President
Cleveland
Where are You?
FICTION SELECTION
Unit 1, Part 1, Grade 6
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Preparing to Read
Connect to Your Life
• Making your own
choices takes courage.
• Think of a time when
you chose to do something
different from what
someone else wanted
or expected.
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Preparing to Read
Connect to Your Life
• Think about
someone in a book
or movie who made
a difficult choice?
• What was so
difficult about
these situations?
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Preparing to Read
Build Background
• This story is set in the
1930’s when the U.S.
suffered through the
economic crisis known as
“The Great Depression”.
• Thousands of people
lost their jobs, and banks
and businesses closed
all over the country.
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Preparing to Read
Build Background
• Despite the hard time, the 1930’s was also a
great decade for entertainment.
• Children enjoyed the Sunday “funny papers”,
four hour matinees, and radio programs.
• They also collected trading cards that
featured heroes of movies and sports.
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Preparing to Read
Words to Know
• allot
• incredulous
• betrayed
• indignant
• contempt
• lethargy
• divulge
• obsess
• dwindle
• stalemate
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Preparing to Read
Focus Your Reading
• The series of events in a
story is called the plot.
• A plot usually revolves
around a conflict.
• Plots develop in four
stages.
– exposition - rising action
–climax - falling action
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Preparing to Read
Focus Your Reading
• To understand a story,
you must be able to
follow the sequence of
events in the plot.
• Look for events that
help to move the plot
along even if they seem
unimportant.
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Preparing to Read
Focus Your Reading
Reader’s Notebook
– As you read, keep
track of the main
events.
– This graphic will
help you see how
events move
the plot forward.
Download this graphic organizer at www.curriculumcompanion.org
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Reading and Analyzing
Literary Analysis
• What conflict does
Jerry face?
• Summarize the plot at
the end of page 37.
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Reading and Analyzing
Active Reading
• The setting is the
time and place in which
a story takes place.
• The setting may
also include the
social environment.
• What do you know
about the setting?
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