(courtesy of amazon.com)
Title: Out of the Dust
Author: Karen Hesse
Lexile: 1040L
Genre: Historical fiction, Verse
Awards: Newbery Medal
Summary:
Out of the Dust is a fictional account of a young girl growing up in the hardships of the dust bowl told in verse. Beautifully written and incredibly poignant, Billie Jo is a courageous narrator.
Selling tool:
Book trailer: While researching this novel I found a great book trailer that could be played on a tablet next to the book in a library as a promotional tool.
Coalter, Kristan. (2013) Out of the Dust Book Trailer. Youtube. Retrieved on 11/5/2017. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPUD1D83-6g
Activity:
After reading the text students will make a collage either in video or 2D artwork that describes a poem from the book. The art piece should incorporate the poem as well as the student's interpretation through visuals of the poem's meaning.
Learning Standard:
CCELA, Reading Literature, Grade 6:
Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
CCELA, Craft and Structure, Grade 6:
Analyze how a particular sentence, chapter, scene, or stanza fits into the overall structure of a text and contributes to the development of the theme, setting, or plot.
Learning Objective:
(S) Students will create an original college that describes a character, setting, or the emotions of the story using a specific poem found in Out of the Dust.
(A) Students will identify specific emotions from the poem selected to translate into as visuals into their colleges.
Learning Goals:
Students will understand how poems can describe events with inference.
Students understanding of the emotional journey of the characters will inform the creation of their collage.
Learning Outcome:
Students will effectively use inference in building original collages.
Saturday, December 16, 2017
Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse
(courtesy of amazon.com)
Title: Out of the Dust
Author: Karen Hesse
Lexile: 1040L
Genre: Historical fiction, Verse
Awards: Newbery Medal
Summary:
Out of the Dust is a fictional account of a young girl growing up in the hardships of the dust bowl told in verse. Beautifully written and incredibly poignant, Billie Jo is a courageous narrator.
Selling tool:
Book trailer: While researching this novel I found a great book trailer that could be played on a tablet next to the book in a library as a promotional tool.
Coalter, Kristan. (2013) Out of the Dust Book Trailer. Youtube. Retrieved on 11/5/2017. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPUD1D83-6g
Activity:
After reading the text students will make a collage either in video or 2D artwork that describes a poem from the book. The art piece should incorporate the poem as well as the student's interpretation through visuals of the poem's meaning.
Learning Standard:
CCELA, Reading Literature, Grade 6:
Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
CCELA, Craft and Structure, Grade 6:
Analyze how a particular sentence, chapter, scene, or stanza fits into the overall structure of a text and contributes to the development of the theme, setting, or plot.
Learning Objective:
(S) Students will create an original college that describes a character, setting, or the emotions of the story using a specific poem found in Out of the Dust.
(A) Students will identify specific emotions from the poem selected to translate into as visuals into their colleges.
Learning Goals:
Students will understand how poems can describe events with inference.
Students understanding of the emotional journey of the characters will inform the creation of their collage.
Learning Outcome:
Students will effectively use inference in building original collages.
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