1. “Food from the ‘Hood: A Garden of Hope”
Word Knowledge
Vocabulary
Background

2. 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

3. Line 1: These are indicators of time and order
now
then
before
after

4. Line 2: Each word has a different spelling of the /er/ sound spelled ur,er,or, and ar
suburbs
perfect
neighborhood
mustard

5. Line 3: These words contain different spellings of the long I sound spelled i_e, _ie, igh and _y
qualified
survive
right
supply

6. earned remembered harvest scholarship
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

7. Identify the word indicating order
Students watered the garden after school.
after
What is the antonym of after?
before

8. 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

9. Identify the past tense verb
The community needed more than food to survive.
needed
Changed “needed” into a present tense.
needs

10. Identify the /ar/ sound
A harvest is the gathering of crops when they are ripe.
harvest

11. Lesson 4: “Food from the Hood: A Garden of Hope” Selection Vocabulary
community
restoring
harvests
organic
vendors

12. community The 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

13. restoring
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

14. 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

15. 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

16. 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

17. 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”

18. 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

19. 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?

20. 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