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Chester Cricket’s Pigeon Ride
Background Knowledge & Vocabulary
sensation • feelers • turbulent
miniature • hindrance • swooping
gust • panic • precious • excerpt
Excerpt
• There is an excerpt from the story Chester
Cricket’s Pigeon Ride in your anthology.
• An excerpt is a section taken from a longer
work.
• Good news - excerpts give you the idea of a
story in fewer pages.
• Bad news - it leaves out important
information.
Some Cricket Facts
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Predators
• Spiders, some wasps, ground beetles, birds, small
rodents and lizards are cricket predators.
Interesting Behaviors
• To attract mates, males produce a sound made by
rubbing their forewings against each other. The
resulting chirping sound is picked up by the
female's ears on her front legs. The chirp sounds
are different for each species so that individuals
can find their own species.
feelers
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The Old Meadow
• Think about
something you really
miss (don’t tell anyone
what it is).
• We often get sad when
we think of things we
miss.
• Chester Cricket gets
very sad in the story
Chester Cricket’s
Pigeon Ride.
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New York City
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• Chester lives in
Times Square?
• He really, really
missed the Old
Meadow where he
grew up, especially
seeing stars at
night.
Remedy for Homesickness
• Chester Cricket goes in search
when he meets a pigeon name
LuLu.
• Lulu helps Chester to feel less
homesick.
• What do you predict she does?
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I do, we do, you do…
Vocabulary
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gust
a sudden, violent rush of wind
What is the strongest wind gust ever
recorded?
Mount Washington, N.H., holds the record for the highest wind gust ever
recorded at 231 mph on April 12, 1934.
precious
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highly valued or much loved
(from Latin pretiosus "costly, valuable”)
What is precious to you?
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panic
a sudden feeling of fear or anxiety
Panic shuts down people’s thinking.
Sometimes this is helpful?
How can it be dangerous?
Defining Moments
Use “dry erase” sheets to write your
own definitions for the following
words….
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clinging
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clinging
Hanging on to something
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swooping
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swooping
Coming down with a rush
miniature
min • ee • uh • cher
from Italian “miniatura,” in which the “i” is
meant to be pronounced
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miniature
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miniature
A smaller than usual version of
something
turbulent
tur bu lent
turbulent
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turbulent
full of violent motion and agitation
sensation
sen sa
shun
sensation
• The patient has very little sensation left in
the right leg.
• The music created the sensation of flying.
• The chili gave him a burning sensation in
his thorat.
sensation
a vague feeling or perception caused
the sense organs
hindrance
hin drance
hindrance
• The lack of imagination is a hindrance to
good creative writing.
• Poverty should not be a hindrance to a good
education.
• The cliff was a hindrance in his journey to
the top of the mountain.
hindrance
something that prevents or makes it
difficult