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Yaktivities
for January 31, 2013
Kids making news
NOTE TO
TEACHERS
This page is for you!
These Yaktivities are designed to
help you use Yak’s Corner in
your classroom. This is the
Teacher Page, consisting of
discussion questions and an
answer key to the reading comprehension questions and
vocabulary exercises presented
on subsequent pages.
Print the two subsequent
pages for your students to use
in class.
Yak’s Corner is a Michigan
K.I.D.S. Non-Profit Educational
Supplement Supported by
readers of the Detroit Free
Press and The Detroit News
Powerful Presidential Art
At the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, there is a new exhibit called
“Visions of Our 44th President.” Forty-four busts were each given to different artists to design
however they wanted. Discuss with your students: How would you represent our president if you
were given a bust to decorate? What would you put on it and why?
SL.CCS.1 Grades K-5: A discussion prompt is given to encourage student participation in
expressing their opinions and respectively listening and responding to the opinions of others.
Answer key
How Well Did You Read?
Explore Amazing Animal
Diversity
1. 3
2. d
3. d
Meet Kadir Nelson, Artist
and Author
1. c 2. a 3. b 4. d 5. c
Yakking About The News
1. Coin collections, bake sales, walk-athons, and the snowflake collection
2. To ban certain types of weapons, and
do more background checks for people
buying and owning guns
3. They’re brothers
4. Beasts of the Southern Wild
Yaktionary!!!
1. d 2. b 3. e 4. a 5. c
Common Core State Standards Guide
Yak’s Corner
NEWS CCS 1 and CCS 9: After your students read the stories on Page 2, refer to details and examples in the news columns when explaining what the text says
explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text. Two of the news briefs are linked; the donations of snowflakes to Sandy Hook and the work on gun control
measures. For older students, ask them to integrate the information from these two texts, as well as stories they can research in the Detroit Free Press and News
and other media, in order to write or speak about the subject knowledgeably.
ANIMALS CCS 3: Explore the story and then the animal diversity web site with your students. You can divide students into groups with a different animal assignment to research on the web. Ask them to explain the procedures, ideas, or concepts in a scientific, or technical text, including what happened and why, based
on specific information in the text.
ART CCS 2 and CCS 9: Read with your students the story about artist and author Kadir Nelson and the story about the exhibit at the Wright Museum. Ask them
to determine the main idea of the text; summarize the story. How is the piece on "Visions of Our 44th President" related to Kadir Nelson? What facts did your students learn about Mr. Nelson? Create a Post-it note message wall in your classroom and ask students to write notes to President Obama as he begins his second
term of office. Keep your messages posted through President's Day.
Yaktivities
How Well Did You Read? RF.CCS.4 Grades 1-5: Story related questions test reading accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
Yaktionary!!! L.CCS.6 Grades 3-5: Students are asked to match words to their definition to enhance and expand on the student’s base of general academic
(Tier Two) and domain-specific (Tier Three) words.
Yak’s Corner: January 31, 2013
Yaktivities
How well did you read?
Explore Amazing
Animal Diversity
Meet Kadir Nelson, Artist
and Author
1. How many visitors does the
Animal Diversity Website get
each month?
a. More than 100,000
b. More than 250,000
c. More than 500,000
d. More than 1,000,000
1. How many books has Kadir
written?
a. 10 books
b. 20 books
c. 30 books
d. 40 books
2. How many animal species have
profiles on Animal Diversity
Website?
a. 1,000 species
b. 2,000 species
c. 3,000 species
d. 4,000 species
3. What information can you find
about each animal on the Animal
Diversity Website?
a. Where the animal lives
b. What the animal eats
c. What the animal looks like
d. All of the above
2. Where did Kadir stop in
Michigan during his book tour?
a. Ann Arbor
b. Detroit
c. Lansing
d. Troy
3. Who did Kadir take art lessons
from during high school?
a. His father
b. His uncle
c. His brother
d. His grandfather
4. Where did Kadir go to college?
a. California
b. Michigan
c. Vermont
d. New York
5. What was Kadir originally going
to major in at college?
a. Art history
b. Sculpting
c. Architecture
d. Writing
Yakking About
The News:
1. What are some of the efforts
the Parent Teacher Student
Association of Connecticut has
organized to benefit the Sandy
Hook students?
___________________________
___________________________
___________________________
___________________________
2. What are some of the measures
President Barack Obama has
asked Congress to put in place
regarding gun control?
___________________________
___________________________
___________________________
___________________________
3. How are the coaches of the
Baltimore Ravens and the San
Francisco 49ers related?
___________________________
___________________________
___________________________
___________________________
4. What movie did Quvenzhane
Wallis star in to earn the
nomination for Best Actress?
___________________________
___________________________
___________________________
___________________________
Yak’s Corner: January 31, 2013
Yaktivities
YAKTIONARY!!!
The words on the left appear in this weekʼs issue of the Yak! Match each word with
itʼs definition on the right and write the letter of the definition in the space provided.
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a. Worthy of acceptance or belief
___ Atrocities
c. An artistic composition of materials and objects pasted
over a surface
___ Collaged
e. An extremely wicked or cruel act
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d. A sculpture representing a person's head, shoulders,
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Yak’s Word Search
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All these words are related to a theme
featured in this week’s issue of
Yak’s Corner.
ART
ARTIST
BIOGRAPHIES
BOOKS
BOOKSTORES
CHARACTERS
COMICS
DRAW
EXHIBIT
FAMILIAR
HEAVENLY
ILLUSTRATOR
MAGAZINES
PAINTER
PEOPLE
PICTURE
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THEME
WRITER