Book Summary
Success Stories is a collection of biographies of three famous immigrants to the United States: Albert Einstein, Gloria Estefan, and Dikembe Mutombo. They came to the United States under very different circumstances. All three have made enormous contributions in their particular areas of expertise: science, music, and sports. 

Vocabulary
advocate
anti-Semitism
debut
determination
dictator
disarmament
exiles
fluently
ghetto
humanitarian
immunization
legacies
pacifist
physics
potential
refuge
religious oppression
repertoire
relativity
speculation
stature
tyranny
Zionism 

Reproducibles
Worksheets
Worksheet 1-Attributes Chart
Worksheet 2-Adverbial Phrases  

Visual Literacy
Read and interpret a scientific illustration. 

Lesson Objectives

Comprehension
You will likely address a number of comprehension skills as students work to understand the text, for example, identifying character traits and evaluating character actions. The targeted comprehension strategy for this lesson is: comparing and contrasting personal characteristics of characters 

Word Work
Adverbial Phrases
Identify phrases and tell whether they explain where, when, how, or why something happened. 

Homophones
Identify homophone pairs.