1. Hewitt Anderson’s Great Big Life
Week 18
Day 5

2. Discussion
Hewitt’s parents wanted him to grow, but Hewitt didn’t grow. What should children do to make sure they grow healthy and strong?

3. Focus Skill: Theme

4. Author’s Purpose and Perspective
Comprehension:
Author’s Purpose and Perspective
Good Readers can figure out an author’s purpose by thinking about the genre.
Authors of nonfiction write to inform readers about real-life topics. Sometimes writers include their own opinions about their topic.
Authors of fiction stories write to entertain. Some fiction stories also have a theme.
Sometimes authors write to persuade readers to think or act in a certain way.
An author’s perspective is the way the author feels about the topic.

5. Think Aloud:
An author’s perspective can be revealed through the author’s choice of words, by the facts an author includes or leaves out, and by the theme of a story. Based on the theme of the “Hewitt Anderson’s Great Big Life”, you can tell that the author believes that a person’s abilities are more important than a person’s physical stature. Even though the author doesn’t directly state that this is her belief, her perspective is revealed through the story she wrote.
Let’s recall what the author’s purpose was in our story. The author’s purpose was to entertain readers with a funny fantasy story and share a message or moral.
What did the author believe was most important, a person’s abilities or a person’s physical makeup? (abilities)
How was this perspective revealed? (by the theme of the story)

8. Lesson 17
Robust Vocabulary

9. What might a carving of an exotic flower look like?
Something exotic is unusual and interesting because it came from a faraway place.
What might a carving of an exotic flower look like?

10. graceful
If a person is graceful, he or she moves in a smooth way that is nice to look at.
Why might it be difficult to carve a graceful sculpture out of cold, hard ice?

11. brilliant Things that are brilliant are very bright, and often shiny.
At what time of the day or night do you think the ice sculptures would look most brilliant? Explain

12. mischievous
Someone who is mischievous likes to play tricks on other people.
Imagine a craving of a mischievous monkey. What might the monkey be doing?

13. participate If you participate in a game, you are involved in it.
What are two ways people can participate in Harbin’s Snow and Ice Festival?

14. Lesson 18
Robust Vocabulary

15. What exotic food do you wish were bountiful?
If you had a bountiful amount of something, you would have a lot of it.
What exotic food do you wish were bountiful?

16. Did any of your ancestors travel a vast distance in their lives?
Something that is vast is so wide it would be hard to get across it.
Did any of your ancestors travel a vast distance in their lives?

17. Name a sport in which people of any stature can participate
A person’s stature is his or her height.
Name a sport in which people of any stature can participate

18. relentless
Someone who is relentless in trying to do something keeps at it and refuses to give up.
Name an event you participated in where the noise level was relentless.

19. What brilliant object outside your window might rouse you at night?
roused
If you roused someone, you woke up or alerted that person.
What brilliant object outside your window might rouse you at night?

20. Would you rather be graceful or resourceful? Why?
A resourceful person is good at finding ways to solve problems.
Would you rather be graceful or resourceful? Why?

21. What might a child wit mischievous intentions do?
Intentions are ideas about what a person means to do.
What might a child wit mischievous intentions do?

22. Is it possible to inadvertently do something mischievous? Why?
If you do something inadvertently, you do it without meaning to.
Is it possible to inadvertently do something mischievous? Why?

23. Spelling: Word Parts: over-, under-, sub-
overactive
overbite
overboard
overdrive
overestimate
overhand
overheat
overpass
overreact
underline
underbrush
underdeveloped
undergo
underhand
underpass
underscore
underwater
submarine
subway
overact
Challenge Words:
undertow
overlook
overwhelmed
subcommittee
subarctic
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