While cleaning the schoolyard, Louis accepts a package for Mrs. Jewls. It is very large and heavy, but he carries it up 30 flights of stairs because he likes Mrs. Jewls and her students, and he thinks the package might be important.  When Louis finally gives Mrs. Jewls the package, she does something surprising with what’s inside in order to teach a lesson about gravity. (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Journeys, 2011)

This lesson was created as part of the Basal Alignment Project, during which teachers created CCSS-aligned lessons for existing literary and information texts in basal readers. All page numbers and unit/week designations found in this lesson relate to the edition of the basal reader named above. If you are using a trade book or different edition of this title, the page/unit/week references in this lesson will not match. Consult the content referenced in the body of the lesson to determine appropriate page numbers for your text.