Rationale The young adult literature text I chose is called Number the Stars by Lois Lowry. This historical fiction book is about two little girls named Annemarie Johansen and Ellen Rosen. The setting is during World War II in Denmark. It reveals the courage and bravery of the two girls and their families as they try and avoid the German invasion of their country. Ellen is Jewish and is scared of being sent to a concentration camp; therefore Annemarie wants to help protect her friend by hiding her and pretending as if Ellen is a part of her family. I selected this book because it helps children understand the Holocaust in a less frightening manner, yet it gives children a unique and realistic perspective of the events that occurred during …show more content…
World War II. I chose to pair blogging with this book as the Holocaust can be a sensitive subject. This gives children a private way to express their thoughts and emotions. The standards listed below support this book and strategy. • SS6 1.9.6.E Identify how a person becomes a member of a group or institution and what factors influence inclusion or exclusion from a group • SS6 1.9.6.I Identify how ideas, concepts and traditions have changed over time in the United States • SS3 1.6.3a.X Examine the wars of the twentieth-century pertinent to US history including: causes, comparisons, consequences and peace efforts • CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.5.2 Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text, including how characters in a story or drama respond to challenges or how the speaker in a poem reflects upon a topic; summarize the text.
Population I would implement this book in a fifth grade classroom. The two main characters are similar in age which would allow students to place themselves in the shoes of the characters going through this challenging time. Blogging, especially in this time period, is an engaging technique that motivates writers at this point in their life as peers can be more motivation than school work. I think since it a private space for them to express themselves; it helps with comprehension and increases confidence in their writing abilities and retention of content. In this case, content concerning World War II. Process/Lesson This book would be implemented while talking about World War II and groups of people that exist in society. The students would be assigned two chapters per week. They could read at their own pace as long as they finished within that week. Students would be held accountable for reading by having a required blog post with each chapter. I would stimulate thinking by adding questions that students could answer on their blog that pertains to content and standards. However, they would also have freedom to write their own thoughts and opinions. In response to each blog post, I would provide the students with feedback. On Friday of
each week I would set aside time for in-class discussion that would reflect the standards listed above. Extension Blogging is a strategy that is cross-curricular as it can be implemented with any content area. It is a digital tool that can be easily accessed and used by a wide range of learners. For example, this tool can be used for students whom lack motivation in writing. Blogging can also produce creativity and confidence for students who struggle in that area, therefore lower level students have a way to be successful as well.
Everyone needs to know how to solve problems and progress through them. In The Wednesday Wars, a realistic fiction book that takes place in the 60’s by Gary Schmidt, is in a time when America is in 2 big conflicts, The Vietnam War and the Cold War. The protagonist, Holling Hoodhood, faces problems getting along with his teacher. Others are mourning their relatives , soldiers, who died serving the country and taking care of themselves and their family. Everyone hopes the wars will be over soon. However, the protagonist is caught up in his local problems and is negligent throughout the story. Schmidt uses his special craft and uses techniques including tone, symbolism. and descriptive
The book that I chose to do is Street Pharm by Allison van Diepen, the book has 297 pages, the reason I chose this book is personally I am tired novels taking place years before I am born. This novel pertains to urban problems and one kids' attempt to survive in the pressures of present day Brooklyn. Within the novel, there are several subplots, one being his love interest, Alyse, and Ty's fight to stay in school. As well as, his fight not to lose money or control of his territory. It is interesting to watch this young man, balance these things in his life and not let them interfere with each other.
I read the picture book If you give a pig a party by Laura Nemeroff. This book is about a little girl who wants celebrate her pig's birthday, she is planing a lot of activities , such as the decoration, the games, and the the food. She realized that planning a birthday is a hard work because she has to keep happy to all pig's friends (different animals). This book has a lot of pictures to keep the children's attention when an adult is reading. I read it to my students and my daughter and they want to read it again and again.
Smelcer, my high school history teacher. My teacher dedicated a whole month of class on the topic of “Black Lives Matter.” She loved to read books on opinions on black society. I think this book would fascinate her if she has not already read it. She always taught us about the struggles of African Americans, but never about the privilege that some of them had. Some African Americans were better off than most whites at the time. They were doctors and lawyers, most of the black elite were making salaries close to middle class Caucasians. The book shows how not only how whites look down on the African American racial background, but so did people of their own race. I think this simple fact would be intriguing to my teacher and maybe challenge her views on black society. It could also contribute to her lessons in class, teaching high schoolers about this exclusive society. Lastly, I would recommend this book to Mrs. Smelcer because it proves that while the members of the black elite had “privilege and plenty” they were still racial discriminated against by whites, even through they should have been
To add some variety to traditional teaching and learning strategies, a teacher might design an independent project where students work in teams and focus collaboratively on a single novel from the twentieth century. Each team would read a selected book and work together to create artifacts that would be shared with the other teams. Through collaborative work and sharing, students would be able to grasp the concepts and connections of several works of literature. The project outlined in section 5 will target twentieth century literature.
I really enjoyed this book because it was not a story about the middle of the Second World War. Instead it was right before, when things were not as bad, but they were bad enough. It helped me understand how people lived before the hatred grew and how families were torn apart right from the beginning. Likewise, it gave me hope to see that not everything was destroyed and that some people were able to escape. I would recommend this book more for boys but for girls as well, between the ages of 13-15. Even though Karl’s age throughout the book is 14-17, the novel was written more for my age group. Once again this was an amazing book that I could not put down, and I am sure many others were not able to either.
Having literature that can speak to your situation in life is what young adults need in their books. In Donna’s Norton Through the Eyes of a Child she lists seven characteristics of a good young adult novel and some of them are,“written from the viewpoint of an of young people, main characters must overcome their problem without help from the parent, deal with emotional problem of young adults and have fast paced storyline” (Norton, 2007). The Fault in Our Stars executed theses things perfectly. It is told from the perspective of a sixteen year old girl, living with cancer, but still going through what most sixteen year old’s go through, She has parents who do not understand her life and what she is going through so they cannot actually help her with her problems and she falls in love for the first time and experienced a tragic heartbreak. The story goes on how life does for a teenager, everything is happening fast and very out of their control, and they must live as best as they can with the circumstances of their life. John Green wrote more than just a teen cancer book, he told the experiences of not having any control in your teen years by using
Hello there, the book that was read to us out loud during class was an interesting book. The books name is “A Long Walk To Water” By Linda Sue Park, the novel was about a young African boy named Salva and the struggles he had to go through in ordered to get reunited with his family again. The main theme throughout the novel was that Salva is getting taught the importance of perseverance and never losing hope. Salva always continued to work towards his goals and always tried to attain to them, by his Uncle as they traveled across the Akobo Desert. At the time, Salva was 11 years old when he got separated from his family during a war that broke out in Sudan, in which is now called South Sudan this war was fought because of the Second Sudanese
The novel I chose this year was “Crank” BY Ellen Hopkins. This book is introduces many topics most don’t like to bring up to children now a days. It is banned in many locations. It is related to drugs, abusive language and sexual moments. The book is about Ellen Hopkins daughter’s drug abuse with crystal meth. In the book she experienced extremely hard moments. She has to try her best to overcome all the darkness in her life.
The book that I would nominate is “Percy Jackson The Lightning Thief”. I would nominate this book because it is one of the best books I personally have ever read. It involves the greek gods which I think is one of the most interesting things ever. It is a funny story that involves romance and adventure. If the school is looking for good book that everyone would like, then this is the book for them. I have read this book and every other book Rick Riordan, the author has written. Also, if this book ends up being a big hit then they can read the rest of the series. The series goes in this order. The Lightning Thief, The Sea of Monsters, The Titan's Curse, The Battle of the Labyrinth, and The Last Olympian. This series also continues into another
The book I chose to read for my unit 5 book is Black Like Me written by John Howard Griffin. He plays an important role as the author and the protagonist in the book. The timing of the book takes place in 1950-1960.His story is that he is a journalist and chooses to write an article about racism especially in the south. Griffin ends up going to a dermatologist and dying his skin black with medication so he could see how negroes were treated. Once he goes down to the south he is broken and revealed to all the discrimination african americans get for the skin color they have.
The first book that I didn’t ever want to put down was the Maze Runner by James Dashner, it's like a good AP Lang essay, a little rocky but it gets the point across. James Dashner did a great job in keeping the audience's attention, but I was a fifth
We would first read the book aloud together as a whole group. We would, then, have a group discussion about the things in the book, best friends, favorite foods, and how people like different things. I would make charts. One indicating who each child said that their best friend was. Another would be peanut butter verses hummus. For this chart, we would have to first taste both peanut butter and hummus. The students would then mark which one they liked best.
For my book I chose to read The Body by Stephen King. This novel is about four young boys taking a journey to find a body somewhere in the woods that is at the county line. This story is about more than just four boys going on an adventure its about them becoming closer to each other and learning real life lessons along the way. The four boys are all going into their first year of middle school so this is a time in their life when they learn things that will help them in life.