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Finding a Way
Rope BurnRope BurnBy Jan Siebold
Illustrated by Frank Morrison
Question of the Day
• Name a character from a book or movie who had a clever solution to a problem, how did the character solve the problem?problem?
Personal Narrative
The author:
• Shares his or her own experiences• Shares his or her own experiences
• Writes in the first person voice
Focus Skill (p. 22-23)
Objective of Focus Skill:
• To recognize plot events, conflict, and resolution in a storyand resolution in a story
• To understand how conflicts are resolved in a story
ConflictConflict
Plot EventsPlot EventsPlot EventsPlot Events
ResolutionResolution
Conflict and Resolution Terms
Plot Series of events in a story
Problem, revealed at Problem, revealed at the beginning of the
storyConflict
Resolution Solution to the problemby the end of the story
Genre Study
• Realistic Fiction has characters and events that are like people and events in real life.real life.
• As you read our story this week, look for:
• 1) characters who have feelings that real people have
• 2) a main character who overcomes a challenge
Vocabulary
• humiliation
• expectations
• hesitating
• sincere• expectations
• fringes • coaxed
Humiliation
Definition – humiliation is a feeling of shame or embarrassment
Expectations
Expectations are hopes about how well others will do or how they should behave
Fringes
The fringes of a place are areas along its edges, far away from the center of actionaction
Hesitating
If you are hesitating, you are pausing before doing something because you are feeling you are feeling unsure
Sincere
If you are being sincere, you are being honest, and you mean what you saysay
Coaxed
If you are coaxed into doing something, you are gently talked into it by someone elseelse
Word Scribe
• Copy the Vocabulary words in your Reading Folder and define each word using the back of the Reading text.using the back of the Reading text.
• Complete Practice Book pg. 1
KEEP THE PAGE IN YOUR PRACTICE BOOK. DO NOT TEAR IT OUT.
Vocabulary
• humiliation
• expectations
• hesitating
• sincere• expectations
• fringes
• sincere
• coaxed