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