TH
4
Open Court
GRADE
Unit 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 »
Carlos and 38 of Ms.
Bird’s other students
decided that planting
was an important step
towards restoring
their neighborhood.
bringing something
back to what it
was like at first
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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
grown without chemicals
« use context clues »
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
community all the people who live in the
same place
restoring bringing something back to
what it was like at first
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
before/after
now/then
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Word Knowledge
These words have different
spellings of the /er/ sound:
suburbs (ur)
mustard (ar)
neighborhood (or) perfect (er)
survive, number, color, polar
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Word Knowledge
These words contain different
spellings of the Long i sound:
qualified (ie)
survive
right (igh)
supply
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(i_e)
(y)
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 (ar) harvest (ar)
remembered (er) earned (ear)
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Word Knowledge
In the sentence below, identify
the word indicating order.
Students watered the
Students watered the
garden after
school.
before
garden before school.
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.
suburbs
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Word Knowledge
In the sentence below,
find the past tense verb.
The community needed more
than food to survive.
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Word Knowledge
In the sentence below, change
the past tense verb to the
present tense.
The community needs
neededmore
morethan
than food
food
to survive.
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
harvest is the gathering of
crops when they are ripe.
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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.
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