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“The Whale’s Song“
Morris McCormick
EED 602
Tae Chang
3/22/2016
By the end of this lesson you will be able to:
1. Summarize the main ideas in “The Whale’s 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.
Review
Genre:
Realistic Fiction
Theme:
Kindness
Strategy:
Reciprocal Teaching
Question & Summarize
Personalize: Put it in your own words
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.
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
Strategy
Personalize
“Use my own
words!”
“That means I have
to think about it
before I raise my
hand.”
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.”
Under the Surface - Observations
 “One of the greatest animals in the
world is one we don’t 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 don’t like him.”
 “If we believe our dreams they will
come true.”
Let’s put it all together.
On the surface observations
+
Under the surface observations
___________________________________________
= The Full Meaning
What can we do to be kind to the
animals around us?
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What will you do?
Let’s see what one little
boy did to help!
Bibliography
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Photos
http://www.cde.ca.gov/re/pn/fd/documents/english-language-arts.pdf
http://netlab.caltech.edu/~weixl/footprint/life/camera/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/ocean-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.jpg
http://brandon.fuller.name/photos/2004/2004-02-16--Ocean.jpg
http://www.tropicalisland.de/CPT%20Cape%20Town%20Cape%20of%20Good%20Hope
%20Nature%20Reserve%20ocean%20wave%20b.jpg
 http://www.yoto98.noaa.gov/books/whales/blue1.gif
Bibliography
Photos
 http://www.cis.nctu.edu.tw/~whtsai/USA_West/Daily%20Webpages/03
%20%2007_27,%2028/03%20Killing%20whales%20in%20Sea%20World%
20(we%20also%20went%20to%20Mexico%20today%20for%20about
%20two%20hours).jpg
 http://www.sailhawaii.com/Images/whales/Cow-calfsurface.jpg
 http://www.wapers.com/placennature/underwater/underwater31280.jpg
 http://www.wwf.org.uk/bigswim/graphics/2whales.jpg
 http://www.cpo.com/Images/BLACKBOARD.JPG
 http://7art-screensavers.com/screenshots/wild-animals/deer.jpg
 http://majesticmoose.net/photography/albums/animals/betty_web.jpg
 http://lynx.uio.no/jon/gif/animals/moose2.jpg
 http://coronaborealis.tfhq.com/worthlesspictures/silhouette.jpg
Bibliography
Photos
 http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&lr=&q=boy+thinking&btnG=S
earch
 http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.impawards.com/19
93/posters/free_willy.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.impawards.com/1993/f
ree_willy.html&h=419&w=295&sz=41&tbnid=WnnMxisboAoJ:&tbnh=
120&tbnw=85&start=4&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dfree%2Bwilly%26hl%
3Den%26lr%3D%26sa%3DG
 http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.grady.uga.edu/serv
ice/osbornefest/images/bellhowell7.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.grady.ug
a.edu/service/osbornefest/Osborne.ClassicFilmFestival.asp&h=267&w=
425&sz=39&tbnid=Th-cqlPPCkJ:&tbnh=76&tbnw=120&start=10&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dmovie
%2Bcamera%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26sa%3DN
Bibliography
Photos
 http://bestcovers.tgnetwk.com/audio/michael_jackson_dangerous_front.j
pg
Bibliography
Movies
 http://www.whaleresearch.org/humpback_song.htm
 http://www.lacrosse.k12.wi.us/logan/art_theater/whales.mo
v
 http://www.whaleswim.com/video/whales_interviews.mpeg
 http://www.whaleswim.com/video/whales_underwater.mpe
g
 http://www.whaleswim.com/video/whale_surface.mpeg
Bibliography
Music
 http://www.wfu.edu/Studentorganizations/soul/repertoire_music_will_you_be_there.mp3
“The Whale’s Song“