february 21, 2013

February 21, 2013

Reading Foundations

Joke of the Day

It's more powerful than God.It's more evil than the devil.The poor have it.The rich need it.If you eat it, you'll die.

What am I?

NOTHING!

• NOTHING is greater than God.• NOTHING is more evil than the Devil.• The rich need NOTHING.• The poor have NOTHING.• If you eat NOTHING, you will die.

Today

• Review for Quiz• Take Quiz• New Vocabulary• Parts of Speech• Fiction Stories – 2 styles– Folklore– Folktale

Let’s Review Our WordsCustom Emotion Expert ExpressionCreate Behavior Lie AttentionPartner Security Symbol SecretStand for Truth System

Bombs, Spies and Rockets

• Bomb – blows up your points

• Spies – steal your points

• Rockets – your points fly to another team

• You begin with 50 points.

Quiz

• You have 20 minutes to take the quiz.

• When you are done, take a List 3 Sheet and look over your new words. Make guesses of the words using the context clues, opposites, synonyms and keywords in the sentences.

VocabularyParticipate Publisher Style Action CharacterAchievement File Network Project SolveAssassinate Donate Disease Consecutive InventorSynonym for “book”

Opposite for “absent”

Definition of the verb “project”

Word that stands for “famous’

Another definition of “network”

participate

• You should participate in class. Teachers like it when you raise your hand and answer questions.

(v) share in something

publisher

• The publisher didn’t like the book. He didn’t want to create it.

(n) A company that creates books and other written material.

assassinate

• President Lincoln was assassinated. He didn’t just die. He was killed.

(v) to kill an important person by surprise for political reasons

style

• Each actress has a different style. Some are unique and some are not.

(n) a way of doing something

action

• Hockey games have a lot of action. They keep my attention.

(n) exciting movement

character

• Ben Affleck and Matt Damon play the two main characters in the movie Good Will Hunting.

(n) a person in a movie or book

achievement

• Graduating from college is my biggest achievement.

(n) Something importantor difficult you did well

network

• He hooked up his computer to the network.

(n) A group of computers that connect to each other

file

• I can’t find the file. Are you sure you named it “school work”?

(n) information on a computer that you keep in one place under one name

project

• The project lasted two weeks. When we were done, I was proud of the achievement.

(n) Some work or activity that you plan and do for a certain period of time

solve

• The math problem was hard to solve.

(v) figure out; find an answer to something that is difficult

donate

• I donate blood every other month.

(v) give something to someone else who needs it

disease

• Ticks cause Lime Disease. They bite you and you can become very sick.

(n) Illness, sick

consecutive

• He called for three consecutive days. Finally, one the forth day, I called him back.

(adj) numbers in order

inventor

• Ben Franklin is an inventor. He invented electricity.

(n) someone who creates something new

Find 5 more words

1. Find a word that is a synonym for “a book”.2. Find a word that is an opposite for “absent.”3. Find the verb form of the word “project”.4. Find a word that means “famous”.5. Find another definition to the word “network”.

Due: February 28

Parts of Speech

• What part of speech is it?– Noun– Verb– Adjective– Adverb– Pronoun– Preposition– Conjunction– Interjection

Part of Speech

• Noun: person, place, thing or idea

• Verb: action word or state of being

• Adjective: describes nouns

Part of Speech

• Some questions may ask:– What part of speech is this word?

– Words that show emotion are mostly adjectives.– Words that show action are verbs.– Words that you can touch or be standing in are

nouns.

Parts of SpeechNOUNS VERBS ADJECTIVES

Common Nouns:Ball, ring, devil, superhero

Proper Nouns:Dan, Bergen Community College, Batman

Action Word:Walk, run, create, assassinate

State of Being:Is, are, were, was

Opinion: beautiful, uglySize: large, smallAge: old, young, ancientShape: round, square, longColor: red, white, blueOrigin: American, JapaneseMaterial: wooden, metalPurpose: sleeping, cell

Katherine was talking on her big, old, square, black American cell phone.

2 Types of Writing

• Fiction

• Non-fiction

2 Types of Writing

• Fiction – not true; a fake story

• Non-fiction – is true; research, articles, etc

Many styles of fiction

• Your Penguin Reader is most likely a fiction story.

• Today we will look at two styles of fiction stories.– Folklore– Folktales

The Jersey Devil

American Folklore

The marshes of New Jersey.

Trees, swamps and soft land.

What county are we located in?

WANTEDDead or Alive

Will you be the next one to spot him?

Haddonfield Edison

Camden Freehold

Gloucester Burlington

Woodbury Bridgeton

Philadelphia Collingswood

The Jersey Devil: American Folklore

What is the Jersey Devil?Have you ever been to South Jersey? It is a

place close to Philadelphia, PA and Wilmington, DE. A place filled with farms and open roads. They have a rodeo and tractor pull. And much of the land is open space where no one lives because it’s so marshy.

What words do you not know?

The Jersey Devil: American Folklore

The people down there know a secret. They know why their cow’s milk dried up early. The Jersey Devil took it. They know the real reason why their chickens died. The Jersey Devil killed them. And they know the truth as to why someone forgot their homework. The Jersey Devil stole it. But shhhh, don’t say his name too loud because he’s watching you.

The Jersey Devil: American FolkloreJersey Devil Sightings

There have been over 2,000 recorded sightings of the Jersey Devil since 1778. In 1840 and 1841, he was blamed for killing several livestock. In the winter of 1873, Bridgeton, NJ saw him several times flying through the air. But in January 1909, thousands of people witnessed the Jersey Devil for one week from Woodbury, NJ to Bristol, PA to Burlington, NJ to Haddonfield, NJ to Clayton, NJ. He left hooved tracks in the dirt at night and swooped down to attack school children during the day. Due to all the frightened people, the Philadelphia Zoo offered a $1,000,000 reward for the capture of the creature. The last recorded sighting was 2008 in Litchfield, PA.

In Groups

• Read “How Did the Jersey Devil Come About?”

• Complete the chart based on your groups.

• Your whole group should have the same answers. SHARE YOUR ANSWERS!

Group 1 Group 2 Group 3 Group 4

When was the Jersey Devil born?

How did he become a devil?

What did he look like?

Where does he live?

How did he get out of the house?

How many siblings did he have?

Once born, what did he do?

What was the woman’s name?

Summarize

• In your group come up with the most important information. Make a summary. – Who is important in this story?– What happened?– Why did it happen?– When did it happen?– Where did it happen?– How did it happen?

Regroup

• In your new group, you are the expert! You know this version of the folklore.

• Share your summary with the group. Use the questions as a way to guide you.

• Complete the chart so you have all four versions of the story.

Group 1 Group 2 Group 3 Group 4

When was the Jersey Devil born?

Stormy evening in 1735

Centuries ago American Revolution 1735

How did he become a devil?

Mother asked the devil to take him

Mother belonged to a cult and cursed it

Cursed by the neighbors

Gypsies curse

What did he look like? An alligator claws, bat wings, horse tail

Horns, wings and hooves

Bat wings, a snout, and beady eyes

Where does he live? Pine Barrens Pine Barrens

How did he get out of the house?

chimney chimney

How many siblings did he have?

12 12 0 6

Once born, what did he do?

Transformed into a devil

Flew around the room and killed the family

Flew around the room Flew to the Pine Barrens

What was the woman’s name?

Mother Leeds Mother Leeds

Fiction

Beginning Reading Practices

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Exercise 3: Fiction

A Crane’s Payment for a Man’s Kindness

• This is a folktale from Japan.

• It is about a crane, a kind of bird, that helps a man.

• Let’s read the folktale together and answer the questions.


One upon a time there was a old man who lived in a small village. This man was very poor. His name was Ohyo. He had a very simple life, but he was very happy.

Do you know this story already?


One beautiful day he was walking in the mountains. Suddenly he heard a sound. It was a very sad sound. He found a crane that was caught in a trap. It couldn’t get out. Ohyo felt sorry for the bird, so he helped the crane. He got the crane out of the trap. The crane was hurt, so Ohyo put some medicine on the crane’s injury to make it better.

What do you think will happen next? Will the crane die?

Predicting

When we guess what will happen next, we make a PREDICITON.

When reading, ask yourself questions. What will happen next?Why did that happen?What will the ending be like?


A few days later, a beautiful woman came to Ohyo’s door. “I’m sorry to bother you,” she said, “but I don’t have any place to stay and it is very late.”

When Ohyo saw the woman, it was love at first sight. “You can stay here in my house,” he answered. Ohyo loved the woman so much that they got married. They were very happy together, but life was difficult for them because they didn’t have any money.

One day the woman made some beautiful cloth for Ohyo. She said, “This cloth will sell for a high price. I have made this to help you.”

What do you think the cloth was made of?


Ohyo took the cloth to the market to sell it. He was very surprised when he was able to get a lot of money for the cloth. He asked his wife to make some more cloth. At first, she was reluctant to do it. Then Ohyo talked to her about this for a long time. “Please, please, please make more cloth for me,” he asked. Finally, she agreed to do this for him. However, she said there was one very important special condition.


“I will make more cloth for you,” said his wife, “but you must promise me one simple thing.”

“Yes, anything,” said Ohyo.“Whatever happens, you must never look at

me while I am making the cloth. Never. Do you understand this?” she asked. “Can you promise this?”

Do you think this condition is strange?


Ohyo quickly agreed. He was so happy that she was going to make more cloth, and her promise was such a simple one.

Why do you think Ohyo agreed to this condition so quickly?


Everything was fine. Ohyo was happy because his wife continued to make more cloth. He sold the cloth for a lot of money in the marketplace. Life was good.

What do you think will happen next?

Predictions

• Write your predictions down on the board.

• Now, read to yourself the rest of the story.


Ohyo wanted to see how his wife could make such beautiful cloth. He remembered his promise not to look at his wife when she was making the cloth. One day, however, Ohyo could not stop himself. The door to the room where his wife was working was open a little. He walked to the door very quietly. He looked inside the room. He was so surprised.


He did not see his wife making the cloth. He was surprised because he saw the crane that he had helped several months before. The crane was making the beautiful cloth from its beautiful feathers.

Who was making the cloth? Where was his wife?


The crane heard the door move. The crane saw Ohyo. “I am the crane that you helped. When I was in trouble, you helped me. I wanted to pay you back for your kindness, so I made this beautiful cloth for you. However, now you know who I am so I cannot stay here any longer.”

In that moment, the crane flew out the window. Ohyo was in the room crying, “Please don’t leave. Please don’t go. I am so sorry.”

It was too late. The crane was already gone.

Does this story have a happy ending?

Moral

Many times folktales have a moral.

A moral means a kind of teaching. The story teaches us something important about life.

Little Red Riding Hood


A young girl was walking to her grandmother’s house. Before she left, her mother said, “Don’t stop and talk to strangers.” On her way, a wolf stopped her. “Where are you going?” he asked. “To my grandmother’s house,” she replied. The wolf hurried to the grandmother’s house and ate the grandmother. When the young girl got to the house, the wolf ate her too.

What’s the moral to the story?


Don’t talk to strangers.

The Boy Who Cried Wolf


A boy had a job. He had to watch the sheep. He thought he would play a joke on the neighbors. One day he yelled, “Wolf! Wolf!” The neighbors came running out to help him. The boy laughed. “Fooled you!” He did this several times. Then one day, the wolf did come. The boy yelled, “Wolf! Wolf!” But no one came to help him. The wolf ate all the sheep and the boy.


Don’t lie. No one will believe you when you tell the truth.

The Three Little Pigs


Three pigs moved out of their parents house and built their own houses. The first pig finished first. He made his house out of straw. The wolf blew it down and ate him. The second pig finished second. He made his house out of sticks. The wolf blew it down and ate him. The third pig took his time. He made his house out of bricks. The wolf tried to blow it down but couldn’t.


Take your time to do something correctly.

Moral

Think about “A Crane’s Payment for a Man’s Kindness.”

What is the moral of the story?

Moral

Keep your word.

What’s the difference between…?FOLKLORE FOLKTALE

How were they told? Verbally. One person told another and another.

Verbally. One person told another and another.

Does it teach something?

No. It gives a moral.

Is it fiction? Yes. Yes.Does it have characters?

Yes. Many times folklore is about monsters or fairytale animals.

Yes. May times folktales have animals in them and magical things happen.

Examples The Jersey DevilBigfoot

Little Red Riding HoodThe Crane’s Payment for a Man’s Kindness

Which do you think this is?

Once upon a time, there lived a man and a woman who have seven sons. The couple wanted a daughter very much, and finally, they had a girl. One day, the father needed water for the child. So he sent the seven brothers to a well in the forest to get it. Once there, though, the boys began to fight and the water jug fell into the well.

What do you think the story will be about?

Make a prediction.

Homework

• Study your new words.

• Complete practice test.

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Documents

n information

n illness

word project

word network

points spies

jersey devil

rich need

verb projectword