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Activity 15:
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Students will make reflections and connections on themes from the story.
Curriculum Expectation - Language
C2 Comprehension Strategies
C2.5 Monitoring Understanding: Making Connections
C3 Critical Thinking in Literacy
C3.2 Making Inferences
Curriculum Expectation - Learning Skills
Collaboration
Shares information, resources, and expertise, and promotes critical thinking to solve problems and make decisions.
Responsibility
Fulfills responsibilities and commitments within the learning environment.
Possible Pre-Teaching Ideas
Do activity 12 (creating inspirational quotes).
Brainstorm ideas linked to each theme/message.
Understand what the theme actually means. We use these words, but do the students know what they mean? Create a definition for the words/themes/messages.
What is perseverance?
Introduce the idea of text-text, text-self, text-world and do examples.
Brief Explanation of Activity
Students will be grouped into themes/messages from the story (teamwork, patience, encouragement, perseverance, grit, resilience, motivation, kindness). Groups can be random, teacher selected or student selected.
On a large sheet of chart paper (place mat format) students will answer the following questions:
How did the character show this theme?
How do you show it? (text-self)
Where have you see this theme in another character/book (text-text)
Where have you seen this theme in the world (text-world)
Groups can share their answers with the class in either a presentation, or have the chart paper hung up and have the students walk around looking at them (carousel format).
Possible Graphic Organizer
https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Placemat-Activity-Template-4523675?st=67f13a0affa5961b66891622d743a73c -example of Place mat format
Success Criteria/Assessment
As this assignment is done in a group, individual assessment can be done anecdotally for marker/chosen students.
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