Post on 02-Jan-2016
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Pre-Reading Journal: Think about the colors red and scarlet.Write down all of the things you associate with these colors. Include expressions, objects, titles, etc.
Did you think of………………
hearts?
blood?UGA?
stop lights?
your gra
ndma’s hat?
Kool Aid?
Mars? a kickball? cherries?candy? medicine? vitamins?tomatoes? graded papers?redheaded ladies
with bad tempers?
sunsets?
sunburn?
The scarlet ibis is a vivid scarlet bird (50 cm) with a curved bill.The sensitive bill is used to search for food, mainly small animals in the mud along the coast.
flying to their evening roost in the mangrove
The scarlet ibises live in large groups and fly in V-formation from their roosts to their feeding grounds. They contrast splendidly with the normal green color of the landscape, the brown of the mud flats and the blue of the sky.
The ibises feed in shallow waters along the coast, in the mud flats and in the lagoons. As is known from the zoo, they have to eat a lot of shrimp to retain their color.
They sleep in large groups in the mangrove trees along the coast, together with herons. In these trees they make their nests (a pile of sticks) and both parents take care of the young.
. The ibises breed in young mangroves and if not enough of these trees are found in Suriname, the birds fly away to breed on the coast of Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, French Guiana or Brazil. In Trinidad they are protected as the the national bird of that island, but they did not breed there for the last 30 years.
Each small square indicates the observation of at least 1 (group) of these birds, the medium ones at least 4 observations and the largest ones 10 or more.
DISABILITY CELEBRITY QUIZ
Many important people have had forms of learning disabilities. Try to match the description with the name of the important person in the list. Remember, if they can cope with their disability and succeed, others can too!
This composer was deaf when he composed his 9th Symphony.
Albert Einstein Harriet Tubman Magic Johnson Ludwig Beethoven George Patton Tom Cruise Franklin D. RooseveltWhoopi Goldberg James Earl Jones Mel Tillis
Ludwig Beethoven
Although paralyzed from polio, this man became governor of New York and was elected president four times.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Known as Darth Vader in Star Wars, this actor overcame stuttering in high school.
James Earl Jones
This Sister Act actress has dyslexia but has succeeded in a movie career.
Whoopi Goldberg
A mathematic
ian and physicist who did not s
peak
until the age of th
ree. Math and writi
ng were difficult f
or him
.
Albert Einstein
Struck by an overseer a
s a child, a
fractured
skull caused th
is abolitionist to
have narcolepsy
the rest o
f her li
fe. She re
scued hundreds of
slaves on the Underground Railro
ad.
Harriet T
ubman
This actor is unable to read even today because of dyslexia. He learns lines by listening to tapes.
DISABILITY CELEBRITY QUIZMany important people have had forms of learning disabilities. Try to match the description with the name of the important person in the list. Remember, if they can cope with their disability and succeed, others can too!
Magic Johnson George Patton Tom Cruise Mel Tillis
Tom Cruise
Famous for his athletic skill on the basketball court, this athlete has a reading disability.
Magic Johnson
This war hero could not read until the age of twelve, but he became a famous general in World War II.
George Patton
This country music entertainer developed
humorous routines about his stuttering.
Mel Tillis
The theme of “The Scarlet Ibis” reveals a truth about the effects of love and pride.
As we read “The Scarlet Ibis,” see if you can find passages in which the narrator or Doodle states the essence of the theme.
“There is within me (and with sadness I have watched it in others) a knot of cruelty borne by the stream of love, much as our blood sometimes bears the seed of our destruction, and sometimes I was mean to Doodle.”
Quotations from “The Scarlet Ibis”
“I did not know then that pride is a wonderful, terrible, thing, a seed that bears two vines, life and death.”
the narrator's brother "Doodle" is born physically handicapped and is expected to die, yet lives. The narrator is forced to take Doodle everywherein a go-cart. After much effort, he succeeds in making Doodle walk. Then, he is determined to teach Doodle more...
Now let’s read “The Scarlet Ibis,” in which…
and find out what the red bird has to do with it!