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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\nAlthough the Amish choose to live and dress plainly, they appreciate and admire God’s fancy handiwork displayed in the beauty of nature.\nSynopsis\n“Just Plain Fancy” is the story of a young Amish girl, Naomi, who longs to have something fancy in her life. One day as she and her sister are searching the field for eggs, they stumble upon a peculiar, different looking egg.  The girls slip the egg into the nest of one of the chickens. When it hatches, the girls name the chick Fancy because it looks very different from the plain, white chickens.  As Fancy grows, he certainly lives up to his name and becomes a colorful peacock.  Naomi is frightened that the Amish community will shun the beautiful creature for being fancy and not plain. During the frolic the next morning,   Fancy unexpectedly escapes the henhouse and runs toward the elders. He is pleased with the attention and spreads his feathers for all to see. Naomi is terrified that she and the bird will be shunned from the community, but that is exactly the opposite of what happens. The oldest woman in the community explains that the fancy of the peacock is God’s beauty and it is respected and loved.  Naomi ends up receiving a white cap that day and learning a valuable lesson about an acceptable and admired kind of fancy.\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 (i.e.:  whole class discussion, think-pair-share, independent written response, group work, etc.)\nText Dependent Questions\nText-dependent Questions\nEvidence-based Answers\nReread page 250. The Amish are a religious community that lives in rural areas. How does Naomi’s family travel? Why?\nNaomi’s family travels in a buggy pulled by a horse. When Naomi asked her father why they didn’t have a car, her father responded, “It is not our way, child. We are in no hurry.” The Amish use a buggy to travel to places at their own pace.\nOn page 251, Naomi says, “even our chickens are plain.” What does she mean by this?\nShe is complaining because she thinks everything in her life is plain and nothing is fancy. When she says “….even our chickens are plain” she is emphasizing the fact that there is nothing fancy in her life. Even the chickens are white and have no color.\nWhat do Naomi and her sister discover when they are searching for eggs outside the henhouse? (Pg. 251)\nNaomi and her sister discovered a very unusual egg nestled in the tall grass.\nReread page 252. Use details from the story and the illustration to describe how this unusual egg is different from the others in Henny’s nest.\nThis unusual egg is larger and a little darker in color. The illustration shows that the egg is spotted and the other eggs in the nest are white.\nOn page 252, Ruth says, “I just know you’re going to get your white cap this year. 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