I love using great books to teach about rich ideas. This book is another one of my favourites. For the first part in this series check it out here! Check out the lesson outline I have included with this book.
Essential Question/Big Idea
How can we learn from others in order to take a stand for what is right?
Read Aloud #2
A beautiful story of Rosa Parks and her involvement in the civil rights movement.
Learning Goal:
We are learning to use a (writing genre) to take a stand for what is right
We are learning from a biography how someone takes a stand for what is right
We are learning from a biography how someone takes a stand for what is right
Writing Genre:
- News Report or Editorial
- Biography
- Persuasive or Advocacy Letter
- Human Interest Story
Shared Reading Texts that go with this book
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