The Crowded House

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The Crowded House

• By Eva Jacob
• Illustrated by Holly Cooper

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Setting PurposeListen to Understand

• Some poems are written to express opinions and
  feelings.
• Notice the differences between the open country
  and a crowded city.

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Self-Questioning Strategy

• Self-Questioning is silently asking yourself
  questions about what you hear that will help you
  understand what the poems are about.

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Point of View

• 1st person Uses the word I or WE.
• 2nd person Uses the words HE, SHE, or THEY.
• 3rd person omniscient All knowing and all
  seeing the author can tell you what each
  character knows, feels, thinks, and says.

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Emotions

• Emotions can be expressed by a characters
  actions and words.
• An author can help readers see a characters
  emotions through what a character says or does.

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Read AloudRudolph Is Tired of the City

• These buildings are too close to me.
• Id like to PUSH away.
• Id like to live in the country.
• And spread my arms all day.
• Id like to spread my breath out, too-
• As farmers sons and daughters do.
• Id tend the cows and chickens.
• Id do the other chores.
• Then, all the hours left Id go
• A-SPREADING out-of-doors.

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Read AloudChildhood Country

• When I was a child in the city
• Tall buildings made everything dark
• And I longed to live on a meadow
• As sunny as Central Park.
• Now I live in the country
• Where flowers and trees abound.
• And squirrels, chipmunks, and foxes
• Scurry across the ground.
• And hidden by leaves in the treetops
• An occasional glimmer of wing
• Is followed by magical music
• As the warblers begin to sing.

The lawns are aglow with roses, They sky is the
bluest of blue, And the suns rays enter my
window As if to say, How do you do. And yet,
though I love the country And find every part so
pretty, I long for the yard of my childhood In
the heart of New York City.
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Poetry

• Stanzas
• Repetition
• Does NOT follow grammar rules
• Personification
• Onomatopoeia
• End rhyme

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Listening Comprehension

• Who is the speaker in the first poem?
• How do you know? (point of view)
• Who is the speaker in the second poem?
• How do you know? (point of view)
• What does the speaker in each poem long for?
  WHY? (characters emotions)

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Authors Purpose

• Inform Give information about a topic.
• Persuade Get readers to do something or believe
  something.
• Entertain Enjoyable, makes you laugh.
• Instructions To help you make or do something.

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Text Structure and Format

• Reading Plays is different from reading other
  types of material.
• A short play is divided into parts called scenes.
• At the beginning of each scene, the author
  describes the setting and tells what the
  characters are doing.
• Each characters name is written in capital
  letters followed by a colon before the words he
  or she speaks.
• Instructions tell characters what to do are
  called stage directions. They are printed in
  italics.

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Vocabulary

• wits The ability to think good sense.
• wailing To cry.
• faring To get along to manage.
• advice Suggestions or directions on what to do.
• dreadful Awful very bad.
• farewell Words spoken when leaving a good-bye.

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Spelling Words

• faster wisest bigger
• slowest cooler hottest
• soonest shorter kindest
• louder slimmer wildest
• tamer whitest strangest
• lovable myself new
• no off

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Build Background

• Places I feel
• crowded

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Develop Concepts

• If you need advice, who would you ask?
• Do you always do what you are told by older
  family members or guardians?
• Have you ever had to do something you didnt like
  because you knew it was good for you?
• What important lessons have you learned from wise
  people in your life?

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Discuss Assign Parts

• Father (John the Carpenter)
• Mother
• Molly
• Joan
• Meg
• Mary Ann
• Martin
• Willy
• Tom
• Joseph
• Granny
• Bartholomew
• Goat
• 6 Chickens
• Donkey

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Genre Play

• A play is a story that can be performed for an
  audience.
• In this selection, look for
• Directions for how it should be performed on a
  stage.
• Action divided into scenes.

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Drawing Conclusions

• Using the text to support your answer,
• what is the setting?

Important Details
How many children do John and his wife have? What
parts of the text tell you this?
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Problem/Solution or Conflict/Resolution

• -Conflict is a problem in a story
• -Resolution is fixing a problem . . . .
• Remember there is more than one way to fix a
  problem!
• -For example
• In The Talent Show, Beany was going to perform
  in the talent show with Carol Ann, but she did
  not want to. This is a conflict or problem.
• Beany decided to perform by herself. This is
  resolution because it fixes the problem.

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Problem/Solution or Conflict/Resolution

• What problem does the family have?
• How do the characters words and actions show the
  problem?
• How does the family feel when the animals leave
  the house?

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Compare/Contrast

• Objective To understand what comparing and
  contrasting are and how to tie information
  together.
• Access Prior Knowledge
• - Compare Beany and Jose.
• Comparing tells how two or more things are alike
• Beany and Jose both have to solve a problem.
• - Contrast Beany and Jose.
• Contrasting tells how two or more things are
  different
• Beany likes cartwheels, but Jose likes
  baseball.

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• CAUSE EFFECT
• 1. Bartholomew stops at
• Johns house
• Mother does NOT 2.
• want to hurt
• Bartholomews feelings
• 3. 4.