1. Answer the following questions:
Warm-Up: Take a ¼ sheet.
Answer the following questions:
How valiant must you be to hold a mutiny?
Would you rather have a little child clinging to you or not touching you, but crying with piercing screams?
Do people ponder how damaging the rumors they spread can be?
Would you mind escorting a person who ambles slowly?
Would you evacuate the school if a giant fissure was opening up in the parking lot?
When finished, complete Interactive Reading and/or iPractices/ Study Plans.

2. Altering Stabilize Evacuate Mutiny Ease Brilliant Valiant Piercing
A. Leave a place in an organized manner.
B. Full of courage. Brave.
C. Loud and shrill.
D. Refusal to obey orders given by someone in charge, especially sailors or soldiers against their officers.
E. Without difficulty.
F. Changing or making something different.
G. Very bright or intense.
H. To make or hold something firm or steady

3. Escort Pondered Descend Fissure Rumors Amble Preserve Clinging
A. Walk at a slow, relaxed pace
B. Pondered: Thought very seriously and carefully about something.
C. Rumors: Information passed from one person to another that may or may not be true; gossip.
D. Preserve: To keep something from change or unwanted harm. Protect.
E. Escort: To walk or drive with someone or something for protection.
F. Descend: To move from a higher place to a lower place.
G. Fissure: a split or crack in a rock or the Earth.
H. Clinging: Holding on tightly.
Escort
Pondered
Descend
Fissure
Rumors
Amble
Preserve
Clinging

7. Agenda Time (min.’s) Unit: Taking Chances
Essential Question: What makes some people push the limits? 10
Interactive Reading 5
Vocabulary (Word Slam) 15
Read Aloud At the Edge (Chapter 2, sec. 5: “Leap of Faith”) Summarize
Classroom Conversation
Whole Group (Draw Conclusions) 35
Work Time (3.10 Weekly Reading Check, 3.10 Draw Conclusions)
Wrap-Up

8. 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.
3.3
Ease: Without difficulty.
The Hulk could _____________ with ease.
Altering: Changing or making something different.
__________ could not become ________ without altering ____________.
3.4
Brilliant: Very bright or intense.
After the Alien kidnapped me, I stood looking at the brilliant colors on _____________.
Clinging: Holding on tightly.
I could not help clinging on to __________ as the Alien threw me from ____________.

9. 3.6
Stabilize: to make or hold something firm or steady
When he flies, Superman uses ______________ to stabilize himself.
Amble: walk at a slow, relaxed pace
Fred loved to amble down the street with ______________.
3.7
Pondered: Thought very seriously and carefully about something.
Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall pondering if _____________________.
Rumors: Information passed from one person to another that may or may not be true; gossip.
No one wanted to believe the rumors that the elephant really was _____________.
3.8
Preserve: To keep something from change or unwanted harm. Protect.
To preserve the environment, people often ____________.
Escort: To walk or drive with someone or something for protection.
It is the job of the secret service to escort ___________.
3.9
Descend: To move from a higher place to a lower place.
The hot air balloon began to descend rapidly when _________________.
Fissure: a split or crack in a rock or the Earth.
The Thing got very angry and __________, causing fissures in the mountain.

10. At the Edge 2
Summarizing
Predicting
Leap of Faith

11. Why does the author include the underlined sentence?
1. Reread the following paragraph from “Leap of Faith.”
It took approximately twenty minutes for technicians to cut the power to the third rail and extract the men from beneath the train. Cameron was rushed to a nearby hospital, cut and bruised, but otherwise unhurt. Wesley refused treatment, and after visiting Cameron in the hospital, continued with his day. He dropped his daughters off as planned and headed to work.
Why does the author include the underlined sentence?
To show how busy Wesley is.
To show that Wesley is a humble, every-day type person.
To show how much he cared about Cameron.
To prove that he would do anything for his daughters.

12. To place something beneath. To take something out. To leave quickly.
1. Reread the following paragraph from “Leap of Faith.”
It took approximately twenty minutes for technicians to cut the power to the third rail and extract the men from beneath the train. Cameron was rushed to a nearby hospital, cut and bruised, but otherwise unhurt. Wesley refused treatment, and after visiting Cameron in the hospital, continued with his day. He dropped his daughters off as planned and headed to work.
Based on the context clues, which of the following definitions most closely matches “extract”?
To push something.
To place something beneath.
To take something out.
To leave quickly.

13. Work Time:
3.1 Pushing the Limits, 3.3 Plan a Narrative Paragraph, 3.4 Writing a Narrative Paragraph, 3.5 Read with Accuracy, 3.7 Summarize, 3.10 Drawing Conclusions
Interactive Reading
Unit 3 Grammar Study Plan
Independent Reading

14. Wrap Up
Who is braver, Joe Simpson or Wesley Autrey?