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Good Friends Are Hard to Find

This interdisciplinary lesson plan focuses on the theme of friendship and incorporates various texts, including novels, picture books, music lyrics, videos, and websites. Students will engage in reading, writing, and discussion activities to deepen their understanding of friendship and personal beliefs.

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Good Friends Are Hard to Find

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  1. Friendship by Jeanne Kinney Read 622

  2. Alternative Text Collection • Picture Book: Feathers and Fools by Mem Fox • You Tube Video: "The Office-Season 1, Episode 2." Oh, Man, Am I A Woman?” • Website:http://www.sroopsunar.com/223729/Animal-Collective • Website:www.bitstrips.com • Picture Book Excerpt:.The Bracelet. Uchida, Yoshiko, and Joanna Yardley • Database: Vigay, Paul. Collective Nouns Database by Paul Vigay. www.vigay.com/nouns/ • Graphic Novel:Smile by Raina Telgemeirer • Novel Excerpt:The Second Summer of the Sisterhood by Ann Brashares • Music Lyrics: Umbrella by Rihanna, You’ve Got a Friend by James Taylor, and I’ll Be There For You by The Rembrants • Quotes: www.quotegarden.com • Greeting Cards www.PositivelyGreenCards.com

  3. Alternative Texts Novel Excerpt:The Second Summer of the Sisterhood by Ann Brashares Music Lyrics: •Umbrella by Rihanna •You’ve Got a Friend by James Taylor •I’ll Be There For You by The Rembrants. Quotes: www.quotegarden.com Greeting Cards www.PositivelyGreenCards.com Summary: Students write a script in collaboration with their partner. They will then create a podcast on GarageBand, upload it to You Tube and post on our Wiki. Reading Strategy: Read and integrate information from alternate text sources. Lesson 1: Interdisciplinary / Multimedia“Good Friends Are Hard to Find”UWRF Adolescent Literacy Workshop

  4. Texts You Tube Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X50HK5hWm4M Feathers and Fools by Mem Fox Summary: After watching the video, students engage in a thoughtful discussion about personal belief systems. To enrich comprehension, students utilize a word sort. While reading Feathers and Fools students use a double entry journal. Pre-reading comprehension strategies: •Purposefully building schema •Vocabulary word sort •Questioning Techniques Lesson 2 : Leading Discussion / Multimedia Beliefs & Bias Lesson

  5. Text The Bracelet by Yoshiko Uchida Summary: We will be reading excerpts from the text and recording written graphic notes. Next, writing responses explaining specific memory objects to interpret the story. Also we will be discussing the story in connection to the Japanese American Internment Camps of 1942. The following day students will present their jackdaws. Reading Strategies: •During reading comprehension strategy: Written graphic notes •Post-reading : Jackdaw Lesson 3 : Writing / Interdisciplinary Lesson“Things We Carry In Our Hearts”

  6. Texts Smile by Raina Telgemeier Website www.bitstrips.com Summary Synthesizing In the Gutter:Use the comprehension strategy of synthesis with graphic novels. They will be coached to stop at certain points throughout the text in order to reflect on their thinking and add to their summative understanding of the text. The gutter in graphic novels is a wonderfully natural place to do this, so it is a concrete place to be trained to stop and think before zooming ahead throughout the text. StrategyFish Bowl Extension 1) Using the website, www.bitstrips.com, students will create a comic about life in middle school. It can be about their family, socialization, conformity, or school in general. If your school has the software, Comic Life, use that! The students can use Photo Booth to take pictures of themselves and their friends and then insert them into Comic Life to create their comic strips. Lesson 4 : Synthesizing in the GutterGraphica / Writing Mini-Lesson

  7. Texts / Websites file:///Volumes/Centon/Grad%20class%20READ%20622/Sroop%20Sunar%20Illustrator.html http://www.vigay.com/nouns/ Summary Students will read, discuss and explore the collective noun websites. They will create a representation of one collective noun with a partner or group. Strategies •Poster •Digital College •One Act Play Lesson 5: Language Concepts

  8. Optional Additional Lessons • Digital college -Adobe Photoshop • -Compare and Connect (ie..Every child needs a chance to go to school.)

  9. A-tisket a-tasket by Ella Fitzgerald http://iLike.com/s/NO8 Video http://www.ilike.com/artist/Ella+Fitzgerald/track/A+Tisket%2C+A+Tasket Nursery Rhyme Renditions

  10. Comic Relief: Unlikely Friends

  11. Rationale / Objectives • Create lessons that are interactive, thoughtful and conceptual. • Coach students in explicit metacognitive strategies for reading instruction. • Engage students in a variety of literary readings, including electronic media.

  12. Sources Brashares, Ann. "Prologue." Introduction. The Second Summer of the Sisterhood. New York: Dell Laurel-Leaf, 2006. Print. "English Language Learners." Focus on Effectiveness (2005). Current Education Challenges. Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory, 2005. Web. 1 July 2010. <http://www.netc.org/focus/challenges/ell.php>. 5000 off the Mark Cartoons by Mark Parisi. Web. 06 July 2010. <http://www.offthemark.com/>. Fox, Mem, and Nicholas Wilton. Feathers and Fools. San Diego: Harcourt, 2000. Print. Keene, Ellin Oliver., and Susan Zimmermann. Mosaic of Thought: the Power of Comprehension Strategy Instruction. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2007. Print. Kajder, Sara B. Bringing the outside In: Visual Ways to Engage Reluctant Readers. Portland, Me.: Stenhouse, 2006. Print. Sunar, Sroop. "Animal Collective." Sroop Sunar / Illustration. Web. 01 July 2010. <http://www.sroopsunar.com/223729/Animal-Collective>. "The Office-Season 1, Episode 2." Oh, Man, Am I A Woman? You Tube, 6 Mar. 2010. Web. 01 July 2010.<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X50HK5hWm4M>. Telgemeier, Raina. Smile. New York: Graphix, 2010. Print. Thompson, Terry. Adventures in Graphica: Using Comics and Graphic Novels to Teach Comprehension, 2-6. Portland, Me.: Stenhouse, 2008. Print. Uchida, Yoshiko, and Joanna Yardley. The Bracelet. New York: Putnam & Grosset, 1996. Print. "Umbrella by Rihanna." Sing365. Web. 01 July 2010. <http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/PrintLyrics?OpenForm&ParentUnid=FF845965859E8F8B482572BC000E1C41>. Vigay, Paul. "Vigay.com : Paul Vigay's Collective Nouns Database - Contents." Vigay.com : Main Homepage. 11 Dec. 2009. Web. 01 July 2010. <http://www.vigay.com/nouns/>. "You've Got A Friend Lyrics - James Taylor." Lyrics, Song Lyrics – LyricsFreak.com. Web. 01 July 2010. <http://www.lyricsfreak.com/j/james taylor/youve got a friend_20069226.html>.

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