Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis

(courtesy of amazon.com) Title: Bud, Not Buddy Author: Christopher Paul Curtis Lexile: 950L Awards: Coretta Scott King Award, Newbery Medal Genre: Multicultural, realistic fiction, historical fiction, Summery: Bud, not Buddy, is a orphan from Flint Michigan who soon finds himself on the run after a particularly bad foster family tries to give him back to the orphanage, but Bud is not going back to the orphanage, no, he decides to try and find his father, famed musician Herman E. Calloway. The book takes place in 1936 and highlights issues of labor rights, racism, and poverty that pervaded the United States during the Depression era. It's an award-winning book that I would highly recommend checking out. Selling Tool: Interactive Activity: Activity: In the story Bud carried a suitcase of his favourite possessions, in this activity students will reflect on their belongings and choose four things that they would bring with them. Students will use the activity worksheet as a guide for the belogingins. Learning Objectives: Students will create a suitcase with four things in it that they couldn't live without, just as Bud has carried a suitcase of his belongings. Students will explain in the panels of the suitcase worksheet why they couldn't live without their chosen items. Learning Goal: Students will be able to relate to the character of Bud through the act of creating a suitcase of the most important possessions. Learning Objective: Students reflection of having to live like Bud will create positive empathy for the character.

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.

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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.