Mrs. Tobin's Class Blog

The Mysterious Giant of Barletta

2012-01-24T09:45:00.000-05:00

Please choose 2 or more questions to answer. Use complete sentences and correct capitalization and punctuation!!

Restate the question in your answer!

1-Knowledge When all the townspeople get ready to run from Barletta, what does Zia Concetta do? Why?

2-Generating Why do you think the Mysterious Giant decides to help Zia Concetta and the town?

3-Generating Why does Zia Concetta ask the townspeople to stay out of sight? What might have happened if they hadn’t followed her orders?

4-Integrating
If the Mysterious Giant came to your town, what could he help the people do?

5-Evaluating
Why is it better for the Giant to trick the soldiers rather than to fight them?

6-Connections Suppose the Big Cheese from Mousopolis were in change of saving Barletta. What might the plan of been?

Dogzilla

2012-01-12T09:34:00.000-05:00

Please choose 2 or more questions to answer.
Use complete sentences and correct capitalization and punctuation!!

Restate the question in your answer!

1-Organizing
How is Dogzilla like most dogs? How is she not like a real dog? Use details from the story.
2-Generating
What do you think will happen at the Second Annual Barbecue Cook-Off?
3-Generating
What is bath time hadn't scared Dogzilla away? What other plans could have saved Mousopolis?
4-Applying
How does thinking like a dog help the mice defeat Dogzilla? Explain.
5-Integrating
How would the story have been different if a huge kitty had come out of the volcano instead of a dog?
6-Connections
How does Dav Pilkey make this story so funny and incredible?

Trickster Tales

2011-12-20T15:21:00.000-05:00

Please choose 3 or more questions to answer.
Use complete sentences and correct capitalization and punctuation!!

Restate the question in your answer!

1. Organizing
Compare the tricks played by the characters. Which trick was the most clever? Which one is the funniest? Use story details to support your answer.

2. Integrating
How do you think the tricksters could have solved their problems without playing a trick?

3. EvaluatingDo you think the characters had good reasons or bad reasons for playing tricks? Explain.

4. Evaluating
Who was your favorite trickster? Why?

5. Making Judgments
Why do you think the lesson is important in a trickster tale?

Miss Rumphius and Chinese New Year

2011-12-05T10:28:00.000-05:00

1. Organizing
Both Miss Rumphius and Chinese New Year tell about traditions that are passed along. How are the traditions alike and different?

2. Analyzing
How do traditions help younger people and older people feel closer? Use examples from this theme.
**stories from this theme are: The Keeping Quilt, Grandmas Records, The Talking Cloth and Dancing Rainbows.

3. Generating
Both Miss Rumphius and Aunt Phoebe in The Talking Cloth share beautiful things with other people. Why do you think they do this?

4- EvaluatingDo you think it’s important to keep your traditions going? Explain your answer using examples from the text and your own life.

5. Drawing ConclusionsWhat is the traditions that Miss Rumphius learns from her grandfather and passes down to little Alice?

6. Making Judgments
Do you think Miss Rumphius has had a happy life? Why or why not?

7. Compare and Contrast
How is little Alice like Curt in Dancing Rainbows?

8. Making Generalizations
Based on the selections you have read in this theme, (The Keeping Quilt, Grandmas Records, The Talking Cloth and Dancing Rainbows) how would you say most families feel about traditions? Why?

Dancing Rainbows

2011-11-28T06:44:00.000-05:00

Please choose 2 or more questions to answer.
Use complete sentences and correct capitalization and punctuation!!

Restate the question in your answer!

1. Knowledge
Why do you think Curt respects his grandpa and tried to be like him?

2. Analyzing
What does Andy mean by, “A Tewa never dances for himself. He dances for all things and people.”

3. Generating
Why does Andy start a dance group for young Tewas? Use details from the story.

4. Integrating
How does Curt “dance with all his heart”? What do you do with all your heart?

5. Integrating
How does Andy teach his family members about the past? What are some ways you learn about the past?

6. Connections
Compare this selection with Grandma’s Records. How are the traditions shared between each grandparent and grandchild alike and different?

The Talking Cloth

2011-11-14T09:41:00.000-05:00

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1. Knowledge
What things does Aunt Phoebe collect?

2. Analyzing
What does Aunt Phoebe most likely mean when she says that Amber has grown inside?

3. Generating
How does the Talking Cloth “talk”, and what does the cloth say?

4. IntegratingIf you had an adinkra cloth, what would if look like? What would you cloth say about you?

5. Evaluating
Whys does Amber enjoy visiting Aunt Phoebe? Would you like to visit Aunt Phoebe? Explain why or why not.

6. Connections
How is the Keeping Quilt also a kind of Talking Cloth?

Grandma's Records

2011-11-01T10:13:00.000-04:00

Please choose 2 or more questions to answer.
Use complete sentences and correct capitalization and punctuation!!
Restate the question in your answer!
1-Organizing
The boy and his grandmother listen to music on records and at a live concert. Compare these experiences. Use details from the story.

2-ApplyingWhat are some things that the boy learns from his grandmother? How do these things compare with things that you have learned from your family?

3-Generating
What is so special about Grandma’s favorite song? Which story details support your answer?

4-Generating
What does this author mean when he says “Grandma wrapped me in her world of music”?

5-Integrating
Why do you think the illustration on page 196 is so different from the others? Explain.

6-Connections
How are the traditions shared in this story and The Keeping Quilt alike and different?

The Keeping Quilt

2011-10-26T07:49:00.000-04:00

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Also use correct capitalization and punctuation!!

1- Organizing: Compare each daughter’s wedding to her mother’s. How is each wedding different and the same?

2- Analyzing: Why does Anna’s mother start the tradition of The Keeping Quilt? Why was that an important decision?

3- Generating: Why do you think Polacco has drawn only part of the illustrations in color?

4- Generating: What does The Keeping Quilt help the family keep? How else might a family keep something?

5- Evaluating: How do you think Patricia Polacco feels about her family? Give examples from the story.

6- Connections: How does this story help you understand traditions and what they mean to families?

7- Connections: What are some family traditions that your family celebrates? Compare the similarities and differences between your tradition and Patricia Polacco’s family tradition.

Poetry

2011-10-17T09:11:00.000-04:00

Please choose 2 or more questions to answer.
Use complete sentences by restating the question in your answer.
Use correct capitalization and punctuation!!
1- Organizing: “Joe” and “giraffe” both create pictures of an animal. Compare they way these 2 poems do this.

2- Analyzing: How do the poets of “April Rain Song” and “Cloud Dragons” help you see, hear and feel nature?

3- Integrating: The poets who wrote “Spaghetti! Spaghetti!” and “Books” reveal their feelings about these two topics. Summarized their feelings in your own words.

4- Evaluating: Which poem did you like the best? Why?
April Rain Song
Sneeze
Joe
Cloud Dragons
giraffe
Spaghetti! Spaghetti!
Andre
The Bat
If I Were an Ant
Books/los libros
Show Fish

Radio Rescue and Sybil Ludington

2011-10-04T10:57:00.000-04:00

Please choose 2 or more questions to answer.
Use complete sentences and correct capitalization and punctuation!!
Restate the question in your answer!

1-Compare and Contrast
How is the narrator’s adventure in Radio Rescue different than the other characters’ adventures in the other stories from this theme?

2-Noting DetailsHow do the main characters in this adventure selection feel after their adventures? Choose 2.
*Cliff Hanger
*The Ballad of Mulan
*The Lost and Found
*Radio Rescue
*Sybil Ludingtons Midnight Ride

3-Predicting OutcomesWhat kind of job do you think the boy in Radio Rescue would likely to have when he becomes an adult? Why?

4-Organizing
Sybil Ludington and the boy from Radio Rescue have reasons for helping other people. How are their reasons alike and different?

5-Analyzing
How do Axel and Mulan show they are brave? Give examples for each.

6-Integrating
Which two characters in this theme would be the most helpful in an emergency? Explain.

7-Evaluating
Which adventure in the theme would you most like to be part of? Why?

Lost and Found

2011-09-20T10:18:00.000-04:00

Please choose 2 or more questions to answer.
Use complete sentences and correct capitalization and punctuation!!

1. Organizing
How are Mona’s ideas similar to or different from those of each boy?

2. Analyzing
Does luck have anything to do with Wendell and Floyd’s troubles? Give reasons for your answer.

3. Generating
Why do you think the world of Lost and Found becomes stranger as the children go deeper into it?

4. Integrating
What might have happened if the children hadn’t gotten out of the Lost and Found when they did?

5. Evaluating
Would you have followed Mona into the Lost and Found? Why or why not?

6. Connections
Which adventure is more exciting to you, The Ballad of Mulan or Lost and Found? Why?

The Ballad of Mulan

2011-09-15T09:09:00.000-04:00

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1. Knowledge
Why are soldiers so surprised that Mulan is a woman? Give 2 reasons.

2. Analyzing
Why doesn’t Mulan tell her mother right away that there is news of a war?

3. Integrating
What might have happened if Mulan had asked to fight dresses as a female soldier?

4. Integrating
The story of Mulan has been retold for hundreds of years. Why do you think people retell it?

5. Evaluating
Do Mulan’s actions show that she has great courage? Support your opinion with story details.

6. Connections
Both Mulan and Axel in Cliff Hanger have tough jobs to do. How are the problems they face alike and different?

Cliff Hanger

2011-08-31T16:27:00.000-04:00

Answer in complete sentences.
Restate each question in your answer!

1. Applying What makes Cliff Hanger an adventure? Which story details support your answer?

2. Analyzing
Why does the author compare Axel to a ballet dancer?

3. Generating
Why do you think Axel isn’t scared to go after Grits? What would you have done?

4. Generating
Describe the way Axel and his father feel about each other. Use story detail in your answer.

5. Integrating
Explain what might have happened to Grits if Axel had started climbing after the storm had passed.

6. Connections
How is Cliff Hanger like an adventure you have had? How is it different?