Feb. 11 - AAP

The Ravine

Quick Start

Open Ended

Sometimes it’s difficult to do something you’re afraid to do—just because you’re embarrassed to let other people know you’re afraid.

List “smart” reasons to overcome a fear. Then list “silly” reasons.

MAKE INFERENCES

An inference is a logical guess based on facts and one’s own knowledge and experience. To support an inference, cite evidence, or provide examples from the text.

Multiple Choice

It was 8:30 on Sunday night. Emily stared at the large, empty poster board on her bed. Then she looked at the stack of un-read books about Abraham Lincoln on her desk. Emily began to cry.

Why do you think Emily was crying?

• She wanted a different color poster

• It was late and she had a lot of schoolwork to complete before she could end her night

• She did not want to go to sleep

• She wanted a book about George Washington instead

Multiple Choice

Ram took a deep breath and dried his sweaty palms on his jeans. He looked down the ramp and shivered. It was a steep drop. But he had to go through with it. Everyone was staring straight at him. He put his skateboard down and got ready. He could do it!

Q: What evidence helps you to infer that Ram was nervous?

• He put his skateboard down and got ready.

• His palms were sweaty.

• He looked down the ramp.

• He could do it.

• Character Traits are the qualities shown by a character, such as physical traits (tall with brown eyes) or expressions of personality (kind or anxious).

• Character Motivations are the reasons a character acts, feels, or thinks in a certain way.

• Character Development is how a character changes over the course of a story.

In realistic fiction, characters—like real people—have personalities and motivations and experience life-changing events. The setting, or the time and place in which the action occurs, often helps draw attention to the traits, motivations, and development of the characters.

ANALYZE CHARACTERS AND SETTINGS

Open Ended

Use Context Clues to determine the meaning of the underlined vocabulary word -write what you think the word means and what clue helped you.

He dropped his watch into the murky water and watched it disappear.

Open Ended

Use Context Clues to determine the meaning of the underlined vocabulary word -write what you think the word means and what clue helped you.

She hopped over a thin rivulet of the stream.

Open Ended

Use Context Clues to determine the meaning of the underlined vocabulary word -write what you think the word means and what clue helped you.

The river’s frightening cascade into the canyon roared ahead of them.

Open Ended

Use Context Clues to determine the meaning of the underlined vocabulary word -write what you think the word means and what clue helped you.

When they arrived at the top, no one wanted to step any closer to the precipice.

LANGUAGE CONVENTIONS

Subordinating Conjunctions

In this lesson, you will learn about forming complex sentences by using subordinating conjunctions, which introduce adverb clauses, to connect ideas.

Examples: because, if, since, until, when, and where

Multiple Choice

I brushed my teeth after I had breakfast.

Select the subordinating conjunction:

• after

• teeth

• had

• brushed

Multiple Choice

I feel stressed when I'm at school.

Select the subordinating conjunction:

• at

• stressed

• when

• feel

Multiple Choice

Which sentence is punctuated correctly?

• After we eat, I want to see a movie.

• Because you sneezed I jumped.

• My brother will cry - if you wake him.

• If you, fall I'll catch you.