Coach: look at the exit check results and the paper practice. Go back over every item a student missed: read it together, have the student explain their thinking, then show the correct thinking. Use the reteach routine below for anyone who missed two or more. Students who got everything right take the stretch task.

🔄 Reteach it (missed two or more)

Keep an allusion bank: the original story in one sentence, then the modern meaning. Review before reading.

Use the three-column chart (literal / figurative / feeling) for each phrase so the child separates meaning from tone.

Meaning of "Achilles' heel"?
Answer: A weakness.
What is connotation?
Answer: The feeling a word carries.
"The leaves danced." Type?
Answer: Personification.

🚀 Stretch it (got everything right)

Research the origin of one allusion (for example, "Trojan horse").
Answer: Any.
Write a paragraph that uses an allusion to create tone.
Answer: Any.