4.2 Reading- Day 1

Weekly Concept: Overcoming Challenges
Essential Question: How do people meet personal challenges?
Objective: You will be able cite textual evidence and use evidence to help you make inferences. 
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.
  • summit
  • assess
  • compensate
  • deteriorated
  • devastating
  • implement
  • peripheral
  • potential

Essential Question- 

Have you every had something difficult come up in your life and thought you could not make it happen but surprised yourself and did? How did you rise to the challenge to meet your goal?

Listening Comprehension- 4.2 Going the Distance.pdf Download 4.2 Going the Distance.pdf 

People often have to overcome personal challenges in life. The passage above is about Diane Van Deren, a woman who overcame the challenge of epilepsy to become an endurance runner.