This lesson teaches eleven Common Core Standards for 5th grade language arts as their teacher shares the first two chapters of the John Newbery Award winning book, Call It Courage. Students use listening and speaking skills, group dynamics, writing skills, critical thinking, and language arts skills to answer questions. It includes clearly marked common core standards for lesson plans and an answer key. The CCSS for this lesson are: 5.RI.4, 5.RI.8, 5.W.9, 5.RL.2, 5.RL.3, 5.RL.6, 5.SL.1, 5.SL.2,