One crazy summer, by Rita Williams-Garcia

Williams-Garcia, Rita.  One crazy summer. New York: Amistad, 2012.
Lexile Level: 750L
Awards: National Book Award Finalist, 2010; Coretta Scott-King Award, 2011; Newberry Medal Honor, 2011; Scott O'dell Award for Historical Fiction, 2011.

Book Byte Review

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Learning Activity

Delphine grows up a lot over the course of her crazy summer. You are going to make Delphine a scrapbook of her summer adventures in Oakland with her 2 sisters and her mom, Cecile. In your scrapbook, please include the following: 

1. At least 4 different photos (or hand-drawn pictures, or computer rendered images) 

2. A caption for each photo of about 100 words 

You can recreate scenes from the book to capture them digitally, or you can create them by hand or on the computer. Your captions must describe why the picture is significant and must help to explain how the event contributed to her growing up.

After we create our scrapbooks, we will all have a good old fashioned scrapbook party where we tell stories about the pictures we took. (This is what people did before FB, IG, SnapChat and Twitter) 😄 

Learning Standards:

RL.6.6. Explain how an author develops the point of view of the narrator or speaker in a text 

Learning Goal:

Students will find details in the novel that support the development of the main characters point of view. 

Learning Outcome:

Students will create a scrapbook that illustrates the details that support the development of Delphine’s character. 

Learning Objective:

Students will create a scrapbook containing images of significance from the novel One Crazy Summer, and write captions that explain how the author develops the point of view of the main character, Delphine.