Review Vocabulary with Partner

1. Review Vocabulary with Partner • Can you say it? • Can you define it? • Can you say it in a sentence?

2. ? ? ? Rate the words as you come in. Do you know how to say the word? What it means? How to put it in a sentence? ? ? ? ? ? ? + ? + ? + ?

3. Talk With an Astronaut

4. 2 Minute Edit • Read this sentence. • Soon she was writing about other memorable events in her life, too. • In which word does able mean the same as it does in the word memorable? • A stable • B lovable • C tablet • D fable • Read this sentence. • My dog, Tibbs, is a truly extraordinary animal. • In this sentence, what does extraordinary mean? • regular • B amazing • C imaginary • D perplexed

5. Team Cooperation Goal Everyone Participates

6. Title: Talk With an Astronaut Reading Goal: Fact and Opinion Team Cooperation Goal: Everyone Participates Genre: Expository Author: Angela Bull

13. Let’s see who knows the words

14. Vocabulary Vault

15. 47 32-33 TPS Facts/Opinions

16. Went to the St. Louis Fair and rode a roller coaster • Loved the speed so much that she built a roller coaster at home • Went to school and went to war to help with the soldiers that were hurt • Went to Canada to help soldiers and saw those soldiers fly airplanes • Moved to Los Angeles and saw an air show that ex-soldiers now flew • Neta Snook gave Amelia her first lessons • Later she bought her own airplane and started flying. • Charles Lindbergh flew the Atlantic • Putnam approached Amelia about flying the Atlantic • Amelia flew the Atlantic but was only a co-pilot • She became an instant celebrity • The plane was called Friendship How Amelia became famous Early life Happenings during her childhood Flying Ace The story of Amelia Earhart Amelia Flies the Atlantic on her own! • She married George Putnam, who had masterminded the first Atlantic trip • George and Amelia decided that she should try flying the Atlantic alone • May 20, 1932 was the day they decided • She bought the plane with the money she accumulated as a celebrity • She became a bigger celebrity • Landed in Ireland • Clothes designer What other people flew during the time that Amelia

17. Talk With an Astronaut

18. Father didn’t want his children speaking Spanish because of the prejudices • Didn’t feel that being Hispanic had any additional pressure • Role models are important • Mother was a big influence • Mother finished college after 22 years • Changed opinion about career many times Ellen Ochoa’s life before becoming an astronaut Talk With an Astronaut Experiences as an astronaut • Never considered being an astronaut because no females had been astronauts • Operating the robot arm in space is challenging but fun • Everything is harder to do in training • They prepared for everything that could possibly go wrong in space • Trained for 9 months • Trained for 3 years before first mission • Weightlessness is like being in a swimming pool

19. What would be a good question to develop Why does Ellen Ochoa talk to students about her life and career?

20. Team Talk Questions • Describe the setting on the space shuttle. • On Earth, Ellen dreams of _______, and in space she has_________. • Identify two facts in the text. • You can conclude from the text that…?

21. Partner Read- 15 minutes • Put 2 sticky notes on words that are new or unfamiliar to you • Read and restate pages 572 (Partner) • Discuss with team words you clarified • Find vocabulary words

22. Tree Map • Decide as a group what the main idea was for each section • Provide at least 3 details to support your main idea

23. Team Discussion-15minutes • Discuss answers to team talk questions • Team Talk procedures will be up! • Write answers to question 1 and 3

25. Class Discussion • What words did your group clarify?

26. Writing Adventures- 15 min Tell about a dream you’ve had. Give at least two details about what happened in the dream. How did it make you feel?

27. Scoring Guide You answer the question 25 points Your answer explains or describes with at least two details 25 points Your answer makes sense and has Part of the question in it 20 points Your answer is written in complete, correct sentences 20 points Your writing has correct capitalization and punctuation 10 points

28. Vocabulary Practice-10 min Who is to blame when students don’t accomplish their assignments on time? Some people think the students are influenced by their parents, and that the parents are primarily to blame. I have to make sure that students understand they cannot graduate if they don’t finish their homework. The principal at Oak Ridge Middle School selected me to help students finish their work. From now on, we will operate this school like an army base.

29. Fluency – 5 min • Page 566 • Page 568

30. Fluency Rubric 100 points Expressiveness Smoothness Rate and correctness 90 points Smoothness Rate and correctness 80 points Rate and correctness 70 points Correctness

31. Preview • Describe Ellen Ochoa’s mother. • Identify one fact and one opinion from Ellen Ochoa’s discussion of NASA training. • Astronaut food is better than it used to be twenty years ago because…? • Identify two opinions from the text. • Describe Ellen Ochoa. • Ellen is not scared to travel in space because…?

32. Synonyms and Antonyms • Synonyms-Words that mean the same • Gorgeous-beautiful –stunning • Antonyms-Words that mean the opposite • Gorgeous-horrendous • Fast-slow