Plantzilla
It's summer vacation and Mortimer wants to take one of the class plants, Plantzilla, home with him for the summer. Read all about Mortimer and his family's experience living with Plantzilla through a series of letters that they write to Mortimer's science teacher, Mr. Lester.
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story grammar
Main Character: Mortimer Henryson
Setting: Mortimer’s home during summer break
Initiating Event: Mortimer brings Plantzilla home from school for the summer
Feelings: excited, proud
Plan: Mortimer plans to care for Plantzilla over the summer, hoping to keep it healthy and strong
Action: Mortimer feeds, waters, and cares for Plantzilla. It grows very large and develops some unusual abilities
Solution: Mortimer’s parents grow to love Plantzilla and want it to live with them forever
Ending: Plantzilla writes a letter to the science teacher thanking him for sending him to a nice home
summary (SWBST)
Somebody: Mortimer
Wanted: to take care of Plantzilla all summer
But: it began acting strange
So: Mortimer’s parents wanted to send Plantzilla back to his science teacher
Then: Mortimer’s parents began to love Plantzilla as a part of the family
Past Tense Verbs
delighted, named, shrieked, fainted, attached, developed, motivated, believed, cooked, occurred, offended, lavished, forwarded, caused, pleased, rushed, addressed, baffled, nicknamed brushed, watered, worried, attached, heard, came
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Plural Nouns
things, notes, pets, eyes, neighbors, events, parents, experiences, circumstances, rooms, windows, plants, leaves
Vocabulary
growth, cilia , vacation, botany, adoption, baffled, shriek, faint, thrive, symbiotic, adoption, robbery, grooming, chihuahua , insatiable