The text innovation is first intended to be used initially while reading for the students to predict what the cows and then hens will withhold from the farmer after he refuses their requests, having post it notes over the 'letters' that the cows have typed in the book.
The last 4 slides follow the same format but asking the students about animals that are not in the book ... sheep and goats. This would allow a discussion about how farms work, that the farmer needs to look after their animals in order for them to produce well on the farm. I deliberately didn't choose meat producing aspects of farms, maybe partly out my own discomfit around this, but also as the discussion in the book is between the animals and the farmer and, though this may be taking the anthropomorphism too far ... I don't think anything much would reconcile an animal to be killed in it's prime for food.
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