“Food from the ‘Hood: A Garden of Hope”

Word KnowledgeVocabularyBackground

Word Knowledge Objectives

At the end of the lesson I will… Identify indicators of time and order Identify different spellings of the /er/

sound. Review long spellings of the long I

sound Recognize /ar/ spelled ar, and /er/

spelled ear or er

Line 1: These are indicators of time and order

now then before after

Line 2: Each word has a different spelling of the /er/ sound spelled ur,er,or, and ar

suburbs perfect neighborhood mustard

Line 3: These words contain different spellings of the long I sound spelled i_e, _ie, igh and _y

qualified

survive

right

supply

Line 4: These words from “Food from the ‘Hood: A Garden of Hope” contain /er/ sound spelled ear or

er and the /ar sound spelled ar

earned remembered

harvest

scholarship

Identify the word indicating order

Students watered the garden after school.

after

What is the antonym of after? before

Identify the plural nouns Families traveled from the city to the

suburbs.

families What did we do? Drop the y and add ies.

Change families to its singular form. Family

Identify the past tense verb

The community needed more than food to survive.

needed Changed “needed” into a present

tense. needs

Identify the /ar/ sound

A harvest is the gathering of crops when they are ripe.

harvest

Lesson 4: “Food from the Hood: A Garden of Hope” Selection Vocabulary

community restoring harvests organic vendors

communityThe talked about different ways to help rebuild their community.

Our community is building a recreation center.

community (noun): all the people that live in the same place

Carlos and 38 of Ms. Bird’s other students decided that planning was an important step towards restoring their neighborhood.

The state government is restoring the old, abandoned capital building downtown.

restoring (verb): bringing something back to what it was at first

restoring

harvests Everyone agreed that their

harvests should go to people unable to buy food.

Some gardeners sell their harvests at the farmer’s market.

harvests (noun): a crop that has been picked

organic Carlos heard that the prince love organic

gardening and he was visiting California.

We grow only organic fruits and vegetables because we don’t like to use chemicals on our food.

Organic (adjective): growing without chemicals

vendors Herbs and spices came from small

vendors rather than larger grocery store suppliers.

One of the vendors of the craft show was selling homemade birdhouses.

vendors (noun): someone who sells a product

Background Knowledge

Due to the riots in South Los Angeles in 1992, students at Crenshaw High School wanted to get to the roots of the problem.

They created an organic garden in the weed invested lot at the high school.

The high school kids are known as “Biz Kids”

Literary Elements:Standards: Literary Analysis 3.0 Features of Informational Articles “Food from the ‘Hood: A Garden of Hope” is

an example of an informational article. An informational article may do one or

more of the following: 1. describe a person, place, thing, idea or

event. 2. compare and contrast two or more

people, places, things, ideas or events. 3. tell how to do something

Literary Elements: At the end of this lesson I will be able to

analyze informational articles. Guided: With you partner, think pair share. What caused the students to begin a

garden? How did they begin? Besides the students, who else helped? How did their business grow? Was the business successful? Why or why

not?

Literary Elements Independent: Look through the news article and identify

the features of informational article. REMEMBER: An informational article may do one or

more of the following: 1. describe a person, place, thing, idea or

event. 2. compare and contrast two or more

people, places, things, ideas or events. 3. tell how to do something