Combine information from several texts on the same topic to write or talk about the subject.
Combine information from several texts on the same topic to write or talk about the subject.
Explain ideas from an informational text and support my explanation with the text.
Determine the main idea of a text and explain how it is supported by key details.
Interpret information that is presented orally.
Summary: In the wilds of Africa, a baby elephant was alone and starving-and attacked by a lion. This is the extraordinary story of the people who were determined to keep her alive and send her back into the wild.
Summary: In the wilds of Africa, a baby elephant was alone and starving-and attacked by a lion. This is the extraordinary story of the people who were determined to keep her alive and send her back into the wild.
Genre: Expository nonfiction
Preview text. What do you notice about the diagram on the first page? How does it help keep the ideas in the text organized?
Preview text. What do you notice about the diagram on the first page? How does it help keep the ideas in the text organized?
Read and React: Take 20 minutes to read the text closely with your pencil in your hand. Write down everything you are thinking in the margins (questions, reactions, inferences, predictions, new learning, new vocab….)
Zoom in: As you read, notice the main idea of the text (how humans are both harming and helping animals in the wild). Underline details that support this topic.
Share all of your thinking with your partner.
Share all of your thinking with your partner.
Ask your partner:
What idea was most shocking to you from the text?
In what ways to Ishanga and the other elephants seem similar to humans? Find evidence in the text.
Do you think poachers would kill elephants if they saw these similarities? Find evidence in the text.
According to our puzzles, what do human hands have the power to do for animals and their habitats?
Let’s unpack the question together.
Let’s unpack the question together.
What have you learned about the power of the human hand to help and harm animals from the poem Same Hands and the other texts we have read? Choose one puzzle piece and connect it to one line from the poem to prove your thinking.
Using the compare and contrast format of Same Hands, write and illustrate your own free verse poem using the symbol of the human hand to show how humans can impact animal habitats both negatively and positively. Construct your piece of art on white paper and make sure your illustration is a powerful image that symbolizes the importance of the human hand.
Using the compare and contrast format of Same Hands, write and illustrate your own free verse poem using the symbol of the human hand to show how humans can impact animal habitats both negatively and positively. Construct your piece of art on white paper and make sure your illustration is a powerful image that symbolizes the importance of the human hand.
Let’s share!
Read the lyrics of Waving the Flag to yourself. Notice how this song connects to the texts we’ve read.
Read the lyrics of Waving the Flag to yourself. Notice how this song connects to the texts we’ve read.
As you hear the song, follow along with the lyrics noting connections between the Same Hands poem and puzzle pieces.
How do all of these forms of writing (lyrics, poem, fiction and nonfiction) tie the idea of human interaction with nature together?