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Name ______________________________ Cocoa Ice By Diana Appelbaum Pictures by Holly Meade Prediction ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Author’s Purpose inform persuade entertain

Cocoa Ice • Focus Skills: • To determine likenesses and differences within and across texts • To read and understand a historical fiction selection • To read and understand poetry • Genre • Informational Fiction- tells a story that explains a topic using characters and events that are not real. • Summary • A girl in nineteenth-century Santo Domingo tells how her family harvests cocoa, and a girl in nineteenth-century Maine tells how her family cuts ice from a river. Both girls are delighted when their distant communities become neighbors by trading the goods each has to offer. • Reading Strategy • Create Mental Images • Good readers create mental images (pictures in their minds) as they read. Using the details in a story to create pictures in their minds can help them understand what the setting and characters in a story are like. Using the details about the two settings in “Cocoa Ice” can help you picture these two very different places.

Page 226 • Color the parts of the globe blue where the girl who is speaking on page 226 could live. • Color the parts of the globe red where the island of Santa Domingo could be located. Who do you think is speaking on page 227? A girl from ____________________________ How do you know? ____________________________________________ How do you know a trading schooner will be important in the story? Page 228 Based on the girl’s description and what you know of the Caribbean, what is Santo Domingo like?

Are the green pods older than the red and yellow ones? older younger How do you know? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Do the cacao pods have ready- to-eat chocolate in them? How do you know? Page 230 How does the girl’s family get cocoa beans from a cacao pod? ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ How are cocoa beans different from chocolate? Cocoa Beans Chocolate

Page 232 What other jobs besides drying cocoa beans do family members have? What is a conch? 1 How is a conch used? 2 Page 234 Sum up the most important events in the story so far. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Page 236 Why has the schooner come to Santo Domingo? How does Jacob help the two girls trade things? Page 238 + Why does Papa trade cocoa beans for cloth and ice? You must use the term economic interdependence in your answer. Page 240 Draw a picture of the new setting. Tell how it has changed. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Page 242 What do you think the girl might do with the pillow she is making? Why do you think that?

Page 244 People help the river freeze by tapping. Why? Is it dangerous? How do you know? Page 246 What steps do the workers follow as they cut out the blocks of ice? 1 2 3 Page 248 How does the work of the men who cut the ice help both their own community and communities far away? Their Community Far Away Communities Page 250 Why is Uncle Jacob’s schooner the most important ship? Why did the girl give Uncle Jacob the balsam bag she had made?

Think and Respond • Why are the trading ships important to the people in this story? • ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ • Why is Uncle Jacob an important character in this story? • ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ • Why is one of the illustrations for this fiction story a map? • ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ • Would you prefer to live in Santo Domingo or in Maine? Why? • ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Use the graphic organizer to answer the following questions. Highlight the answers on the organizer. • What two locations are talked about in this story? • What happens to the cocoa beans before they dry in the sun? • Why is it necessary to dry the cocoa beans in the sun? • What are conchs? • What do the island people trade to get what they need? • Why is it important to be the first person to see a schooner come into the bay? • What must Jacob have traded to get the seashell on the mantle shelf? • Why do Papa and Uncle Jacob worry when it snows on the river? • What is the first step in ice harvesting? • Why do sailors cover the ice on schooners with sawdust and hay? • How are the girl in Santo Domingo and the girl in Maine alike? • What are three amazing things about Maine, according to the girl from Santo Domingo? • What are three amazing things about Santo Domingo, according to the girl from Maine?

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