Nail Soup

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Nail Soup
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Tier 1

• Story and Objectives

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Nail Soup    A soldier going home after serving
in the army was caught by nightfall far from his
village.  A faint light flickered in a hut by the
roadside, and the soldier went to the door and
knocked.  An old woman opened it for him and eyed
him suspiciously.   "I'm a penniless soldier,
granny.  Would you give me something to eat and
let me spend the night here?"   "I will,
soldier, but I can't give you food for there is
none in my humble hut," said the mean old
woman.   "Don't worry, granny, for I hope you'll
let me cook my favorite nail soup for myself,"
said the soldier, whose nose detected the savory
smell of the food recently eaten by the old
woman.   "Give me a pot, an iron nail, and some
water, granny, please," said the soldier,
throwing some wood on the fire.  
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The old woman bustled about the kitchen, eager
to see what this cheapest of all soups would be
like.  The soldier dropped the nail into the pot,
poured some water over it, and put it on the
fire.  When the water was hot, he asked for some
salt.  The old woman handed it to him and looked
in the pot as he dropped salt into it.  As the
water started boiling, the soldier asked for some
flour, and the old woman gave it to him.  He made
a thick soup, then asked for an egg.  The woman
gave him that, too, eager to see the nail soupl. 
The soldier broke the egg into the pot and mixed
it with flour and water.  Now he needed some
cooking fat, and got it.  He kept stirring the
hot, rich soup on the stove, the old woman never
moving from him and when he judged it ready to
be eaten, he removed it from the fire, took the
iron nail out of the fat, and ate his favorite
nail soup under the angry eyes of the miserly old
woman.
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Objectives - Students will Listen to models
of fluent, expressive reading. Identify and
ask questions about parts of the story
Create "super sentences" with select vocabulary
from the assigned story. Make inferences
about character motivation. Write a response
to a question about the story. Agree or
disagree respectfully with classmates'
ideas.   Gifted FrameworkCritical/Creative
Thinking Technology Habits of MindQuestioning
and Posing Problems Listening with Empathy and
Understanding Communicating with Precision
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Tier 2

• Rigor
• Discussion

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• Choose 2 questions to answer on the next slide.
• 1, Describe the soldier in great detail.
  Support your answer with evidence from the story.
• 2. Explain 3 or more reasons why the soldier
  doesnt offer the old woman any soup?
• 3, Make a couple of inferences about what might
  happen after the soldier has eaten the soup under
  the eyes of the old woman.
• You may begin completing this tier by clicking on
  this slide to open the text box and begin
  answering 2 of the above questions here and on
  the next slide.

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Continue answering Tier 2 on this slide.
Remember to use evidence from the story to
support your answers,
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Tier 3

• More Questions

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Find a partner. Share your answers to the
questions in Tier 2 with your partner, On this
slide, tell what you agree and disagree with your
partners answers.
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Tier 4

• Relavance/Connectivity

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Choose 1 activity to complete. Be creative.
Include either copied and pasted pictures or your
own drawings. Task 1 Finish this story starter
with 5-6 sentences using strong descriptive
detail. While watching the soldier eat the
mysterious nail soup, the miserly old woman
decided (Illustrate your story) Be creative!
Task 2  Find another version of Nail Soup
such as Stone Soup. Compare and contrast two
characters. How are they alike and different?
How does the story relate to the world today? Be
creativecomic strip, poster, graphic organizer.
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Your work for tier 4 can go here.