This document provides an overview of lesson plans and activities for a week of instruction related to the story "The Ch'i-lin Purse". It includes: 1) Daily lessons that involve reading passages from the story, discussing vocabulary words, completing comprehension questions and activities, and practicing language conventions. 2) Lessons focus on comprehension skills like compare and contrast, identifying symbols, analyzing suffixes, and determining word meanings from Greek and Latin roots. 3) The week culminates in a review of these skills and concepts, and a weekly test and spelling test. The document outlines the daily schedule and lessons to guide a week of instruction centered around the themes and skills presented in the story "The Ch

1. Retold by Linda Fang
Illustrated by Ed Young
Week 2.3
THE CH’I-LIN PURSE

2. Day 1 –
• What are the rewards in helping others?
• Video –
• How is the teacher helping the boy?
• What other jobs let you help people?
• How do you think the child felt before the man helped the cat?
• How does the social worker help the child?

3. Concept Map
Read Aloud: The Call of the
Sea
Amazing Words: stranded,
favor, panic, distress
Listen to the amazing words
as I read aloud this weeks
story!
The rewards in helping others
Ways to
show thanks
Helpers Character
traits

4. Ah Tcha’s Leaves
• Read Ah Tcha’s Leaves
aloud with your
partner.
• After you have read
discuss the skill
questions.

5. Comprehension Skill: Compare and Contrast
Comprehension Strategy: Story Structure

6. Ah
Tcha’s
Leaves

7. Vocabulary
Use an online dictionary to define the words below.
astonished behavior benefactor distribution

8. Vocabulary
• Check your chart with the definitions below.

9. Spelling – Take your spelling pretest on
spelling city.
Conventions – Start WS 8 in groups then finish
on your own.
Handwriting – Do the next two pages in your
cursive packet.

10. Day 2 – Content Knowledge
Oral Vocabulary
• What are the rewards in helping others?
• Video –
• “She called out in panic: “Please! Don’t go! Help me! I stayed too
long! The tide went out and left me stranded here. Carry me down
to the sea or I shall die!” – “The Call of the Sea”
• What does “called out in panic” mean?
• Why is the mermaid calling out in panic?
• What does the word stranded mean?

11. Concept Map
Amazing Words: praise,
nurture
Think back to our read aloud
“The Call of the Sea” and the
photographs on page 230
and 231.
Joseph deserves praise for
saving the mermaid, and the
mermaid deserves praise for
saving the sailors.
What does praise mean?
Discuss with a partner:
How can being stranded
cause a person great
distress?
Describe a time when you
did a favor for someone or
someone did a favor for you.
The rewards in helping others
Ways to
show thanks
Helpers Character
traits

12. Vocabulary
Use an online dictionary to define the words below.
gratitude procession recommend sacred traditions

13. Vocabulary
• Check your chart with the definitions below.

14. Word Analysis: suffixes –tion and –ion
• Suffixes are letters added to the end of a word that change the meaning
and the part of speech of a word. The Latin suffixes –tion and –ion
change a verb into a noun that means “the state or result of.”
• In your reading spirals use a dictionary identify the base word, the
suffix, and the part of speech in each word below.
• Fascination, distribution, procession, prevention, companion, reaction
Word Base Word Suffix Part of Speech –
Base word
Part of Speech –
with suffix
Fascination Fascinate -ion verb noun

15. Vocabulary Skill – Greek and Latin Roots

16. Vocabulary Skill – Greek and Latin Roots
• Read “The Meaning of
Tales” on page 235.
• Words to know:
astonished, gratitude,
procession, behavior,
benefactor,
distribution,
recommend, sacred,
traditions
• When you finish write a
short myth or tale of
your own that explains
something or teaches a
lesson about life. Use
words from our words
to know list.

17. • Folk tales reflect the
customs and beliefs of a
particular culture.
• Characters are often
stereotypes, and they fulfill
one particular function.
• Conflicts are usually
resolved by good being
rewarded and evil being
punished
• Look through and predict.
• Read pages 236 - 243
Folk Tale: A story that has
been passed down
through oral tradition over
many generations.

18. Spelling – Get on spelling city and practice
your words.
Conventions – WS 134
Vocabulary – WS 137

19. Day 3 – Content Knowledge
Oral Vocabulary
• What are the rewards in helping others?
• Video –
• “One night, rain beat on Joseph’s roof like a thousand galloping hooves. A
storm worse than anyone could remember rived the sea to a frenzy of
leaping waves.” – “The Call of the Sea”
• What does the author mean when she says “rain beat on Joseph’s roof
like a thousand galloping hooves”?
• This is called a simile, which compares two unlike things using the word
like or as. What two things are being compared?
• The author says that the sea became a frenzy of leaping waves. A frenzy is
a state of near madness or very great excitement. Can the sea be mad or
excited?
• This is an example of personification, which is giving human qualities to
nonhuman things.

20. Concept Map
Amazing Words: aid,
selflessness
Yesterday, we read about
Hsiang-ling’s selflessness in
the food line.
What do you think
selflessness means here?
Discuss with a partner:
If your friend forgets her
lunch, how can you show
selflessness to her?
Name some other ways
people can show
selflessness.
The rewards in helping others
Ways to
show thanks
Helpers Character
traits

21. Literary Terms – Symbolism
• A symbol is a person, animal, place, or thing that represents and
abstract idea. For example, one common symbol is a dove. It is an
animal that stands for peace, an abstract idea.
• Let’s look back at “Ah Tcha’s Leaves” on page 233.
• In folk tales, characters often symbolize, or stand for, certain types
of people in real life. Ah Tcha is very wealthy at the beginning and
end of the story. I think he symbolizes wealthy, powerful people.
• What might the laborer, Nu Wu, symbolize?

22. • Why do you think
Hsiang-ling’s mother
spoils her and gives her
everything she wanted
?
• Why does Hsiang-ling
become separated
from her husband and
son?
Folk Tale: A story that has
been passed down
through oral tradition over
many generations.

23. Think Critically – Answer the think critically
questions on page 250 in your spiral.
Conventions – WS 85
Type to Learn – practice your typing for 15 minutes

24. Day 4 – Content Knowledge
Oral Vocabulary
• What are the rewards in helping others?
• Video –
• “A few minutes later, the rain stopped, the footmen picked up
Hsiang-ling’s hua-chiao, and the procession continued on it’s way.”
• What does the word procession mean?

25. Concept Map
Amazing Words: social worker,
victim
On pages 242 and 243, we read
that Yuan –wai Lu supplied
food for the hungry flood
victims and that Hsiang-ling
became a flood victim when
she lost her home, family, and
belongings. What context
clues help you understand the
word victim?
Discuss with a partner:
What kinds of situations can
produce a victim?
Is a victim the person who has
been hurt o the person who is
helping?
The rewards in helping others
Ways to
show thanks
Helpers Character
traits

26. Vocab, Listening and Speaking
• Vocabulary – Greek and Latin
Roots
• Many English words contain
Greek or Lain roots and affixes.
You can use these roots to help
you find the meanings of
English words.
• The Latin root bene- means
“good” or “well,” and sacr-
means “holy.” The Greek root
derm- means “skin.” Look
through the last couple stories
we have read this year. List and
define 3 to 5 words that use
these roots and affixes.
• Listening and Speaking –
Readers’ Theater
• Look on page 257 for Readers’
Theater tips!
• With a group, choose a scene
from The Ch’i-lin Purse. Use the
scene to create a script.
• Assign roles, and use details
from the story to find clues
about how to speak each
character’s dialogue.
• Practice and record on Seesaw!

27. Spelling – Practice your spelling words on
Spelling City
Conventions – WS 141
Vocabulary - ???

28. Day 5 – What are the rewards in helping others?
Concept Map
• Amazing Words: stranded,
favor, panic, distress,
praise, nurture, aid,
selflessness, social worker,
victim.
• Use the concept map and
what you have learned from
this week’s discussions and
reading selections to form
and – a
realization or big idea about
doing the right thing.
• In your spiral write down a
few sentences about your
beginning
with, “This week I
learned…”
Go
The rewards in helping others
Ways to aid Ways to
show thanks
Helpers Character
Traits
Favor Praise Social
worker
Selflessness
Sharing Gifts Employer Bravery
Nurture Return a
favor
Benefactor Generosity
Donating Gratitude Governess

29. REVIEW – Compare and Contrast
• When you compare and contrast things, you tell how they are alike
or different.
• You can compare and contrast the characters, settings, events, and
ideas in two different selections or in the same selection.
• With a partner, compare and contrast two characters in The Ch’i-lin
Purse.
• When you finish, compare and contrast the theme in The Ch’i-lin
PurseI and the them in “Ah Tcha’s Leaves.”

30. REVIEW – Green and Latin Roots
• Knowing the meanings of common Greek and Latin roots can help
you understand the meanings of new words.
• The Latin root cess means “go” or “yield.” Cess is the root for
English words such as procession and access. What are the
meanings of these words?
• The Latin root grat means pleasing or thankful.
• What does the word gratitude mean?
• The Latin root therm means heat.
• What does the thermal mean?

31. REVIEW: Suffixes –tion and –ion
• Complete the chart above.
Word Base word Suffix Change
Expression express -ion verb to noun
-ion makes the
meaning the
process of making
ones thoughts
known
construction
confusion
vacation
decoration
education
graduation

32. REVIEW – Symbolism
• A symbol is a person, animal, place, or thing that represents an
abstract idea.
• ch’i-lin is an imaginary animal whose appearance coincides with
imminent life or death in Chinese folklore.
• Create an idea web with the word ch’i-lin in the center. In the
connecting parts of the idea web write how the ch’i-lin might
symbolize life, death or rebirth at different points in the story.

33. Weekly Test and Spelling Test