Monday, December 11, 2017

The One and Only Ivan

by Katherine Applegate

Applegate, Katherine, et al. The one and only Ivan. Harper, An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2017.


Summary:

Ivan is a silverback gorilla who has lived in a cage at the Exit 8 Big Top Mall and Video Arcade for long as he can remember. He is friends with many of the other animals that live there. Ivan is content with his life and actually draws with crayons given to him. One day a baby elephant named Ruby comes to live at the Exit 8 Big Top Mall and Video Arcade. She knows what life is like before and isn’t happy about living in a cage. As Ivan begins to see their situation, he realizes there is so much more . To help free Ruby and himself, Ivan tries to draw to bring awareness to their living conditions. Ivan’s drawings work and people begin to protest the animals’ living conditions. The fate of Ivan, Ruby and the other animals living at is about to change.

Lexile Level: 570L
Grades: 3rd and up

Domains:  Affective and Cognitive

Standards:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.4.1

Write opinion pieces on topics or texts, supporting a point of view with reasons and information.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.4.4

Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development and organization are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.

Goals:

Students will be able to write a persuasive letter expressing their thoughts and feeling about a topic clearly and coherently.

Objectives:

Students will understand the structure and format of a form letter. (Cognitive)

Students will be able write a letter, uses examples from the text, to support their argument. (Affective)

Students will research the natural habitat of a silverback gorilla. (Cognitive)

Students will compare the living conditions of a silverback gorilla in their natural habitat and the living conditions of Ivan at the Exit 8 Big Top Mall and Video Arcade. (Affective)

Outcome:

Students will write a persuasive letter to Mack explaining their feelings regarding Ivan, Lucy and the other animals living conditions and quality of life. Students will include examples from the book, The One and Only Ivan as well as information from their research.

Procedure
After reading The One and Only Ivan, students will research the natural habitats of a silverback gorilla. Using a VENN diagram, students will compare and contrast the two different living environments, the natural habitat of the silverback gorilla and the living conditions of Ivan. Students will then write a persuasive letter to the owner of the Exit 8 Big Top Mall and Video Arcade. The letter will include examples from the book, The One and Only Ivan as well as information from their research.



My Selling Tool

The official book trailer for The One and Only Ivan:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtPdqV2crQ0

oneandonlyivan. YouTube, YouTube, 30 Dec. 2011, www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtPdqV2crQ0.

The real gorilla behind the story The One and Only Ivan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ly6UOKQDLvI

pauldinggov. YouTube, YouTube, 1 Feb. 2017, www.youtube.com/watch?v=ly6UOKQDLvI.






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