Our World Vocabulary and Story

Assignment: "Our World Vocabulary and Story"

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Please look at the key vocabulary and then follow along in the story while the teacher reads to you.

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Vocabulary Slideshow: Our World Turned to Water | Storyworks

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ON LEVEL Our World

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Assignment: "#011 Poetry/Fable Test"

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#011 Poetry/Fable Test

Please use the passages given to you on paper to complete the test.

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LUCHTERHAND- Poetry and Fable Test

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Can I have another copy of yo rap

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Question: "Are you coming on TUESDAY to retake your Davy Crockett or Flight of Icarus test?"

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Are you coming on TUESDAY to retake your Davy Crockett or Flight of Icarus test?

please choose one answer.

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Yes, I will stay after school on Tuesday and retake the test; I DO NOT have to go to math tutoring

Yes, I will stay after school on Tuesday and retake the test; I HAVE to go to math tutoring first

No, I am NOT retaking me test

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Assignment: "#010 Fables"

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#010 Fables

Please choose ONE of the fables in the attached document to compare and contrast with "The Fox and Crow" in the workshop tab of your writer's notebook. Please answer the question above this and then work on your RAP or silently read.

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Assignment: "#009 Davy Crockett Saves the World Test"

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#009 Davy Crockett Saves the World Test

Please open the attached form and take your test. Please make sure you use the textbook during the test, read the questions carefully, and fully answer the questions. When finished please start drafting your memoir final draft on the template provided here in classroom. There is to be absolutely no talking during the test and the test needs to be finished today in class.

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Assignment: "Memoir Template"

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Assignment: "#008 Character Analysis"

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#008 Character Analysis

Please fill out the character map graphic organizer by choosing a character from your independent reading book, if you have a non fiction book ONLY, please use a previous book you've read to complete this assignment. When finished, please continue drafting your memoir rough draft.

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Assignment: "#007 Identifying Theme"

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#007 Identifying Theme

Please work on this assignment in class on Thursday. If you do not finish, you will have some time in class to finish tomorrow, Friday.

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Assignment: "#006 Memoir"

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Assignment: "Book Talk"

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Behind

Author’s Purpose As you read,

think about why the author wrote this

article and what she wants you to learn.

LOOK FOR WORD NERD’S

9 WORDS IN BOLD

On August 29, 2016, I received an email

from Margaret Boudreaux [boo-DROH], a

Storyworks teacher at Episcopal School in

Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

“We have just suffered a great flood, a

thousand-year flood,” she wrote. “Much of our

school was damaged, and many of our students

and teachers lost their homes.”

I had been reading about the devastating flooding that

had struck Louisiana just weeks before. In the city of

Baton Rouge, many areas were under 10 feet of water.

Thousands of people had lost everything they owned.

But that was only one part of the story that Mrs.

Boudreaux and her students wanted to share with me.

“This disaster brought out the good in people,” she wrote.

“People rushed to help each other. My students and I invite you to

visit us, to meet boys and girls who can tell you this story firsthand.”

And so last November, I flew down to Baton Rouge to meet the

inspiring kids and teachers of Episcopal.

Our World

Nonfiction

4 STORYWORKS STORYWORKS.SCHOLASTIC.COM SEPTEMBER 2017 5

This is their story.

Turned to Water

You’ll meet these amazing people in this story:

Addisyn Dell Skyler Mrs. Boudreaux

COAST GUARD PHOTO BY PETTY OFFICER 1ST CLASS MELISSA LEAKE (FLOOD); TIM MUELLER/AP IMAGES FOR SCHOLASTIC INC. (ALL OTHER IMAGES)

Surviving

the Louisiana Flood

of 2016 BY LAUREN TARSHIS

Main Idea and Supporting Details As you read,

think about how a community responded to a disaster. LOOK FOR WORD NERD’S 10

WORDS IN BOLD

LEARN

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always been safe from

flooding. So does the

Botos family.

But soon, even

“safe” areas of the city

would be in grave

danger.

On Saturday

morning, Skyler, who

had slept at his friend’s

house, was awakened by

the sound of his phone.

It was a call from his mother.

“I’m outside,” she said. “The house is

flooded. Everything is gone.”

In Dell’s neighborhood near Episcopal,

water rushed through the streets. The school’s

athletic fields had turned into lakes, complete

with lapping waves.

The Botos family woke up to see water in

their road. By 7 a.m., they decided to leave

in Mr. Botos’s big pickup truck. But they had

barely made it down the driveway when the

water suddenly began to rise very quickly.

“It just rushed in,” says Mrs. Botos.

The water caused the truck’s engine to die.

Water gushed up through the bottom of the

truck. “First our feet were wet,” Mrs. Botos says.

“Then we had water up to our waists and then

our chests.”

Being in a car or truck when even just a

few inches of water are on a roadway can be

extremely dangerous. Two feet of water can lift

a massive pickup or SUV and turn it on its side

or sweep it away like a bath toy. Water pushes

against the doors, sometimes making them

impossible to open and trapping passengers

inside. Every year, dozens of people in vehicles

lose their lives trying to escape floods.

Stranded

Luckily, Mrs. Botos managed to break a

window. Somehow the kids in back were able

to ram open one of the truck doors. Sixteen-

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Eleven-year-old

Addisyn Botos

was up to her neck

in freezing, filthy

water.

It was August

13, 2016, and

devastating floods were sweeping

across Louisiana. In Addisyn’s Baton

Rouge neighborhood, the waters

had risen so quickly that she and her

parents, two brothers, and sister had

become trapped. They were caught outside

their flooded house as stinking brown water

rushed all around them.

Shivering and terrified, Addisyn gripped

a wooden post so the powerful current

wouldn’t sweep her away. With each

passing minute, the water was getting higher

and higher.

“I’ve never been so scared,” Addisyn

remembers.

How would she and her family escape?

A Rainy Morning

Two days earlier, on Thursday, August

11, few people in Baton Rouge could have

imagined that their city would soon be in ruins.

Outside, the morning sky was gray and

rainy. But inside Episcopal School, the mood

was sunny with excitement. It was orientation

day—a time to meet new teachers and catch

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up with old friends. The hallways buzzed with

students in their crisp blue and plaid uniforms,

their hair combed and curled for pictures.

Addisyn was thrilled to start fifth grade.

Sixth-grader Skyler Adams and his pals

swapped stories about summer adventures.

Seventeen-year-old Dell Portwood was psyched

for his senior year on Episcopal’s football team.

“We were all so happy to start school the

next day,” says Mrs. Boudreaux, who teaches

fifth-grade language arts. “We weren’t worried

about a little rain,” she adds.

What Boudreaux and the other teachers

and students of Episcopal School did not know

was that the rain was part of a dangerous and

unusual storm system. Weather forecasters were

growing increasingly alarmed. A large amount

of moisture in the air was producing unusually

heavy rain. It was as though millions of fire

hoses were hanging from the sky, all turned on

full blast.

Most worrisome? The storm was moving

slowly. That meant it would hover over Baton

Rouge, pouring down rain, for days.

That morning, the National Weather

Service sent out a flash flood warning for parts

of Baton Rouge. Flash floods happen when

great quantities of rain fall over a short period

of time. With little warning, lazy rivers, quiet

streams, and peaceful creeks explode into

powerful torrents of churning water. Every

year, an average of 130 Americans die in

flash floods.

A Disaster Taking Shape

Already, two of Baton Rouge’s main

rivers—the Amite [AY-meet] and the Comite

[COH-meet]—were starting to creep up over

their banks. Those rivers connect to many small

tributaries—creeks and streams and brooks that

squiggle into almost all corners of Baton Rouge.

A flooding disaster was taking shape.

The next day, Friday, most schools across

Baton Rouge—including Episcopal—were

closed because of flooded roadways. But those

living near Episcopal felt safe.

“We had never flooded before,” says Dell,

who lives near the school.

Skyler’s family also lives in an area that had

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of map

U.S.

Gulf of Mexico

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Mississippi River

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The Botos’s truck, after their escape.

Top: A young man tries to save some of his

possessions from the floodwaters.

Volunteers used their own

boats to rescue people from

flooded homes and roads.

ANNIE WENTZELL/GETTY IMAGES (BACKGROUND); JONATHAN BACHMAN/REUTERS (MAN); TRUCK PHOTO PROVIDED

BY BOTOS FAMILY/TIM MUELLER/AP IMAGES FOR SCHOLASTIC INC.; JIM MCMAHON/MAPMAN® (MAP)

JOE RAEDLE/GETTY IMAGES (VOLUNTEERS)

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Why does the Episcopal community feel fortunate even though they lost so much?

Send a letter explaining what you learned to “Flood Contest” by Nov. 1, 2017;

we will forward it to Mrs. Boudreaux’s students. Ten winners will each receive a

copy of I Survived Hurricane Katrina by Lauren Tarshis. See page 2 for details.

WRITE TO WIN

FIND AN

ACTIVITY

ONLINE!

everything they owned—furniture, computers,

photos, clothing. Even a small amount of

water in a home can

cause extensive damage.

When the water

recedes, it leaves behind

a sickening sludge of

mud, oil, dead worms,

and other filth. Carpets

must be ripped out and

replaced. Damp and

moldy walls must be

demolished.

Students and

teachers joined together

to help people clean

their homes, haul away

trash, and salvage things that had escaped

the waters. Donations poured in.

“It was amazing what people did for us,”

says Skyler, whose home took many months

to repair.

year-old Marcus grabbed

hold of 8-year-old Brennen.

Addisyn held tight to her

mom as her dad freed their

two dogs from their crates

in the back. Slowly, the

family pushed their way

through the deep water and

back toward the house. Mr.

Botos used straps from his

truck to tie the family and

dogs together so nobody

would be swept away by

the powerful current.

They had escaped from

the truck. But now they were stranded. And the

water was getting higher and higher.

Across Baton Rouge and surrounding towns,

emergency operators were receiving frantic calls

for help.

“I’m stuck in my car!”

“We’re on the roof of our house!”

“Please help us!”

From the sky, Baton Rouge seemed more like

a lake than a city. Church spires and rooftops

poked out of brown, rippling water. Partially

submerged cars looked like shiny sea creatures.

In a nearby city, caskets from a flooded cemetery

rose out of the soaked ground and floated down

the streets.

A Volunteer Navy

Meanwhile, the Botos family huddled

together in the freezing water, which stunk of

oil and gas. Adding to their misery: The water

was swarming with fire ants, which stung their

arms and legs. Hours passed, but there seemed

to be no escape—and nobody who could help

them. Rescue workers were overwhelmed. Fire

trucks were stranded.

But as flooding worsened, the people of

Baton Rouge began to mobilize to help each

other. By mid-morning, a “navy” of volunteers

had taken to the flooded streets in their own

“That’s Just Stuff”

The Louisiana Flood of 2016 was the worst

natural disaster in America since Hurricane

Sandy in 2012. The storm dumped a staggering

3 feet of rain in some areas. That’s three times as

much as fell during Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

Thirteen people died; an estimated 143,000

homes flooded. More than a year later, many

people still struggle with the losses they suffered.

Nine schools in the city remained closed all year.

Thousands of students have been crowded into

schools many miles from their homes.

Compared with so many across Louisiana,

the people within the Episcopal community were

fortunate. Episcopal reopened just a week after

the flood. The damaged gym and fields were

repaired within months. Dell and the football

team played a winning

season. Most important,

the community

continued to rally around

those who needed help.

Like so many at

Episcopal, the Botos

family looks back on

their experience mainly

with gratitude. Addisyn

misses the treasures she

lost—her jewelry, her

dolls, her Bible. But as

her mom says, “That’s

just stuff.”

“We’ve gained so much more than we lost,”

Mrs. Botos goes on. “The lessons we’ve learned

are so amazing. We feel that we have been

blessed beyond our imagination.”

Addisyn agrees. “We are very lucky.” n

boats. Mrs. Boudreaux’s 22-year-old son,

Elliott, was one of hundreds of people who

helped pluck neighbors from rooftops and cars.

They climbed through windows to help the

elderly and disabled. They comforted crying

children and calmed jittery cats and dogs.

It was one of these boats, piloted by an old

friend of Mrs. Botos’s, that finally rescued the

family. They were taken to a gas station. When

that area flooded, a second boat took them to a

parking lot. It wasn’t until late that afternoon

that a huge army truck brought them to a fire

station, where Addisyn’s aunt was able to pick

them up.

After nearly nine agonizing hours, at last

the family was safe and dry.

“What Can I Do?”

Even before the floodwaters cleared, the

Episcopal School community was coming

together. Those who had been spared flooding

worked to help those in need. Dell’s family was

among the fortunate; their house did not flood.

“All I could think was, how can I help?”

Dell says. “What can I do? What can I do?”

The answer: a lot.

Throughout southern Louisiana, thousands

of people returned to their homes to find

scenes of complete ruin. Many people lost

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JONATHAN BACHMAN/REUTERS (BACKGROUND); ZHANG CHAOQUN/NEWSCOM (DAMAGED HOME)

The flood cleanup lasted for months, as people

hauled trash from their damaged homes.

The Botos Family: Mallory, 13; Brennen, 8; Marcus,

16; Ben (dad), Addisyn, 12, and Michelle (mom).

ZHANG CHAOQUN XINHUA/EYEVINE/REDUX (CLEANUP); TIM MUELLER/AP IMAGES FOR SCHOLASTIC INC. (BOTOS FAMILY)

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Assignment: "Our World Vocabulary and Story"

Assignment: "#011 Poetry/Fable Test"

Question: "Are you coming on TUESDAY to retake your Davy Crockett or Flight of Icarus test?"

Assignment: "#010 Fables"

Assignment: "#009 Davy Crockett Saves the World Test"

Assignment: "Memoir Template"

Assignment: "#008 Character Analysis"

Assignment: "#007 Identifying Theme"

Assignment: "#006 Memoir"

Assignment: "Book Talk"

Our World Vocabulary and Story

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