Schema: favorite foods Poetry and Figurative language: Haiku: created by the Japanese as a form of poetry: The most common form for Haiku is three short lines: The first line usually contains five (5) syllables. The second line seven (7) syllables. The third line contains five (5) syllables. Haiku doesn’t rhyme. Figurative language creates a [...]
Schema: President’s children, pop stars in the news, publicity Historical Fiction: polio, Civil War, Rough Riders, Spanish American War 1898 Figurative Language: “eating up the world” Text-to-self connection: having a pet monkey, many students would enjoy having one Text-to-text connection: Curious George, Madeline books about little girls in boarding school Compare and Contrast: In 1905 [...]
Schema: bird’s nests, wild birds Text-to-text connection with Pale Male Citizen Hawk of New York City by Janet Schulman Cause and Effect: Because a man stole the other baby peregrine falcons, the effect is that Sam rescues Oksi and takes her to his forest home. Compare and Contrast the nest home on the bridge with [...]
Schema: parks, apartments, birds, nests Text-to-text connection with Frightful’s Daughter by Jean Craighead George; in both books the birds did things their own way which was different from birds of their species Cause and Effect: Because Pale Male built his nest above the Fifth Ave. apartments, the effect was that the people who lived in [...]
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