The Spiderman behind Spiderman (non-fiction)

The Spiderman behind Spiderman (non-fiction)

Poll

In your opinion, what is the weirdest job?

• Professional sleeper.

• Insects trainer.

• Full-time Netflix viewer

• Train Pusher

• Dog food taster

Open Ended

What do you know about Spiderman?

Open Ended

What is Steven Kutcher's job?

“I know how to get a cockroach to run across the

floor and flip onto its back. I can get cockroaches,

beetles, and spiders to crawl to a quarter four feet away

on command. I can make bees swarm indoors and I

can repair butterfly wings,” says Kutcher. He has even

made a live wasp fly into an actor’s mouth. “I study

insect behavior, and learn what they do and then

adapt the behavior to what the director wants.”

Multiple Select

Study the reading text from pages 164 to 168. Tick the text features that you find.

• Heading

• subheading

• visual aid

• sidebar

• table

Summarize

• When you summarize, you retell the main idea and key ideas in your own words in the same order they appear in the text.

Multiple Choice

A summary should be written in your own words.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

You should only include the main events or ideas from the passage when writing a summary.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

Summaries should include every detail from a story or passage.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

Which one of the following is NOT a part of a summary?

• using your own words

• summary being shorter than the text

• exact words from the text

• including main ideas or events only

Multiple Choice

When some people think about Texas, they think of cowboys on the open range-herding cattle up a dusty trail. However, Texas has much more than open prairie with large herds of cows. There are the mountains of West Texas, the piney hills of east Texas, and the emerald waters off the coast of Padre Island. Texas also has large coastal harbors with numerous sailboats, powerboats, inland lakes, rivers, swamps of southeast Texas with alligators and other exotic wildlife.

The Summary of this passage is:

• There are a lot of cows in Texas.

• There are many different, varied parts of Texas.

• Texas is one of the biggest states in the United States.

• There are alligators in the swampland of southeast Texas.

Multiple Choice

San Francisco is located on the coast of California in an area often called the Bay Area. The weather is generally very mild, seldom getting really cold or really hot. Its mild climate is one reason many people live there. It seldom snows in San Francisco and generally does not get below freezing during the winter. Even in the middle of summer, temperatures may be in the mid 80s with a cool breeze from the bay keeping the weather very comfortable.

The summary of this passage is:

• San Francisco has many neat things to do.

• It seldom snows in California.

• Many people choose to live in California.

• The weather in San Francisco is generally very mild.

Multiple Choice

Tomorrow is Jill's birthday. She is excited because she gets to pick where she will eat dinner. Will it be Mexican food at the Big Enchilada House? Or will it be fried chicken at the Chicken Shack, or a big cheeseburger at Al's Hamburger Palace. She just couldn't decide. Then there was always the Pizza Shop with that great pepperoni pizza. How would she ever decide? Maybe she would just flip a coin.

The summary of this passage is:

• Jill has many restaurants to choose from for her birthday.

• Jill loves Mexican food.

• The Pizza Shop has the best pizza in town.

• Jill will choose a place by flipping a coin.

Multiple Choice

Turn over a bag of potato chips. Is the label interesting? A simple food recipe may use several ingredients. These come from the soil and from chemistry labs around the world. Surprises also show up in the labels on clothing and other products. Look at the label on a package of lipstick. The tube seems small and shiny, but inside lipstick there is soap, oil, fish scales, and wax!

Which is the best way to summarize this passage?

• A bag of potato chips seems like a simple recipe. There are many ingredients from the soil and from chemistry labs.

• Clothes and other products have many ingredients as well. Lipstick alone has soap, oil, wax, and fish scales.

• Labels show what goes into food, clothing, and other products. A simple product may have many ingredients.

• Lipstick seems small and shiny. Look at the label sometime. It has at least four different ingredients.

Open Ended

Summarize the following excerpt from "The Spiderman behind Spiderman"

PASSION FOR BUGS

Kutcher’s love of insects and other creatures began when he was a small child on family summer vacations in New York state. Kutcher followed his passion and studied entomology, getting a master’s degree. He wanted to continue on to earn a Ph.D.

But when he did not get into the graduate school he wanted, he rethought his career plans. Then a college advisor he knew asked Kutcher to baby-sit 3,000 locusts that were to be used for the movie Exorcist Kutcher had to place the locusts wherever they were needed, including on the bodies of the stars of the movie. After doing some research, Kutcher found that about one third of all movies had insects in them.

Read the whole text on pages 164-168

Answer questions on pages 72.73