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The Lorax
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Created on March 11, 2024
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Transcript
by Dr. Seuss
by Dr. Seuss
Dr Seuss
Who is this man?
The Lorax
Some important Vocabulary
The Book
Characters
The Short Film
The Long Film
Cause and Effect
Our Lessons
Earth Day
Watch and discover the man behind the story....
Complete
The Lorax
The Lorax
In Groups of 2 or 3, prepare to describe what you see in this picture to the other groups. -What can you see? -What is he doing? -What happened? -What is he saying?
The Book
Click to listen and read along...
Author Dr. SeussIllustrator Dr. SeussCountry United StatesLanguage EnglishGenre Children's literaturePublisher Random HousePublication date June 18, 1971 (renewed 1999)Pages 64
1972 television special
Check your understanding
Who are the characters in The Lorax?
Can you put the story back in the correct order?
Cause
Effects
The factory chopped down trees and caused pollution
With your group, prepare post-its with the effects to stick to the tree
Cause Effect
The Once-ler kept making more thneeds
The Swomee-Swans couldn't sing
The Bar-ba-loots left to find food
The Once-ler built a factory
There is not enough Truffula fruit
The Once-ler's factory produced smog
The Once-ler choped down Truffula trees
There is not enouth Truffula fruit
The air was polluted
The Once-ler polluted the ponds
The Once-ler found the Truffula Trees
The Humming fish can't hum
The Once-ler built a factory to make thneeds
The Lorax speaks for the trees
All of the Truffula Trees were cut down
The trees can not speak for themselves
What to do
Drag the elements to find cause and effect in the story. Then add link words!
What would you do if....
April 22nd is Earth Day. What would you do to help protect planet Earth?
"To help my environment, I pledge to . . ."
you can speak for the trees....
click to learn more about Earth Day and one special commercial
Earth Day, the annual day of environmental action and awareness, was first held on April 22, 1970. In 1971 "Keep America Beautiful", a nonprofit organization founded in 1953, which aims to end littering, to improve recycling, and to beautify American communities, release an advertisement in order to allert the public to the dangers of pollution. Watch it here and prepare to compare it to Dr Seuss' message in the Lorax....
Act and React.... What can I do?
Watch these young Australians. What do they do to help the planet?
Read this poem. What does the authour thind we should do?
And You? What CAN you do to help the planet? What SHOULD we do to help the planet?
Act and React.... What can I do later?
What types of jobs do you know that care for our planet? Watch this video and write some ideas...
Click on the link and find information about a minimum of 4 jobs related to caring for the climate.
What about you? What types of jobs can you prepare to do in our area? What school can you go to?
Bonus Activity
How much do you know about our planet earth?
Read some amazing facts and play the jeapordy game!
2012 animated film