The Big Wave

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The Big Wave

• Jeff Cole
• Bishop Elementary

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Word Knowledge- Day 1 3
big
Giant
synonyms
weep, cry
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Word Knowledge-Day 1 3
Joyful
playful
Suffix ful Full of
Delightful Wonderful
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Word Knowledge-Day 1 3
gentle
danger
The /j/ sound Spelled ge or gi Name some others
village
ginger
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Word Knowledge-Day 1 3
sobbing
shopping
Final consonants That have been Doubled before
The endings -ed, -ing Examples
clapping
petting
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Day 1 3 Sentences

• The big wave came, but it went away.
• We must feel again how wonderful life is.

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Day 1 3 Sentences

• Heat a little rice soup and put some ginger in
  it.
• My friend was sobbing after he hurt his leg.

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Background Knowledge- Day 1

• Survival isnt always about living. After a
  trauma (a dangerous or scary thing) has happened,
  there is an emotional survival that has to take
  place. You have to survive in your own heart and
  head.

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Background Knowledge Day 1

• Bear
• I cannot bear doing all this homework.
• I cannot bear it when she makes fun of me.
• I cannot bear to see people cry.
• Japan

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Background Knowledge- Day 1

• Realistic Fiction
• What do we know about earthquakes, volcanoes, and
  tidal waves?
• Tital waves can be caused by an earthquake or
  really high winds
• Pearl S. Buck, the author, survived a Tital wave
  when she was a child.
• Clues, problems, wonderings

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• Day 1 Make Inferences (378-380)
• Words Japan, sadness, fear, survive, storm,
  tidal wave, faint, bear, cry, mattress, dead
• Why do you think Amy is smiling?
• I think Amy is smiling because she is happy.
• This is an inference because Amy does not say she
  is happy. You infer she is happy because you see
  that she is smiling.

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Comp. Check Day 1

• How did Jiyas family die?
• (A tidal wave killed them.)
• How does Jiya feel?
• (He feels very sad and scared.)
• How do you know that Kinos family wants to help
  Jiya?
• (They care about his feelings. They say that Jiya
  will live with them as part of their family.)

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Day 1 Make Inferences (378-380) Japan, sadness,
fear, survive, storm, tidal wave, faint, bear,
cry, mattress, dead

• Stop at So they waited for Jiya to wake.
• Why do you think _______ ?
• I think ______ because ________.
• Why do you think Amy is smiling?
• I think Amy is smiling because she is happy.

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Day 1 Make Inferences (378-380) Japan, sadness,
fear, survive, storm, tidal wave, faint, bear,
cry, mattress, dead

• Why do you think Jiya faints?
• I think Jiya ______ because he cannot bear losing
  his _____ and home.
• I think Jiys faints because he cannot bear losing
  his family and home.

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Day 1 Make Inferences (378-380) Japan, sadness,
fear, survive, storm, tidal wave, faint, bear,
cry, mattress, dead

• Why do you think Kino cries?
• I think Kino ______ because he understands how
  sad _____ is.
• I think Kino cries because he understands how sad
  Jiya is.

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Day 1 Make Inferences (378-380) Japan, sadness,
fear, survive, storm, tidal wave, faint, bear,
cry, mattress, dead

• Why do you think Setsu thinks Jiya is dead?
• I think it is because she sees Jiya lying on the
  ______ and _______ is crying.
• I think it is because she sees Jiya lying on the
  mattress and Kino is crying.

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Day 1 Prepositions- Workbook page 140 Language
Arts Handbook pages 316 and 321

• Prepositions usually indicate relationships of
  time or place. (see in class poster)
• The cereal is on the third shelf.
• They are stacked above the crackers.
• A preposition needs to have an object. An object
  is a noun or pronoun that follows a preposition.

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Writing

• Tall Tales
• Language Arts Handbook 158-163
• McBroom and the Big Wind is a very funny story
  that has characters such as flying rabbits. Id
  like to write a story like this.
• Brainstorm
• Characters
• Setting (Time Place)
• Problems

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Day 1 Writing

• Review Notes
• Exaggeration
• To exagerate is to write about something as
  greater than it is.
• Draft Exaggeration story with climax in mind. Pay
  attension to
• -not enough or too much exaggeration and humor in
  the story
• -

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Writing

• -plot missing beginning, middle, and/or end
• -Characters, setting, and events that although
  exaggerated do not make sense logically
• -interjections that are improperly used,
• Mercy!
• Oh Boy!
• Wow!
• Holey smokes!

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Day 2 Making Inferences- (380-382)- death,
remember, storm, calm, brave, survive, wonderful

• ____ says ______
• I think ______ means ________.
• Kinos father says that life is always stronger
  than death. What do you think he means?
• I think he means that _______ always want to ____
  even when people they love die.
• I think he means that people always want to live
  even when people they love die.

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Day 2 Making Inferences- death, remember, storm,
calm, brave, survive, wonderful

• Kinos father says that as long as Jiya is alive,
  his family will live with him. What do you think
  he means?
• I think he means that Jiyas ____ will live with
  him as long as Jiya ______ them.
• I think he means that Jiyas family will live
  with him as long as Jiya remembers them.

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Day 2 Reading/Writing Connection LArts Handbook
258-261 Figurative Language or Figurures of
Speech

• Simile- A simile compares two things that are not
  alike by using the words like or as. Of course,
  not every sentence that uses like or as is a
  simile.
• The rainbow spread across the sky like a colored
  snake.
• Which of these is a simile?
• Jed was built like a tree trunk.
• He was strong and tall.

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Day 2 Reading/Writing Connection LArts Handbook
258-261 Figurative Language or Figurures of
Speech

• Metaphor- A metaphor compares two things that are
  not alike, without using like or as.
• The lake was a mirror.
• The cloud was a cream puff in the blue sky.
• The rainbow was a colored snake spread across the
  sky.
• Which of these is a metaphor?
• Love is a powerful emotion
• When youre sick, love is the medicine.

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Day 2 Reading/Writing Connection LArts Handbook
258-261 Figurative Language or Figurures of
Speech

• Personification is a figure of speech in which an
  object is given human qualities by the writer.
• I looked at the narrow winding road that climbed
  across the mountains. ( Roads cant really
  climb, but people can.)
• Which of these is personification?
• Germs are sneaky.
• Germs are dangerous.

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Day 2 Reading/Writing Connection LArts Handbook
258-261 Figurative Language or Figurures of
Speech

• Exaggeration is a writers way of stretching the
  truth to add humor or interest to a statement of
  fact, though it is not really meant to be taken
  as fact.
• Facts
• The bag is packed too full.
• My soup is very salty.
• Exaggerated statements
• This bag is packed so full that there isnt room
  for a toothpick.
• My soup has more salt than the Pacific Ocean.