Title: Angel Child, Dragon Child
1Angel Child, Dragon Child
Third Grade Open Court Unit Friendship
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2Word Knowledge Day 1
Line 1 noses hands lessons crayons Line 2
hooks seeds books words
Line 3 tilt tilted tilting wait waited
waiting Line 4 bow bowed bowing Line 5
curve curved curving tackle tackled
tackling
Line 6 small smaller smallest tall taller
tallest
Line 7 them send next bell edge
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3Word Knowledge
Sentence 1 The American children tilted back
their long noses, laughing.
Sentence 2 I stood and bowed.
Sentence 3 Her hands curved over my
shoulders.
Sentence 4 Friends like for you to send
them letters in the mail.
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4Build Background
- What did you learn about friendship from the last
story? In Gloria Who Might Be My Friend, we
discussed what its like to move to a new place.
What might it be like to move to a new country?
Gloria and Julians friendship was unexpected.
What other stories about surprising friendships
do you know?
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5- Vietnam is a country in Southeast Asia. In 1957
the country was having a civil war. The United
States became involved in it. Many Vietnamese
people fled their country. They went to refugee
camps, or traveled by boats to new places. Many
families ended up separated.
Nguyen (noo yen) is the main characters family
name. Her given name (first name) is Hoa (hwä),
which means flower. Ut (oot) is her nickname?
meaning youngest daughter. Quang (kwäng) is her
younger brother and her older sister is Chi Hai
(che hi). Vietnamese people value family,
therefore they put their family name (last name)
before their given name.
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6Problems
Wonderings
Clues
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7jangled
- Make a loud ringing noise
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8twittered
- chattered noisily, sounding like chirping birds
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9gleamed
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10darted
- Moved or ran quickly from one place to
another place
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11scrawled
- wrote quickly but not carefully
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12margins
- empty spaces at the edge of the page, above,
below, to the left and right
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13Vocabulary
- His laughing eyes _________ liked watermelon
seeds. - I crayoned pictures in the _________.
- Somewhere a loud bell _________.
- The red haired boy _________ behind the dumpster.
- Raymond _________ my words in black squiggles.
- The round-eyed children _________.
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14Language ArtsSpelling
- /e/
- 1. deck 2. tent
- 3. spent 4. fence
- 5. head 6. dead
- 7. bread 8. desk
- 9. thread 10. sweater
- 11.edge 12. bell
- 13.next 14. send
- 15. them
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