THE WILD ROBOT
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Reading Schedule
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Week 4! October 3 - October 11
Monday: pages 212-221 Chapters: 64-67: The Special Robot*, The Invitation*, The Celebration, The Sunrise
Tuesday: pages 222-235 Chapters: 68-71: The Recos*, The Defective Robot, The Hunt Begins*, The Forest Assault
Wednesday: pages 236-248 Chapters: 72-73: The Mountain Rumble, The Chase
Thursday: pages 249-258 Chapters: 74-76: The Click*, The Last Rifle, The Broken Robot
Friday - Monday: pages 259 - 269 Chapters: 77-80: The Meeting*, The Farewell, The Departure*, The Sky
Tuesday: pages 222-235 Chapters: 68-71: The Recos*, The Defective Robot, The Hunt Begins*, The Forest Assault
Wednesday: pages 236-248 Chapters: 72-73: The Mountain Rumble, The Chase
Thursday: pages 249-258 Chapters: 74-76: The Click*, The Last Rifle, The Broken Robot
Friday - Monday: pages 259 - 269 Chapters: 77-80: The Meeting*, The Farewell, The Departure*, The Sky
The Final Week - 4 Preview:
In our final week, the situation on the island changes. First, there is celebration of the long cold winter's end and Brightbill's return but the celebration brings big problems it did not intend. The company that created Roz and all the robots like her, return to the island get Roz and all the robot parts. The animal's fight valiantly to save their friend Roz but it is not enough. Roz has to make a decision. Should she leave and save Brightbill and the animals from further problems with the robots, with the hope she can return some day?
Week 4 Optional Discussion and Extension Activities to do with your family:
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Discussion:
Extension Activities:
- What are some ways the animals worked together to defeat the RECO robot? Why do you think this cooperation surprised the RECO robots?
- What important advice does RECO 1 give to Roz? Why do you think he gives that advice?
- Do you think the RECO robots are bad or evil, why or why not?
- Why did Roz decide to leave the island? Do you think she made a good decision? What would you do?
- How has Roz herself changed in her time on the island?
- How has Roz changed the animals and the island?
- Did you like the ending? Try to write another ending, what would be different?
- Do you think Roz will return, why or why not?
Extension Activities:
- Questions-Clues-Predictions* - Readers make predictions by previewing a text and asking questions. They use details as clues to make predictions as they read. They confirm or adjust their predictions during and after reading. Making predictions helps us set expectations for reading, use the text to aid us in comprehension, and to compare our thinking with what the author has written.
- Make it Better - The purpose of this activity is to practice close observations, identify problems, and brainstorm solutions! Any object can be used! (Examples include: shoe, pencil, chair, and plastic cup
Options:
- This method is used by design engineers at Dyson to brainstorm solutions to different problems. Take a piece of paper and fold it into 16 squares. Sketch or jot down different ideas to improve the object! If you want, make a model of your best design!
- Take one object. Sketch out how you would improve the object for a certain audience. Make a model of your design, if you want!
Week 3 September 26-October 2
Monday: pages 139-154 Chapters 46-48: The Fight, The Parade, The New Foot*
Tuesday: pages 155-170 Chapters: 49-53: The Flier*, The Button, The Autumn*, The Flock*, The Migration
Wednesday: pages 172-183 Chapters: 54-56: The Winter*, The Lodgers, The New Lodges,
Thursday: pages 184-199 Chapters: 57-60: The Fire*, The Conversations, The Spring*, The Fish
Friday - Sunday: pages 200-211 Chapters: 61-63: The Robot Stories*, The Return, The Journey*
Tuesday: pages 155-170 Chapters: 49-53: The Flier*, The Button, The Autumn*, The Flock*, The Migration
Wednesday: pages 172-183 Chapters: 54-56: The Winter*, The Lodgers, The New Lodges,
Thursday: pages 184-199 Chapters: 57-60: The Fire*, The Conversations, The Spring*, The Fish
Friday - Sunday: pages 200-211 Chapters: 61-63: The Robot Stories*, The Return, The Journey*
Week 3 Preview:
In this week's exciting reading, there are many changes on the island. First, the bears return, but this time leaving Roz with a new problem. In the meantime, the seasons are changing. First fall comes to the island and the animals must prepare for the coming winter in their different ways. For geese it means migration, including Brightbill. Then an especially cold and frigid winter brings many challenges for the animals who did not migrate. Roz finds new ways to help others. Finally, spring arrives and brings surprising information about the World beyond the island.
Week 3 Optional Discussion and Extension Activities to do with your family:
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Discussion:
- How do the animals figure out how to help the damaged Roz? Think about the steps of Engineering Design: Ask, Imagine, Plan, Create and Improve. How do the animals follow each of these steps, and what do they do when their first design does not work well enough? Which animals help out and what special talent does each of them contribute to the problem?
- Roz cannot teach Brightbill to fly as a regular goose mother would so how does she help him learn to fly? Do you have special ways you can help others?
- Describe how you think Roz feels when Brightbill leaves on his migration. Can your family compare a time that you left for a new experience?
- Crag the Turtle tells the group of animals about the weather changes during his long lifetime. How does his experience relate to the weather on Earth in our real lives?
- Brightbill brings back descriptions of a city with many different kinds of robots. In what ways are these robots like Roz and how they not like Roz?
Activities:
- See/Think/Wonder - This activity encourages careful observations and interpretations. It helps to stimulate curiosity and sets the stage for inquiry. This activity may be use with pictures in a book, artwork, or an object! Students will begin by describing what they SEE. They will follow-up with what they THINK may be going on. Encourage students to back up what they are thinking with evidence or reasons. Finally, ask students what they WONDER about the object or topic.
- Hoop Glider Activity* - Create your own flying device! This doesn’t look like a plane, but you can practice all of the elements of engineering when you design and build it! Try different materials, like different types of paper. Place the location and number of loops. How does this affect how long your design is in the air and how far it can fly? Try changing how hard you throw it and the angle of it. What happens?
- Build a Tower* - In the book, the animals worked together to build a lodge for them to stay warm in the winter. In this activity, you will be building a structure that is at least 18 inches tall and can hold a tennis ball. Like Roz in the story, you need to make sure that your structure is strong enough against the wind (a fan) and against the heavy snow (tennis ball).
Week 2 September 19-25
Monday: pages 69-82 Chapters: 27-29: The Gosling*, The Old Goose, The Beavers
Tuesday: pages 83-95 Chapters: 30-33: The Nest*, The First Night, The Deer*, The Garden
Wednesday: pages 96-107 Chapters: 34-36: The Mother*, The First Swim*, The Gosling Grows*
Thursday: pages 108-122 Chapters: 37-41: The Squirrel*, The New Friendship, The First Flight*, The Ship, The Summer
Friday - Sunday: pages 123-138 Chapters: 42-45: The Strange Family*, The Gosling Takes Off*, The Runaway*, The Dead Robots
Tuesday: pages 83-95 Chapters: 30-33: The Nest*, The First Night, The Deer*, The Garden
Wednesday: pages 96-107 Chapters: 34-36: The Mother*, The First Swim*, The Gosling Grows*
Thursday: pages 108-122 Chapters: 37-41: The Squirrel*, The New Friendship, The First Flight*, The Ship, The Summer
Friday - Sunday: pages 123-138 Chapters: 42-45: The Strange Family*, The Gosling Takes Off*, The Runaway*, The Dead Robots
Let's create the Island in the Commons! |
Week 2 Preview:There is one surviving egg from the goose nest that Roz accidentally smashes and when it hatches, the baby goose thinks Roz is its mother. Roz decides that since she is responsible for the gosling being alone she must act like his mother and make sure he survives. She names the gosling Brightbill and begins to provide all the necessary things that a mother would provide for her son, including food, shelter and even friends. To do so she asks for help and advice from many types of animals, seeking the right type of animal for each task, depending on her observation of that animal's specialty or unique trait. For example, it is the beavers who are master builders that help Roz build a home for she and Brightbill. As Brightbill grows, Roz also must make sure he learns to swim and to fly. This strange couple, The Wild Robot named Roz and the gosling, named Brightbill, begin to form a special bond.
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Week 2 Optional Discussion and Extension Activities to do with your family:
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Discussion:
Is Roz a good mother to Brightbill? Think about what makes a good mother and what does Roz do that makes her a mother?
In what different ways do the animals on the island help Roz and Brightbill? What talents do they use? What talents do you think you could contribute?
How do the animals act toward Roz now and has this changed from when they first met her? If so, how and why?How would you react to a Wild Robot coming to Arlington Heights?
Is Roz a good mother to Brightbill? Think about what makes a good mother and what does Roz do that makes her a mother?
In what different ways do the animals on the island help Roz and Brightbill? What talents do they use? What talents do you think you could contribute?
How do the animals act toward Roz now and has this changed from when they first met her? If so, how and why?How would you react to a Wild Robot coming to Arlington Heights?
Activities:
-Text-to-text connections: What does this remind you of in another book you’ve read? How is this story similar to/different from other things you have read?
-Text-to-self connections: What does this story remind you of? Can you relate to the characters of the story? How? Does anything in this story remind you of anything in your own life?
-Text-to-world connections: What does this remind you of in the real world? How are events in this story similar to/different from things that happen in the real world?
- Making Connections* - Readers gain a deeper understanding of a text when they make authentic connections.
-Text-to-text connections: What does this remind you of in another book you’ve read? How is this story similar to/different from other things you have read?
-Text-to-self connections: What does this story remind you of? Can you relate to the characters of the story? How? Does anything in this story remind you of anything in your own life?
-Text-to-world connections: What does this remind you of in the real world? How are events in this story similar to/different from things that happen in the real world?
- KWLQ* - KWLQ charts are used to document what we think we KNOW, WANT to learn, what we have LEARNED, and what QUESTIONS we have. They may be used before learning about a topic, at a point along the way, or at the end of an unit.
- How Strong is an Eggshell? - At the end of last week’s readings, we find Roz accidentally “plummeting into the treetops” and smashing four eggs. Are eggs really that fragile, though? Try this experiment! You will need at least four eggs!
Week 1 September 12 - 18
Monday: pages 1-12 Chapters 1-5: The Ocean*, The Otters*, The Robot, The Robot Hatches, The Robot Gravesite
Tuesday: pages 13-25 Chapters 6-11: The Climb*, The Wilderness, The Pinecones, The Mountain, The Reminder*, The Robot Sleeps
Wednesday: pages 26-39 Chapters 12-16: The Storm*, The Aftermath, The Bears*, The Escape*, The Pine Tree
Thursday: pages 40-52 Chapters 17-21: The Camouflaged Insect*, The Camouflaged Robot, The Observations, The Language of Animals, The Introduction
Friday - Sunday: pages 53-68 Chapters 22-26: The New Word*, The Wounded Fox, The Accident, The Egg, The Performer
Tuesday: pages 13-25 Chapters 6-11: The Climb*, The Wilderness, The Pinecones, The Mountain, The Reminder*, The Robot Sleeps
Wednesday: pages 26-39 Chapters 12-16: The Storm*, The Aftermath, The Bears*, The Escape*, The Pine Tree
Thursday: pages 40-52 Chapters 17-21: The Camouflaged Insect*, The Camouflaged Robot, The Observations, The Language of Animals, The Introduction
Friday - Sunday: pages 53-68 Chapters 22-26: The New Word*, The Wounded Fox, The Accident, The Egg, The Performer
Week 1 Preview: In this first week of reading, we meet Roz, a robot who "hatches" from her crate after the ship carrying her sinks. We find out she is programmed to complete tasks she is asked to do and to find better ways of completing them. Roz's survival instincts immediately tell her that that the Ocean water is not good for her so she begins to explore the island away from the water. Over the next chapters Roz learns to climb and weather a storm, meets and escapes from unfriendly bears, and begins to observe the animals around her to learn their survival techniques. Finally she saves one goose egg after she accidentally smashes the rest of the gosling's family.
Week 1 Optional Discussion and Activities to do with your family
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Why are the animals afraid of Roz?
What does Roz learn from each animal and what does Roz want the animals to teach her?
What do we learn about Roz in these chapters? Can you describe her?
What does Roz learn from each animal and what does Roz want the animals to teach her?
What do we learn about Roz in these chapters? Can you describe her?
Activities:
- Roz observes many animals and discovers the way they communicate with each other or the way they raise their families.
- Stop & Jot - Stop and jot on Post-Its as you read! Sometimes, we start with a question (like: How does the character change?) and have students use Post-Its to identify places that provide evidence for their answers. Sometimes, we stop and jot where we have a-ha moments, questions, or key elements of the story.
- Movie in My Mind* - When we make movies in our minds, we are picturing or visualizing what’s happening in the story. This helps us to better understand the story and to make predictions. Ask: What movie in your mind do you have?
1. Gather 2-3 of the same item from each category (for example: 2-3 paper toilet rolls).
a. Stiff building materials (like toilet paper rolls or aluminum foil)
b. Flat materials (like notecards, paper, or napkins)
c. Connectors (like clothespins, pipe cleaners, or paperclips)
2. Pick one problem.
Examples:
I can’t open my juice box
I can’t keep my shoes on my feet.
I can’t peel my banana.
I need to keep cool at recess on a hot day.
3. Work together as a family to develop a solution to one of the problems using only the materials that you started with. Make sure you problem-solve and work together! A short time limit of 5-10 minutes works
best!