1. Finish circling the vowel sounds and slashing the words apart.
Warm-Up: Take a ¼ sheet.
Copy the following two words on your paper. Choose one of the activities below to complete for them.
P E I R C I N G M U T I N Y
Finish circling the vowel sounds and slashing the words apart.
Write a synonym or symbol for each of the words.
Use both words in one sentence.
Begin working on: Interactive Reading

4. Vocabulary (piercing, mutiny) 15
Agenda
Time
(min.’s)
Unit: Taking Chances
Essential Question: What makes some people push the limits? 10
Interactive Reading 5
Vocabulary (piercing, mutiny) 15
Read Aloud At the Edge (Chapter 2: Counterstrike) Predictions- (Making and Modifying Predictions) and Cause and Effect Summaries
Classroom Conversation
Whole Group (Predictions and Cause and Effect) 35
Work Time (3.1 Push the Limits )
Wrap-Up

5. Piercing: Loud and shrill.
___________ gave a piercing _____ when ________________.
Mutiny: Refusal to obey orders given
by someone in charge, especially
sailors or soldiers against their
officers.
The ship’s captain was injured
when the ________ held a mutiny.

6. 3.1
Evacuate: Leave a place in an organized manner.
In World War II, the bombing was so bad in London that the children _____________ to evacuate.
Valiant: Full of courage. Brave.
The British soldiers were valiant when they _____________.
3.2
Piercing: Loud and shrill.
___________ gave a piercing _____ when ________________.
Mutiny: Refusal to obey orders given by someone in charge, especially sailors or soldiers against their officers.
The ship’s captain was injured when the ________ held a mutiny.

7. At the Edge 1,
Question (Q):
CHAPTER 1
Summary (S):
Prediction (P):

9. SAMPLE:
S1: (Cause and Effect) Vincent Coleman stayed to send a message to the train about the burning Mont Blanc, so the people on the train were saved but he died.

10. Work Time:
3.1 Pushing the Limits.
Interactive Reading
Unit 3 Grammar Study Plan
Independent Reading

11. Wrap Up
What is a major difference between Petrov’s story and Coleman’s?