The Boy Who Didnt Believe in Spring

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The Boy Who Didnt Believe in Spring

• By Lucille Clifton
• Illustrated by Brinton Turkle

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An example of city wildlife

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  ummingBirdNest

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Unit Overview

• Raise your hands if you can answer the following
  questions
• What do you know about city wildlife before we
  read the selection?
• What do you know about the kinds of animals and
  plants that live and grow in the city?
• Have you already read any books about city
  wildlife?

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City Wildlife (Read Aloud)

• Prior Knowledge
• This is a nonfiction article that discusses
  habitat-the natural environment of living things.
• The author of this article has been a biology
  teacher, and a professor of science.

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City Lots Living Things in Vacant Spots Te
113L-113O

• Focus Questions
• How important are open spaces in a city?
• What makes a city a good place to live for some
  wildlife?
• Listen to the story I read to you.

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City Lots (article discussion)

• Why is this selection called City Lots living
  Things in Vacant Lots?
• It is about plants, insects, and animals that
  live in city lots.
• Why do many plants and animals live in vacant
  lots all year round?
• They find, everything they need to live there,
  such as food, water, sunlight, and space.

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City Lots (article discussion)

• How do the plants in city lots help insects live?
• Some insects lay their eggs in the plants others
  feed on the plants and use them for shelter.

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Objectives

• You will
• recognize antonyms and synonyms,
• Recognize compound words
• Recognize base words and the suffix y and the
  prefix un-
• Practice using the spelling patterns ar and air
• Recognize the long u sound spelled u, u_e, _ue,
  _ew.

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Word Knowledge

• hollered whispered grinned frowned
• vacant empty bare
• streetlight playground tiptoe
• spiky cottony smelly silvery
• unbelievable undecorated untied uneaten
  unoccupied
• started apartments dark car air

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Word Knowledge

• Tony stopped and made believe his sneaker was
  untied to see what King was going to do.
• Well, come on, man, King whispered, and they
  started down the street.
• Just after the friends passed some apartments,
  they came to a vacant lot.
• An indigo car is a dark blue color.

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What do these words have in common?

• hollered whispered grinned frowned
• The words are antonyms. Whats an antonym?
• An antonym means opposite. With your partner,
  identify the antonyms.
• Hollered/whispered, grinned/frowned
• Use each word in a sentence and come up with
  other examples of antonyms.
• Hot/cold, hard/soft, up/down, left/right,
  day/night, all/none.

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What is the same with these words?

• vacant empty bare
• These words are synonyms. Raise your hand if you
  can tell me what a synonym is.
• Synonyms are words that mean the same thing.
• What is the synonym to these words?
• happy
• joyful
• tired
• sleepy
• large
• huge, big
• end
• finish, complete
• grow
• mature, develop

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What is the spelling pattern in the next set of
words?

• streetlight playground tiptoe
• The words are compound words.
• What words make up each compound word?
• street light
• play ground
• tip toe
• Do the two words help us understand the meaning
  of the word?

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Whats the secret pattern between these words?

• spiky cottony smelly silvery
• The suffix y is added to base words.
• Give a definition for each word and use the word
  in a sentence.
• Identify the part of speech the word becomes in a
  sentence.
• By adding the suffix y , the word becomes an
  adjective (a describing word).

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What do these words have in common?

• unbelievable undecorated untied uneaten
  unoccupied
• The prefix un- is added to words.
• What does the prefix un- mean?
• Un- means not.
• Give the base word and explain how the word
  changes when you add un-.
• Example the base word for unbelievable is
  believe.
• When you add un- the word means not true.

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What is the same with these words?

• started apartments dark car air
• These words are spelling words found in The Boy
  Who Didnt Believe in Spring.
• Lets review the spelling patterns for ar and air.

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Please read the sentences and find the antonyms

• Tony stopped and made believe his sneaker was
  untied to see what King was going to do.
• Well, come on, man, King whispered, and they
  started down the street.
• Just after the friends passed some apartments,
  they came to a vacant lot.
• stopped/started, untied/tied, whispered/shouted,
  down/up, after/before, friends/enemies,
  vacant/occupied

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Now, lets identify any synonyms or prefixes

• Tony stopped and made believe his sneaker was
  untied to see what King was going to do.
• Well, come on, man, King whispered, and they
  started down the street.
• Just after the friends passed some apartments,
  they came to a vacant lot.
• Synonyms stopped/discontinued, untied/undone,
  started/began, some/several, vacant/bare/empty
• Prefixes untied-not tied.

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Now, lets read the following sentence together

• An indigo car is a dark blue color.
• Identify the words that have the /ar/ sound
  spelled ar
• Car, dark

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Prior Knowledge

• What do you remember from the Read Aloud?
• Raise you hand if you can share with me what you
  notice about the first signs of spring.

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Background Information

• The Boy Who Didnt Believe in Spring is
  realistic fiction.
• Realistic fiction may include descriptions of
  actual places and things, and also situations
  that are made up but could happen.
• The author invents the characters, then involves
  them in solving a problem.

Realistic Fiction
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Background Information

• The author, Lucille Clifton, uses idiomatic
  spellings and phrases.
• Some of the spelling in the story was used to
  show natural speech and may differ from the
  dictionary spelling.
• bout for about
• comin for coming

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Preview and Prepare (Reading 2.6 pp.
114O-114P)

• Let s read aloud the title, the author and
  illustrator.
• Now lets browse the first page or two of the
  story.
• Who are the main characters?
• Look at the illustrations in the selections.
• Make sure you make predictions about the text to
  help monitor your comprehension.
• Look for clues, problems, such as unfamiliar
  words (trans. 46)
• Now lets look at the focus questions.
• What is city wildlife?
• What types of wildlife would you expect to find
  in a city?

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Student Observation

• Clues Problems Wonderings
• Can a person Weissmans How can you
• believe in Spring? find Spring?

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The Boy Who Didnt Believe in Spring
mound
crops
patch
vacant
Selection Vocabulary
decorated
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crops
plants grown for food or to sell to make money

• One day after the teacher had been talking about
  birds that were blue and his Mama had started
  talking about crops coming up, King Shabazz
  decided he had just had enough.
• Now that spring has arrived, the farmer is busy
  planting his crops.

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decorated
made beautiful by adding fancy things and frills

• They passed the Church of the Solid Rock with
  high windows all decorated and pretty.
• The wedding reception hall looked lovely,
  decorated with twinkling lights and pretty
  flowers.

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vacant
empty abandoned

• Just after they passed some apartments King
  Shabazz and Tony Polito came to a vacant lot.
• The warehouse looked as though it had been vacant
  for years.

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mound
small hill or pile of dirt, rocks, or
other material

• The wheels were gone and so were the doors, but
  it was dark red and sitting high on a dirt mound
  in the middle of the lot.
• The catcher walked toward the pitchers mound, a
  slightly raised area of ground on a baseball
  field. He wanted to talk to the pitcher about
  the next batter.

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patch
an area different from what is around it

• He looked down and saw a patch of little yellow
  pointy flowers, growing in the middle of short
  spiky green leaves.
• A large empty patch stood out from the full green
  lawn.

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Investigating Concepts Beyond the Text TG
125A Inquiry

• What do you know already about city wildlife?
  During the next six weeks, we read stories about
  city wildlife.
• Does anyone have any further questions or points
  to share up to this point?
• Complete Inquiry Journal, pg. 28

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Word Analysis (TE. P. 35F)

• Spelling This week, we will spell words wit the
  /ar/ sound.
• started apartments dark car air
• Lets take our spelling pretest.
• Vocabulary Skill Words (antonyms)
• whispered shouted slowly mound vacant

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English Language Conventions(TG p. 125F Eng.
Lang. Conv. 1.0, 1.4)

• Lets read L.A. Handbook, p. 272 to learn about
  quotation marks.
• Quotation marks let the reader know that
  something is being said.
• A comma sets of the speakers words from the rest
  of the sentence.
• If the sentence ends with the quotation, the
  punctuation goes inside the closing quotation
  mark.
• Im hungry! Shelly said.
• Are you tired? Michael asked.
• Brian said, Its time to go to school.
• The name of a short story, poem, song or book
  chapter should be in quotes.
• Now, we will work on Comprehension and Language
  Arts Workbook pages 26-27 for more practice with
  quotation marks.

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Writing Process Strategies Getting Ideas
Responding to Fiction TG p. 125F (writing 1.1,
1.4)

• Read Language Arts handbook, pgs. 78-79
• in order to find out about expository
  writing.
• Lets read L.A. handbook, pgs. 84-87 on
  responding to fiction
• Lets go over an example of good writing
  responding to fiction (transparency 4)
• Let me share you the writing rubric with you

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Writing Process Strategies Getting Ideas
Responding to Fiction TG p. 125F (writing 1.1,
1.4)

• Total point value 10
• Ideas are stated clearly and are easy to
  understand. (2 points)
• There is a topic sentence for each paragraph.
• (2 points)
• There is at least one supporting detail or
  example for each topic sentence (2 points)
• The final copy is clean, neat, and legible. (2
  points)
• Mechanics-punctuation, spelling, and
  capitalization is correct. (2 points)

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Writing Process StrategiesGetting Ideas
Responding to Fiction TG p. 125F (writing 1.1,
1.4)

• I like the character King Shabazz in the story
  The Boy Who Didnt Believe in Spring.
• I could write a response to fiction explaining
  why.
• What plots, settings, and ideas could you use to
  write responses to fiction?
• Lets make a list on the board.

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Developing Oral Language

• hollered whispered grinned frowned
• vacant empty bare
• streetlight playground tiptoe
• spiky cottony smelly silvery
• unbelievable undecorated untied uneaten
  unoccupied
• started apartments dark car air
• Partner work
• One student selects a word from above and your
  partner will put the word in a sentence.
• Then we will switch!

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The Boy Who Didnt Believe in Spring Te. 114Q-R
(first reading-orally pgs. 114-123)

• When I read this story I will
• Predict what the story might be about
• What Questions come to mind?
• What images pop into my
• mind? (Visualize)
• Summarize story in own words
• Listen/Speak 1.1,1.2

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Discussing Strategy UseTG 122

• How did you clarify confusing passages?
• What questions did you ask yourself as you read
  the story?
• Did you make predictions as you read the story?
  What were they?
• What did you visualize as you read the story?

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Discussing the Selection

• Lets use handing off to answer these questions
• Why didnt King believe in spring?
• What did King and Tony do to find spring?
• What signs of spring did they find?
• What types of wildlife are common in cities?
• Write your answers in your response journal

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Concept/Question Board TE p. 125B

• Lets use the Concept/Question board to
• Post questions we have about the story that have
  not been answered yet.
• Post articles about city wildlife.
• Answer our story focus question.

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Word Analysis (TE. P.125G) ELC 1.8, Reading 1.4

• Spelling
• Here is Sound/Spelling card 27 /ar/.
• Repeat after me armadillo. Sort your spelling
  words by ar, are, air, or ear spellings.
• Vocabulary Antonyms
• whispered
• Antonyms are two words with opposite meanings.
• The antonym for whispered is __________.
• Shouted, screamed, yelled, hollered
• Lets complete Spelling and Vocabulary Skills
  Workbook pages 26-27 for more practice
  identifying antonyms.

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Antonyms

• Antonyms are words that have opposite meanings.
• Hot and cold are antonyms.
• Happy and sad are antonyms.
• Push and pull are antonyms.

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English Language Conventions (TG p. 125G E.L.C.,
1.5)

• Review Quotation Marks.
• When are quotation marks used?
• Quotation marks are used when someone speaks, for
  short story, poem and song titles and chapters in
  a book.
• Name two or more animals that live in the city.
• Imagine what animals would say to each other
  about how humans treat them.
• What would they say? Lets write their
  conversation on the board.
• Find one declarative (.), one interrogative (?),
  and one exclamatory (!) quotation in The Boy Who
  Didnt Believe in Spring.

Work with a partner...
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Writing Process Strategies Prewriting-
Responding to Fiction TG p. 125G (Writing 1.1,
1.4)

• Lets review our ideas for responding to fiction
  from yesterday.
• Lets read Writers Workbook, pg. 6 on prewriting
  for responding to fiction.
• Graphic organizers help writers organize their
  thoughts.
• Now, we will go over a Character Web
  (transparency 11).
• In a Character Web, you need to add details and
  examples.
• I would like you to complete the character web on
  Writers Workbook pages 6-7.

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Phonics and FluencyReview the long u sound
spelled u, u_e, _ue, _ew

• Here is the Sound/Spelling Card 36, the long u
  sound.
• unit used menu Utah
• cue human humid January
• puny fuel pupil unicorn
• mew few unify universe
• Can you identify the letters that make the long u
  sound?
• My favorite month is January.
• I ate a few cookies after dinner.
• He used to sit with his friend Tony Polito on the
  bottom step when the days started getting longer
  and warmer and talk about it.
• Can you find the words with the long u sound?

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Investigation

• Lets begin planning our investigations.
• Work with your groups to complete the calendar on
  Inquiry Journal page 33-34.

Group Work...
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The Boy Who Didnt Believe in SpringSecond Read

• Comprehension Skills Classify and Categorize
• What does classifying and categorizing mean?
• It is sometimes useful to put story information
  into sections or categorizes.
• Putting things that are alike together in a group
  will help you understand and learn information.
• As you read the story, try to classify and
  categorize different things.

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Classify and Categorize
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Checking Comprehension (reading 2.3)

• What does this story have to do with city
  wildlife?
• Tony and King find plants beginning to grow and a
  birds blue eggs in the car in a vacant lot.
• What do Tony and King realize when they find the
  flowers and the birds eggs?
• They realize that spring has really arrived.
• How do you think they feel about their discovery?
• They feel happy and amazed at finding signs of
  spring in the city.

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Interviewing, TE. 125D

• In an interview, you ask another person questions
  to get information about a subject or to find out
  what she or he thinks or feels about something.
• In an interview, a person is the source.
• Here are the rules of doing an interview
• Always ask permission to interview a person.
• Ask Who? What? Where? Why? And How? Questions.
• Write down your questions in the order you want
  to ask them.
• Speak clearly and politely during an interview.
• Take notes as the person answers the questions.
• Thank the person after the interview.

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Word Analysis

• Spelling
• bare bear
• Listen to the /air/ sounds in bare and bear
• Now, complete Spelling and Vocabulary Skills
  Workbook pg. 28 for more practice with the /ar/
  and /air/ sounds.
• Vocabulary
• mound
• hole, indentation, and valley are antonyms to
  mound
• Knowing the meaning of the antonyms, what is the
  meaning of the word mound.
• hill, bump, pile
• Work with your partner to think of some more
  antonyms for the word mound.
• Flat land, valley, dip

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English Language Conventions TG. p. 125H

• Read L.A. Handbook, pg. 272 to review quotations.
• Where does the quotation marks go for the
  following sentences?
• Fragrant flowers are flourishing in the field,
  Fred said gratefully.
• Fragrant flowers are flourishing in the field
  Fred said gratefully.
• Rachel Carson said We need to protect the natural
  world.

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English Language Conventions TG. p. 125H

• Where does the quotation marks go for the
  following sentences?
• When will the cardinal eggs hatch? asked Ellen.
• That cardinal is bright red! Gasped Deonte.
• Note The end punctuation goes inside the closing
  quotation mark.
• Assignment Write a brief dialogue among animals
  about life in the city.

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Writing Process Strategies Drafting Responding
to Fiction

• Although responding to fiction means giving
  opinions, these opinions need to be supported
  with examples from the writing.
• Time order words are words that show the
  transition of events.
• Before, after, first, next, later, last, until,
  then, finally
• Time order words are used to help readers follow
  actions.
• Lets read L.A. handbook, pgs. 198-199 for more
  examples.
• Lets complete Comprehension and L.A. skills
  book, pgs. 28-29.
• Complete your first draft using Writers
  Workbook, pg. 7.

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Be a Sequence Detective!
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Sequence is the order in which events happen.
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Certain words can be sequence clues.
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Time-Order Words first next then finally
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Time-Order Expression in the morning after
that later that day two weeks later
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Other Time Words yesterday Saturday April winter
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Now be a sequence detective. See if you can spot
the clue words in the following story.
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Last Tuesday I met my new friend Mickey. We
were both in a ball game at recess. I told him
he had made a good catch during the game. Later
that day we played in a softball game. We were
on the same team and we won!
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Last Tuesday I met my new friend Mickey. We
were both in a ball game at recess. I told him
he had made a good catch during the game. Later
that day we played in a softball game. We were
on the same team and we won!
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After the game, we traded some baseball cards,
and then he said he wanted to ask me something.
After he finished talking, we walked to the bus
stop.
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After the game, we traded some baseball cards,
and then he said he wanted to ask me something.
After he finished talking, we walked to the bus
stop.
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The next morning, I was able to answer his
question. My parents said that I would go to his
familys apartment to have dinner with him on his
birthday, December 6.
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The next morning, I was able to answer his
question. My parents said that I would go to his
familys apartment to have dinner with him on his
birthday, December 6.
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Developing Oral Language

• unit used menu Utah
• cue human humid January
• puny fuel pupil unicorn
• mew few unify universe
• A is a mammal.
• Human
• is a cold month.
• January
• I need to run my gold car.
• fuel

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Developing Oral Language

• unit used menu Utah
• cue human humid January
• puny fuel pupil unicorn
• mew few unify universe
• The state of is very pretty.
• Utah
• Our Open Court is called City Wildlife.
• unit
• The word means small.
• puny

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Dictation (routine cards 6 and 9) pg. 114 N

• Take out a piece of paper and lets begin our
  dictation!
• Line 1 _____________ ____________
  ____________
• Line 2 ____________ ____________ ____________
• Challenge word ______________
• Sentence___________________________
• ______________________________________

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Meet the Author

• Please read the top half of page 124 with your
  partner to learn about the author of The Boy Who
  Didnt Believe in Spring, Lucille Clifton.
• Lucille Clifton was the first person in her
  family to earn a scholarship and attend college.
  What does this tell you about her desire to
  learn?
• She was determined to get an education and
  studied hard to be able to succeed by getting a
  scholarship.
• What do you think is special about Lucille
  Cliftons writing that makes her one of the most
  famous poets and childrens authors?
• believable characters, interesting use of slang
  and dialect in dialogue

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Meet the Illustrator

• Please read the bottom half of page 124 with your
  partner to learn about the illustrator of The
  Boy Who Didnt Believe in Spring, Brinton
  Turkle.
• Brinton Turkle writes and illustrates books in
  the hope that they will teach children kindness,
  honesty, and a love for life. Why do you think
  he chose to illustrate this story for Lucille
  Clifton?
• The story deals with friendship and springtime
  the boys find evidence of life even in an
  abandoned lot.
• Look back at the pictures in The Boy Who Didnt
  Believe in Spring. Brinton Turkle had to do
  research for the background scenery for New York
  City. Why would an artist do research?
• Turkle would research to be sure his pictures
  were authentic. The more details possible, the
  better the pictures complement the story line.

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Literary Elements Characterization

• Characterization is the way that a writer shows
  what the characters in his or her story are like.
  
• Writers do this by telling what the characters
  do, say, think, and feel.
• Lets complete the table

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Word Analysis

• Spelling
• Dark
• Knowing the spelling of dark can help us know
  that the rhyming word park is spelled the same
  way.
• Now lets complete Spelling and Vocabulary Skills
  page 29 for more practice with strategies for
  spelling /ar/ and /air/ words.
• Vocabulary
• vacant
• Empty, clear, and blank are synonyms of vacant.
• What are the antonyms for vacant?
• full, loaded, crowded
• What is the definition of vacant , now that we
  know its antonyms and synonyms?
• empty space, clear area

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English Language Conventions listen/Speak 1.1
With your group...

• Remembering what we hear
• Being able to recall a story is an important
  listening skill.
• If we listen well the first time, we wont have
  to get the information again.
• Another good listening skill is repeating and
  paraphrasing what we hear in our own words. This
  helps us share information with others. We can
  give the same message using our own words.
• In small groups, paraphrase the important points
  and details of the story.
• Students will decide on a group leader.
• The group leader will record the important
  points.
• As a class, we will call on the group leader to
  share their information with the class.

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Writing Process Strategies Revising (Writing
1.1, 1.4)

• Lets read Writers Workbook, pg. 8 on revising.
• Lets discuss Language Arts Transparency 26 on
  revising.
• When the supporting sentences stray from the
  topic of the paragraph, readers lose interest.
• When statements about a character, setting, idea,
  or plot are not supported with details from the
  story, it makes the statements hard to believe.
• Misspelling names of people and places can be
  distracting and it makes it seem like you did not
  read the story carefully.
• Revise your drafts using time order words.
• Use the checklist on page 9 of your Writers
  Workbook to help you revise your response to
  literature.

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Day 5
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Word Knowledge Review

• hollered whispered grinned frowned
• past tense
• vacant empty bare
• synonyms
• streetlight playground tiptoe
• compound words
• spiky cottony smelly silvery
• suffix -y
• unbelievable undecorated untied uneaten
  unoccupied
• prefix un-
• started apartments dark car air
• /ar/ and /air/ sounds
• Tony stopped and made believe his sneaker was
  untied to see what King was going to do.
• Well, come on, man, King whispered, and they
  started down the street.
• Just after the friends passed some apartments,
  they came to a vacant lot.
• An indigo car is a dark blue color.

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Phonics and Fluency Review

• unit used menu Utah
• cue human humid January
• puny fuel pupil unicorn
• mew few unify universe
• My favorite month is January.
• I ate a few cookies after dinner.
• He used to sit with his friend Tony Polito on the
  bottom step when the days started getting longer
  and warmer and talk about it.

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The Boy Who Didnt Believe in Spring
mound
crops
patch
Selection Vocabulary
vacant
decorated
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crops
plants grown for food or to sell to make money

• One day after the teacher had been talking about
  birds that were blue and his Mama had started
  talking about crops coming up, King Shabazz
  decided he had just had enough.
• Now that spring has arrived, the farmer is busy
  planting his crops.

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decorated
made beautiful by adding fancy things and frills

• They passed the Church of the Solid Rock with
  high windows all decorated and pretty.
• The wedding reception hall looked lovely,
  decorated with twinkling lights and pretty
  flowers.

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vacant
empty abandoned

• Just after they passed some apartments King
  Shabazz and Tony Polito came to a vacant lot.
• The warehouse looked as though it had been vacant
  for years.

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mound
small hill or pile of dirt, rocks, or
other material

• The wheels were gone and so were the doors, but
  it was dark red and sitting high on a dirt mound
  in the middle of the lot.
• The catcher walked toward the pitchers mound, a
  slightly raised area of ground on a baseball
  field. He wanted to talk to the pitcher about
  the next batter.

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patch
an area different from what is around it

• He looked down and saw a patch of little yellow
  pointy flowers, growing in the middle of short
  spiky green leaves.
• A large empty patch stood out from the full green
  lawn.

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English Language Conventions Review

• Remember
• Quotation marks are used to let the reader know
  that something is being said.
• A comma sets off the speakers words from the
  rest of the sentence.
• The ending punctuation goes inside the closing
  quotation mark.
• Im hungry! Shelly said.
• Are you tired? Michael asked.
• Brian said, Its time to go to school.
• The name of a short story, poem, song, or book
  chapter should also be in quotation marks.

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Listening

• Now, we will listen to the story on CD

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Assessments

• Selection Assessment
• The Boy Who Didnt Believe in SpringUnit 2
  Assessment, p. 2-4
• Vocabulary Assessment
• Unit 2 Assessment, p. 5
• Spelling Assessment
• The /ar/ and /air/ sounds
• Unit 2 Assessment, p. 27

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English Language Conventions (Penmanship)

• Lets practice using cursive n and m
• n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n n
• m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m
• Practice writing rows of ns and ms in your
  Writers Notebook.
• once
• time
• named
• spring

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Writing Process Strategies (Writing 1.1, 1.4)

• Editing, Proofreading, Publishing
• Lets read Writers Workbook, pg. 9 on
  editing/proofreading.
• Now, we will edit, proofread, and publish our
  responses to fiction.
• Use the checklist on Writers Workbook page 9.

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Writing Process Strategies Getting Ideas
Responding to Fiction TG p. 125F (writing 1.1,
1.4)

• Total point value 10
• Ideas are stated clearly and are easy to
  understand. (2 points)
• There is a topic sentence for each paragraph.
• (2 points)
• There is at least one supporting detail or
  example for each topic sentence (2 points)
• The final copy is clean, neat, and legible. (2
  points)
• Mechanics-punctuation, spelling, and
  capitalization is correct. (2 points)