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Double Play

SUMMARY Fifth-grader Bill Harrison scores

a double play when he makes the majors in

the Little League tryouts and scores an A on

his research project For his project, he must

interview someone with first-hand knowledge

of the Vietnam War An older man in the

neighborhood who acts a little oddly turns out

to be a Vietnam veteran with a lot of

interest-ing stories to tell It also turns out that he and

Bill share another interest—baseball

LESSON VOCABULARY

eerie intersection

spectacles withered

INTRODUCE THE BOOK

INTRODUCE THE TITLE AND AUTHOR Discuss with

students the title and the author of Double

Play Based on the title, ask students to say

what they think the book will be about Ask

them to say what the term double play means

and what sport it comes from

BUILD BACKGROUND Discuss what students

know about the Vietnam War Ask if they know

when it was, and if they know any Vietnam

veterans

PREVIEW/USE TEXT FEATURES As students

preview the book, invite them to notice the

illustrations Draw their attention to the map

on page 15, the graphic on page 26, and the

photo on page 32 Explain that these text

features give the reader different kinds of

information about the story

READ THE BOOK

SET PURPOSE Have students set a purpose

for reading Double Play Students’ interest in

baseball and the war in Vietnam should guide this purpose Ask students to think about the difference between researching a topic in the library and interviewing a person with first-hand knowledge

STRATEGY SUPPORT: PRIOR KNOWLEDGE Have

readers write down what they know about the Vietnam War before they start the book Have them add new information as they read

COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS

PAGE 5 What is the first problem that seems

to occupy Bill Harrison’s mind? (getting into

the majors in Little League)

PAGE 6 What details does the author give that make the man mowing the lawn seem a little

odd? (has a long gray beard that seems out of

place in the neighborhood, walks backwards and pushes lawnmower behind him, Rob’s mom says he’s crazy, Craig’s dad says he is sick)

PAGE 11 What are the two parts of the

research assignment? (Part 1: what students

learned from books; Part 2: what it was like to really be there)

PAGE 14 Why did President Kennedy send

troops to Vietnam in 1961? (The U.S didn’t

want the Communists in the north to rule all

of Vietnam.)

PAGE 25 How did Mr Jenkins’s war stories

change Bill’s idea of war? (Possible response:

Jenkins made him see that war is hard, danger-ous, and not a lot of fun.)

PAGE 27 What common interests do Bill and

Mr Jenkins have? (baseball)

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PLOT AND CHARACTER PRIOR KNOWLEDGE

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TEACH/REVIEW VOCABULARY

Have students find the word intersection on page 5 Ask: What is a synonym for

intersec-tion? Continue in a similar fashion with the

remaining vocabulary words

TARGET SKILL AND STRATEGY

PLOT AND CHARACTER Remind students

that the plot is a pattern of events,

usu-ally organized around a problem or conflict

Explain that characters are the people in

sto-ries Authors usually tell what their charac-ters look like, how they act, and what kind of people they are As they read, have students think about the plot Ask: What happens at the beginning, middle, and end of the plot?

Ask: Do any of the characters change? How?

Have students list the characters in the book Have them brainstorm words that describe each character, and list them under each character’s name Have them read the list of words for each character and choose the word that best describes each person

PRIOR KNOWLEDGE Remind students that

prior knowledge is what a reader knows about

a given topic gathered from reading and personal experience Active readers add to and revise their prior knowledge as they read Ask students to tell their prior knowledge about the Vietnam War Ask them to keep track of new things they learn about the war

as they read the selection Have them think about the role the Vietnam War plays in the development of the plot of the selection How does learning about the War affect the main

character?

ADDITIONAL SKILL INSTRUCTION

CAUSE AND EFFECT Remind students that

cause is defined as “why something

pened.” Effect is defined as “what

hap-pened.” Explain that sometimes, clue words

such as because, so, and since indicate a

relationship between why something hap-pened and what haphap-pened Have students

be aware of what happens in the plot and why characters react as they do

REVISIT THE BOOK

READER RESPONSE

1 Bill comes to like Mr Jenkins instead of

thinking he is strange Bill tells his friends

that Mr Jenkins is a nice person instead of

sharing their poor opinion of him as he did

before

2 Responses will vary.

3 Possible response: spectacle: event,

eye-glasses; prospect: possibility, extensive

view; pilot: a person who flies an aircraft, to

act as a guide to The first definition of each

word applies in the selection

4 Responses will vary.

EXTEND UNDERSTANDING Have students look

again at the map on page 15 Ask them to

describe the location of Vietnam Have them

look again at the graphic on page 26 Ask:

What words describe this graphic? Have them

look again at the photo on page 32 Ask: How

do you think the people in this photo felt? Why?

RESPONSE OPTIONS

WRITING Suggest that students write one

paragraph from Bill’s point of view, and

one paragraph from Mr Jenkins’s point

of view Have them tell what they thought

about their first meeting

SOCIAL STUDIES

CONNECTION

Students can learn

about the Vietnam

Veterans Memorial in

Washington, D.C., by using the

Internet or going to the library Suggest they

find out about Maya Lin, who designed the

memorial, or read the accounts of veterans

who have visited the memorial Have students

tell about their research

Skill Work

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Plot and Character

• The plot is a pattern of events usually organized around a problem or conflict.

• A character is a person who takes part in the events of a story.

Directions Fill in the paragraph organizer below.

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Title

Characters

Setting

Problem

Plot

Solution

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Vocabulary

Directions Draw a line from each word to its definition.

1 eerie a where two streets cross each other

2 intersection b odd, strange, frightening

3 pondered c thought about deeply

4 severe d shriveled up

5 spectacles e eyeglasses

6 withered f strong, harsh

Directions Write a paragraph about Double Play Use as many vocabulary words as you can.

Double Play

eerie severe

intersection spectacles

pondered withered

Check the Words You Know

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