Summary
Lisa's friend Lottie, a Skeleckian, will receive a unique talent if she holds a fruit known as an Orangachoke during a total eclipse of the sun. She invites everyone at the local school to witness the eclipse—but accidentally misspells Danny Rebus's name on the invitation. A furious Danny steals the Orangachoke in retaliation, and the Electric Company must get it back before the eclipse. Guest Starring: Josephine Rose Roberts, David Lee (basketball)|David Lee Villain: Danny Words: Artichoke, dubious, panorama, touchy, eclipse Note: After the Electric Company website was remodeled on February 1, 2011 this episode was no longer available on the episode section of the site. Like every Electric Company adventure, the story hangs on reading, decoding, and vocabulary under pressure.
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Teaching resources
Discussion questions
Discussion
Every Electric Company episode builds its story around wordballs — words the team reads, decodes, and uses under pressure. Watch for the vocabulary the episode leans on and how the characters puzzle words out.
- Which words did the Electric Company have to read or decode to solve the problem?
- How did a character figure out a word they didn't know at first?
- Where could you use one of this episode's words this week?
Quick work-a-long
Vocabulary: decode, wordball, clue, solve.
Try it: Keep a wordball list while you watch — every word the show spotlights goes on the board, and each student picks one to use in a sentence afterward.