Unit 2 - Week 2

1. Hold the Flag High
By Catherine Clinton
Week 2.2

2. Day 1 –
 Question – What are the risks in helping others?
 Video –
 Why is one hiker helping the other?
 What is the Coast Guard trying to do in that
picture?
 What about the soldier with the American flag?

3. Concept Map
Read Aloud: Number the
Stars
Amazing Words: poses,
officers, unwavering
Number the stars tells
about the risks a family
takes to save a Jewish girl
during WWII.
In “Number the Stars,” the
soldier stares at Ellen for a
long unwavering moment,
Which words are the
context clues?
Discuss with a partner:
Would an olympic swimmer
be unwavering in pursuit
of the finish line?
Risks in Helping Others
Motivation Qualities Ways to
Help

4. A Flag Unfurled
 Read A Flay
Unfurled aloud
with your partner.

5. Comprehension Skill: Sequencing
Comprehension Strategy: Inferring

6. A Flag Unfurled

7. Vocabulary
 Using your vocabulary chart look up the first four words for this
week on www.Dictionary.com.
 Put the definition in your own words and come up with another
word it reminds you of.
canteen confederacy glory quarrel

8. Vocabulary

9. Spelling – Take your pretest on SpellingCity
Conventions – Start WS 7 in small group
then finish at your seat.
Handwriting- Work on the next two pages in
your cursive packet.

10. Day 2 – Content Knowledge
Oral Vocabulary
 What are the risks in helping others?
 video -
 “On September 29, 1943, Jewish people in Denmark were
rounded up by Nazi soldier and then sent to death camps. in
this passage, a Jewish girl named Ellen Rosen poses as the
sister of her best friend Annemarie Johansen, as the Nazi
soldiers search for Jews.” – Number the Stars
 What does poses mean?
 What does the author mean when she write that Ellen poses
as the sister of her best friend?
 How do you think Ellen feels? Why does she need to do this?

11. Concept Map
Amazing Words:
cooperation, maneuver
Look at the photographs
on page 202 and 203.
Discuss with a partner:
How do the activities in
the photographs require
cooperation?
How did the Johansen
family show cooperation in
“Number the Stars”?
Risks in Helping Others
Motivation Qualities Ways to
Help

12. Vocabulary
rebellion stallion union
 Using your vocabulary chart look up the first four words for this
week on www.Dictionary.com.
 Put the definition in your own words and come up with another
word it reminds you of.

13. Vocabulary

14. Word Analysis – French Word Origins
 Some English words come from older French words. These
words contain French roots, or word parts.
 Create a chart in your reading spiral and look for common
roots to match French words with English words in the chart
below.

15. Literary Terms - Foreshadowing
 Hints or clues about future events in a story that
advance the story are called foreshadowing.
 Foreshadowing can help create curiosity or suspense.
 Let think about the Read Aloud, “Number the Stars.”
When Annemarie and Ellen woke up, they were
trembling. Then an office barked at them. How do
these words foreshadow that will happen next?
 What words about the mom and dad in the phrases
below foreshadow what will happen?

16. Vocabulary Skill – Unknown Words
 After you have read
“Civil War Drummers”
imagine you are a war
drummer. Write a
paragraph describing
your experience using
the words from our
Words to Know list.
 Words to Know:
 canteen, glory, stallion,
confederacy, quarrel,
rebellion, union

17.  Genre: Literary nonfiction
books tell a story of a true
event and includes elements
that are usually found in
fiction, such as dialogue,
illustrations, descriptions,
and character thought.
 Preview the story and make
a prediction.
 Read pages 208 – 213

18. Spelling – Practice your spelling words with
a game on SpellingCity
Conventions – WS 123
Vocabulary – WS 122

19. Day 3 – Content Knowledge
Oral Vocabulary
 What are the risks in helping others?
 Video -
 “The southern states wanted to create a new nation, a
confederacy, independent of the United States. The federal
government sought to put down the rebellion and restore the
country as one union.” –Hold the Flag High p. 210
 How are the meanings of the words union and confederacy
similar?
 What clues tell you that the southern states thought they
could become a new country?

20. Concept Map Amazing Words:
nation
trembling
During the Civil War, Union
soldiers fought to keep
their nation together.
What does nation mean?
Discuss with a partner:
What might the people of
a nation have in common?
What is the nation to our
north?
Which nation is to the
south?
Risks in Helping Others
Motivation Qualities Ways to
Help

21.  Why was the battle of Fort
Wagner an important one
for these African American
soldiers?
 Who was Robert Gould
Shaw? How do you know he
gave an inspiring speech to
the troops?
 Read pages 214 – 221

22. Think Critically – Answer the think critically
questions on page 220 in your spiral.
Conventions – WS 76
Type to Learn – practice your typing for 15
minutes

23. Day 4 – Content Knowledge
Oral Vocabulary
 What are the risks in helping others?
 video –
 “Ned solemnly drummed on the beat – footfalls and
drumsticks in syncopation.” – Hold the Flag High p. 214
 What does solemnly mean?
 Why would Ned by drumming solemnly?
 What does the author mean when she says, “footfalls
and drumsticks in syncopation”?

24. Concept Map
Amazing Words:
sacrifice
audacity
brazen
“Carney made a sacrifice
when he carried the flag
through great pain to
encourage his soldiers.”
What does sacrifice mean
in this quote?
Discuss with a partner:
How you ever made a
sacrifice so things could be
better? What was it?
Risks in Helping Others
Motivation Qualities Ways to
Help

25. Vocab, Listening and Speaking
 Vocabulary – unknown words
 When you can’t determine the
meaning of a word from context
clues, look up the word in a
dictionary or glossary.
Dictionaries provide definitions
as well as other important
information about words.
 Look through Hold the Flag
High. Choose at least three
words whose meanings you are
unsure of. Use a dictionary, or
online dictionary to look up the
words. Make sure to include the
word, the definition, and the
part of speech,
 Speaking and listening –
Informational Speech
 In a speech a speaker gives a
formal talk to an audience
for a specific purpose. The
purpose of an informational
speech is to provide listeners
with facts about a topic.
 Prepare and informational
speech about a Civil War
battle. Research the battle,
find noteworthy facts and
details and rehearse your
speech. Then record your
speech on Seesaw.
http://mrnussbaum.com/civil-
war/battles/

26. Informational Speech – Research and create
script
Conventions – WS 130
Coding – Practice coding for 10 minutes

27. Day 5 – Content Knowledge
What are the risks in helping others?
Risks in Helping Others
Motivation Qualities Ways to
Help
nation audacity cooperation
officers brazen sacrifice
accomplishment unwavering
ideals trained
 Amazing words: poses,
officers, unwavering,
maneuver, cooperation,
nation, trembling,
sacrifice, audacity, brazen
 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…”

28. Review Comprehension Skill - Sequence
 Sequence is the order of events in a story.
 Hold the Flag High events:
 The Fifty-fourth Regiment is picked to lead a charge against
Fort Wagner.
 Sergeant Carney tells Ned to follow the flag if he feels afraid.
 The soldier carrying the flag is shot
 Carney takes the flag and raises it over the ramparts, even as
he suffers from bullet wounds.
 How does the earlier events foreshadow or give rise to later
events in this sequence?

29. Review Vocabulary Skill- Unknown
Words
 It is important to use a print of electronic dictionary or
glossary to understand the meanings of unknown words.
 Let’s look up the word glory together.
 http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/glory?s=t
 Which is the correct definition for glory in this
sentence: The commander’s actions at battle earned
him fame and glory.
 Create your own sentence for four of your vocabulary
words.

30. Review Word Analysis – French
Word Origins
 The old French word for stallion is estalon, which means “a
horse kept in a stall” or “a male horse.”
 Using the French meaning, what do you think stallion means?
 We can use French roots to help us read English words.
 In the word union, the unio root comes from the word unio,
which means oneness or being united.
 What do you think united means?
 Understanding the meaning of unio can help you understand
that union means “something that is united or made into
one.”

31. Review Literary Terms -
Foreshadowing
 Foreshadowing gives clues about future events in a
story.
 Create a T-chart labeled Clues and Events.
 Reread the first half of Hold the Flag High on page 210 –
213.
 Focus on the last paragraph on 210. How does this
paragraph provide hints and clues that provide suspense
about future events?

32. Week 2.2 Spelling and Weekly Test