Transcript Pushing Up the Sky By: Joseph Bruchac

Pushing Up the Sky
By: Joseph Bruchac
Day 3
Pushing Up the Sky
Author: Joseph Bruchac
Illustrator: Teresa Flavin
Genre: Play
Comprehension Skill: Author’s
Purpose
Comprehension Strategy:
Summarize
Question of the Day
Why aren't the people successful in
pushing up the sky the first time
they try?
Small Group
Read “Pushing Up the Sky”, pages
314-320.
Reader Response
Open for Discussion Stage directors use sound effects and
movements to help a play seem real for the audience.
What sound effects and movements would you put into
this play to help it seem real?
1. When does the narrator talk in this play? Why do you
think the author includes a narrator? Think Like an
Author
2. The author's purpose is the writer's reason for writing.
Give one important purpose the author might have for
writing Pushing Up the Sky. Author's Purpose
3. If someone asked you what Pushing Up the Sky is about,
how would you summarize it for them? Think about the
problem the tribes have and how they solve it to help
with your summary. Summarize
4. Narrator is a word that often appears in plays. What
other words in the story are "play words"?
Look Back and Write
How does this play explain something
in nature? Write what it is and how
the people explained it. Use details
from the play to support your
answer.
Time for the Test!
Fluency
I’m going to read aloud p. 314.
Listen how my voice changes as I
read the dialogue of the different
characters.
Practice doing Readers’ Theater
readings of this page in groups of
five.
Pushing Up the Sky
Grammar
Day 3
Daily Fix-It
1. The hunters spoted a brown bare
among the trees.
The hunters spotted a brown bear
among the trees.
2. They went after the animal but it
dissapeared into the woods.
They went after the animal but it
disappeared into the woods.
Main and Helping Verbs
Describing the precise time of an
action makes writing clearer.
Helping verbs express time.
The men have seen bears
many times before.
Homework/Classwork Grammar and
Writing Practice Book p. 46
Pushing Up the Sky
Writing
Day 2
Writing Prompt
Pushing Up the Sky tells about
people working together to do
something important.
Think about a real or imaginary time
when a group worked together.
Now write a skit about that time.
Test-taking Tips
Use only a few characters. Have their
speeches move the skit’s action along.
Use a narrator to help set up the story
and identify the conflict or the problem
to be solved.
Use strong verbs in sentences in
parentheses to describe the characters’
actions.
Pushing Up the Sky
Spelling
Day 3
Spelling - Prefixes
Objective:
Spell words with prefixes un-, re-, mis-, dis-.
When the prefixes un-, re-, mis-, or disare added to words, no change is made to
the base word: unhappy, recall, mistake,
dislike.
Adding certain prefixes to base words
does not usually change the
pronunciation of the base word.
Journal Entry
Write a journal entry about
something that happened in your
life.
Use at least four spelling words.
Classwork/Homework
Spelling Practice Book p. 47
Frequently misspelled words:
a lot
off
said
Great Job!