1. Power 30

2. Lesson 1- Be the Best Supplies
Standard: We are going to look at the poem closely in two different types of media including pictures and words to see if it changes the meaning.
Strategy: Today we are going to be thinking about thinking about our thinking while we are reading together. Ask yourself “what do I already know?” You will use your prior knowledge and new information to help you understand what we are reading, and look for the theme of today’s reading.

3. Vocabulary Rill Quantitatively Muskie Liveliest Lesser A small stream
Relating to how many
Type of fish
Full of life and energy
Not as great or important as the rest

4. Procedures: Follow along silently while I read the poem aloud
Underline the rhyming words in the poem & share
What’s a stanza?
We are going to read the poem again, but this time you are looking for what the poem means.
Now we are going to go through the poem with pictures, we are all going to read it aloud at the same time.

5. Poem by Douglas Malloch
Be The Best
Poem by Douglas Malloch

6. If you can’t be a pine on the top of the hill,

7. Be a scrub in the valley---but be

8. The best little scrub by the side of the rill;

9. Be a bush, if you can’t be a tree.

10. If you can’t be a bush, be a bit of the grass

11. And some highway happier make;

12. If you can’t be a muskie,

13. then just be a bass-

14. But the liveliest bass in the lake!!!

15. We can’t all be captains,

16. we’ve got to be crew,

17. There’s something for all of us here.

18. There’s big work to do

19. and there’s lesser to do.

20. And the task we must do is the near.

21. If you can’t be a highway,

22. Then just be a trail,

23. If you can’t be the sun,

24. be a star;

25. It isn’t by size that you win or you fail-

26. Be the best of whatever you are!!!

27. Did the meaning of the poem change at all after seeing the pictures?
Below the poem in your notebook- Write 2 sentences about your thoughts on the poem
Share what we wrote
Fill out our matrix (Theme- analyze an idea &
Author’s craft- multimedia)