“Food from the ‘Hood: A Garden of Hope” Word Knowledge Vocabulary Background
Dec 17, 2015
“Food from the ‘Hood: A Garden of Hope”
Word KnowledgeVocabularyBackground
Word Knowledge Objectives
At the end of the lesson I will… Identify indicators of time and order Identify different spellings of the /er/
sound. Review long spellings of the long I
sound Recognize /ar/ spelled ar, and /er/
spelled ear or er
Line 1: These are indicators of time and order
now then before after
Line 2: Each word has a different spelling of the /er/ sound spelled ur,er,or, and ar
suburbs perfect neighborhood mustard
Line 3: These words contain different spellings of the long I sound spelled i_e, _ie, igh and _y
qualified
survive
right
supply
Line 4: These words from “Food from the ‘Hood: A Garden of Hope” contain /er/ sound spelled ear or
er and the /ar sound spelled ar
earned remembered
harvest
scholarship
Identify the word indicating order
Students watered the garden after school.
after
What is the antonym of after? before
Identify the plural nouns Families traveled from the city to the
suburbs.
families What did we do? Drop the y and add ies.
Change families to its singular form. Family
Identify the past tense verb
The community needed more than food to survive.
needed Changed “needed” into a present
tense. needs
Identify the /ar/ sound
A harvest is the gathering of crops when they are ripe.
harvest
Lesson 4: “Food from the Hood: A Garden of Hope” Selection Vocabulary
community restoring harvests organic vendors
communityThe talked about different ways to help rebuild their community.
Our community is building a recreation center.
community (noun): all the people that live in the same place
Carlos and 38 of Ms. Bird’s other students decided that planning was an important step towards restoring their neighborhood.
The state government is restoring the old, abandoned capital building downtown.
restoring (verb): bringing something back to what it was at first
restoring
harvests Everyone agreed that their
harvests should go to people unable to buy food.
Some gardeners sell their harvests at the farmer’s market.
harvests (noun): a crop that has been picked
organic Carlos heard that the prince love organic
gardening and he was visiting California.
We grow only organic fruits and vegetables because we don’t like to use chemicals on our food.
Organic (adjective): growing without chemicals
vendors Herbs and spices came from small
vendors rather than larger grocery store suppliers.
One of the vendors of the craft show was selling homemade birdhouses.
vendors (noun): someone who sells a product
Background Knowledge
Due to the riots in South Los Angeles in 1992, students at Crenshaw High School wanted to get to the roots of the problem.
They created an organic garden in the weed invested lot at the high school.
The high school kids are known as “Biz Kids”
Literary Elements:Standards: Literary Analysis 3.0 Features of Informational Articles “Food from the ‘Hood: A Garden of Hope” is
an example of an informational article. An informational article may do one or
more of the following: 1. describe a person, place, thing, idea or
event. 2. compare and contrast two or more
people, places, things, ideas or events. 3. tell how to do something
Literary Elements: At the end of this lesson I will be able to
analyze informational articles. Guided: With you partner, think pair share. What caused the students to begin a
garden? How did they begin? Besides the students, who else helped? How did their business grow? Was the business successful? Why or why
not?
Literary Elements Independent: Look through the news article and identify
the features of informational article. REMEMBER: An informational article may do one or
more of the following: 1. describe a person, place, thing, idea or
event. 2. compare and contrast two or more
people, places, things, ideas or events. 3. tell how to do something