Transcript Unit 4: Lesson 3 Kids Did It! in Business

Unit 4: Lesson 5
Four Dollars and Fifty
Cents
A tall tale by,
Eric A. Kimmel
Today we will be learning
about:
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Compound words
Suffixes –ed, -ing, -ial
Plural endings –s, -es
Author’s point of view
Drawing conclusions
Colloquial speech
Subject/verb agreement
What do these words
have in common?
Line 1: blacksmith graveyard
fireworks tombstone buckboard
(they are all compound words)
What do these words
have in common?
Line 2:clenched lugged growled owed leaned
(all of the words have the suffix –ed. This indicates that the
action has taken place in the past)
Line 3:bury burying buried burial
(all of these words have the base word bury. How did the
spelling change after the suffixes were added?)
What do these words
have in common?
Line 4:dollars horses sleeves cowboys
britches
(These are words from our story this week. They
review how to make words plural by adding the
suffixes –s and –es.)
What do these sentences
have in common?
S1: “”I’m driving out to the Circe K this afternoon.”
S2: As soon as Oscar left, Widow Macrae hitched her two
horses, Clementine and Evangeline, to the buckboard and
drove out to the Circle K.
S3:One lit a lantern while the other two lugged an iron
strongbox over to the open grave.
These are from the story. Can you find any compound words, or
words with suffixes –ed and –ing?
S4:Cowboys used to wear leather britches when riding on their
horses.
Can you find any plural words in sentence 4?
Have you ever…..
• Borrowed money from someone? If
so, how did you feel about it?
• Paid money back?
• Loaned money to someone? Did they
pay you back?
Build Background
• We can buy things without paying for them
immediately. We do this by agreeing to pay for it
at a later time. This is called buying on credit.
Today people use credit cards to buy things they
want.
• Genre:tall tale
• A tall tale uses humorous exaggeration to tell of
adventures of a fictional character.
• It builds upon improbable incidents and unusual
problems that are solved in creative ways.
Build Background
• This story takes place in the Old West.
When we refer to the Old West, we often
mean the part of the United States west
of the Mississippi River, during the years
1840-1890. This story refers to some
things that were used in the Old West.
Build Background
• A skillet is a frying pan.
• A buckboard is an open carriage
pulled by horses.
• To rein in means “to stop your horse.”
• Mosey means “to walk slowly.”
• Greenbacks was a word for paper
money.
•
Preview and Prepare
• Let’s browse through our tall tale
“Four Dollars and Fifty Cents” and
look for clues about the story,
problems you may have while reading
the story, and wonderings you have
about the story.
Student observations
• Clues problems
wonderings
Selection Vocabulary
He owed everybody money, from Big Oscar the
blacksmith to Widow Macrae, who ran the Silver
Dollar Café and baked the best biscuits west of
the Rockies.
MY grandpa told me that he used to get shoes for
his workhorse from a blacksmith.
• Blacksmith- a person who makes objects from
iron, which is heated and then hammered to the
desired shape.
Selection Vocabulary
“You got as much chance of collecting that money as
seeing Custer ride back from the Little Bighorn.”
The paperboy is collecting money for last month’s
newspaper.
Collecting-getting payment for a debt.
Selection Vocabulary
“But if you let me take Shorty back to town,
I’ll see he gets a decent burial.”
Telling him that I was sorry for being rude
was the only decent thing to do.
Decent-proper; respectable; acceptable to
the community
Selection Vocabulary
“I’ll nail the lid down,” Duck Pooley volunteered.
Half the class volunteered at the local animal
shelter.
Volunteered-offered to do something
Selection Vocabulary
Shorty saw stars when the coffin hit the ground,
but he was bound and determined not to pay that
four dollars and fifty cents, so he lay still.
Even though the snow was cold and wet, the little
boy was determined to keep sledding.
Determined-firm and unwilling to change; stubbornly
continuing as planned.
Match the words with
the definition
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Decent
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Volunteered
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Blacksmith
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Collecting
•
determined
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•
A person who makes objects
from iron, which is heated and
then hammered to the
desired shape
Proper;respectable;
acceptable to the community
Firm and unwilling to change;
stubbornly continuing as
planned
Getting payment for a debt
Offered to do
• Persuasive Essay: Separate Schools
• Should boys and girls go to separate
schools, or should they go to the
same school? Decide what you think.
Then persuade others to agree with
you.
Word analysis
• Spelling pretest
• Take out your whiteboards!berries,
bunnies, guppies, hobbies, pennies,
puppies, ponies, babies, donkeys,
families, dollars, horses, sleeves,
cowboys, britches
Grammar: subject/verb
agreement:singular and plural
• If the subject is singular, the present tense form of the
verb usually ends in –s or –es.
• For example: He saves his money.
• If the subject is plural, do not add anything to the verb to
form the present tense.
• For example: They invest money.
• If the verb ends with a consonant and y, change the y to I
and add –es to create the present tense.
• For example: hurry+ es= hurries
• In the present tense the irregular verbs be and have
change to form to agree with their subjects.
• For example: Danny is responsible.
Friends are good to have.
Possessive pronouns
• Do these sentences have subject/verb agreement?
• He take a nap at noon.
• Lydia has a computer.
• They was flying over New York.
• If you want more practice take a look at page 265 in the
Language Arts Handbook.
• Let’s do page 112-113 in our Comprehension and Language
Arts Skills book
Day 2:Today we will be
learning about:
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Compound words
Suffixes –ed, -ing, -ial
Plural endings –s, -es
Author’s point of view
Drawing conclusions
Colloquial speech
Subject/verb agreement
Day 2:
Developing Oral Language
Line 1: blacksmith graveyard
fireworks tombstone buckboard
(they are all compound words)
With your partner, can you make compound
words out of these:
Cow, hand, girl, hand, girl, stage, coach, fire,
works
Day 2:
Developing Oral Language
Line 2:clenched lugged growled owed leaned
Line 3:bury burying buried burial
• With your partner try to make up a
sentence using as many of these
words as possible.
Have you ever…..
• Borrowed money from someone? If
so, how did you feel about it?
• Paid money back?
• Loaned money to someone? Did they
pay you back?
Build Background
• We can buy things without paying for them
immediately. We do this by agreeing to pay for it
at a later time. This is called buying on credit.
Today people use credit cards to buy things they
want.
• Genre:tall tale
• A tall tale uses humorous exaggeration to tell of
adventures of a fictional character.
• It builds upon improbable incidents and unusual
problems that are solved in creative ways.
Build Background
• This story takes place in the Old West.
When we refer to the Old West, we often
mean the part of the United States west
of the Mississippi River, during the years
1840-1890. This story refers to some
things that were used in the Old West.
Build Background
• A skillet is a frying pan.
• A buckboard is an open carriage
pulled by horses.
• To rein in means “to stop your horse.”
• Mosey means “to walk slowly.”
• Greenbacks was a word for paper
money.
•
Preview and Prepare
• Let’s browse through our tall tale
“Four Dollars and Fifty Cents” and
look for clues about the story,
problems you may have while reading
the story, and wonderings you have
about the story.
Student observations
• Clues problems
wonderings
Selection Vocabulary
• Blacksmith- a person who makes objects from iron, which is
heated and then hammered to the desired shape.
Collecting-getting payment for a debt.
Selection Vocabulary
“Decent-proper; respectable; acceptable to the
community
Volunteered-offered to do something
Selection Vocabulary
Determined-firm and unwilling to change; stubbornly
continuing as planned.
Match the words with
the definition
•
Decent
•
Volunteered
•
Blacksmith
•
•
•
•
Collecting
•
determined
•
•
A person who makes objects
from iron, which is heated and
then hammered to the
desired shape
Proper;respectable;
acceptable to the community
Firm and unwilling to change;
stubbornly continuing as
planned
Getting payment for a debt
Offered to do
When I read I will:
• Predict which will make me analyze and think
about information given about events and
characters and how they may logically connect to
the story’s ending.
• Summarize which will help me keep track of
what I am reading and will help me focus on what’s
important.
• Monitor and clarify by using context clues,
graphic organizers, outside resources, or
rereading.
• Make Connections by connecting what I already
know or have experienced to what I am reading.
“Four Dollars and Fifty Cents”
• Pages 58-63
• Tall tale-uses humorous exaggeration to
tell an adventure. Unusual problems are
solved in creative ways.
• We will: predict,monitor and clarify,make
connections and summarize
• Vocabulary:decent, blacksmith, volunteer,
collecting, determined
Discussing strategy use
• What connections did you make between
what you read and what you already knew?
• How did you clarify confusing passages?
• Where did you stop to summarize?
• How did you make, confirm, and revise
predictions?
Discussing the Selection
• Why did Shorty behave as he did?
• What does this story teach about
lending and borrowing?
• Why was this selection named “Four
Dollars and Fifty Cents?”
Day 2:
Word Analysis
Spelling:adding –s or –es
Baby
Plural means more than one.
When a word ends in y change the y to
an I and –es to make it a plural word.
If the word ends in vowel y, and an –s.
Donkey=donkeys
Vocabulary
compound words
• Sagebrush is a compound word (sage+brush)
• Sagebrush means a wise person, an herb, or plant
with silver leaves and yellow flowers.
• Please complete page 90-91 in your spelling and
vocabulary skills book.
Day 2:
possessive pronouns
• LA Handbook pg. 264
Many inventions helps people.
The inventor work all day.
Joseph makes invention in his garage.
Thomas Edison’s inventions is numerous.
I have my tonsils removed.
The houses is falling down.
Day 3:Today we will be
learning about:
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
Compound words
Suffixes –ed, -ing, -ial
Plural endings –s, -es
Author’s point of view
Drawing conclusions
Colloquial speech
Subject/verb agreement
What do these words
have in common?
Line 1: blacksmith graveyard
fireworks tombstone buckboard
(they are all compound words)
What do these words
have in common?
Line 2:clenched lugged growled owed leaned
(all of the words have the suffix –ed. This indicates that the
action has taken place in the past)
Line 3:bury burying buried burial
(all of these words have the base word bury. How did the
spelling change after the suffixes were added?)
What do these words
have in common?
Line 4:dollars horses sleeves cowboys
britches
(These are words from our story this week. They
review how to make words plural by adding the
suffixes –s and –es.)
What do these sentences
have in common?
S1: “”I’m driving out to the Circe K this afternoon.”
S2: As soon as Oscar left, Widow Macrae hitched her two
horses, Clementine and Evangeline, to the buckboard and
drove out to the Circle K.
S3:One lit a lantern while the other two lugged an iron
strongbox over to the open grave.
These are from the story. Can you find any compound words, or
words with suffixes –ed and –ing?
S4:Cowboys used to wear leather britches when riding on their
horses.
Can you find any plural words in sentence 4?
Build Background
• We can buy things without paying for them
immediately. We do this by agreeing to pay for it
at a later time. This is called buying on credit.
Today people use credit cards to buy things they
want.
• Genre:tall tale
• A tall tale uses humorous exaggeration to tell of
adventures of a fictional character.
• It builds upon improbable incidents and unusual
problems that are solved in creative ways.
Build Background
• This story takes place in the Old West.
When we refer to the Old West, we often
mean the part of the United States west
of the Mississippi River, during the years
1840-1890. This story refers to some
things that were used in the Old West.
Build Background
• A skillet is a frying pan.
• A buckboard is an open carriage
pulled by horses.
• To rein in means “to stop your horse.”
• Mosey means “to walk slowly.”
• Greenbacks was a word for paper
money.
•
Preview and Prepare
• Let’s browse through our tall tale
“Four Dollars and Fifty Cents” and
look for clues about the story,
problems you may have while reading
the story, and wonderings you have
about the story.
Student observations
• Clues problems
wonderings
Selection Vocabulary
• Blacksmith- a person who makes objects from iron, which is
heated and then hammered to the desired shape.
Collecting-getting payment for a debt.
Selection Vocabulary
“Decent-proper; respectable; acceptable to the
community
Volunteered-offered to do something
Selection Vocabulary
Determined-firm and unwilling to change; stubbornly
continuing as planned.
Student observations
• Problems
clues
wonderings
When I read I will:
• Draw conclusions by using what I already know,
together with what I know about the characters
and events, to understand the total picture in a
story.
• Look for the Author’s point of view to
determine the perspective from which an author
presents the actions and events in the story,
generally either first- person or third-person.
“Four Dollars and Fifty Cents”
• Pages 58-63
• Tall tale-uses humorous exaggeration to
tell an adventure. Unusual problems are
solved in creative ways.
• We will: predict,monitor and clarify,make
connections and summarize
• Vocabulary:decent, blacksmith, volunteer,
collecting, determined
Checking Comprehension
• Why is t his story called “Four
Dollars and Fifty Cents?”
• What are some ways that the writer
makes this story funny?
• What does this story reveal about
money?
Supporting the reading
Monitoring and clarifying
To clarify the meaning of
Words, you can use context
Clues, or outside resources.
To clarify difficult ideas or
Passages, you must first
Recognize that some part
of the text does not make
Sense by monitoring your
Own comprehension. If you have
A problem you can reread, use
A graphic organizer, or
Another comprehension strategy.
problems
Method of
clarifying
Day 3:
Word Analysis
• Horses, britches
• Has anyone ever heard the expresson
“Hold your Horses?”
• This is called an idiom. It is not
literal.
• Can you think of any more idioms?
vocabulary
compound words
• Blacksmith
• The words black+smith =blacksmith
• Black comes from the hot black coals that
heat and shape iron.
• Smith means “one who works with metal.”
• Knowing this, what does a blacksmith do
for a living?
Possessive pronouns
• Let’s review: check out pages 112-113 in your
Comprehension and Language Arts book
• Please write a sentence using these words on your
whiteboards.
• Buy,buys
• Is,are
• Has, have
• Wish, wishes
• Was, were
Day 4:Today we will be
learning about:
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
Compound words
Suffixes –ed, -ing, -ial
Plural endings –s, -es
Author’s point of view
Drawing conclusions
Colloquial speech
Subject/verb agreement
Day 4:
Developing Oral Language
Line 1: blacksmith graveyard
fireworks tombstone buckboard
(they are all compound words)
With your partner, can you make compound
words out of these:
Cow, hand, girl, hand, girl, stage, coach, fire,
works
Day 4:
Developing Oral Language
Line 2:clenched lugged growled owed leaned
Line 3:bury burying buried burial
• With your partner try to make up a
sentence using as many of these
words as possible.
Viewing fine art
• Page 56
• 80 two-dollar bills
• By Andy Warhol
The same image is
Reproduced several
Times.
Selection Vocabulary
• Blacksmith- a person who makes objects from iron, which is
heated and then hammered to the desired shape.
Collecting-getting payment for a debt.
Selection Vocabulary
“Decent-proper; respectable; acceptable to the
community
Volunteered-offered to do something
Selection Vocabulary
Determined-firm and unwilling to change; stubbornly
continuing as planned.
Match the words with
the definition
•
Decent
•
Volunteered
•
Blacksmith
•
•
•
•
Collecting
•
determined
•
•
A person who makes objects
from iron, which is heated and
then hammered to the
desired shape
Proper;respectable;
acceptable to the community
Firm and unwilling to change;
stubbornly continuing as
planned
Getting payment for a debt
Offered to do
When I read I will:
• Predict which will make me analyze and think
about information given about events and
characters and how they may logically connect to
the story’s ending.
• Summarize which will help me keep track of
what I am reading and will help me focus on what’s
important.
• Monitor and clarify by using context clues,
graphic organizers, outside resources, or
rereading.
• Make Connections by connecting what I already
know or have experienced to what I am reading.
“Four Dollars and Fifty Cents”
• Pages 58-63
• Tall tale-uses humorous exaggeration to
tell an adventure. Unusual problems are
solved in creative ways.
• We will: predict,monitor and clarify,make
connections and summarize
• Vocabulary:decent, blacksmith, volunteer,
collecting, determined
Let’s practice our
vocabulary
• Remember to use the definition in
your glossary and to add the part of
speech.
Theme Connection
• Work with your partner and try your
best.
• Remember there is no wrong answer.
• When you finish, choose one to
practice and share with the class
Literary Elements
colloquial speech
• Colloquial speech is a particular way in
which people speak.
• Most people do not use standard English all
the time.
• Every region has it’s own colloquial speech.
• Time periods also have their own colloquial
speech.
• Let’s see if we can find some colloquial
speech in our selection together.
Math Connection
The Interest Game I
• Shorty owed $4.50. If Widow
Macrae charged five cents a day for
every day he kept the loan, how much
interest would have accumulated
after one week?
Social Studies Connection
• In our selection we read about a cowboy
that did not want to pay back the money
he borrowed.
• What do you think about his actions?
• Was it wrong for him not to pay back his
debts?
• Did he respect Widow Macrae’s rights?
• What laws do we have to protect lenders
and borrowers?
spelling
• Spelling and vocabulary pages help us
become better spellers of plural
words.
• Please do page 92 to practice your
skills
Day 4:vocabulary
compound words
padlock
What is a lock? What is a pad?
What might padlock mean?
Conversations
• When Shorty did not pay back his debts
he inconvenienced a lot of people who
depended on his money. He made people
mad at him, and he had to waste a lot of
time and energy to avoid people.
• With your group discuss a time you let
someone borrow something.
• What happened?
• Did you get it back?
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Today we will review:
Compound words
Suffixes –ed, -ing, -ial
Plural endings –s, -es
Author’s point of view
Drawing conclusions
Colloquial speech
Subject/verb
agreement
• And we will test:
• Our comprehension of
the tall tale we read
• Our selection’s
vocabulary
What do these words
have in common?
Line 1: blacksmith graveyard
fireworks tombstone buckboard
(they are all compound words)
What do these words
have in common?
Line 2:clenched lugged growled owed leaned
(all of the words have the suffix –ed. This indicates that the
action has taken place in the past)
Line 3:bury burying buried burial
(all of these words have the base word bury. How did the
spelling change after the suffixes were added?)
What do these words
have in common?
Line 4:dollars horses sleeves cowboys
britches
(These are words from our story this week. They
review how to make words plural by adding the
suffixes –s and –es.)
Selection Vocabulary
• Blacksmith- a person who makes objects from iron, which is
heated and then hammered to the desired shape.
Collecting-getting payment for a debt.
Selection Vocabulary
“Decent-proper; respectable; acceptable to the
community
Volunteered-offered to do something
Selection Vocabulary
Determined-firm and unwilling to change; stubbornly
continuing as planned.
Match the words with
the definition
•
Decent
•
Volunteered
•
Blacksmith
•
•
•
•
Collecting
•
determined
•
•
A person who makes objects
from iron, which is heated and
then hammered to the
desired shape
Proper;respectable;
acceptable to the community
Firm and unwilling to change;
stubbornly continuing as
planned
Getting payment for a debt
Offered to do
When we read we:
• Drew conclusions by using what we already knew,
with what we knew about the characters and
events, to understand the total picture in a story.
• Looked for the Author’s point of view to
determine the perspective from which an author
presented the actions and events in the story,
generally either first- person or third-person.
Checking Comprehension
• Why is t his story called “Four
Dollars and Fifty Cents?”
• What are some ways that the writer
makes this story funny?
• What does this story reveal about
money?
Supporting the reading
Monitoring and clarifying
To clarify the meaning of
Words, you can use context
Clues, or outside resources.
To clarify difficult ideas or
Passages, you must first
Recognize that some part
of the text does not make
Sense by monitoring your
Own comprehension. If you have
A problem you can reread, use
A graphic organizer, or
Another comprehension strategy.
problems
Method of
clarifying
Let’s test our vocabulary
and reading comprehension
Cursive letters u and y
• U
• Starting point, loop
• Curve straight
forward, slant into
undercurve
• Slant down,
undercurve
• Y
• Starting point, loop
• Curve forward,
slant down
• Undercurve, slant
down
• Loop back,
overcurve