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Please do not read this to the students.  This is a description for teachers, about the big ideas and key understanding that students should take away after completing this task.\nBig Ideas and Key Understandings\nWhen life presents problems or challenges, quick, creative thinking can provide solutions.\nSynopsis\nA fantastic heat wave hits a Kansas farm, roasting the geese, popping the corn in the fields, and causing other distressing events. The farm girl tries a few clever ways to get rid of it, and finally succeeds when she plants iceberg lettuce.\nRead entire main selection text, keeping in mind the Big Ideas and Key Understandings.\nRe-read the main selection text while noting the stopping points for the Text Dependent Questions and teaching Vocabulary.\nDuring Teaching\nStudents read the entire main selection text independently.\nTeacher reads the main selection text aloud with students following along. (Depending on how complex the text is and the amount of support needed by students, the teacher may choose to reverse the order of steps 1 and 2.)\nStudents and teacher re-read the text while stopping to respond to and discuss the questions and returning to the text.  A variety of methods can be used to structure the reading and discussion (i.e.:  whole class discussion, think-pair-share, independent written response, group work, etc.)\nText Dependent Questions\nText Dependent Questions\nAnswers\nReread the 1st paragraph on page 361. If Hank ‘changes his tune’, what will he do?\nHe will stop teasing and/or think that girls can be farmers.\nWhat happened to the geese in the story that wouldn’t happen in real life? (Pg. 361)\nThey flew into the cloud and were cooked.\nTall tales are characterized by exaggeration. Reread page 363. What exaggerated events occur to indicate the evidence of a heat wave?\nThe mercury blasted out of the thermometer like a rocket, and the flowers crawled under the porch looking for shade.\nHow does the word “snagged” on page 365, help us understand what happened to the Heat Wave?\nThe Heat Wave got caught on the weather vane and stuck over the farm.\nIn this tall tale, describe what the author is communicating about the dog’s exaggerated response when it sees the ‘blizzard of popcorn’ on page 365.\nThe word ‘froze’ in this sentence has multiple meanings. Because this is a tall tale the dog actually freezes due to the word ‘blizzard’ indicating cold, but in reality he would have stopped in surprise at events occurring on the farm.\nReread page 367 where the narrator’s quick thinking solved the popcorn problem. What steps did she take to ease the cows’ suffering and rid the field of popcorn?\nThey milked the cows and got butter instead of milk so they cleaned the shovels and pickup trucks, buttered the popcorn with butter from the cows and sold it at the drive-in.\nReread the sentence on page 371, ‘I figured it was time to take on the Heat Wave.’ What is the narrator’s idea and the steps of her plan to ‘take on the Heat Wave’?\nShe made bread dough, the heat wave cooked it, the smell attracted the crows who at the bread. The beating of the crow’s wings made wind, which cooled the heat wave.\nReread page 375. What is the narrator’s final idea and what evidence from the story demonstrates that this idea solved the problem of the Heat Wave?\nShe planted iceberg lettuce and cooled the air. ‘The weather vane and the barn cooled down, and the cows stopped steaming.’\nWhat evidence from the story indicates that the final solution worked too well and what was the effect? 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