Chester Cricket’s Pigeon RideBackground Knowledge & Vocabulary
sensation • feelers • turbulent
miniature • hindrance • swooping
gust • panic • precious • excerpt
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Excerpt
• There is an excerpt from the story Chester Cricket’s Pigeon Ride in your anthology.
• An excerpt is a section taken from a longer work.
• Good news - excerpts give you the idea of a story in fewer pages.
• Bad news - it leaves out important information.
Some Cricket Facts
Predators• Spiders, some wasps, ground beetles, birds, small
rodents and lizards are cricket predators.Interesting Behaviors• To attract mates, males produce a sound made by
rubbing their forewings against each other. The resulting chirping sound is picked up by the female's ears on her front legs. The chirp sounds are different for each species so that individuals can find their own species.
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feelers
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The Old Meadow• Think about
something you really miss (don’t tell anyone what it is).
• We often get sad when we think of things we miss.
• Chester Cricket gets very sad in the story Chester Cricket’s Pigeon Ride.
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New York City
• Chester lives in Times Square?
• He really, really missed the Old Meadow where he grew up, especially seeing stars at night.
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Remedy for Homesickness
• Chester Cricket goes in search when he meets a pigeon name LuLu.
• Lulu helps Chester to feel less homesick.
• What do you predict she does?
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I do, we do, you do…
Vocabulary
gust
a sudden, violent rush of wind
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What is the strongest wind gust ever recorded?
Mount Washington, N.H., holds the record for the highest wind gust ever
recorded at 231 mph on April 12, 1934.
precious
highly valued or much loved(from Latin pretiosus "costly, valuable”)
What is precious to you?
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panic
Panic shuts down people’s thinking. Sometimes this is helpful?How can it be dangerous?
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a sudden feeling of fear or anxiety
Defining Moments
Use “dry erase” sheets to write your own definitions for the following
words….
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clinging
clinging
Hanging on to something
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swooping
Coming down with a rush
min • ee • uh • cher
miniature
from Italian “miniatura,” in which the “i” is meant to be pronounced
miniature
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miniature
A smaller than usual version of something
turbulent
tur bu lent
turbulent
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turbulent
full of violent motion and agitation
sensation
sen sa shun
sensation
• The patient has very little sensation left in the right leg.
• The music created the sensation of flying.
• The chili gave him a burning sensation in his thorat.
sensation
a vague feeling or perception caused the sense organs
hindrance
hin drance
hindrance
• The lack of imagination is a hindrance to good creative writing.
• Poverty should not be a hindrance to a good education.
• The cliff was a hindrance in his journey to the top of the mountain.
hindrance
something that prevents or makes it difficult