1. Addie in Charge Genre: Historical Fiction
Author’s Purpose: Inform and Entertain
Skill: Character
By: Laurie Lawlor
Compiled by Terry Sams, PES

2. Summary
  It's hard enough for a nine-year-old girl to take care of herself, her little brother, and a family friend's farm for two days.  Then a prairie fire breaks out, and nothing will stop it.  Addie remembers her father's advice - go where there's nothing to burn.  So Addie takes her brother and heads for the well.  What a spot to be in!

3. Historical Fiction
Historical fiction is realistic fiction that takes place in the past. The characters, setting, problems and events are based on things that really did or could have happened during a past time period.

4. Comprehension Skill: Character
Characters are the people or animals in a story or non-fiction article.
You can learn about characters by what they think, do, and say.
You can also learn about characters by paying attention to how they are treated or talked about by other characters.

5. Practice Character Word Box
smart, silly, brave, careful, mean, responsible, shy, lazy

6. Comprehension Skill Review – Theme TE 129b
The theme is what the author wants readers to learn from a story.
It is the story’s “big idea.”
Most authors do not tell us what the big idea is -readers have to figure it out for themselves.
A good way to find out the theme is to ask, What does the author want me to learn from this story?

7. Which of the following sentences is the theme of Addie in Charge?
Practice Theme
Which of the following sentences is the theme of Addie in Charge?
Family members help each other.
Family members fight sometimes.
Pioneer life is different from life today.

8. Vocabulary Skill – Context Clues: Unfamiliar Words
When you see unfamiliar words, use context clues, or words around the unfamiliar word, to figure out its meaning.
The context may give a definition or an explanation.
Sometimes a synonym is used as a context clue.
Example: Pedro could hear the loud, terrified bellows of animals trying to escape.

9. Research Skill – Parts of a Book TE 129j
Table of contents – listing of the chapter and lesson titles and the page on which each one begins found in the front of the book.
Glossary– dictionary of important terms in the book found at the end of a book.
Index - an alphabetical listing of subjects covered in the book. Also in the back of the book

10. Research Skill – Parts of a Book TE 129j
Section heads, captions, marginal notes, and headnotes are text organizers found within a chapter.
Section heads are titles of sections
Captions are text under pictures
Marginal notes are additional facts noted in the margin
Headnotes are introductory text to help you decide at a glance what the information is about.

11. Weekly Fluency Check - Read with Expression TE 43d129d
Students should read with expression.
For example, they should match the tone of voice to the tone of the piece.
Addie in Charge combines a great deal of action and emotion in each of this passage.
Read the text as if you are relating the story of the prairie fire.
Go to pages , beginning with “Suddently Addie “

12. Where are Addie’s parents and brother at the beginning of the story?
Review Pages
Where are Addie’s parents and brother at the beginning of the story?
What clues show that Addie is quite grown-up and dependable?
What things happen that lead Addie to see the glow in the sky? Tell in sequence 4 things.

13. Why did Addie climb into the well?
Review Pages
Why did Addie climb into the well?
What did George think when he found a scrap of Addie’s bonnet?
What was the most important thing Addie did in this story?

14. Writing Assignment
Think about Addie’s character. What actions does she take to save the Fency’s farm and then to save herself and Burt?
Tell 4 things in sequence.
Give a summary (retell) of the story using 6-8 sentences.

15. Other Good Stuff Character Practice ABC Spelling Practice
Hangman using the spelling words
Spelling Quiz for our words
Concentration with vocabulary
What was life like for the pioneers?
Reading Test
Spelling Test

16. Visit a Sod House
Sod House Museum - Gothenburg, Nebraska Visit the sod house we read about the week this week. Look inside and outside. Observe how it was made. Think about the new sod house Addie, from the story "Addie in Charge," will live in.

17. More Fun Stuff Simple and compound sentences Pioneer Life in America
Visit the website about pioneer life. Find topics on the website and record about 5 things that you did not know about pioneer life.
Westward Expansion

18. Say It!
adopt
crouched
smarted
bellows
billows

19. More Words to Know
charred
cinders
engulf
firebreak
illuminated

20. bellows – makes a loud, deep noise

21. billows
great waves of smoke, flame, or sound

22. tufts
bunches of feathers, hair, or grass held together at one end

23. crouched
stooped low with
bent legs

24. smarted
felt or caused sharp pain

25. charred
burned enough to blacken

26. cinders
burned or partially burned pieces of coal or wood

27. engulf
submerge; immerse; overwhelm

28. firebreak
a strip of land made to check the spread of prairie fire

29. illuminated
lit up; made bright

30. Annie heard the loud bellows of the animals.

31. Annie heard the loud bellows of the animals.

32. The cabin was on fire and the smoke went up in billows.

33. The cabin was on fire and the smoke went up in billows.

34. The sand smarted my face.

35. The sand smarted my face.

36. I crouched down to hide from my friend.

37. I crouched down to hide from my friend.

38. The tufts of grass went up in flames.

39. The tufts of grass went up in flames.

40. Spelling Words Words with thr, scr, str, and squ
throat
through
threat
thrill
screen
scratch
scream
scrub
skyscraper
strange

41. Spelling Words Words with thr, scr, str, and squ
street
strike
strawberry
strength
square
squeeze
squeal
squirm
squirt

42. This Week’s Word Wall Words
Click and type your own words for this week:

43. Let’s review our words. Watch carefully because they will flash on the screen for just a moment. We will clap as we spell the word.

44. throat

45. through

46. threat

47. thrown

48. thrill

49. screen

50. scratch

51. scream

52. scrub

53. skyscraper

54. strange

55. street

56. strike

57. strawberry

58. strength

59. square

60. squeeze

61. squeal

62. squirm

63. squirt

64. Where are Addie’s parents and brother at the beginning of the story?
Review Pages
Where are Addie’s parents and brother at the beginning of the story?
What clues show that Addie is quite grown-up and dependable?
What things happen that lead Addie to see the glow in the sky? Tell in sequence 4 things.

65. Why did Addie climb into the well?
Review Pages
Why did Addie climb into the well?
What did George think when he found a scrap of Addie’s bonnet?
What was the most important thing Addie did in this story?

66. Writing Assignment
Think about Addie’s character. What actions does she take to save the Fency’s farm and then to save herself and Burt?
Tell 4 things in sequence.
Give a summary (retell) of the story using 6-8 sentences.

67. GREAT JOB!