Name: Date: Grade 5 Lesson 21 Use the story by Gary Paulson titled Tucket s Travels on pages 635-649 in your student reader to answer the questions below. Directions Read the story. Then answer questions 1 and 2. 1. What is the meaning of the phrase his heart grew cold on page 642 in paragraph 4? Use two details from the article to support your response. 2. Why is the title Tucket s Travels important to the story? Use two details from the story to support your response.
Use the story by Gary Paulson titled, Tucket s Travels on pages 635-649 in your student reader to answer the question below. Directions Read the story. Then answer question 3. 3. How does Francis feel about their situation at the beginning, middle and end of the story Tucket s Travels? What causes his feelings to change? Use details from the story to support your response. In your response be sure to: explain how Francis feels about their situation at the beginning, middle, and end of the story explain what causes his feelings to change use details from the story to support your response
Exemplary Response - 2 Point Reading/Writing Standards(s) RL5.4 Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative language such as metaphors and similes. Stem Used: What is the meaning of the phrase X in paragraph #? Use two details from the article to support your response. RI.5.4 1. What is the meaning of the phrase his heart grew cold on page 642 in paragraph 4? Use two details from the article to support your response. The phrase his heart grew cold means Francis was frightened for Billie and Lottie if they were caught by the Comancheros. Earlier in the story Francis indicated that children who were caught by the Comancheros would be sold or traded into slavery. He is also feeling very down about their chances of escape. When we are happy or feel affection for someone, we think of our heart being warm. Because Francis feels affection for Lottie and Billy, his heart grows cold when he thinks about what could happen to them if they are caught. Other relevant text-based details Apply 2-point rubric Exemplary Response - 2 Point
Reading/Writing Standards(s) RL 5.4 Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative language such as metaphors and similes. Stem Used: Why is the title important to the story? Use two details from the story/article to support your response. 2. Why is the title Tucket s Travels important to the story? Use two details from the story to support your response. The title Tucket s Travels is important to the story. As the title suggests, Francis Tucket, the main character, is trying to find his parents after being separated from them during an attack by the Pawnee. While he is traveling across the country looking for his parents, Francis encounters two young children who are also alone in the world. Together, they go on a journey across the plains on the Oregon Trail. Along the way, they have to escape the Comancheros, a dangerous gang. Other relevant text based evidence Apply 2-point rubric
Exemplary Response - 4 Point Reading/Writing Standard(s): RL 6.3 Describe how a particular story s or drama s plot unfolds in a series of episodes as well as how the characters respond or change as the plot moves toward a resolution. W.5.2 Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly. W 5.9 Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research. Stem Used: How does [character] feel about X at the beginning, middle and end of the story? What causes her/his feelings to change? Use details from the story to support your response. 3. How does Francis feel about their situation at the beginning, middle and end of the story Tucket s Travels? What causes his feelings to change? Use details from the story to support your response. In your response be sure to: explain how Francis feels about their situation at the beginning, middle, and end of the story explain what causes his feelings to change use details from the story to support your response Francis feelings about their situation change throughout the course of the story. Francis worries that Billie, Lottie and he are in extreme danger in the beginning of Tucket s Travels. He is apprehensive at the beginning of the story. The first line of the text states, If there was one thing Francis Tucket knew with certainty it was that death was close to taking them. Francis was apprehensive because the Comancheros were after Billy, Lottie, and him. In the middle of the story he feels hopeful because he realizes that there may be a way to elude the Comancheros. He sees rainclouds on the horizon and hopes that rain will come and hide their tracks from the Comancheros. On pages 642-643 the Francis thinks, It didn t look like salvation, not at first. He had seen plenty of prairie thunderheads but as he watched it he realized two things. One, it was growing rapidly, roaring along on the high winds, coming toward them at a much faster rate than the horses of the Comancheros. Two, it would bring rain. Rain that would ease their thirst and cool their burning bodies and, far more important, rain that might wipe out their tracks, erase everything they had left behind them. At the end of the story he is happy because he realizes that the men who are looking for them will not be able to find them because of the storm. The last line of the text states, He looked to the west and smiled. There would be no tracks after that. Other relevant text based evidence Apply 4-point rubric