1. How Night Came from the Sea
Compiled by:
Terry Sams PES
Melissa Guinn PES
Retold by Mary-Joan Gerson
Illustrated by Carla Golembe

2. Study Skills Genre: Pourquoi Tale Comprehension Skill: Generalize
Comprehension Strategy: Visualize
Comprehension Review Skill: Cause and Effect
Vocabulary: Context Clues

3. Summary
Why do we have day and night? A Brazilian legend says there was always daylight on Earth until the African goddess Iemanja’s daughter left her ocean home to marry a land dweller. When Iemanja’s daughter became homesick for the cool, shadowy world under the sea, her mother sent some of the darkness up to her, and now we have night on land as well as day.

4. Genre: Pourquoi tales
Pourquoi tales are stories that explain how things in nature came to be. It is a myth that explains how something in nature came to be. Pourpuoi is French for “why”.
Learn more about folktales

5. Comprehension Skill Review Generalize TE 337b
A generalization is a broad statement or rule that applies to many examples.
Clue words: all, most, always, usually, generally

6. Comprehension Skill Review Generalize TE 337b
Some generalizations are valid, which means that they are supported by facts or details. Some are faulty. Which means that they are not supported.

7. Comprehension Strategy Visualize TE 292
Good readers organize visualize as they read.
Form mental pictures to help understand ideas and information.
Visualizing can help you understand generalizations.

8. Comprehension Skill Review: Cause and Effect TE 323
As you read, look for cause and effect relationships.
A cause is what made something happen.
An effect is what happens.
Sometimes a cause will have more than one effect.
Words such as because, so, and since are clues to causes and effects.

9. Practice Generalization PB116
1. What is a generalization?
They went during the summer because the weather was usually good.
2. What is another generalization?
He and Jim usually hike an hour or two.
3. What is a clue word for number 2?
Usually
4. What is another generalization?
Campfire often burned late into the night.
What is a clue word for number 4?
Often

10. Sensory and Imagery Words
Imagery, or sensory language, is the use of words that describe how things look, sound, smell, taste, or feel. Writers use imagery to help give readers a strong mental image.
Imagery helps readers understand the setting, mood, characters, and action in a story.
Note the words that help you see, smell, hear, taste, or feel what is happening in a story.

11. Research/Study Skills Textbook/Trade Book TE 337l
A textbook is a book used in the study of a subject, like science or math.
A trade book is any book that is not a textbook or reference book. Note: A non-fiction book may have many of the same features as a textbook.
These books are usually organized into units or chapters.
The text may be organized under headings and subheadings.
Often, they include graphics such as charts, graphs, time lines, photographs, and maps that present information visually.
Some books also include other features such as chapter previews and summaries, glossaries, prefaces, appendices, and indexes.

12. Cause and Effect PowerPoint Figurative Language
Fun Stuff and Practice
Cause and Effect PowerPoint
Figurative Language
More Figurative Language
Verbs and more Verbs
and Linking Verbs on Line

13. Weekly Fluency Check Rhythmic Patterns of Language TE 337a
Just like in a conversation, good readers need to pay attention to the word groupings of the text and have a rise and fall in your voice as your read aloud.
Read p. 292m to model for students.

14. Question of the Week TE 314m
How have people explained the pattern of day and night?

15. Day 2 - Question of the Day
How would you describe nighttime to someone who has never experienced it?

16. Day 3 – Question of the Day
How might How Night Came from the Sea be different if it took place in the cold Artic?

17. Day 4 – Question of the Day
What evidence does the narrator of The Ant and the Bear give to “prove” that the story is true?

18. Review Questions What did Iemanja and the husband have in common?
How did the husband show his love for his wife?
What is the theme of the story?
Why did Iemanja call the servants foolish?
When the creatures were placed in the bag, why were they so loud?

19. Review Questions
6. What made the bag the servants were carrying so large?
If the daughter had not been present when the creatures were released, what might have happened?
What did the daughter give three gifts in celebration of her new home?
How does the daughter think of night?

20. Review Questions
What supports that nighttime occurs quickly in Brazil?
What is a generalization you can make, based on the story, about leaving home?

21. Vocabulary - Say It
brilliant
gleamed
shimmering
chorus
coward

22. More Words to Know
dwells
reigns
creatures
darkness
prowl

23. brilliant
shining brightly; sparkling

24. anything spoken or sung all at the same time
chorus
anything spoken or sung all at the same time

25. coward
person who lack courage or is easily made afraid; person who runs from danger, trouble, etc.

26. flashed or beamed with light
gleamed
flashed or beamed with
light

27. shimmering
gleaming or shining faintly

28. dwells
makes your home; lives

29. reigns
rules, as over a kingdom

30. creatures
any living things

31. night; state of being without light or with very little light
darkness
night; state of being without
light or with very little light

32. prowl
go about slowly and secretly like an animal hunting for something to eat or a thief looking for something to steal

33. He dwells in a white house with a flower garden and a pale fence around the yard.

34. He dwells in a white house with a flower garden and a pale fence around the yard.

35. The city was plunged into darkness by the power outage.

36. The city was
plunged into darkness by the power outage.

37. There was a fox on the prowl earlier.

38. There was a fox on the prowl earlier.

39. They burst into a chorus of Happy Birthday.

40. They burst into a chorus of Happy Birthday.

41. Queen Victoria reigned over Britain from 1837 to 1901.

42. Queen Victoria reigned over Britain from 1837 to 1901.

43. In the winter, some creatures hibernate in a cave.

44. In the winter, some creatures hibernate in a cave.

45. The sky was a brilliant, cloudless blue.

46. The sky was a brilliant, cloudless blue.

47. She could see her reflection in the water, shimmering in the moonlight.

48. She could see her reflection in the water, shimmering in the moonlight.

49. People who explore Antarctica are not cowards.

50. People who explore Antarctica are not cowards.

51. Early this morning, sunlight gleamed through my window.

52. Early this morning, sunlight gleamed through my window.

53. Writing Assignment Comparisons TE 337h
Think about something that interests you in nature.
Write a comparison explaining how two things you like are alike.
Include several ways the things are similar.
Remember to use specific nouns and strong verbs while writing your comparison.

54. Spelling Words Vowel sound in shout
however
mountain
mound
scout
shout
couch
towel
ounce
coward
outdoors

55. Spelling Words Vowel sound in shout
trout
drowsy
grouch
eyebrow
boundary
flowerpot
scowl
browse
announce
hound

56. CHALLENGE
califlower
foundation
surround
allowance
counselor

57. This Week’s Word Wall Words
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58. Let’s review our Spelling words
Let’s review our Spelling words. Watch carefully because they will flash on the screen for just a moment. We can clap as we spell the word, or we might just practice reading the words.

59. however

60. mountain

61. mound

62. scout

63. couch

64. towel

65. ounce

66. coward

67. outdoors

68. flowerpot

69. scowl

70. browse

71. announce

72. hound

73. trout

74. drowsy

75. grouch

76. eyebrow

77. boundary

78. shout