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Cocoa Ice By Diana Appelbaum Pictures by Holly
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Purpose inform persuade entertain
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• Cocoa Ice
• Focus Skills
• To determine likenesses and differences within
  and across texts
• To read and understand a historical fiction
  selection
• To read and understand poetry
• Genre
• Informational Fiction- tells a story that
  explains a topic using characters and events that
  are not real.
• Summary
• A girl in nineteenth-century Santo Domingo tells
  how her family harvests cocoa, and a girl in
  nineteenth-century Maine tells how her family
  cuts ice from a river. Both girls are delighted
  when their distant communities become neighbors
  by trading the goods each has to offer.
• Reading Strategy
• Create Mental Images
• Good readers create mental images (pictures in
  their minds) as they read. Using the details in
  a story to create pictures in their minds can
  help them understand what the setting and
  characters in a story are like. Using the
  details about the two settings in Cocoa Ice can
  help you picture these two very different places.

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Page 226

• Color the parts of the globe blue where the girl
  who is speaking on page 226 could live.
• Color the parts of the globe red where the island
  of Santa Domingo could be located.

Who do you think is speaking on page 227?
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How do you know a trading schooner will be
important in the story?
Based on the girls description and what you know
of the Caribbean, what is Santo Domingo like?
Page 228
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Are the green pods older than the red and yellow
ones?
older younger
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Do the cacao pods have ready- to-eat chocolate in
them? How do you know?
Page 230
How does the girls family get cocoa beans from a
cacao pod?
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How are cocoa beans different from chocolate?
Cocoa Beans
Chocolate
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Page 232
What other jobs besides drying cocoa beans do
family members have?
What is a conch?
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How is a conch used?
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Page 234
Sum up the most important events in the story so
far.
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Page 236
Why has the schooner come to Santo Domingo?
How does Jacob help the two girls trade things?
Page 238

Why does Papa trade cocoa beans for cloth and
ice? You must use the term economic
interdependence in your answer.
Page 240
Draw a picture of the new setting. Tell how it
has changed.
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Page 242
What do you think the girl might do with the
pillow she is making? Why do you think that?
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Page 244
People help the river freeze by tapping. Why?
Is it dangerous? How do you know?
What steps do the workers follow as they cut out
the blocks of ice?
Page 246
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Page 248
How does the work of the men who cut the ice help
both their own community and communities far away?
Their Community
Far Away Communities
Page 250
Why is Uncle Jacobs schooner the most important
ship?
Why did the girl give Uncle Jacob the balsam bag
she had made?
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• Think and Respond
• Why are the trading ships important to the people
  in this story?
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• Why is Uncle Jacob an important character in this
  story?
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• Why is one of the illustrations for this fiction
  story a map?
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• Would you prefer to live in Santo Domingo or in
  Maine? Why?
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• Use the graphic organizer to answer the following
  questions. Highlight the answers on the
  organizer.
• What two locations are talked about in this
  story?
• What happens to the cocoa beans before they dry
  in the sun?
• Why is it necessary to dry the cocoa beans in the
  sun?
• What are conchs?
• What do the island people trade to get what they
  need?
• Why is it important to be the first person to see
  a schooner come into the bay?
• What must Jacob have traded to get the seashell
  on the mantle shelf?
• Why do Papa and Uncle Jacob worry when it snows
  on the river?
• What is the first step in ice harvesting?
• Why do sailors cover the ice on schooners with
  sawdust and hay?
• How are the girl in Santo Domingo and the girl in
  Maine alike?
• What are three amazing things about Maine,
  according to the girl from Santo Domingo?
• What are three amazing things about Santo
  Domingo, according to the girl from Maine?