The Jungle Book
YouTube Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ogQ0uge06o
Lyrics Link: https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/tonybennett/thebarenecessities.html
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Bare Necessities (The Jungle Book) (RR) Retrieval and Recording Name(s): ______Date: ______
1.) What does the singer tell the lister to forget about?
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2.) What verb is used to rhyme with ‘ants’?
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3.) What should you use to pick a prickly pear? ______
4.) What creature is working too hard?
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5.) Where should you ‘fall apart’?
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6.) Do you need to look for the bare necessities? Explain quoting from the text.
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7.) What shouldn’t you spend your time doing?
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8.) Find and copy two words which mean ‘rest’.
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Extension – Come up with your own retrieval and recording (RR) questions.
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Bare Necessities (The Jungle Book) (CC) Context Clues Name(s): ______
Date: ______1.) What do you think the word strife means? a.) to walk very fast b.) problems or difficulties c.) peace and quiet d.) a type of food
What key word(s) in the text helped you answer this question?
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2.) What do you think the phrase Mother Nature means? a.) Your own mother b.) a goose c.) the natural world d.) a religious lady
What key word(s) in the text helped you answer this question?
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3.) What do you think the word fonder means? a.) liking something lots b.) to be uncaring about something c.) keeping something clean d.) to wander inside
What key word(s) in the text helped you answer this question?
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4.) What do you think the word necessities means? a.) an emergency b.) an essential or basic need c.) complicated problems d.) a naked bear!
What key word(s) helped you answer this question?
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Extension – Write a sentence of your own for each word
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Bare Necessities (The Jungle Book) (INF) Inference Name(s): ______
Date: ______1.) What does it mean by ‘Mother Nature’s recipes’?
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2.) Using evidence from the text, how do you know he enjoys watching nature?
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3.) What is his ‘big home’? ______
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4.) What does it mean by ‘Look for the bare necessities, the simple bare necessities’?
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5.) What might be good examples of ‘worries and strife’ that ‘people’ might have which the bear might be referring to?
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Bare Necessities (The Jungle Book) Name(s):______Assessment Date: ______
1.) Write down two pairs of rhymes in the song. Code (1) Answer (2) RR CC INF S
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2.) What do you think is the main message the song is trying to give? Code (1) Answer (1) RR CC INF S a.) Try eating different things b.) Don’t pick dangerous fruit c.) Look after the earth d.) Enjoy the simple things in life
3.) How is the word ‘bare’ a play on words? RR CC INF S Code (1) Answer (2)
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Code (1) Answer (1) 4.) Why should you use a claw to pick a prickly pear? RR CC INF S
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5.) What does the word roam mean? RR CC INF S a.) to walk into a roam b.) to move quickly c.) to travel without a fixed direction d.) standing very still
6.) Think of two things that you do to live a more simplistic or basic life? Code (1) Answer (2) RR CC INF S ______
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Bare Necessities (The Jungle Book) Answers
Retrieval and Recording
1. worries and strife 2. glance 3. a claw 4. bees 5. your backyard
6. No because they will ‘come to you’.
7. looking around for something you want that can’t be found
8. relax, ease or fall apart
Context Clues
1. b 2. c 3. a 4. b
Inference (answers may vary)
1. Mother Nature’s recipes means taking natural food that grows in the wild to enjoy.
2. “Wherever I wander, wherever I roam, I couldn’t be fonder of my home” – suggests he likes walking around and looking at nature (where he lives) He also says “The bees are buzzin’ in the tree, To make honey just for me,” which tells us he enjoys eating the honey. He also says “take a glance at the fancy ants” which suggests he likes looking at them before he eats them.
3. Mother Nature, the forest, the rivers and lakes etc (everywhere)
4. Just look for the simple things in life instead of complicated things like technology. Get back to nature and enjoy the outside.
5. Worries about money, school, material objects, arguments with people etc
Assessment
1. RR – 2 pairs from strife/life, necessities/recipes, roam/home, trees/me, plants/ants, few/you, necessities/ease, beware/pear, claw/paw, clue/you
2. S – d
3. INF – it is being sung by a bear, he is a naked bear and it is talking about bare (basic) needs so it is a play on the word bare and bear as they are homophones
4. INF – otherwise you will hurt or prink you hand/fingers
5. CC - c
6. INF - Answers may vary but reference getting back to nature or reducing technology
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