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Why Do We Love Sweets? © November/December 2016 Contents Teacher’s Guide MAGAZINE ARTICLES A Taste of Sweet 6 Expository NonfictionWhy 860L Do I Love Sugar 12 Expository Nonfiction 900L What’s Diabetes? 18 Expository NonfictionWe 470LLove Sugar Birds 22 Expository Nonfiction 970L Can I Eat Sweets?That Window? 24 Expository Nonfiction 920L Candy Cane Twist 25 Expository Nonfiction 1010L Ask: Why Do We Love Sweets? © November/December 2016 Contents Teacher’s Guide for Ask: OVERVIEW Why Do We Love Sweets? In this magazine, readers will learn all about Using This Guide 2 sugar. Ask: Why Do We Love Why Do Skills and Standards Overview 3 We Love Sweets? includes Sweets? information about hummingbirds, Article Guides 4 sugar glass, and candy canes, the history and science of sugar, and life with diabetes. Cross-Text Connections 10 Mini-Unit 11 Graphic Organizers 14 Appendix: Meeting State and National Standards 16 ESSENTIAL QUESTION: What are the characteristics and effects of sugar? 1 Ask: Why Do We Love Sweets? © November/December 2016 Using This Guide We invite you to use this magazine as a flexible teaching tool, ideal for providing interdisciplinary instruction of social studies and science content as well as core literacy concepts Find practical advice for teaching individual articles or use a mini-unit that helps your students make cross-text connections as they integrate ideas and information READ INDIVIDUAL ARTICLES PAGES 4 – 9 Each article in this magazine is well-suited for teaching literacy concepts and content area knowledge For each individual article in this guide, you’ll find the following: Prepare to Read Essential Question CCSS Speaking and Listening 1, 2, 4 Content Concepts C3 Framework for Social Studies Close Reading and Text Analysis Next Generation Science Standards CCSS Reading 1-10 Key Vocabulary Writing/Speaking and Listening CCSS Reading 4 CCSS Writing 1, 2, 3 & 6 CCSS Speaking and Listening 1, 2, 4 TEACH A MINI-UNIT PAGES 11 – 13 SCIENCE Magazine articles can easily be grouped to make cross-text connections and comparisons Our Mini-Unit allows students to read and discuss multiple articles and integrate ideas and information (CCSS Reading 9) Discussing multiple articles (CCSS Reading 9) prepares students to write texts to share and CORE publish in a variety of ways (CCSS Writing 2) LITERACY ARTICLES 2 Ask: Why Do We Love Sweets? © November/December 2016 Skills and Standards Overview Essential Question: What are the characteristics and effects of sugar? MAGAZINE SCIENCE & SOCIAL LITERACY CORRESPONDING CCSS ARTICLES STUDIES SKILLS ANCHOR STANDARDS A Taste of Sweet People have used and are using • Close Reading Reading 1, 2, 3, 5 & 7 Expository Nonfiction natural and human resources to • Analyze Text Structure Speaking & Listening 1 produce goods • Interpret Visual Information • Collaborate I Love Sugar Food is digested to release • Close Reading Reading 1, 3, 6 & 7 Expository Nonfiction the energy animals need to • Interpret Visual Writing 7 Information maintain body warmth and to • Analyze Author’s move Purpose • Keep a Nutrition Journal What’s Diabetes? Food is digested to release • Close Reading Reading 1 & 6 Expository Nonfiction the energy animals need to • Analyze Point of View Speaking & Listening 1 • Analyze Author’s maintain body warmth and to Purpose move • Present a Scene Sugar Birds Animals use their external parts • Close Reading Reading 1, 4 & 7 Expository Nonfiction to help them survive, grow, and • Interpret Visual Writing 3 meet their needs Information • Interpret Figurative Language • Write a Poem Can I Eat That Window? Matter can be changed by • Close Reading Reading 1, 2, 4 & 7 Expository Nonfiction heating and cooling • Interpret Visual Speaking & Listening 4 Information • Interpret Word Choice • Explain a Procedure Candy Cane Twist Matter can be changed by • Close Reading Reading 1, 2, 5 & 7 Expository Nonfiction heating and cooling • Interpret Visual Writing 1 Information • Analyze Text Structure • Write an Advertisement Comparing Texts: Reading 1, 2, 3 & 9; Writing 2, 7 & 8 Mini-Unit: Reading 1, 3 & 9; Writing 1, 5, 7, 8 & 9; Speaking and Listening 4 3 Ask: Why Do We Love Sweets? © November/December 2016 ARTICLE: A Taste of Sweet Magazine pages 6 - 11, Expository Nonfiction Can you imagine a art by Michael Chesworth A Taste of Sweet world without sugar? weetest tastes people knew were fruit and—sometimes, I cannot! times, the s if they we n cient re luck In a y—a Gift of little oneybees make ho ne the Bees Look, honey from the y. our bees have sweet, sugary nectar 860 been busy. Sweet H Gift of the Trees honey, and wax for of flowers. As the bees fly candles too! Maybe this from flower to flower, they will go all the way to Rome, sip a little nectar from Before Europeans came, to make delicacies for North America had no the rich folks—honey each. They suck it in and honeybees. But some ham, dates in honey, out to make it thicker. Then native American peoples baklava... they fly back to the hive and figured out how to get sugar from trees instead. spit the nectar into a little wax Were bees bigger back In the early spring they Find out about the origins of different sources of sugar— cell of the honeycomb. Many more then? cut gashes into the bark bees add their nectar. Other bees beat of a sugar maple tree. their wings to fan air over the comb. Then they caught the As the water evaporates, it leaves sap in a bucket, left it behind a thick golden liquid—honey. out to freeze, and broke It takes nectar from over 500 flowers off the watery ice. At the bottom was a sweet honey, maple syrup, cane sugar, and sugar beets to make just one teaspoon of honey. brown liquid—maple See, trees Bees eat the honey during the winter, syrup. They may are all you when there are no flowers. have learned this need! Not all bees make honey—only Beehives come in many shapes and sizes. trick by tasting the Ancient Egyptians shaped theirs like hollow sweet icicles of frozen honeybees, a family of bees native logs. Medieval beekeepers liked a cone shape. Bees themselves aren’t picky. sap that formed on to Asia, Africa, and Europe. Long broken branches. ago, humans raided wild bee nests Gashing the bark hurts to get the sweet honey. Eventually Honey was traded all over Europe trees, so now maples are tapped by putting a they began setting up hollow logs and and the Middle East. It was delicious, spout in the side. boxes to lure bees. Many farmers kept never spoiled, and even helped exile Score: exile a beehive or two, for honey and so the wounds heal. People used it in baking, Native Americans poured Don’t bees know maple syrup onto snow it’s nice to share? bees would pollinate their crops. art © 2016 by Michael Chesworth as a medicine, and to preserve food. to get a chewy, tasty treat. L 6 a s k ask 7 ESSENTIAL PREPARE TO READ QUESTION Show students a container or an image of honey Ask if they know where What are the characteristics and effects of sugar? honey comes from Then, show some table sugar or an image of table sugar Ask students if they know where table sugar comes from Tell students that they will learn about honey and table sugar, as well as other types of sugar CORE CONTENT CONCEPT Social Studies People have used and are using natural and human CLOSE READING AND TEXT ANALYSIS resources to produce goods Key Ideas • How do honeybees make honey? Use information from the article to summarize the steps CCSS Reading 2 CROSS-CURRICULAR • Use a Venn diagram (p 15) to compare and contrast the information about EXTENSION sugar cane and sugar beets Cite text details in the diagram CCSS Reading 3 Geography Locate on a world map • What information in the article supports the idea that people love sugar? Use the places to which sugar cane details from the text to support your response CCSS Reading 1 spread from New Guinea Craft and Structure • Analyze Text Structure How do the titles of each section prepare you to read KEY VOCABULARY those sections? What information do they give you? CCSS Reading 5 • Interpret Visual Information Work in a group to study the photos and evaporates (p. 6) changes from a discuss how they help you understand the information presented in the text liquid into a gas What do all of these photos have in common that is especially helpful for native (p. 6) produced, living, or viewing tiny things? CCSS Reading 7 existing naturally in a particular region plantation (p. 9) a large area of land, especially in a hot part of the SPEAKING AND LISTENING world, where crops (such as cotton) are grown Collaborate With a group of classmates, take turns asking and answering questions about the article Use the words who, what, why, where, when, and how Use details and information in the article to answer questions 4 Ask: Why Do We Love Sweets? © November/December 2016 ARTICLE: I Love Sugar Magazine pages 12 - 17, Expository Nonfiction I Sugar or in the sugar bowl? in their milk as babies. by Elizabeth Preston art by Amanda Shepherd That’s sucrose. Brown But some people grow sugar, powdered sugar, up to be “lactose intol- Mmm....Why do we love sugar so much? and molasses are erant,” which means sucrose too. Most of the their bodies can’t digest sucrose we eat comes this sugar anymore. 3 teaspoons 900 rom chocolate Building Sweet the simple sugars can from sugar beets and High-fructose corn natural sugar H cookies to crisp, “Sugar” is the name for be found in plants.
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