Unit 6 Week 3

Weekly Concept Learning to Succeed Essential Question Why are goals important?

Vocabulary Use the picture and the sentence to talk with a partner about each word.

Your Turn Pick three words. Then write three questions for your partner to answer.

Genre. Biography ROCKETING INTO SPAGE Essential Question Why is having goals important? Read how one man used his education and experience to reach his goals.

When James A. Lovell, Jr. was a boy, he loved to build rockets and launch them into the sky. But his dreams went a lot farther than his rockets. Like many boys who grew up in the 1930s, Lovell dreamed of being a pilot. And as he watched his rockets soar, he knew someday he would, too. HIGH FLYING DREAMS Lovell was born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1928. He worked hard in school and planned to go to a special college to study astronomy and rockets. Unfortunately, he didn't have enough money to attend. Lovell had to figure out another way to reach his goal. Lovell was motivated to find a way to fly rockets. So, he went to college near his home for two years and then signed up for flight training at the United States Naval Academy. After four years at the academy, Lovell joined the United States Navy and became a professional naval test pilot. His job was to fly planes before anyone else was allowed to fly them. James A. Lovell, Jr. became an astronaut in 1962. He flew four space missions.