This document contains classroom materials and instructions for students, including warm-up writing prompts, vocabulary lessons, directions for independent reading and completing reading comprehension questions. It discusses the book The Explosion and has students analyze how different influences like a character's mother, father and hometown affected the main character Homer. Students are asked to make inferences, characterize characters, and discuss times they got in trouble.
2. Turn in Worksheet on
Characterizing Mary
Independent Reading
– SILENTLY
Fill Out Log
3. Warm Up – 9/15/2014
Who do you count on to help point
you in the right direction? Describe
a time when someone did or said
something that helped you make
an important choice.
Use details in your story. Try 2 solid
paragraphs of 5 sentences each.
4. Partner Share at your table.
Are there any similarities in your
stories?
As a team, make a list of important
factors to consider when making a
decision.
5. Vocabulary on pg. 9
Apparently
seeming to be
Joseph apparently found the situation funny, since he was trying hard
not to laugh.
Creative
showing imagination and originality
Leticia’s fashion designs are beautiful and creative.
Industrial
having to do with industry (factories, metal)
The class visited an industrial paper plant to learn how cardboard is
made.
Careen
to swerve crazily while moving forward
We watched the loose hubcap careen across the highway and into a
ditch.
6. Exclamation
a loud, emotional statement
My brother made an exclamation of disgust when I shoved a bug in his
face.
Smolder
to burn without flames
The flames have died down, but the campfire will smolder for hours.
Snicker
to laugh quietly in a mean way
When I spilled my soup on the floor, Ed and Zack snickered.
Wrath
intense anger or rage
Leo was filled with wrath when he heard that three older kids had bullied
his little sister.
7. Warm Up – 9/16/2014
Look on page 12 of the textbook and re-read the section
we read yesterday. How does Sonny try to get out of
trouble with his mom?
Does Sonny’s mom behave differently from his dad? How
so?
Describe a time when you got in trouble? (Have you ever
broken or lost something valuable?
Does your mom treat you differently than your dad? Or
your grandmother/father or teacher? Why? Explain with
examples.
8. Independent Reading – SILENTLY
Fill Out Log
Logs are due on Friday – you need to have
at least 8 entries.
9. Reading pgs.10-15
Complete the margin questions in your notes
section. Make sure they are all done in
complete sentences. Hint: Use part of the
question as the beginning of your answer to
receive full credit.
For example: (pg.13) The explosion gets Homer’s mom
concerned because_____________________
When asked to underline or circle, rewrite the
sentence into your notebook since we cannot mark
the textbook. Then write out the answers you would
check for the questions.
10. Warm Up – 9/17/2014 – Must finish up to
pg. 15 first
Consider each of the following influences on Homer;
Mom, Dad, and Coalwood. Describe how each
affected him, in a positive or negative manner.
Hint: What does Mom want him to do? Dad? How does
growing up in a coal town affect a boy? What is
expected?
Make sure you have completed all of the margin
questions (in complete sentences). I will come around
and check your work.
11. Warm Up – 9/18/2014
Complete the “Making an Inference” worksheet.
Begin working on the chart for the characterization of
Sonny/Homer. Fill in 2 examples each of: thoughts,
actions, looks, effect on mom/dad and what he says.