Whoever You Are

 By: Mem Fox   

Grades K-1

Lexile: AD490L

Summary:

This is a story about diversity and acceptance.  We are taken on a journey around the world where we explore people of different cultures, skin colors, lands, food, and languages.  As different as we may be from one another, Mem Fox shows us that we all share smiles and laughter when we are happy, tears when we are sad, and pain when we are hurt.  No matter where we come from, we are all the same.

Possible Learning Activity:

Celebrating diversity and helping students to make connections among their peers is important.  The students will choose a partner to work with in the class.  Each pair of students will be given paper and paint with 3 primary colors (red, blue, and yellow).  Each of the students will dip their hands in one color and then press their handprint on the paper.  The students will then mix their handprint with their partner’s to create a new color and a new handprint on the paper.  The students will then find one thing they have in common and write it out at the bottom of the page.  Students can share their work with the class.
(Retrieved from: http://thesimplicityoflearning2013.blogspot.com/2014/02/friendship-color-mixing.html)

Standards:

KW4: Create a response to a text, author, or personal experience (e.g., dramatization, art work, or poem).

Goal:

Students will listen to Whoever You Are and complete a partner activity to understand diversity and acceptance.

	Objective: Students will understand diversity and acceptance of all people Students will find similarities between themselves and a classmate
	Outcome: Students will have the ability to find similarities between themselves and their classmates . Bibliography: Fox, Mem.  Whoever You Are. Florida: Voyager Books, 1997. Selling Tool