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Language
Arts Connections
The Song of the Harpy Eagle is a language arts based adventure. Students
read and listen to the poetry and the songs found on the Adventure Pages.
Several of the Activity Pages also provide opportunities for your students
to write and to speak (if you have them share what they write). The following
activities are designed to get your students thinking and writing:
1. Travel Log - Students make brief written entries to to record their
thoughts/feelings as they 'travel' and to keep track of important
information they will need to complete the 'quest.'
2. Lost and Found - Students get 'lost' and have to write their
way back to the group.
3. Animal Rap - Students create two-line rhymes about the animal they
just encountered.
4. Conversations and Complaints with Catrina - Students read a conversation
between the fictitious students they are 'traveling' with, then write
their own contribution to the conversation.
In some cases, you may wish to provide specific guidelines for the writing
students do while completing these activities. For example, you might limit
their writing to a specific number of sentences. Or, you might expand on the
theme of an activity. For example, after students list their interpretations
of the messages in the animals songs (Travel Log), you may have them write
a sentence or two explaining how the messages relate everyday life. If reading
the story as a class, you might break away from the text but continue to suspend
the class's disbelief by having context-related class discussions, that
is, as if you are in the middle of the adventure discussing the circumstances
and your reactions to them.
Note: We recommend that you go through the adventure before
leading your students through it, determining which Activity Pages meet your
curricular objectives and will fit in the time frame in which you are working.
See Different Ways to Reach the Top.
Also, go to the Adventure Guide for Teachers
for quick links to the activities for review.
Vocabulary Boost
Many of the words your students will encounter in The Song of the Harpy
Eagle are vocabulary words they will also find in your rain forest unit.
