234 Early World Civilizations: Supplemental Guide 13A | Three World Religions
may wish to allow for individual, group, or class research of
the text and/or other resources to answer these questions.]Word Work: Faithful 5 minutes
- In the read-aloud you heard, “Abraham remained faithful to his
one God.” - Say the word faithful with me three times.
- Faithful means being loyal to someone or something.
- Juanita showed she was faithful to her little sister by reading
a story to her every evening, no matter how tired or how busy
Juanita was. - Are you faithful to someone or something in your life? Or is
someone faithful to you?
[Ask two or three students. If necessary, guide and/
or rephrase the students’ responses: “I am faithful to
because... ” or “ is faithful to me because... ”] - What’s the word we’ve been talking about?
Use a Word Parts activity for follow-up. Directions: The antonym
or opposite of faithful is unfaithful. When we add the prefi x un– to
the beginning of some words, it makes a new word that has the
opposite meaning. What do you think unfaithful means? (not loyal)
With your partner decide what these words that have un– at the
beginning mean.
- unhappy
- unkind
- unbelievable
- unsafe
- unknown
- unlucky
- unafraid
Complete Remainder of the Lesson Later in the Day