What If Everybody Did That Summary

Javernick, E., & Madden, C. M. (2010). What If Everybody Did That? Tarrytown, NY: Marshall Cavendish Children. This book follows a pattern. The left pages show different situations where the young protagonist gets into trouble. When he tries to defend his actions, the adults who reprimanded him ask “What if everybody did that?”, and his imaginative responses are drawn on the right-hand pages. Some of his actions include feeding his popcorn to a bear, seeing how fast his shopping cart can go, throwing his soda can out the car window, licking frosting off a wedding cake, and standing while the school bus is moving. At the end of the book, the young boy comes home and gives his mom a hug. He decides that this is something everyone should do. I would use this book for a first-grade class at the beginning of the school year. I would use this book in a unit about government because I think that it allows for discussion about what would happen if there was no government. In other words, what if everybody did something they are not supposed to do? Therefore, it aligns with Standard 1-2.4 Summarize the possible consequences of an absence of government. I think that this book clearly states that there are some actions that everyone should and should not

Students in Japan ride the subway while an Australian girl rides her bike. Travel by boat is common in Peru and Egypt, but Canadians ride snowmobiles. Students in Sudan and Africa ride animals such as donkeys and horses, and in England and South Africa students walk to school. I would use this book with a first grade class. I would use this book at the beginning of a unit about school around the world. At the end of the book there is a map and word bank of all the different countries mentioned in the book. I would make copies of that map and ask the students to match the student to the