Essential Question:
How do we face personal challenges?
What are we focusing on in Reading?
Reading Selection: Satchel Paige
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Vocabulary Terms1. confidence: firm belief in yourself
2. fastball: a pitch thrown at high speed with very little curve 3. mocking: laughing at; making fun of 4. outfield: the part of a baseball field beyond the diamond or infield 5. unique: having no like or equal 6. weakness: a slight fault 7. windup: (in baseball), a swinging movement of the arms while twisting the body just before pitching the ball |
Writing and ConventionsCompound and Complex Sentences
A compound sentence contains two simple sentences joined by a comma and a conjunction.
A complex sentence contains an independent clause and a dependent clause. http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/sentence_combine/index.html |
Spelling
Pattern: Adding -ed, -ing
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