Black Eyed Susan Picture Book Award2011-2012 Nominees

The award seeks to promote literacy and lifelong reading habits by encouraging students to read quality, contemporary literature.

Students must read a minimum of 8 of the 15 picture books to vote.

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Related Websites

  Author's site  - Meghan McCarthy

 

   Gum-chewing blog - thinkgum - for teacher use   

http://www.thinkgum.wordpress.com/about

http://www.meghan-mccarthy.com

Curricular Connections • Research inventors and inventions

• Investigate gum ingredients

• Research history of gum chewing

• Invent your own candy or gum

• Write a persuasive letter

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Curricular Connections

• Timeline of events in the Civil Rights Movemento Read's Drugstore in Baltimore

• Figurative languageo "they were treated like the hole in a doughnut - invisible."

• Illustrations in "scratchboard" techniqueo http://www.brianpinkney.net

• Quotations from Martin Luther King, Jr

Sit-In by Andrea Davis Pinkney

http://www.baltimoreheritage.org/2011/01/why-the-west-side-matters-reads-drug-store-and-baltimores-civil-rights-heritage

Writing Prompt

• Treasures Reading Programo Grade 5

Unit: "Fight Back"• Students write a paragraph - in the first person -

describing a moment in time.o Use strong sentences to focus on feelings -

emotional and physical - at the moment when food is poured on you by the angry mob.

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Author Website

http://www.devinscillian.com

Curricular Connections

• Write a personal diary, memoir, or autobiography

• Fiction & Non-Fiction -compare

• Research goldfish and their care

http://www.pebblego.com/content/animals/pgo_player.php

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Curricular Connections:

• Matho fractionso exponentso multiplicationo divisiono fair share

•  Character Educationo sharingo manners

http://www.justanimal.org/

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Curricular Connections:

• Language Artso adjectiveso descriptive languageo folk tales

Chicken Little Henny Penny

o point of view

http://www.the-best-childrens-books.org/Chicken-Big.html

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Curricular Connections

*Language Arts:  Biography: Research further Dave's life                            Discuss quotations  *Art:  Collaborate with the art teacher and have the students create their own piece of  pottery using the medium of clay.

         A 45 page educator’s guide with information on American Folklore and Folk Art, Pottery Basics, and Lesson Plans on Pottery Making, Craft Traditions and Written and Oral Traditions, and much more can be found at: http://www.digitaltraditions.net/html/D_Resources.cfm  *Social Studies:  African Americans, Slavery, history of pottery

Design your own pottery jar with or without a poem.

http://www.digitaltraditions.net/html/D_Resources.cfm45 page educator's guide.  Need to adapt to grade level.

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 Map of Vietnam

From www.vietnam.com

 

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  Curricular Connections:• Folk/fairy tale elements• Determination/persistence• Cleverness, creativity, and imagination• Resourcefulness 

 

Lesson Ideas:• Reader’s Theater• Sequencing: Create a “cake” out of paper or felt and have students remove the

parts of the cake as the story progresses; write the sequence of events on sentence strips and have students put them in order

• Create invitations to a party and decide on a perfect gift for a princess. • Older students can use the author’s C-L-A-P-S method and graphic organizer to

write an original tale.            CLAPS= Character, Location, Action, Problem, Solution

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Curricular Connections  

*Language Arts:  • Myths, folktales• Writing• Readers' Theater 

 *Ancient Greek art *Science: Seasons    *Social Studies: Agriculture  Suggestion: Use story in December at the beginning of winter.     

http://www.theoi.com/Khthonios/Persephone.html

Script available at: 

http://www.myfreshplans.com/2011-03/persephone-and-demeter-lesson-plans/

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Curricular Connections

*Language Arts:  • Poetry• Descriptive language• Now and then

 *Science:• Seasons• Nature

 The authors suggest using nature to spark creativity when writing your own haiku – a great idea for Green School certification.

http://hmhbooks.com/guyku/club.html

http://hmhbooks.com/guyku/

www.pbs.org/parents/creativity/ideas/haiku.html

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  http://www.patmora.com/childrens_books.htm

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• Why are libraries important?

 • How is information

shared in a community?

 • How do you think

libraries began? 

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Curricular Connections

• Identify the fairy tale characters featured in each poem

• Choose a favorite fairy tale character and use first person narrative to tell his/her perspective of events

• Older grades: Write a reversible poem

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• Make predictions. What does this puppy have to say?

Curricular Connections

• Use expressive animal photos to create poems from other animals' points of view

• Use the poems as writing models to speak in your own voice. What would your "What I Don't Like" poem say?

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