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Open Court 4TH GRADEUnit 2 Dollars and Sense
Lesson 5 Food From the Hood A Garden of Hope
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VOCABULARY

• community

harvest
vendor
restoring
organic
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• community
•  use context clues 

all the people who live in the same place
They talked about different ways they could
rebuild their community.
We all want to give something back to the
community, and this was the way to do it, Carlos
remembered.
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• restoring
•  use context clues 

bringing something back to what it was like at
first
Carlos and 38 of Ms. Birds other students
decided that planting was an important step
towards restoring their neighborhood.
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• harvest
•  use context clues 

a crop that has been picked
Everyone agreed that their harvests should to
people unable to buy food.
Food in the Hood harvested its first crop two
months after forming a business.
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• organic
•  use context clues 

grown without chemicals
Carlos heard that the prince loved organic
gardening.
Whole Foods sells organic foods.
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• vendor
•  use context clues 

someone who sells a product
And herbs and spices came from small vendors
rather than larger grocery store suppliers.
There are many vendors selling Barak Obama shirts
in Washington, DC.
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• Review of vocabulary

all the people who live in the same place
community
bringing something back to what it was like at
first
restoring
harvest
a crop that has been picked
organic
grown without chemicals
vendor
someone who sells a product
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• Word Knowledge

These words are indicators of time and order
now
after
before
then
There are two pairs of antonyms
now/then
before/after
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• Word Knowledge

These words have different spellings of the /er/
sound
suburbs
(ur)
(ar)
mustard
perfect
neighborhood
(or)
(er)
survive, number, color, polar
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• Word Knowledge

These words contain different spellings of the
Long i sound
(i_e)
survive
qualified
(ie)
(y)
supply
right
(igh)
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• Word Knowledge

These words from Food from the Hood A Garden
of Hope contain the /er/ sound spelled ear or er
and the /ar/ sound spelled ar.
scholarship
harvest
(ar)
(ar)
remembered
earned
(er)
(ear)
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• Word Knowledge

In the sentence below, identify the word
indicating order.
Students watered the garden after school.
Students watered the garden before school.
after
before
What is the antonym of after?
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• Word Knowledge

In the sentence below, identify the plural nouns.
Families traveled from the city to the suburbs.
Families
suburbs
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• Word Knowledge

In the sentence below, find the past tense verb.
The community needed more than food to survive.
needed
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• Word Knowledge

In the sentence below, change the past tense verb
to the present tense.
The community needed more than food to survive.
The community needs more than food to survive.
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• Word Knowledge

In the sentence below, identify the word that
contains the /ar/ sound. How is it spelled?
(ar)
A harvest is the gathering of crops when they are
ripe.
harvest
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• Literary Elements

Food from the Hood A Garden of Hope is an
example of an informational article. It is
nonfiction, gives facts and other information
about a topic, and the purpose is to inform.
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• Literary Elements

An informational article may do one or more of
the following

1. describe nouns,
2. compare contrast nouns, or
3. tell how to do something.

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• Literary Elements

Copy and answer the following questions as you
read the selection.

1. What caused the students to begin gardening?
2. How did the business start?
3. Besides the students, who else helped?
4. How did their business grow?
5. Was the business successful?

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• Literary Elements

Open your student anthology to Food from the
Hood A Garden of Hope on page 156.