Satchel PaigeBy Lesa Cline-Ransome

Week 1.4

Day 1 – Facing Personal Challenges How do we face personal challenges? Video –

http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/black-history-month/videos/jackie-robinson-breaks-barriers

Personal Challenges

What types of barriers do we have in the pictures above? What traits are important in order to overcome personal challenges?

Concept MapRead Aloud: Teammates

Amazing Words:barrier, hardships, hostility, endured

Jackie Robinson endured verbal abuse, isolation, and death threats. What does endured mean?

What challenges might you have endured if you moved to a new town?

Amazing Words Chart

barrier hardship hostility endured

An obstacle that prevents movement forward. Also a situation that prevents progress.

Severe suffering.

Behaving with unkindness and hatred toward others.

To suffer something painful or difficult patiently.

deprivationhurdle, obstacle

hatred, loathing

undergo, experience

Comprehension Skill: Fact and Opinion Comprehension Strategy: Questioning

Vocabulary

Read through the vocabulary words and definitions for this week.

Write each word in a sentence. Make sure the vocabulary word makes sense in your sentence!

**Research and Inquiry – Planning Day 1:

Spelling – Adding –ed and -ingPre-test Spelling City

Conventions – Compound and Complex SentencesWorksheet Grammar 4Start in small group finish in center time

Handwriting – Complete the next two pages in your cursive packet

Day 2 – Content KnowledgeOral Language

“The first baseman has done nothing to provoke the hostility except that he sought to be treated equal.” – “Teammates”

What does hostility mean? What kinds of hostility did Jackie Robinson face

as the first African American professional baseball player?

Why do you think the author use the word hostility rather than another work like anger?

Concept Map Amazing Words:ambitionstrive

Look at the photographs on page 110-111. You need ambition to be a world class athlete like the jumper in the photograph or like Jackie Robinson. However, you have to work hard too. Having a strong desire isn’t enough. What do you think ambition means?

Discuss with a partner:Who do you know with ambition?What are some barriers people face to get to a goal?

Amazing Words Chart

ambition strive

strong desire to do or achieve something, typically requiring determination and hard work.

make great efforts to achieve or obtain a goal

attempt, aimaspiration, goal

Word Analysis – Shades of Meaning Sometimes two words have very similar meanings. These

shades of meanings can be understood best by using each word in context.

A dancing dog is uncommon, but a dancing mouse would be unique!

Explain the shades of meaning of the words uncommon and unique.

Try the shades of meaning with mocking and teasing with a partner in the sentence below.

Her teasing manner sometimes makes me laugh. His mocking voice sounds mean.

Literary Terms – Idioms An idiom is a phrase or expression that has accepted meaning

outside the literal meanings of the words. For example, when we say a job is a “piece of cake” we mean the job can be done easily. The meaning doesn’t have anything to do with cake.

Look at “Play Ball!” on page 115. In the passage it says that a great player has “a style that stands out.” What does “stands out” mean here?

Does it have anything to do with standing?

In Satchel Paige the author says, “it would land somewhere in the middle of next week” when talking about a player hitting a ball.

Discuss and write in your spiral with a partner: would the ball really end up in the middle of next week? what does this mean?

Vocabulary Skill: Antonyms Read Play Ball on

page 115 with a partner.

When reading, you can use antonyms to determine the meanings of words. Antonyms are words that have the opposite meaning of another word.

If you read a word you don’t know try to look for an antonym or context clues.

Satchel Paige is a biography. A biography tells about a real persons life.

Authors create a third-person narrative based on true incidents when writing a biography.

Read page 116-125

Research and Inquiry - Centers

Spelling – Get on Spelling City and play a game to practice your spelling words

Vocabulary – Complete Worksheet 79 – Antonyms

Compound and complex sentences – WS 33

Day 3 – Content KnowledgeOral Language How do we face personal challenges?

“Back in 1923, when Gibson and Satch were teammates on the Pittsburgh Crawfords, they were considered a mighty powerful duo.” – Satchel Paige, 125

What does might powerful mean? what other phrases could we use in place of

mighty powerful?

Concept MapAmazing Words:vigordevotion

Satchel Paige had real vigor going from town to town and playing game after game.

What do you think vigor means?How did Satchel Paige show vigor?

In your reading spiral, write about someone you know who has vigor.

Amazing Words Chart

vigor devotion

physical strength and good health

Love, loyalty, or enthusiasm for a person, activity, or cause

loyalty, faithfulness

strength, hardiness

Satchel Paige is a biography. A biography tells about a real persons life.

Who is Josh Gibson?

What is the “second career” that Paige began in 1941?

Read pages 126-131

Research and Study Skills What resources can we use to learn about

current events?

A newspaper contains current new and information. It is broken into different sections.

An article is a newspaper story. Three types of articles are news articles, feature stories, and editorials.

A head line will tell what an article is about.

Work on WS 80 and 81.

**Research and Inquiry -

News-O-Matic – read the article of the day and complete the comprehension questions.

Think Critically – Answer the think Critically questions on page 130 in your reading spirals

Day 4 – Content KnowledgeOral Language How do we face personal challenges?

“Sometimes he joined his teammates on rickety buses, bumping along on roads studded with potholes so deep, players would have to hold on to their seats (and stomachs) just to keep from spilling into the aisles.” - Satchel Paige p. 123

What is a synonym for rickety?

What other word could we use for studded to describe the road and the potholes?

What does the idiom hold on to their stomachs mean?

Concept MapAmazing Words:discipline resist

“It takes lots of discipline to practice baseball for long hours without complaining.”

What does discipline mean here?

Do you think traveling as much as Satchel did requires discipline?

Discuss with a partner what you think resist means.

Amazing Words Chart

discipline resist

training to obey rules or a certain behavior

to withstand, strive against, or oppose

withstandtraining, regulation

Social Studies in Reading What we read is structured differently depending on the author’s

reasons for writing and what kind of information he or she wishes to convey.

Different types of texts are called genres.

What is a biography? The story of someone’s life or a part of it.

How are the events of a person’s life usually arranged in a biography? sequential order

If I wanted to create a time line of a famous athlete’s life. What events would I include? birth, death, major awards or accomplishments

Vocabulary Skill - Antonyms Bill used to be an amateur baseball

player, but now he’s a professional player. How, he is paid.

Professional is to paid as amateur is to _________.

This is called an antonym analogy.

Use two of the vocabulary words below to come up with your own antonym analogy.

unpaid

Media Literacy Sports Center Top 10 https://

www.youtube.com/watch?v=wluw_t9IQsw

Sports casters focus on highlights and dramatic moments of the game rather than every small detail.

What do the sports casters need to know in order to do their job?

Complete the Practice it!

**Research and Inquiry -

Spelling – practice your spelling words on spelling city

Conventions – complete WS 83 and turn it into the reading drawer

Type to Learn – work on your typing for 15 minutes.

Day 5 – Content KnowledgeOral language This week you

have learned ten amazing words: barrier hardships, hostility, endured, ambition, strive, vigor, devotion, resist, discipline.

Use these words and our concept map to answer the Question of the Week, How do we face personal challenges?

Concept Map Discuss with a partner- Use the concept map

and what you have learned from this week’s discussions and reading selections to form and AMAZING IDEA – a realization or big idea about meeting challenges.

In your spiral write down a few sentences about your AMAZING IDEA beginning with, “This week I learned…”

REVIEW Comprehension Skill: Fact and Opinion A fact states something that:

Happens A lunar eclipse happens when the moon aligns exactly with the sun and

Earth. has happened or is certain to be true

Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence. is real or exists

The sun is a star.

An opinion states something: believed to have occurred

The mother gave her child chores because she was angry. believed to exist

The bus stop close to my house was built so I wouldn’t miss the bus again.

believed to be true Grandma and Grandpa love me the most.

o Work on WS page 35 on your own.

REVIEW Vocabulary Skill: Antonyms

You can use known antonyms to produce analogies. Analogies can help you understand a word’s meaning.

It is easy for me to bike on smooth surfaces, but it is more difficult to bike on a rough surface such as gravel.

What are the two sets of antonyms? Easy/difficult smooth/rough

What is an analogy we could make using these antonyms? Easy is to difficult as smooth is to rough.

Look back at the analogies we made for two of our vocabulary words yesterday. Create two more by looking up the words and using their antonyms.

REVIEW Word Analysis: Shades of Meaning Shades of meaning refers to the differences in

meaning between two words with very similar meanings

For example confident means self-assured and bold means risk-taking.

Both words are similar, but have different definitions.

With a partner define the words weakness, feebleness and frailty.

Then check your definition in the dictionary.

REVIEW Literary Terms: Idioms An idiom is a phrase or expression with an accepted

meaning outside the literal meanings of the words.

In Satchel Paige on page 123 the author said “ate on the road.” What did the author really mean here?

In your spiral read back through Satchel Paige. Create a chart like the one below and record 5 idioms in the story.

Idioms Meaning• Ate on the road They ate their meals

while driving to their next location.

Test – Satchel Paige Online Test internal.usd497.org Select Reading Street Select Assignments Select Satchel Paige Test

**Research and Inquiry -

Spelling – Take post test on spelling city. Show Miss Collins when you are finished

Conventions – Complete WS 36