1. Horace and Morris but Mostly Dolores
Click to listen to this realistic fiction story!

2. When we talk about plot, we are referring to the beginning, the rising action, the climax, the falling action, and the resolution of the story. Try to figure out these events in the plot of Horace and Morace.

3. Plot… a different way of looking at it
Beginning:
Horace, Morris, and Dolores were all good friends..
Rising Action:
Horace pointed out that “a boy mouse must do what a boy mouse must do.”
Climax:
Dolores quit the Cheese Puffs.
Falling Action:
Dolores and Chloris visited the Mega Mice Club.
Resolution:
The boy mice and the girl mice realized that they should be friends with mice with similar interests, whether they are girls or boys.

4. The moral of the story is…
The moral of the story is the lesson that the author wants you to learn from the story. There can be more than 1 moral in a story! You should be able to prove that this is the lesson of the story with something you read in the text.
What lesson did the author want you to learn in this story?

5. The moral of the story is…
The moral of this story is that what is on the inside of people is what matters most. (Don’t judge a book by it’s cover!) Even though the friends loved doing everything together, they thought they should stop being friends to be with people that looked the same as themselves. They soon realized that just because people look the same, (girls like girls and boys like boys) their interests can be different. We need to choose friends if they are kind and share similar interests.

6. The theme of the story is…
The theme of the story is the main idea of what the story is about.
What is this story all about?

7. The theme of the story is…
The theme of this story is friendship.

8. Our Phonics Pattern is the diphthong /ou/, which can be spelled with either ou or ow. Sort your words according to how they are spelled. ou ow

9. Our Phonics Pattern is the diphthong /ou/, which can be spelled with either ou or ow. Sort your words according to how they are spelled. ou ow
about
flower
around
howl
sound
crowd
ground
downtown
found
south
loud
mouse
mountains
count
compound

10. Practice reading the vocabulary words listed below
Practice reading the vocabulary words listed below. Look up these words in the dictionary and record the definitions with pictures on index cards.
adventure
climbed
wondered
exploring
greatest
truest
clubhouse

11. Practice reading the popcorn listed below
Practice reading the popcorn listed below. Being able to read these words as they pop up in reading builds fluency!!
compound
mountains
count
downtown
mouse