WarmUp Take a sheet Read the following excerpt

Warm-Up: Take a ¼ sheet. Read the following excerpt. The Winkies lifted him tenderly in their arms, and carried him back to the Yellow Castle again, Dorothy shedding a few tears by the way at the sad plight of her old friend, and the Lion looking sober and sorry. Copy the following word on your paper: plight. Circle the ENTIRE vowel sound.

Agenda • Warm-Up: Word Study • Read Aloud: Chapter 13 • Independent Reading: Chapter 14 • Independent Work: Finding the details: Crossword Puzzle • Drawing conclusions using the details: Answer the Essential Question • Independent Work: Achieve 3000 • Closing

Reread the excerpt. 1. Write context clues on your paper for the meaning of the word PLIGHT. 2. Write your own definition for the meaning of the word PLIGHT using context clues. The Winkies lifted him tenderly in their arms, and carried him back to the Yellow Castle again, Dorothy shedding a few tears by the way at the sad plight of her old friend, and the Lion looking sober and sorry.

Read the following excerpt and use context clues to determine the meaning of the word PLIGHT. The Winkies lifted him tenderly in their arms, and carried him back to the Yellow Castle again, Dorothy shedding a few tears by the way at the sad plight of her old friend, and the Lion looking sober and sorry. A. Disease B. A bad condition or circumstance C. Flight D. Thankfulness

1350 -1400; Middle English plit fold, condition, bad condition < Anglo-French(cognate with Middle French pleit plait) fold, manner of folding, condition; spelling apparently influenced by plight 2 in obsolete sense “danger” n. "condition or state (usually bad), " late 12 c. , "danger, harm, strife, " from Anglo. French plit, pleit, Old French pleit, ploit "condition" (13 c. ), originally "way of folding, " from Vulgar Latin *plictum, from Latin plicitum, neuter past participle of Latin plicare "to fold, lay" (see ply (v. 1)). verb (transitive)1. to give or pledge (one's word): he plighted his word to attempt it 2. to promise formally or pledge (allegiance, support, etc): to plight aid 3. plight one's trothto make a promise of marriage to give one's solemn promise Originally in neutral sense (as in modern French en bon plit "in good condition"), sense of "harmful state" (and current spelling) probably is from convergence and confusion with plight (n. 2) via notion of "entangling risk, pledge or promise with great risk to the pledger. "

ALPHABET SUMMARY: Directions: Copy the following table on your sheet of paper. Read Chapters 13 and 14. Write an important word that relates to the details of the chapters for each letter below. When you are finished, the words should create somewhat of a summary for the chapters. You should, also, be able to use them to help you answer the clues on the crossword puzzle. SCARECROW WOODMAN S W C O A O R D E M C A R N O W

Chapters 13 and 14 • Details crossword and Essential Question: • Essential Question: 1) Dorothy has some control over the Winkies and the Winged Monkeys, just like the Wicked Witch did. How is Dorothy’s control over them different than the type of control the Wicked Witch held over them? 2) As you grow older, what kind of control will you place over people? (Use the back of the page to answer. )

Achieve 3000

Closing • Essential Question: 1) Dorothy has some control over the Winkies and the Winged Monkeys, just like the Wicked Witch did. How is Dorothy’s control over them different than the type of control the Wicked Witch held over them? 2) As you grow older, what kind of control will you place over people? (Use the back of the page to answer. ) • Plight… Meaning?