Studies Weekly Week 8 Article 1

​Week 8: Asking for Help

Article 1

Essential Questions:

1. What does it mean to ask for help?

2. What do you need to consider when you ask for help?

3. Why should you be cautious when you are asking others for help?

4. What is the difference between safe and unsafe secrets?

Vocabulary and Definitions:

confidence: when you feel sure of your abilities

a. How does doing things that are brave help you?

b. How do you feel before you do something brave?

c. How do you feel after you do something brave?

d. What is different about how you feel before and after doing

something brave?

Poll

a. How does doing things that are brave help you?

click on all that apply

• It feels good

• It feels like whatever

• I feel accomplished

• I feel happy

• I have no feeling

Poll

b. How do you feel before you do something brave?

Click all that apply.

• I feel nervous

• I feel confident

• I feel worried

• I feel happy

• I have no feeling

Poll

c. How do you feel after you do something brave?

Click on all that apply.

• I feel nervous

• I feel confident

• I feel worried

• I feel happy

• I have no feeling

Poll

d. What is different about how you feel before and after doing

something brave?

Click on all that apply.

• I feel nervous

• I feel confident

• I feel worried

• I feel happy

• I have no feeling

Talk to your group members about the image on the article's cover.

a. What do you think is happening in this image?

b. What help is needed?

c. Who do you think has asked for help? Why?

d. What do you think about this person because they asked for help?!

While working in small groups, have read the article “Asking for Help.”

a. Highlight the text that explains what asking for help means.

b. Using the article text, groups should create a T-chart that shows what

asking for help is and is not and use the text to support their thinking.