The Call to Adventure

Day 1

Agenda

● Bellwork
● Blast
● Padlet Peer Questions
● Vocabulary

Bellwork

Question Answer

Predict what will happen at your 20-year high school reunion. Me and my old classmates would talk about everything we did
years ago and laugh about it .Well also see how far we have come
to in life.

Blast

The Call to Adventure Blast

The words of the hobbit Bilbo Baggins sum up this thrilling anticipation perfectly: “I’m going on an adventure!”

This exclamation comes from none other than the shy, frumpy, bookish protagonist of author J. R. R. Tolkien’s perennial classic The
Hobbit. At the time of Baggins’s proclamation, he has just resolved to set out on a life-changing journey that has no apparent end in
sight. With nothing but the camaraderie of a band of roaming dwarves and the sage advice of the wizard, Gandalf, Baggins leaves
his home behind and throws himself into the unknown. Throughout Baggins’s journey, he and his companions are constantly thrown
 off the beaten path. They have a destination in mind, with a concrete goal to achieve once they reach it. However, most of The
Hobbit is not about what happens when the journey reaches its conclusion, but the journey itself. By living through numerous
misadventures and so-called “side quests,” Baggins is able to come out of his shell and bond with his traveling group. When they
finally reach their destination, Baggins has grown immensely as an individual, and is more prepared for the challenges ahead. For
most people in life, the lessons we learn are not from reaching our destination but figuring out how to get there. For Colin Ashby, a
student at Texas State University, this was a particularly hard-learned lesson.

Ashby was an honors student in high school and earned college credit before he was even accepted to Texas State University. But
upon his admittance, he realized he would not be able to afford both tuition and housing at the school. Despite applying for financial
aid and scholarships, Ashby was forced to make the difficult decision to attend school while living out of his car. Every night, when
other students would return from the dining hall to their comfortable, expensive dorm rooms, Ashby would return to the parking lot
where he had hung up bedsheets in the back seat of his car for privacy. Although this wasn’t how Ashby had anticipated spending
his first year at college, the hardships taught him some valuable lessons. Acutely aware of his tight budget and the expenses that
came with his education, Ashby worked the graveyard shift at McDonald’s and took full advantage of opportunities on campus.

“Whenever free time came up, I would visit my professor’s office hours to talk about the course material. I started taking a hands-on
approach to my education,” he said. In the end, Ashby graduated from college ahead of schedule, after only two-and-a-half years of
school. His journey may not have gone as planned, but he made the most of a challenging situation. Bilbo Baggins and Colin Ashby
both went on journeys of sorts, and while they each dealt with tribulations that tested them, they both went through major personal
growth as well.

Padlet Peer Questions

Students will answer the questions below and then copy and paste them to the class Padlet in the link below. Students will need to
reply to at least 3 classmates, agreeing or disagreeing, and why, to receive full credit for this activity. The questions are based on
adventures and journeys one takes in life.

Padlet Link: https://padlet.com/huntergrice2/iw83tgnu9ec14eh0

Questions
1. Have you ever wanted to pack your bags and skip town?
If you did decide to embark on a journey somewhere,
leaving everything behind, where would you go, and what
would you do?
2. How do journeys influence us as people? (not only
traveling- but journeys through life)
3. Is leaving your comfort zone the only way to figure out
who you are?
4. Do you feel the need to control your experiences, or let
them flow freely? What happens to you when things do
not go as you had planned?
5. Would you rather buy possessions or experiences? How
do the adults in your life answer this question? Do you
know anyone who travels frequently? Describe them.
6. Most places of work in the United States only give 3
weeks of vacation time for the entire year. Do you think
this is acceptable? Why or why not?
7. On a journey of self-discovery, is it better to travel alone
or with others? Why?
8. What are your thoughts on and meaning of the quote,
“Wherever you go, there you are”?
9. What are your thoughts on and meaning of the quote,
“You have to get lost before you can find yourself”?
10. How is travel the ultimate gift of self-discovery?
Answers
1.Yes, I wanted to pack my bags and leave my home city t a
small luxury apartment in Manhattan. I would be a rich doctor
that would live my best life independently.
2.Journys consist of many obstacles that help us get
harder in life and view our life in a different point of view.
3.You can stay in your comfort zone but coming out of it
helps you find who you truly are and helps u view ur life
in a different way.
4.Experines should be a bit controlled but we need to
know that not everything goes the way we plan. There will
always be failure but that will eventually set up to success.
5.I would rather buy experience because they last longer-
term engraved in your memory but for souvenirs they can
easily get destroyed. I don’t know how adults will answer
this, but I think they would say memories because it lasts
longer and means much more. We travel often because
everyone in my family loves it. It’s a good break from
everything else and feels nice.
6.I believe that only a 3-week break is enough for an
entire year. Workers have a lot of stress on them and only
having that less break can make them sick from
overworking.
7.I think on a journey of self-discovery its better to go
alone since you should be focusing on yourself more. The
journey is for u to find your true self and love yourself
even more.
8/I think the quote ‘’wherever you go, there you are,’’
means that no matter where you are, you’ll always be
there so don’t think about anything else and enjoy every
moment.
9.I think the quote ‘’You have to get lost before you can
 find yourself, ’means that you’ll be lost and first and
confused and will be new to things you have never
experienced but later you will eventually get the hang of it
and get better.

Vocabulary

Term Definition

Bond (noun) A relationship between people based on shared feeling experience or interests.

Embark (verb) Go on board a vehicle

Misadventure (noun) Unfortunate incident

Protagonist (noun) Main hero of a story

Tribulation (noun) A case of great trouble or suffering

Incorporate (verb) Include

Index (noun) Alphabetical list of names subjects with references to the places where they occur usually
found at the end of a book

Utilize (adjective) To be useful

Rational (adjective) Based on with reason or logic

Input (noun) What is put in taken in or operated on by any process or system

Diverse (adjective) Showing a great deal of variety; very different

 Day 2

Agenda
● Bellwork
● Vocabulary Jeopardy

Bellwork

Question Answer

If you could ask your teachers one question, and they are I would ask about her ex-boyfriend and why she broke up with him.
forced to answer it truthfully, what would you ask them?

Vocabulary Jeopardy Review Game

Day 3

Agenda
● Bellwork
● Informational Text Scavenger Hunt

Bellwork

Question Answer

What are your feelings towards Halloween? Do you have any

favorite memories regarding the holiday? What are your plans
 for this year?

Recognizing the Genre: Informational Text

An informational text presents readers information or ideas about real people, places, things, and events. In order to express
information clearly, writers use a common set of informational text elements, including a thesis, or main idea, and supporting evidence
in the form of details, facts, examples, statistics, and expert opinions. A typical informational text includes an introduction that builds
to a thesis, body paragraphs that include key ideas and supporting evidence, and a strong conclusion that restates the most important
ideas that the writer would like readers to remember. Within body paragraphs, writers might use specific text structures, or
organizational patterns. There are many different types of informational text structures. For instance, a writer may discuss ideas in
order of importance, talk about events in chronological order, or present causes and then describe their effects. Informational writing
can take many forms, including essays, pamphlets, news and magazine articles, textbook articles, and nonfiction books. Anytime a
person writes with the purpose to share information, he or she is writing an informational text.

Informational Text Scavenger Hunt

Students will use a textbook to complete a scavenger hunt. Students will then complete the scavenger hunt list below to find and
analyze different aspects and elements of informational texts.

Complete the Informational Text Features Scavenger Hunt:

Text Features
Find a Caption (a description of a photo usually printed below or
beside the photo)
Glossary (an alphabetic listing of words used in the text with
definitions and found at the back of the book)
Illustrations (a drawing of something in the text)
Answers
Page Number: 490
Describe photo: It is a very large bridge.
How does the caption help you to understand the photo or clarify the information? It basically adds history and helps
me understand why that picture aligns with the text.
Choose a word from the Glossary: Flexible Response
Page Number: G-5
Definition: The defense doctrine of the Kennedy and Johnson administrations Abandoning the Eisenhower administrations heavy
emphasis on nuclear weapons flexible response stressed the buildup of the nation's conventional and special forces so that the
president had a range of military options in response to Communist aggressions
Describe illustration: the boss of New York’s notoriously corrupt “Tweed Ring” was parodied by the great cartoonist Thomas
Nast. His portrayal of the bloated public official became an enduring symbol of governmental corruption.
Page Number: 474
Why is an illustration used here instead of a photo? It was used to show the bloated public official
Photos (a picture of something mentioned in the text)
Graphics (charts, graphs or cutaways used to help the reader
understand the text)
Index (an alphabetical list of topics in the book and the pages on
which the topics are mentioned)
Labels (used to identify parts of an illustration or photo)
Maps (used to show the location of places mentioned in the text)
Special Print (using bold, italics, underlined or colored words to
emphasize information)
Heading/Title (tells what the chapter is about)
Subheading – helps define the topic of a section within a chapter
Table of Content (identifies chapters/topics in the book in the
order they appear and lists the page number the chapter begins on. It Page Numbers: 711
is found at the front of the book)
Diagram (a drawing with a more detailed or simplified view of
information)
Text Box (text within a frame/box often used to create interest in
additional information)
Describe photo: Journalist and activist Ida Wells Barnett with her children.
Page Number: 606
Caption: Ida Wells Barnett, journalist and activist, made lynching an international issue through her writing and speaking tours.
How does this photo clarify the text? This clarifies the text by showing what Wells-Barnett looked like and how her appearance
played a role in the impact she had.
Describe graphic: The graph shows years from 1981-1988 and personal computers in us in millions from 0-50
Page Number:872
How does this graphic draw your attention to important information? The graph gives off information that is relevant to
the paragraph. It depicts the rise of personal computers that are used at homes, schools and work environments from 1980.
Choose a topic: Typhoid
Pages Found on: 596
Choose a page mentioned and write what is mentioned about the topic on that page: The city government was responsible for
the typhoid epidemic and all of its causes. It focuses around a woman who was studying the disease.
Describe photo or illustration: This is about the U.S presidential election in 1968
Page Number: 833
List one of the labels used: 191 (36%)
How does the use of this label help to clarify the photo/illustration? It helps clarify it by showing the votes in each state
Map Title: The Presidential Election, 1976
Page Number: 862
What location does the map show? This map shows the United States of America and the electoral votes for each party from each
state.
List a word in the text in Special Print: How the other half lives
Page Number:516-4
What type of Special Print was used? Why? It was used because it is the name of a text.
Copy heading here: The consumer society
Page Number:773
Based on the heading, what is this chapter about?
This chapter talks about how events and factors impacted the economy.
Copy subheading here: The Second Hundred Days
Page Number: 700
Based on the subheading, what is this section about?
It is about the second phase of the Great Depression that a specific country went through.
List a Chapter:24
How is this helpful?
If a reader needs to research a specific aspect about the war, they could go to the table contents instead of searching through each
page by hand.
Describe diagram: It shows who made up the most of the US labor force in 1938 to 1947. It color codes the different groups: Adult
Women, Youth, Adult Men etc.
Page Number: 730
How does this diagram help the reader to understand the information?
The reader can see how adult men made up most of the workforce. The groups each have a color code which allows the reader to
correlate the information better.
Copy text box info here: In 1930, the world faced global depression
Page Number: 705
What additional information is offered in the text box? It gives information on how each country dealt with
global depression and how it affected each of them.
Timelines (important events listed in chronological order) What is the starting event of the timeline? Assassination of MLK in 1968
Page Number: 864 - 865
How does a timeline help the reader to understand information?
It helps show the order of events by placing events on lines. This help portray the chronological order easier and quicker.
Tables (information organized into columns and rows for comparison Table Title: Spending Recreational Services: 1909-1929
or clarity) Page Number: 661
How does the table help to compare/clarify the information?
It compares the revenue between other recreational services and motion picture theaters. It shows the revenue in many years
between 1909 and 1929 and places them in rows.

Text Features Answers