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Question of the Day 1. What would you wear if you wanted to hide in a city park? How else could you disguise yourself?. Daily Proofreading 1. Write and correct these sentences in your notebook. (Language Section) 1. Be careful! With the snapping turtle.
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Question of the Day 1 What would you wear if you wanted to hide in a city park? How else could you disguise yourself?
Daily Proofreading 1 • Write and correct these sentences in your notebook. (Language Section) • 1. Be careful! With the snapping turtle. • 2. These Plants eat Insects for luntch.
READ ALOUD-t28 “The Blue Jackal Who Showed His True Colors” • What does it mean to pay homage to someone? • How do you think the animals of the jungle treated the blue jackal before his fur was dyed blue? • What does it mean to feel crestfallen? • What lesson does this folktale teacher? • Why is the blue jackal alone at the end of the story?
Question of the Day 2 How is mimicry like a trick?
Daily Proofreading 2 • Write and correct these sentences in your notebook. (Language Section) • 1. The movie showed Polar Bears in alaska. • 2. Those predators have white coats they hunt in snowy places.
Question of the Day 3 Why do you think road workers wear obvious orange vests?
Daily Proofreading 3 • Write and correct these sentences in your notebook. (Language Section) • 1. Did you meet dr. Cleveland. • 2. he studies insects but hi is interested in all kinds of animals.
Question of the Day 4 Would you be more likely to find information about mimicry in an almanac or in an encyclopedia?
Daily Proofreading 4 • Write and correct these sentences in your notebook. (Language Section) • 1. what an odd-looking insect that is. • 2. I think I saw one. In michigan last year.
Question of the Day 5 If you were an author, what science topic would you like to write about?
Daily Proofreading 5 • Write and correct these sentences in your notebook. (Language Section) • 1. Hard to see that speckled egg • 2. Wow Do all those butterflies live in your State?
Mimicry and Camouflage • What does the author mean when she says, “The world is full of creatures that are not what they seem to be”? • Why are mimicry and camouflage important to some living things? • Why isn’t the brown toad notice? How do the toad’s color and markings help it survive? • How does the information in the 2nd paragraph on pg 290 connect to what you have learned about the toad? • How does the “hiding game” help both predators and prey? T288-291
How is the phasmid’s disguise different from the polar bear’s disguise that you read about before? • Read the caption on pg 293 and identify the six pebble plants in the photograph. • What does the author mean by “escapes the attention of ostriches”? • Read pg 293. How can you tell that the author organized this paragraph by cause and effect? T292
Why would it be good for an insect to look like a common wasp? • What is the difference between a Batesian mimic and a Mullerian mimic? • Why do birds that have tried eating viceroy or monarch butterflies avoid both? • Why is it a good thing that the turtle’s tongue looks like a worm? • What is similar about the way alligator snapping turtles, anglerfish, and the African flower mantis all trick their prey? T294-297
When the male moth smells the female bolas spider, he expects to find a female both. What happens instead? • How are the female bolas spider and the skunk cabbage alike? What does the skunk cabbage use the insects for? • How does the female Photuris firelfy get its meal? T298
Thinking Critically • Why do plants and animals use mimicry? • What is the maid idea of the section titled “Sticks and Stones”? What details support the main idea? • What do you think is the strangest way an animal uses mimicry or camouflage? Use details from the story to support your answer. T300
Thinking Critically • Imagine that you are standing in a thick forest. How might you camouflage yourself? • Tell how animals that use scents and animals that use lights are ALIKE and DIFFERENT. Use details and information from the story to support your answer. T300
Paired Selection-t302 “Lizards, frogs, and Polliwogs” • Why does the glass frog keep losing itself? • Which poem was your favorite? Explain. • How do the animals in these poems adapt to their environments?
Reference Sources-t60 • Authors of expository nonfiction text may gather information to write their books from a number of reference sources • Which reference source would you use to answer the following: • What is another word for camouflage? • What does the word tropical mean? • Where is the Mississippi River locate? • What is the current population of the state? • Which types of wasps are poisonous?
Vocabulary- reinforce t65 • If a polar bear were black, why would it be obvious? • How does it help some harmless insects to resemble wasps? • When an alligator snapping turtle lurs a fish, what does it mimic? • How can color help prey avoid becoming dinner? • How does camouflage help a predator? • How can some fireflies’ traits be deceptive?
Vocabulary- extend word meanings • Would you rather resemble a movie star or an athlete? Why? • Which is an example of a predator, a butterfly or a spider? • Which is harder to avoid, a worm or a mosquito? Why? • Would you rather mimic a dancer or a singer? Why? • What kind of smell might lure you into a room? • Is wearing a mask deceptive? Why or why not? • What traits in your personality are you proud of? • When is it obvious that you need to go to bed?
Vocabulary- review • Why would being solitary make an animal more vulnerable to predators? • What is considered a trait: being exuberant or being pliable? • Is something that is obvious easy or difficult to comprehend? • Why is it easy to avoid something that lumbers? • Can you nurture someone to be deceptive? • If you wanted to encircle something you wanted to catch, how might you lure it? • As you mature, whom do you resemble more, adults or people younger than you? • If you scan something quickly with your eyes, would you notice a mimic? Explain.
Writing- Conventions • When you write a cause and effect paragraph, it is important to correctly punctuate complex sentences.
Revise and Reflect • Pair up and use this checklist to check your work: