THEME 1: Facing Challenges

1. THEME 1:Facing Challenges Fourth Grade Week 1 Day 2

2. Theme 1 Essential Question • How does choosing to face a challenge help a person learn about their personal characteristics and traits?

3. Question of the Day(Quick Write) • What do you do when you are with your friend? • Complete the following sentence: When I am with my friend I ___________________.

4. Read Aloud • Genre: Poetry • Poems : • Are written in verse • May repeat certain words or phrases • Often include rhythm and rhyming words MODEL: While you listen to the poem again today, I will model fluent reading. Good readers read accurately.

5. Read Aloud • Now you and a partner will practice your fluency by reading accurately. Be a friend. You don’t need money; Just a disposition sunny; Just the wish to help another Get along some way or other; Just a kindly hand extended Out to one who’s unbefriended; Just the will to give or lend, This will make you someone’s friend.

6. Loser • Character Traits and Motivation: Today we will be reading the chapter book Loser. Genre: Realistic Fiction Realistic fiction has characters and events that are like people and events in real life. As we read look for a setting that is familiar to most readers and realistic fiction characters. Let’s find out what Zinkoff was like as a little boy.

7. Use Story Structure to help you understand how the characters, setting, and plot events in a story are connected. Setting: Characters: Setting Plot Events:

8. Focus SkillCharacter’s traits and Motivations

9. trudging • Trudging is plodding; walking in a heavy-footed way. • Would you become very tired after trudging home through deep snow?

10. squint • When you squint you look with partly closed eyes. • What would keep you from squinting on a sunny day, wearing sunglasses or putting on sunscreen?

11. constraints • Constraints are things that keep people from going where they want to go. • What would be a good constraint to keep a baby from crawling up the stairs?

12. heedless • Heedless means not paying attention. • Give an example of a little brother who would think only about his imaginary world if he was heedless of the real world around him.

13. giddy • If someone is dizzy or lighthearted they are giddy. • Would you feel giddy if you were going to bed or if you won a contest?

14. instinct • Instinct is a behavior pattern with which a creature is born. • Would it be an instinct for a baby to grab your finger or a child to eat an ice cream cone?

15. indicates • Indicates means to suggest or demonstrate the necessity, expedience, or advisability of something. • What would indicate that a child needs a nap?

16. bellowing • If someone is bellowing they are yelling. • Would your mother be bellowing or whispering if she was calling for you to come home when you were two blocks from home?

17. jabbers • If someone jabbers they are chattering. • Would a sister be considered to jabber when she is talking on the phone or sleeping?

18. declared • If someone announced something that means they declared something. • When the cook declared that dinner was ready everyone sat down at the table to eat.

19. beams • If someone beams they grin. • Would you beam if you received a gift to open?

20. shoves • If someone shoves something they are pushing it. • Would a bully shove someone or open the door for someone?

21. Spelling Words • twin • brand • else • to • too • does • said • there • where • were • Bonus: • ditch • consent • invent • crop • film • spend • past • plot • check • split • sting • strap • task

22. Writing Prompt • Most people know someone older whom they want to be like. Think of an older person whom you admire. Now, write a letter to that person that tells why you admire him or her.