Reading- Unit 3.2: Day 1

Weekly Concept: Transformations
Essential Question: What kinds of challenges transform people?
Vocabulary Words: this week for each vocabulary word, we will define the word, draw a picture representation, find synonyms and use it in our own sentence. 
Today, we will review the word and define it as a class.
  • dilemma
  • feebly 
  • persistent
  • recoiled
  • roused
  • skewed
  • summon
  • vastness

Essential Question- 

Think about any challenges you have had in your life. Have those challenges ever changed you in some way? Changed the way you thought/think about something? Sometimes when we have an experience, it transforms someone, it significantly changes that person’s life.

Why is meeting a challenge often a transforming experience? Why does it take motivation to meet challenges? 

Shared Read- Facing the Storm (pg. 180)

First Read- Read the text as a class, we will stop and make predictions based on the characters and images. At the end will discuss our predictions. 

Second Read- students to read the text in partner pairs. After this second read, you will use text evidence to determine a theme for "Facing the Storm".