Apples

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Apples

• By Mrs. Sasseville

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FOLKTALES

• Folktakes are
• a part of the oral tradition of every culture.
• have been told and retold to enchant, involve and
  provoke listeners
• evolved according to both the culture
• told in and the age and number of listeners.
• have been told in order to be retold again and
  again ,
• often structrured in a way that makes them easy
  to remember
• retold in stories and fingerplays.
• (Ideas used from 15 Easy Folktale Fingerplays
  with Cross-Curricular Activities byBill Gordh,
  Scholastic)

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What makes Johnny Appleseed a Folktale?

• Friendship
• Courage
• Responsibility

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Who was Johnny Appleseed?

• John Chapman
• Leominster, Massachusetts
• Apple Trees
• Orchards
• Animals
• Native Americans

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Activities

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  Activities
• Draw Picture of
  Favorite Part
• Map of States Johnny Appleseed
  traveled
• Seasons of an Apple
  Tree
• Apple
  Print
• Stained Glass
  Apples
• Apple Poems
• Graphic
  Organizer
• Friendship
  Tree
• Apple Math
  BookRetellings
• Apple Recipes
• Apple Songs

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What is a Describing Word?

• It answers the question
• What kind of place?
• What kind of person?
• What kind of thing?
• A red school
• A huge building
• A big, brown, mushroom
• tiny mouse

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APPLES

• What do you know about apples?
• What do you want to learn about apples?
• What will you learn about apples?

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Writing a Lantern Using Describing Words

• Lantern Poem
• Line 1--1syllable
• Line 2--2 syllables
• Line 3--3 syllables
• Line 4--4 syllables
• Line 5--1 syllable

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Describing Apples

• red
• green
• red and green
• yellow
• big
• juicy
• crunch
• bright red
• yummy