Schema: geese, pets The goose man is Konrad Lorenz, an Austrian born doctor who devoted his life to the study of ethology, an animal behavior involving instinct. This focus of this book is on the his work about geese and how they communicate with different types of honks and how they imprint on the first [...]
Schema: full moon, walking outside at night Text-to-Self Connection: mind runs free, letting our imaginations run wild Text-to-Text Connection: Both books are about kids who are outside at night with a full moon. Compare and Contrast: Similarities: In both books the kids are out after dark, and in both, they are a little afraid of [...]
Schema: tadpoles, fish Setting: a pond and surrounding area Characters: a tadpole who grows into a frog and a minnow Mental Images: What a perfect book for showing students how to make a mental image. Frog describes the above water world to his friend, fish, a minnow. Minnow tries to visualize what cows, people, and [...]
Schema: sea, setting Questions to activate background knowledge: Can you think of another time in history where a group of people have been treated unfairly because of the color of their skin? Can you imagine being taken away from your family because of your ethnicity? Why is the title so far from the sea when [...]
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