Transcript Lesson 10: Day 1

Harcourt 10-11
Theme 2
Whole Group
Lesson 10
Day 1
If you comprehend
something, you
understand it.
What could help you comprehend a
set of instructions?
Something is pliable is
easy to move or bend
without breaking.
Why is it important for the bottom
of a shoe to be pliable?
To live in a solitary way
is to be alone most of
the time.
What is one activity that you prefer
to do in a solitary way?
To scan a place is to
look carefully over the
entire area for
something specific.
Why might sailors scan the ocean and the
sky?
A person or animal that is
vulnerable is weak and
unprotected and at risk
of being harmed.
How might a vulnerable animal protect
itself?
If someone is
exuberant, he or she
is full of excitement,
energy, and
happiness.
How does an exuberant person act?
A mature person or
animal is fully grown
and behaves like an
adult.
Which animal is mature, a colt or a
bear?
When a person or an
animal lumbers, it
moves in a slow and
clumsy way.
What are examples of animals that
lumber?
To encircle a place
means to surround it.
What might encircle a castle?
If you nurture a living
thing, you care for it
while it is growing
and developing.
What might a mother animal do to
nurture its baby?
comprehend
exuberant
pliable
mature
solitary
lumbers
scan
encircle
vulnerable
nurture
Accuracy
Good readers read each word correctly.
Rate
Good readers read with appropriate speed.
Intonation
Good readers use changes in their expression to
show the mood of the story.
Phrasing
Good readers read in meaningful phrases,
not word by word.
My school is now home to one of Georgia’s
most interesting and endangered plants. The
pitcher plant is carnivorous, which means that
when it grows into a mature plant, it eats bugs.
An insect crawls or lumbers into one of the
plant’s slippery, tube-shaped leaves. It is
encircled by downward-pointing hairs on the
leaf and cannot get out. Then, the pitcher plant
digests the unlucky insect.
Yes, a pitcher plant needs to be mature to
Do
think It
a pitcher
would need
eatyou
insects.
says in plant
the passage
that to be
mature
eat into
insects?
Explain
. it eats
when it to
grows
a mature
plant,
bugs. That means it cannot eat bugs until it
is a mature plant.
My school is now home to one of Georgia’s
most interesting and endangered plants. The
pitcher plant is carnivorous, which means that
when it grows into a mature plant, it eats bugs.
An insect crawls or lumbers into one of the
plant’s slippery, tube-shaped leaves. It is
encircled by downward-pointing hairs on the
leaf and cannot get out. Then, the pitcher plant
digests the unlucky insect.
An insect
Would
an insect
that lumbers
that lumbers
would get
rather
caught
than
hops get
more
easily
caught
because
moreiteasily
movesinsoa slowly.
pitcher The
downward-pointing
plant? Why or whyhairs
not? would be able to
grab it more easily than an insect that hops.
My school is now home to one of Georgia’s
most interesting and endangered plants. The
pitcher plant is carnivorous, which means that
when it grows into a mature plant, it eats bugs.
An insect crawls or lumbers into one of the
plant’s slippery, tube-shaped leaves. It is
encircled by downward-pointing hairs on the
leaf and cannot get out. Then, the pitcher plant
digests the unlucky insect.
Escape
Why
is escape
is difficult
difficult
for insects
for insects
encircled
encircled
by
hairs
because the hairs surround the insect.
by hairs?
The hairs make like a jail for the insect, and
it’s hard for it to break free.
It was hard for me to comprehend how
such a hearty plant could be endangered. The
problem is that the pitcher plants’ habitats are
being destroyed. This makes them vulnerable
to extinction.
The pitcher plant is a very hearty plant,
Why
it hard
the strong.
author to
whichismeans
it for
is very
Itcomprehend
would seem
how
the pitcher
plant
could be
endangered?
impossible
for such
a strong
plant
to be
dying out.
It was hard for me to comprehend how
such a hearty plant could be endangered. The
problem is that the pitcher plants’ habitats are
being destroyed. This makes them vulnerable
to extinction.
There are many factors that could cause a
Whatto
factors
might
a plant Some
vulnerable
plant
be at risk
ofmake
extinction.
are
to extinction?
lack
of food, water, or sunlight, and humans
taking away their place to live.
Students in my class wanted to help. We
decided to build our own pitcher plant bog! We
were exuberant when we found out we would
have the chance to nurture these interesting
plants. Our teacher helped us scan the school
grounds to find a good place for the bog. We
dug a wide, shallow hole. We use pliable,
heavy plastic to line the bottom of it. Then we
filled the hole with dirt and added water.
Would you be exuberant about helping to
create a pitcher plant bog? Why or why
not?
Students in my class wanted to help. We
decided to build our own pitcher plant bog! We
were exuberant when we found out we would
have the chance to nurture these interesting
plants. Our teacher helped us scan the school
grounds to find a good place for the bog. We
dug a wide, shallow hole. We use pliable,
heavy plastic to line the bottom of it. Then we
filled the hole with dirt and added water.
I
would
nurture
the plant
feeding and
How
would
you nurture
an by
endangered
plant?
watering it. I would also make sure that it
has proper conditions and sunlight to grow.
Students in my class wanted to help. We
decided to build our own pitcher plant bog! We
were exuberant when we found out we would
have the chance to nurture these interesting
plants. Our teacher helped us scan the school
grounds to find a good place for the bog. We
dug a wide, shallow hole. We use pliable,
heavy plastic to line the bottom of it. Then we
filled the hole with dirt and added water.
The students scanned the school grounds to
Why did the students scan the school
find a good place to put the bog for the
grounds?
pitcher plants.
Students in my class wanted to help. We
decided to build our own pitcher plant bog! We
were exuberant when we found out we would
have the chance to nurture these interesting
plants. Our teacher helped us scan the school
grounds to find a good place for the bog. We
dug a wide, shallow hole. We use pliable,
heavy plastic to line the bottom of it. Then we
filled the hole with dirt and added water.
Pliable
materials
good bog
liners,
Why would
pliablemake
materials
make
good so
bog
that
is can form to the hole that was dug.
liners?
We sprouted the seeds indoors. At
first, we were worried that the seed
wouldn’t open. Then a solitary seedling
sprouted. More followed. We
transplanted the seedlings into our bog. I
hope our pitcher plants grow up tall,
strong, and hungry!
Yes, the author thought the solitary seedling
Did the author see the solitary seedling as a
was a good sign. It meant that they were
good sign? Why?
doing the right things to nurture the
seedlings. They were hopeful that more
would grow.
Focus Skill:
Plot:
The plot of a story is the series of events that make
up the story.
Conflict:
The plot usually contains a conflict, or problem, that
the main character must solve.
Resolution:
The end of the story usually presents a resolution, or
solution, to the problem.
Mimi was excited. Her teacher has chosen her to take the class
guinea pig home for the weekend. On Friday her mother came to the
classroom after school. Mimi picked up the guinea pig’s cage. “This
is Nicky!” Mimi said.
“Achoo!” her mother replied. She helped Mimi take Nicky and his
supplies to the car. She sneezed all the way home. “I guess I’m
allergic to guinea pigs,” she said.
Mimi set up Nicky’s cage in the family room. Mimi’s mother
sneezed and sneezed. Mimi moved Nicky’s cage to her bedroom.
Mimi’s mother couldn’t walk down the hallway without having a
sneezing attack.
By Saturday, Mimi knew she had to do something. She called her
friend Bridget. “How do you feel about pet sitting until Monday?” she
asked.
Bridget and her dad picked up the guinea pig an hour later.
Conflict:
Mimi’s mom is allergic to the guinea pig Mimi
brings home for the weekend.
“Achoo!” her mother replied. She helped Mimi take Nicky and his
supplies to the car. She sneezed all the way home. “I guess I’m
allergic to guinea pigs,” she said.
Mimi set up Nicky’s cage in the family room. Mimi’s mother
sneezed and sneezed. Mimi moved Nicky’s cage to her bedroom.
Mimi’s mother couldn’t walk down the hallway without having a
sneezing attack.
By Saturday, Mimi knew she had to do something. She called her
friend Bridget. “How do you feel about pet sitting until Monday?” she
asked.
Plot Events:
*Mimi’s mom sneezes while bringing the
guinea pig home.
*Mimi moves the guinea pig from room to
room, but her mom continues to sneeze.
*Mimi asks her friend Bridget to take the
guinea pig.
Mimi was excited. Her teacher has chosen her to take the class
guinea pig home for the weekend. On Friday her mother came to the
classroom after school. Mimi picked up the guinea pig’s cage. “This
is Nicky!” Mimi said.
“Achoo!” her mother replied. She helped Mimi take Nicky and his
supplies to the car. She sneezed all the way home. “I guess I’m
allergic to guinea pigs,” she said.
Mimi set up Nicky’s cage in the family room. Mimi’s mother
sneezed and sneezed. Mimi moved Nicky’s cage to her bedroom.
Mimi’s mother couldn’t walk down the hallway without having a
sneezing attack.
By Saturday, Mimi knew she had to do something. She called her
friend Bridget. “How do you feel about pet sitting until Monday?” she
asked.
Bridget and her dad picked up the guinea pig an hour later.
Resolution:
Bridget pet-sits until Monday.