Schema: Civil Rights Movement, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Text-to-text: Freedom on the Menu: the Greensboro Sit-Ins by Carole Boston Weatherford Metaphor: The story uses an extended metaphor to compare the Civil Rights movement to a recipe throughout the story. Author’sPurpose: to share a story about the civil rights movement and to teach us about African American history Author’s [...]
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 [...]
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