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Suggested Stopping Points to Invite ThinkingYou may wish to pause to ask students to turn and talk with partners or share whole-group comments as noted below.

Introduce the Book: What can a story about sheep eating grass teach us about the way people use resources—and about what Molly Bang wants us to understand about a contemporary problem?

Author: Molly Bang

Genre/Text Type: Science Picture Book

Themes: Interdependence of live on Earth; responsibility; fairness and sharing; conservation

Unit Focus: Why is water so important to all living things?

Author’s Craft: Use of repetition and parable; selection and presentation of factual information

About the AuthorWhat is the best way to share natural resources today and preserve them for the future? It is a question that Molly Bang, well-known author and illustrator of picture books including Caldecott Honor Book When Sophie Gets Angry—Really, Really Angry, thinks about. Banks has a passion for science and she wrote Common Ground to help children understand scientific principles that affect their daily lives.

Key Understandings• The parable introduces the real consequences of overuse of shared natural

resources in a narrative way.

• As she presents facts, Bang uses the refrain 'in the short run' to distinguish between short-term and long-term consequences.

• Bang believes people must work together NOW to solve the problem of overuse of natural resources because the problem has reached a global scale.

SummaryEven long ago, people ran into problems when they did not conserve the resources they had. This book begins with a parable about too many sheep grazing on the village commons and then moves on to discuss how we use water and other natural resources today. The author reminds readers that Earth, like that village commons, has only so much room and so many resources.

Stopping Point

Prompt Possible Responses

p. 15, Thinking Within and Beyond the Text

What is happening on the commons and why is it a problem? Guide students in seeing the global problem addressed in this parable

Students may point out that fewer sheep get fed and people move.

p. 21, Thinking Within and Beyond the Text

How does Bang compare the villagers' story to things happening on Earth today? How is the ocean like the village commons?

She says that we use the world the way the villagers used their commons. Now fish get used up the way grass did.

p. 25, Thinking About and Beyond the Text

How does Bang use pattern to share information? Why do you think she organized the book this way?

She shows how using up resources seems okay at first, but later causes problems. She wants us to think about how our actions affect everyone.

p. 36, Thinking Beyond the Text

Do you agree or disagree with Bang's main point? Why do you think she began and ended the book in the way she did?

Students may see the image of Earth as a reminder that solving this problem may save our home.

Summarize: We all need resources to live, but some are limited. Who gets them?

Common Ground

Life Depends On Water READ-ALOUD

Preparing to Read/Citing Textual EvidenceTell students to notice and cite textual evidence of authenticity and how it contributes to the story structure as well as the theme of resilience, the author’s purpose for telling the story.

Readers’ Notebooks: Ask students to think about what they want to discuss as they read and to make notes in their reader’s notebooks, including any questions they have.

Authors: Juliana Hatkoff, Isabella Hatkoff and Craig Hatkoff

Genre: Informational

Subthemes: Interdependance of live on Earth; responsibility; resilience; overcoming obstacles; helping others

Unit Theme: Why is water so important to all living things?

Author’s Craft: Reporting style with use of factual evidence and photographs to give the reader a feeling of an eyewitness account

SummaryThis true story opens the door for a multifaced discussion of what the main characters’s (Winter) story has to teach us all about resilience, as well as the oportunities to further discuss unit ideas including the impact people have on the sea, on sea creatures, and on the interdependance of all life on Earth.

About the AuthorsCraig Hatkoff and his young daughters Juliana and Isabella share in their introductory letter that they specialize in photo essays about animals that triumph over adversity. When a young fisherman rescues a dolphin caught in the ropes of a crab trap, the Hatkoff’s know that they had to tell the tale of how the dolphin was saved and learned to swim with a prosthetic after the loss of her tail.

Key Understandings• The authors researched and interviewed people who had first-hand

experience with Winter; her rescuer, her trainers and the person who built her new tail. They spent a day swimming with Winter.

• The authors had compeling reason to write this book—to inspire people with disabilities by explaining how “Winter’s uplifting spirit and her resilience heeled her adjust and make the most of every situation.“ (p. 27)

Reflecting: Have students make sure their journal questions have been addressed then write the most important thing they learned from the discussion.

Winter’s Tail

Life Depends On Water BOOK CLUB BOOK

Textural Evidence of:

Citation: Analysis and Support Page no:

Author’s Purpose/Theme

We dedicate this book to the milions of children around the world who struggle with disabilities of all kinds . . .

Copyright page

. . . it was good that Winter was struggling—it showed she still had the heart and energy to try to protect herself.

p.8

Winter helps others understand what it means to have a disability and how people can adapt to almost any circumsatnce.

p. 16 caption

Story Structure/Authenticity

The authors tell sequential events and demonstrate the passage of time at the aquarium: On Winter’s second day . . .; By the time Winter was 5 months old . . .; When Winter was about a year old

p. 11; p. 12; p. 16

Text and photos document how volunteers saved Winter’s life and present information about her prosthetic.

pp. 9–9; 18–19

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