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The Whales Song

• Morris McCormick
• EED 602
• Tae Chang
• 7/7/2021

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By the end of this lesson you will be able to
1. Summarize the main ideas in The Whales
Song.2. Discover ways people and animals can be
kind to each other.

• 2.0 Reading Comprehension
• 2.5 Restate facts and details in the text to
  clarify and organize ideas.
• 2.6 Recognize cause-and-effect relationships in a
  text.
• 1.0 Listening and Speaking Strategies
• 1.2 Ask for clarification and explanation of
  stories and ideas.
• 1.3 Paraphrase information that has been shared
  orally by others.

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Review

• Genre Realistic Fiction
• Theme Kindness
• Strategy Reciprocal Teaching Question
  Summarize
• Personalize Put it in your own words

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Realistic Fiction

• Realistic fiction is simply stated as real
  people with real problems solved in a realistic
  manner in a real world setting. Realistic stories
  can and often do have humor, a sense of
  adventure, perhaps even danger.

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Kindness

• Definition 
• n  a kind act
• n  tendency to be kind and forgiving
• n  the quality of being warm-hearted and
  considerate and humane and sympathetic

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Strategy
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Personalize

• Use my own words!
• That means I have to think about it before I
  raise my hand.

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On the Surface - Observations

• The Grandmother told Lilly exciting Stories.
• The Grandmother was nice to the whales.
• The Grandfather thought he was being nice by
  protecting Lilly.
• Lilly learned to be nice to whales.
• The whales were nice to everyone.

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Under the Surface - Observations

• One of the greatest animals in the world is one
  we dont often see
• Lilly believes her grandmother is friends with
  the whales.
• Whales are like little girls, they love pretty
  things.
• Grandpa is jealous because the whales dont like
  him.
• If we believe our dreams they will come true.

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Lets put it all together.

• On the surface observations
• Under the surface observations
• ___________________________________________

The Full Meaning
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What can we do to be kind to the animals around
us?
Stop Polluting
Love Them Don't Kill Them!
Care For Them
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What will you do?
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Lets see what one little boy did to help!
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Bibliography Photos

• http//www.cde.ca.gov/re/pn/fd/documents/english-l
  anguage-arts.pdf
• http//netlab.caltech.edu/weixl/footprint/life/ca
  mera/dimage.jpg
• http//space.jpl.nasa.gov/art/pix/encel640.jpg
• http//www.saskschools.ca/gregory/arctic/Awhales.
  html
• http//pantransit.reptiles.org/images/1996-07-28/o
  cean-shore.jpg
• http//www.burningart.com/mizpoon/ocean.jpg
• http//www.wvi.com/rberry/personal/rb-ocean.jpg
• http//pegasus.me.jhu.edu/lpei/images/pei/ocean.j
  pg
• http//brandon.fuller.name/photos/2004/2004-02-16-
  -Ocean.jpg
• http//www.tropical-island.de/CPT20Cape20Town20
  Cape20of20Good20Hope20Nature20Reserve20ocean
  20wave20b.jpg
• http//www.yoto98.noaa.gov/books/whales/blue1.gif

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Bibliography Photos

• http//www.cis.nctu.edu.tw/whtsai/USA_West/Daily
  20Webpages/0320-2007_27,2028/0320Killing20wha
  les20in20Sea20World20(we20also20went20to20
  Mexico20today20for20about20two20hours).jpg
• http//www.sailhawaii.com/Images/whales/Cow-calfsu
  rface.jpg
• http//www.wapers.com/placennature/underwater/unde
  rwater31280.jpg
• http//www.wwf.org.uk/bigswim/graphics/2whales.jpg
  
• http//www.cpo.com/Images/BLACKBOARD.JPG
• http//7art-screensavers.com/screenshots/wild-anim
  als/deer.jpg
• http//majesticmoose.net/photography/albums/animal
  s/betty_web.jpg
• http//lynx.uio.no/jon/gif/animals/moose2.jpg
• http//coronaborealis.tfhq.com/worthlesspictures/s
  ilhouette.jpg

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Bibliography Photos

• http//images.google.com/images?hlenlrqboyth
  inkingbtnGSearch
• http//images.google.com/imgres?imgurlhttp//www.
  impawards.com/1993/posters/free_willy.jpgimgrefur
  lhttp//www.impawards.com/1993/free_willy.htmlh
  419w295sz41tbnidWnnMxisboAoJtbnh120tbnw
  85start4prev/images3Fq3Dfree2Bwilly26hl3D
  en26lr3D26sa3DG
• http//images.google.com/imgres?imgurlhttp//www.
  grady.uga.edu/service/osbornefest/images/bellhowel
  l7.jpgimgrefurlhttp//www.grady.uga.edu/service/
  osbornefest/Osborne.ClassicFilmFestival.asph267
  w425sz39tbnidTh-cql-PPCkJtbnh76tbnw120s
  tart10prev/images3Fq3Dmovie2Bcamera26hl3De
  n26lr3D26sa3DN

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Bibliography Photos

• http//bestcovers.tgnetwk.com/audio/michael_jackso
  n_dangerous_front.jpg

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Bibliography Movies

• http//www.whaleresearch.org/humpback_song.htm
• http//www.lacrosse.k12.wi.us/logan/art_theater/wh
  ales.mov
• http//www.whaleswim.com/video/whales_interviews.m
  peg
• http//www.whaleswim.com/video/whales_underwater.m
  peg
• http//www.whaleswim.com/video/whale_surface.mpeg

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Bibliography Music

• http//www.wfu.edu/Student-organizations/soul/repe
  rtoire_music_will_you_be_there.mp3

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The Whales Song