Unit 1 - Week 4

1. Satchel Paige
By Lesa Cline-Ransome
Week 1.4

2. 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

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

4. Concept Map
Read 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?
How we face personal challenges
Physical
Barriers
Social
Barriers
Important
Traits
How people
overcome
challenges

5. 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

6. Comprehension Skill: Fact and Opinion
Comprehension Strategy: Questioning

7. 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!

9. **Research and Inquiry – Planning Day 1:
Spelling – Adding –ed and -ing
Pre-test Spelling City
Conventions – Compound and Complex Sentences
Worksheet Grammar 4
Start in small group finish in center time
Handwriting – Complete the next two pages in your
cursive packet

10. Day 2 – Content Knowledge
Oral 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?

11. Concept Map Amazing Words:
ambition
strive
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?
How we face personal challenges
Physical
Barriers
Social
Barriers
Important
Traits
How people
overcome
challenges

12. 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

13. 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.

14. 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?

15. 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.

16.  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

17. 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

18. Day 3 – Content Knowledge
Oral 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?

19. Concept Map
Amazing Words:
vigor
devotion
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.
How we face personal challenges
Physical
Barriers
Social
Barriers
Important
Traits
How people
overcome
challenges

20. Amazing Words Chart
vigor devotion
physical
strength and
good health
Love, loyalty,
or enthusiasm
for a person,
activity, or
cause
loyalty,
faithfulness
strength,
hardiness

21.  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

22. 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.

23. **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

24. Day 4 – Content Knowledge
Oral 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?

25. Concept Map Amazing 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.
How we face personal challenges
Physical
Barriers
Social
Barriers
Important
Traits
How people
overcome
challenges

26. Amazing Words Chart
discipline resist
training to
obey rules or
a certain
behavior
to withstand,
strive against,
or oppose
withstandtraining,
regulation

27. 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

30. 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

31. 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!

32. **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.

33. Day 5 – Content Knowledge
Oral 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?
How we face personal challenges
Physical
Barriers
Social
Barriers
Important
Traits
How people
overcome
challenges
Injury or
disability
discrimination ambition work hard
Strong
opponents
hostility discipline strive for
change
hardships strive to
improve

34. 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 –
a realization or big
idea about meeting
challenges.
 In your spiral write
down a few
sentences about your
beginning with, “This
week I learned…”
How we face personal challenges
Physical
Barriers
Social
Barriers
Important
Traits
How people
overcome
challenges
Injury or
disability
discrimination ambition work hard
Strong
opponents
hostility discipline strive for
change
hardships strive to
improve

35. 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.

36. 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.

37. 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.

38. 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.

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

40. **Research and Inquiry -
Spelling – Take post test on spelling city. Show Miss
Collins when you are finished
Conventions – Complete WS 36