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Describe how Pinky's feelings change over the course of the chapters and what causes the change by using details to describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges.
Book: Pinky and Rex and the Spelling Bee by James Howe — Chapters 3–4
Resource: Feelings Graphic Organizer (G2, U3, L15)
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Describe Pinky and Rex's relationship and Pinky and Amanda's relationship by using details from the text to describe characters and character relationships.
Standards
RF.2.4RL.2.3RL.2.5
Describe Pinky and Rex's relationship by using details from the text to describe characters and character relationships.
L.2.5.bRF.2.4RL.2.3
Explain how Amanda's dialogue shows how she feels about being at the museum by using dialogue and details to show how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges.
L.2.5.bL.2.6RF.2.4RL.2.3RL.2.6
Describe the lesson that Amanda, Pinky, and Rex learn by using details to describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges and what lesson they learn from the major events.
RF.2.4RL.2.2RL.2.3
Describe Pinky, Rex, and Amanda and how each character responds to major events and challenges by stating a claim and then providing supporting evidence from the entire text.
RL.2.3RL.2.5SL.2.1SL.2.2SL.2.6W.2.1
Use and understand the function of verbs, including verbs of being.
L.2.1.d
Explain why Pinky is embarrassed by what happens with Mrs. Morgan by using details to describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges.
RF.2.3RF.2.4RL.2.3
Explain in what ways Kevin is a bully and how his actions influence everyone around him, especially Pinky, by using details to describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges.
Explain what advice Mrs. Morgan gives Pinky and why by using details to describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges.
RF.2.4RL.2.3
Explain how Pinky changes and what lesson he learns by using details to describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges and what lesson they learn from the major events.
L.2.1.eRL.2.3RL.2.5RL.2.9SL.2.1SL.2.2SL.2.6W.2.1
4 days
Write an opinion paragraph on whether or not kids and robots can be friends using details about Pinky and Rex's relationship from the entire Pinky and Rex series.
Gather information and form an opinion on kids and robots being friends.
W.2.1W.2.8
Plan an opinion paragraph on whether or not kids and robots can be friends.
Draft an opinion paragraph on whether or not kids and robots can be friends that introduces a topic, states an opinion, includes supporting reasons, and provides a concluding statement.
Revise an opinion paragraph to add specific examples to support their reasons.
W.2.1W.2.5
Understand the function of adverbs and use them correctly in a sentence.
L.2.1.e
Explain how Pinky and Rex feel about the spelling bee and how their feelings change by using details to describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges.
Explain how Pinky and Rex change and what lesson they learn by using details to describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges and what lesson they learn from the major events.
RL.2.3RL.2.5RL.2.9SL.2.1SL.2.2SL.2.6W.2.1
Explain why Pinky is mad at Rex and if it is fair that he is mad at her by using details to describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges.
Explain how Pinky and Rex changed and what lesson they learned by using details to describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges and what lesson they learn from the major events.
Describe what happens during the play and what lesson Pinky and Rex learn by using details to describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges and what lesson they learn from the major events.
Debate two Essential Questions by participating in a class discussion by stating a claim and providing evidence from the unit.
SL.2.1SL.2.2SL.2.6
Gauge student understanding of unit content and skills with one of Fishtank's unit assessments.
3 days
Write a narrative about Pinky and Rex using what you know about their personality traits and relationship.
Brainstorm a sequence of events of the first chapter of a realistic fiction story.
SL.2.1SL.2.2W.2.3W.2.8
Draft the first chapter of a new book in the Pinky and Rex series.
W.2.3
Revise narrative writing by adding adverbs to show how a character is thinking or feeling.
L.2.5.bW.2.3W.2.5
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