Power 30

Lesson 1- Be the Best Supplies Standard: We are going to look at the poem closely in two different types of media including pictures and words to see if it changes the meaning. Strategy: Today we are going to be thinking about thinking about our thinking while we are reading together. Ask yourself “what do I already know?” You will use your prior knowledge and new information to help you understand what we are reading, and look for the theme of today’s reading.

Vocabulary Rill Quantitatively Muskie Liveliest Lesser A small stream Relating to how many Type of fish Full of life and energy Not as great or important as the rest

Procedures: Follow along silently while I read the poem aloud Underline the rhyming words in the poem & share What’s a stanza? We are going to read the poem again, but this time you are looking for what the poem means. Now we are going to go through the poem with pictures, we are all going to read it aloud at the same time.

Poem by Douglas Malloch Be The Best Poem by Douglas Malloch

If you can’t be a pine on the top of the hill,

Be a scrub in the valley---but be

The best little scrub by the side of the rill;

Be a bush, if you can’t be a tree.

If you can’t be a bush, be a bit of the grass

And some highway happier make;

If you can’t be a muskie,

then just be a bass-

But the liveliest bass in the lake!!!

We can’t all be captains,

we’ve got to be crew,

There’s something for all of us here.

There’s big work to do

and there’s lesser to do.

And the task we must do is the near.

If you can’t be a highway,

Then just be a trail,

If you can’t be the sun,

be a star;

It isn’t by size that you win or you fail-

Be the best of whatever you are!!!

Did the meaning of the poem change at all after seeing the pictures? Below the poem in your notebook- Write 2 sentences about your thoughts on the poem Share what we wrote Fill out our matrix (Theme- analyze an idea & Author’s craft- multimedia)