Enduring Understandings	Essential Questions
Friendship is different from popularity.          I am different from my friends.          Friends want each other to succeed.	How can the differences in friends be beneficial?          How do I support my friends?          Why is it important to help a friend succeed?

Skills to Be Covered:

• We will be completing our reading of the play, "The Christmas Carol." We will look at drama terms and compare the play to our prior connections to "The Christmas Carol."
• We will be using the strategy of visualizing to help us picture the play in heads.
• We will be looking at the character of Scrooge and how he changes during the play.
• We will also begin to create a power point based on Friendship. The students will develop similes about friendship and include them in a Power Point.
• We will continue our Caught YA adventure.