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Students read contrasting styles of poems about weather, including Carl Sandburg’s “Fog” and Robert Frost’s “Dust of Snow,” and discuss how poetic techniques affect the interpretation of poems. Then students read informational texts, such as “Kenya’s Long Dry Season” by Nellie Gonzalez Cutler, and apply the information learned to their appreciation of the setting of //Safari Journal// by Hudson Talbott. Students learn about geography and weather through a variety of informational texts. Class discussions will focus on the back-and-forth relationship between information gleaned from the informational texts and the insights they develop from literature.
 * Grade 4 Unit 2: Literature Settings: Weather or Not ** This six-week unit invites students to explore geography as it relates to seasons and weather. Students discover how these settings are represented in—and affect events in—literature.
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**ESSENTIAL QUESTION** How does the author's use of setting affect the plot of a story?


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