add some words or phrases to develop your voice more?
Language Arts
Journal Entry
Voice:
Use words or phrases that express your thoughts and feelings in a unique way and show your personality.
Reread your journal entries and circle words and phrases that demonstrate voice.
Where can you add some words or phrases to develop your voice more?

17. Language Arts
Journal Entry
Write about a time in which you or a family member helped someone in need.