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We’ve included the following suggested weekly lesson sequence for your convenience. Monday Start your week by watching The Character Tree video. • Before watching: If you have time for a quick discussion, you could ask your students what they think they already know about the character trait of hope and have them share with a partner or call on a couple students to share with the whole class. • After watching: If you have time after the video, have students share examples of hope from the video. To extend their concept of hope you could ask them to think of a specific way that they could show this trait in the coming day or week. Tuesday Follow up the video with the foldable book. Read as a whole class, or have students read independently. These books would make a nice home-school connection, or add them to student’s book boxes or bags and keep them at school. Depending on how much time you have, the cut and paste comprehension page would be a good fit as a subsequent activity. Wednesday Use our template to create a class book that showcases ways each child has seen and experienced hope in their own life. After each student has completed their page, assemble the book and read it to the class. Adding the completed book to your classroom library, or other shared space in your classroom, would be a great way to encourage your students to revisit and read the book on their own. Thursday After spending time learning and talking about hope and Misty Copeland during the first half of the week, today would be a good day to check student understanding with our comprehension questions. Friday If there is anything that you didn’t get to earlier in the week, finish that up today. Otherwise, today would be a good day for the making words activity and the word search. Learning Objective: Students will be able to define the character trait of hope, give an example and write about it. Common Core Standards: • SL.1.2 Discuss key details in a video • RI.1.2 Identify the main topic • RI.1.3 Describe the connection between a person and concept • RI.1.4 Determine the meaning of vocabulary Picture Book Recommendations: These picture books would be great to read to your class during this week, as well as throughout the year! Use them to open up further discussions with your class about this week’s character trait. • Firebird by Misty Copeland • When I Grow Up: Misty Copeland by Lexi Ryals www.charactertree.com
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We’ve included the following suggested weekly lesson sequence for your convenience.
Monday
Start your week by watching The Character Tree video. • Before watching: If you have time for a quick discussion, you could
ask your students what they think they already know about the character trait of hope and have them share with a partner or call on a couple students to share with the whole class.
• After watching: If you have time after the video, have students share examples of hope from the video. To extend their concept of hope you could ask them to think of a specific way that they could show this trait in the coming day or week.
Tuesday
Follow up the video with the foldable book. Read as a whole class, or have students read independently. These books would make a nice home-school connection, or add them to student’s book boxes or bags and keep them at school. Depending on how much time you have, the cut and paste comprehension page would be a good fit as a subsequent activity.
Wednesday
Use our template to create a class book that showcases ways each child has seen and experienced hope in their own life. After each student has completed their page, assemble the book and read it to the class. Adding the completed book to your classroom library, or other shared space in your classroom, would be a great way to encourage your students to revisit and read the book on their own.
ThursdayAfter spending time learning and talking about hope and Misty Copeland during the first half of the week, today would be a good day to check student understanding with our comprehension questions.
FridayIf there is anything that you didn’t get to earlier in the week, finish that up today. Otherwise, today would be a good day for the making words activity and the word search.
Learning Objective: Students will be able to define the character trait of hope, give an example and write about it.
Common Core Standards: • SL.1.2 Discuss key details in a video• RI.1.2 Identify the main topic• RI.1.3 Describe the connection between a person and concept• RI.1.4 Determine the meaning of vocabulary
Picture Book Recommendations: These picture books would be great to read to your class during this week, as well as throughout the year! Use them to open up further discussions with your class about this week’s character trait.
• Firebird by Misty Copeland
• When I Grow Up: Misty Copeland by Lexi Ryals
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Name:
When Misty was 18, she joined one of
the biggest and best ballet groups in
America, called the American Ballet
Theater. After years of perseverance,
Misty became the highest ranked
dancer for the American Ballet
Theater. She became the first African
American to achieve the role of the
principal dancer. This was a longtime
dream of hers and she never gave up
hope that she could achieve it!©The Primary Pal & The Character Treewww.charactertree.com
Principal Dancer
When Misty Copeland was a girl, life
was hard for her and her family.
Misty had five siblings and her family
did not have much money. But, Misty
had hope that her life would get
better. When Misty was 13 years old
she joined a dance team. Her dance
teacher saw how talented Misty was
and encouraged her to take ballet
classes. ©The Primary Pal & The Character Tree
Misty’s hope that life would get
better, started to come true for
her. By the time she was 15 years old,
just two years after she started
ballet dancing, she was winning
competitions and awards for her
skills. She continued to have hope and
use perseverance to become an even
better ballet dancer.
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N a m e : D a t e :
Life was hard for Misty growing up. She had a big family, but her family didn’t have much money. She had hope that life would
get better.
Cut out the pictures below and glue them in the correct order. Read the words below each box to make sure the picture matches.
When she was 13, Misty joined a
dance team and started ballet
lessons.
By the time Misty was 15, she was
winning competitions and awards for her skills as a ballet
dancer.
Misty Copeland became the first
African American to be the highest
ranked dancer for the American Ballet
Theater.©The Primary Pal & The Character Treewww.charactertree.com
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Our ClassBook of:
By:
A collection of stories and examples of hope.
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A collection of stories and examples of hope.
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Our ClassBook of:
By:
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Draw a picture and write some words about a time when you showed hope.
N a m e : D a t e :
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Use what you learned from the video about Misty Copeland and hope to help you answer the questions below.
N a m e : D a t e :
1. What type of dance is Misty known for?
a. tap dance b. jazz dance c. ballet
2. How old was Misty Copeland when she joined her first dance team?
3. What is the name of the ballet group that Misty joined?
4. True of False: Misty became the first African American to become a principal dancer, which is the highest ranked dancer.
True
False
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Comprehension Questions
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a. 13 years old b. 15 years old c. 18 years old
b a l l e r i n a
N a m e : D a t e :
Cut out the letters at the bottom of the page. Use the letters to make as many words as you can. Write the words that you make on
the lines below.
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Making Words Spelling Practice
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MISTY
COPELAND
ARTIST
DANCE
BALLET
THEATER
HOPE
PERSEVERE
INSPIRE
FIREBIRD
PRACTICE
MOTIVATE
H D M O T I V A T E E A
S A S N C O P E L A N D
U N P A F I R E B I R D
B C R E N P G P R T Y R
A E A A R T I S T X O M
L T C L Q S M E T P T J
L N T T J S E D D Q H M
E R I B K I P V M A E H
T N C Q L E R E E U A C
S W E P H O P E Y R T W
W M I S T Y E A P R E N
C E X O P I N S P I R E
Search for the words from the word list. Then, circle each word in the puzzle once you find it.
N a m e : D a t e :
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Word Search
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MISTY
COPELAND
ARTIST
DANCE
BALLET
THEATER
HOPE
PERSEVERE
INSPIRE
FIREBIRD
PRACTICE
MOTIVATE
H D M O T I V A T E E A
S A S N C O P E L A N D
U N P A F I R E B I R D
B C R E N P G P R T Y R
A E A A R T I S T X O M
L T C L Q S M E T P T J
L N T T J S E D D Q H M
E R I B K I P V M A E H
T N C Q L E R E E U A C
S W E P H O P E Y R T W
W M I S T Y E A P R E N
C E X O P I N S P I R E
Search for the words from the word list. Then, circle each word in the puzzle once you find it.
N a m e : D a t e :
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KEY
Word Search
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