Johnny Appleseed

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Johnny Appleseed
Vocabulary
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Author Pleasant deSpain

• Pleasant DeSpain has written over 100 stories!
• He wrote his first story when he was eight years
  old.
• He loves to tell stories, too.
• He use to visits schools and act out his stories.
  
• That is why he wrote this story as a play.
• He likes to encourage kids to write their own
  stories.

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Illustrator Victoria Raymond

• Victoria Raymond uses clay to make her
  illustrations.
• She twists, pulls, rolls, and pounds the clay to
  give it the shape she wants.
• She uses the bark or leaves from trees to make
  impressions, or marks, in the clay.

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About the Book
The author is Pleasant deSpain.
The illustrator is Victoria Raymond.
author
The ____________ writes the stories.
The ___________ draws the pictures.
illustrator
This play tells the legend of John Chapman, an
American pioneer who planted many apple trees
across the early frontier so that frontier
families would have apples to eat.
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- Play
Genre
A play is a story that can be acted out.
Look for Scenes with different
settings.
Words that tell the character actions.
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• Vocabulary for
• Johnny Appleseed
• orchards
• nearby
• survive
• frontier
• tame
• wild

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• Put your reading book on your desk.
• Open your book to the glossary.
• When you see the word, find it in your glossary.

Glossary Time
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frontier
- the part of the country at the edge of a
settled area

• The pioneers traveled over steep mountains to
  settle in the new frontier.

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nearby
-not far away
Ben likes to have his cat nearby when he sleeps.
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orchards

• - areas of land where fruit trees are grown

The apple trees in this orchard are in full bloom.
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survive

• - stay alive

Its hard to believe people can survive in the
smog of a large city.
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tame

• - to bring under control or make more gentle

Max tried to tame the Wildthings.
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wild
- in a natural state not controlled by humans
Do not pet wild animals, even if they are
cute.
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Read and Remember

• frontier - the part of the country at the edge of
  a settled area
• nearby - not far away
• orchards - areas of land where fruit trees are
  grown
• survive - stay alive
• tame - to bring under control or make more gentle
  
• wild - in a natural state not controlled by
  humans

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Vocabulary Review

1. Say the words.
2. Read the sentence.
3. Fill in the blank.

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Since we know so little about the ocean it is
called a ______ .

• frontier
• orchards
• tame

• nearby
• survive
• wild

Bat Fish
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frontier survive
orchards wild
nearby tame
The _______ horses were a beautiful sight!
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Its very hard to _______ in a desert.
orchards tame wild
frontier nearby survive
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frontier orchards wild
nearby survive tame
Believe it or not, this is a ______ squirrel.
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John Chapman planted many apple ________.

• frontier
• tame
• orchards
• wild
• nearby
• survive

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• orchards
• survive
• frontier

wild nearby tame
Haileys crayons are______.
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Review Check-up

• 1. frontier __
• 2. nearby __
• 3. orchards __
• 4. survive __
• 5. tame __
• 6. wild __

B

1. - stay alive
2. - the part of the country at the edge of a
   settled area
3. - to bring under control or make more gentle
4. - not far away
5. - in a natural state not controlled by humans
6. - areas of land where fruit trees are grown

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F
A
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Tweak by Anne Miller
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Johnny Appleseed

• Building Background
• Test Tutor
• Internet Search on Johnny Appleseed
• Johnny Appleseed-Matching exercise 1
• Johnny Appleseed Matching exercise 2
• Johnny Appleseed - Matching exercise 3
• Finding ear, eer and er words
• Who is Johnny Appleseed? -Quiz

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• EnchantedLearning.com - Johnny Appleseed
• Sample Web Page of Student Pictures and
  Paragraphshttp//www.hipark.austin.isd.tenet.edu/
  projects/second/ja/ja.html 
• Online Crossword Puzzlehttp//www.marshall-es.mar
  shall.k12.tn.us/jobe/Appleseed.html 
• Find the Hidden Picturehttp//www.niehs.nih.gov/k
  ids/apples.htm 
• Paper Bag Puppethttp//home.att.net/elteach/imag
  es/appleseed/JApuppet.gif 
• The Little Red House (the star in an
  apple)http//home.att.net/elteach/redhouse.htm 
• From Seed to Apple Flapbookflapbook 
  http//home.att.net/elteach/images/appleseed/flap
  book.jpg 
• flaps  http//home.att.net/elteach/images/apples
  eed/flaps.gif 
• Apple Activitieshttp//familycrafts.about.com/od/
  applecrafts/ 

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• From Seed to Apple Flapbook flapbook
  http//home.att.net/elteach/images/appleseed/flap
  book.jpg 
• flaps  http//home.att.net/elteach/images/apples
  eed/flaps.gif 
• Apple Activitieshttp//familycrafts.about.com/od/
  applecrafts/ 
• Gameshttp//www.applejuice.org/fungames.html 
• Johnny Appleseed Quizhttp//www.sdmf.k12.wi.us/bf
  /Gebauer/apples/question1.htm 
• Real John Chapman Quiz http//www.quia.com/quiz/1
  13292.html?AP_rand451729950
• Apple Webquesthttp//its.guilford.k12.nc.us/webqu
  ests/Apples/apples.htm 
• Johnny Appleseed Scavenger Hunthttp//www.owen.k1
  2.ky.us/trt/scavengers/johnnyappleseed.doc  

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The End