Transcript What is opium?

Dragonwings “The Lost Garden”: 2/4/14
Content
Objective:
Explain how an author’s geographic location or culture affects his or
her perspective. (RL.6.6a)
Learning
Objective:
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Identify details that affected Laurence Yep’s perspective on what it’s like to
fit into another culture.
Infer how those details affected Laurence Yep’s perspective on what it’s like
to fit into another culture.
Identify evidence of Laurence Yep’s perspective on what it’s like to fit into
another culture in Dragonwings
Class Work:
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Review the Opening Excerpt from The Lost Garden for Gist
Identify Cultural Details through Text-Dependent Questions
Write an Inference Statement: Laurence Yep’s Perspective
Work collaboratively to complete pages 11-13 in materials packet
Vocabulary:
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Opium, opium den
Homework:
Review chapter 4. Create a chart to answer the following questions:
“What is Moon Shadow’s point of view of the opium dens? How do you
know?” Use evidence flags to identify three text details from the rest of this
chapter to support your answer.
What is opium?
• Opium is a highly addictive
narcotic drug acquired from
the opium poppy seed pod.
Traditionally the unripened
pod is slit open and the sap
seeps out and dries on the
outer surface of the pod.
The resulting yellow-brown
sticky substance, which is
scraped off of the pod, is
bitter in taste and contains
varying amounts of
alkaloids such as morphine,
codeine, to name a few.
Ancient Use
• Opium has been actively collected since prehistoric
times, and may be the soma plant mentioned in the Rig
Veda. Though western scholars typically date the text
at 1500 BCE, Indian scholars maintain that the verses
and the history contained in them have been orally
transmitted thousands of years before. Soma is Vedic
Sanskrit for moon, describing both the shape of the
bulb and its nightly juice drippings, which in ancient
times would have been visible by moonlight only. The
upper South Asian belt of Afghanistan, Pakistan,
northern India, and Burma still account for the world's
largest supply of opium