Book Summary
Andy prepares himself for a boring vacation with his grandparents when, on the way there, his mother claims that Grandpa used to parachute out of planes and fight wildfires. Andy doubts her tale, but when he finds an old photograph and encourages Grandpa to tell his amazing story, he changes his mind about what his grandparents can do. 

Lesson Objectives

Word Work
Figurative Language
Idiomatic expressions
Similes
Personification
Grammar
Quotes-within-quotes 

Content Vocabulary
abruptly, adorned, barrage, briefed, diminishing, donned, emphatically, extinguishing, flabbergasted, grueling, igniting, instinctively, maneuvered, preoccupied, pursed, relayed, resemblance, resilience

These words are printed in bold and included in the glossary. You may want to spend some time with these words and encourage students understand their meaning through context and glossary definitions. 

Comprehension
You will likely address a number of comprehension skills as students work to understand the text. The target comprehension strategy for this lesson is: analyzing character.