(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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Showing posts with label 1040L. Show all posts
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.
Thursday, December 14, 2017
Poems to Learn by Heart by Caroline Kennedy
Title: Poems to Learn by Heart
Author: Caroline Kennedy
Lexile: 770 to 1040
In this poetry anthology, author Caroline Kennedy has compiled
heartwarming and inspiring poems for children. The book contains passages from
The Metamorphoses and the Bible, along with other pieces like with "Baby
Ate a Microchip" and "The Cremation of Sam McGee.”
For this learning activity, students will be put into groups and
given a poem from the book. They will then work to annotate and summarize their
respective poems before presenting their findings to the class.
Standards:
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.10 By the end of the year, read and
comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, in the grades 6-8
text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end
of the range.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.6.1 Engage effectively in a range of
collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse
partners on grade 6 topics, texts, and issues, building on others' ideas and
expressing their own clearly.
Goal: Students will be able to identify key messages and concepts
when presented with a poem to analyze.
Objectives: Students will work collaboratively to annotate and summarize
a poem from Poems to Learn by Heart.
Students will be able to orally present their findings to the
class.
Outcome: Students will develop a deeper understanding of how to
pare down and closely discuss a poem.
Sell tool: here.
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