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We encourage you to be involved in your child's learning. To help with this we have outlined a few activities that you could participate in with your child as they learn more about perseverance and improver their reading and writing skills.

1.) One of the requirements of this unit is that the students complete a short story about a time in their own lives when they persevered through a difficult time. Help your child fill out the Perseverance Story Brainstorm Guide which will assist them in thinking of a time in their life when they have had to overcome an obstacle.



2.) To accompany their short story, the students are asked to create a tool kit including items that they used to help them get through the difficult time. Help your child fill out the Tool Kit Brainstorm Guide.



3.) Throughout this unit the student will be reading the //Hatchet// and discussing the book with their classmates in literature circles. There will be six literature circles throughout the unit and the students are expected to have their reading down, be prepared to discuss the topic of the day and have chosen a Golden Line from the reading. A Golden Line is a line within the assigned reading that the student feels directly relates to our theme of perseverance. Help your child fill out the Literature Circle Reading Guide as they come prepared for literature circles each day. They are asked for one Golden Line but this is a great opportunity to challenge your child to think of a couple more examples of perseverance throughout the text.