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Kindling,Fire & Logs

• Reading is one of the first big educational milestones.

• Those first books- simple, easy, tangible, interesting and easily hooked In.

• Fire builds in which kids self-select books. Sometimes, it never takes off or an outside influence blows out those kindling interests.

Kindling, Fire & Logs

• Reading is one of the first big educational milestones.

• Those first books- simple, easy, tangible, interesting and easily hooked In.

• Fire builds in which kids self-select books. Sometimes, it never takes off or an outside influence blows out those kindling interests.

MIRRORS & WINDOWS

■Mirrors- Reflect Content Information

- Reflects concepts and topics related to course specific content knowledge.

- Reflects back parts of life which may not be easy to share or use personal examples.

- Allows for a neutral commonality.

■Windows- open their viewpoint or perspective to consider new and different concepts.

– Pushing students beyond their 'same-ness'.

– Global perspective that what is 'normal' to them is not the same 'normal' everywhere in the world.

Key Considerations...■ The subject matter includes authentic, interesting, and

current issues that affect young people’s daily lives.

■ Instead of relying upon a single authority, students consult a variety of sources and voices on the topic, constructing their own understanding of what is fact, what is true,what is right. The students are not only reading about settled facts and closed questions. They are also reading in the arena of the unsettled, the debatable, the still-emerging.

■ Students sample a wide variety of genres including textbooks and other reference works, newspapers,magazines, websites, and popular trade books.

Congenital Disabilities

Rules by Cynthia Lord

World Book Online

Current Event News

Article

Out of My Mind by Sharon Draper

Textbook

Diving in...

Selecting Parenthood

SP 1.4; SP 2.1; SP 2.2

Human Development Adolescence to Adulthood

HDAA 1.1. 1.2 1.3

HDAA 2.1 2;2 2.3

HDAA 3.1 3.2

Twelve-year-old Catherine just wants a normal life. Which is near impossible when you have a brother with autism and a family that revolves around his disability. She's spent years trying to teach David the rules from "a peach is not a funny-looking apple" to "keep your pants on in public"---in order to head off David's embarrassing behaviors.But the summer Catherine meets Jason, a surprising, new sort-of friend, and Kristi, the next-door friend she's always wished for, it's her own shocking behavior that turns everything upside down and forces her to ask: What is normal?

RulesBy Cynthia Lord

Diving in...

Selecting Parenthood

SP 1.4; SP 2.1; SP 2.2

Human Development Adolescence to Adulthood

HDAA 1.1. 1.2 1.3

HDAA 2.1 2;2 2.3

HDAA 3.1 3.2

Melody is not like most people. She cannot walk or talk, but she has a photographic memory; she can remember every detail of everything she has ever experienced. She is smarter than most of the adults who try to diagnose her and smarter than her classmates in her integrated classroom—the very same classmates who dismiss her as mentally challenged, because she cannot tell them otherwise. But Melody refuses to be defined by cerebral palsy. And she’s determined to let everyone know it…somehow.

OUT OF MY MIND

by Sharon Draper

Open Windows

• Average 9th-12th grader has a 5th grade reading level.

• College freshmen typically have a 7th grade reading level.

• Utilize e-reader formats

• Audio book formats

■Walk into another perspective on life.

■Everyone 'knows' the same person when real life sharing is too personal.

■Safety of neutrality.

FREE STUFF.

RulesCurriclum Resources HTTP://WWW.NRED.ORG/WWW/NRED/SITE/HOSTING/EVENTS/LITERATURE_FESTIVAL/RULES_STUDY_GUIDE.PDF

• 139 Guided Reading Questions- Divided by Chapter

• Vocabulary Glossary Divided by Chapter w/ page numbers of where the word is used!

• Extension Activities, Online Resource Links

Out of My MindCurriculum Resources

From the author...https://sharondraper.com/core/oomm.pdf• 21 Discussion or Evaluation

Questions• Research Topics• Additional Activities and learning

extensions.

Additional resources...http://schools.springisd.org/docs/25-Out%20of%20My%20Mind%20study%20questions.pdf

Research Topics 1. Investigate the problems of children with cerebral palsy, especially those that are of school age. How does it affect the child socially, academically, and personally? Find at least 3-4 current, relevant, authoritative, accurate, and credible sources that talk about the issue. Be sure to cite your sources used.

2. Investigate the possible causes of cerebral palsy, and what preventative measures, if any, can be taken by the mother. Find at least 3-4 current, relevant, authoritative, accurate, and credible sources that talk about the issue. Be sure to cite your sources used.

3. Research current laws for inclusion of children with disabilities into classrooms. What effect, if any, do such things have on a school community? Find at least 3-4 current, relevant, authoritative, accurate, and credible sources that talk about the issue. Be sure to cite your sources used.

4. Research current treatment options or communication devices for young people like Melody. Find at least 3-4 current, relevant, authoritative, accurate, and credible sources that talk about the issue. Be sure to cite your sources used.

5. Think about how a child learns language, learns to understand words, and learns how to speak. Write a paper that traces language development. Then analyze Melody's abilities to interpret language without the means of a voice.

©Sharon Draper, Samantha Murray and Cherie Reisman You are free to copy, modify and use these questions in educational settings, but not for commercial purposes.

Congenital Disabilities

Rules by Cynthia Lord

World Book Online

Media News Articles

Out of My Mind by Sharon Draper

Textbook

South Dakota State Library- All school have access from school servers. Get a library card for home use here: http://library.sd.gov/forms/librarycard/#.VagSevIVhBc

Online Resourceshttp://library.sd.gov/LIB/ERD/access/complete.aspx#.VakLxflVhBc

WORLD BOOK- Various Levels- Text to Talk- Translation into dozens of languages. - Citations are listed.

*Source Location Requirements

PEOPLE FIRST

LANGUAGE

Informational Flyer: http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/

disabilityandhealth/pdf/disabilityposter_photos.pdf

Reading Article: https://www.disabilityisnatural.com/

images/PDF/pfl09.pdf

Jig-saw of Textfor deeper learning.

■ The purpose for reading is not just to pass a test or get through the textbook. The students’ work is to gather information, construct meaning, and apply knowledge about important issues.

■ The teacher selects some, but not all, of the readings; students also make choices of their own.

■ Not every student reads the same texts. There are some common readings and some “jig-sawing” of related but different texts.

■ Teachers teach (and kids use) a repertoire of specific thinking strategies that help them enter, understand, and apply the material they read.

Whole Books w/

Discussion, Extension

Activities & Group

Projects

World Book Reference

Article

Flyers, Industry Media,

Magazines

Deeper, Richer Understanding of Congenital Disabilities

CHILDREN’S LITERATURE

Literacy & Learning Curriculum Example

■ Children’s Book Evaluation

■ Multiple Intelligences of Learning

■ Student picks a children’s book to base their learning unit theme.

■ Create/find/develop five lesson activities addressing five of the multiple intelligences.

■ Write simple lesson plan

■ Gather all supplies, make answer keys, craft examples, all resources a teacher would need.

■ End of Project ‘Curriculum Showcase’

Very Hungry Caterpillar

RESOURCESWhole Novels with Pre-Made Discussion Guides and Curriculum Resources.

www.cteresources.wikispaces.com ■ Select “2015 CTE Conference”

■ Today’s Power Point with links imbedded

■ Children’s Book Evaluation Rubric

■ Multiple Intelligences Handout

■ Literacy & Learning Lesson Plan Guide

■ People First Language Handouts

They Cage the Animals at NightBy Jennings Michael Birch

■ At the age of eight, the author began a three-year odyssey through a series of orphan asylums and foster homes, punctuated by episodes of living in the streets—a journey through a world of hostile strangers, abusive adults, and suspicious children.

Curriculum Resources:

Discussion questions, book projects & unit plans:

■ http://www.iowadiunits.org/la2.chapter_questions.pdf

Hope Was HereBy Joan Bauer■ When Hope and her aunt move to small-town Wisconsin to

take over the local diner, Hope's not sure what to expect. But what they find is that the owner, G.T., isn't quite ready to give up yet--in fact, he's decided to run for mayor against a corrupt candidate. And as Hope starts to make her place at the diner, she also finds herself caught up in G.T.'s campaign--particularly his visions for the future. After all, as G.T. points out, everyone can use a little hope to help get through the tough times . . . even Hope herself. 

Curriculum Resources: ■ http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/lesson-plan/

collateral_resources/pdf/c/clubs_new_hopewashere_q.pdf

Artichoke’s HeartBy Suzanne Supplee

■ It’s not so easy being Rosemary Goode and tipping the scales at almost two hundred pounds? especially when your mother runs the most successful (and gossipiest!) beauty shop in town. After a spectacularly disastrous Christmas break when the scale reaches an all-time high? Rosemary realizes that things need to change. (A certain basketball player, Kyle Cox, might have something to do with it.) So begins a powerful year of transformation and a journey toward self-discovery that surprisingly has little to do with the physical, and more to do with an honest look at how Rosemary feels about herself.

Curriculum Resources: ■ http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/lesson-plan/

collateral_resources/pdf/c/clubs_new_hopewashere_q.pdf

Hanging Onto MaxBy Margaret Bechard

■ It's Sam Pettigrew's last year of high school. And he's spending it figuring out how, at age seventeen, he is supposed to care for his baby son, Max. Max wasn't part of the plan. He wasn't even part of the backup plan. But he's here now, and Sam is attending an alternative high school with other teen parents like himself. Talk about a wake-up call. But Sam is determined to make it work, to show everyone -- his dad, his new girlfriend, himself -- that he has what it takes to be a good dad. Trading footballs for diaper bags and college brochures for feeding schedules, Sam gives fatherhood his best shot. Only no one told him it would be this hard. What if his best isn't good enough?

Discussion Questions■ https://multcolib.org/hanging-max

The First Part LastBy Angela Johnson■ This gem of a novel tells the story of a young father

struggling to raise an infant. Bobby, 16, is a sensitive and intelligent narrator. His parents are supportive but refuse to take over the child-care duties, so he struggles to balance parenting, school, and friends who don't comprehend his new role. Alternate chapters go back to the story of Bobby's relationship with his girlfriend Nia and how parents and friends reacted to the news of her pregnancy. Flashbacks lead to the revelation in the final chapters that Nia is in an irreversible coma caused by eclampsia.

Curriculum Resources:■ http://wildgeeseguides.blogspot.com/2010/01/first-part-

last.html

■ http://www.rebelhousewife.com/rebel-reviews/2007/11/12/the-first-part-last-discussion-questions.html

Resources & Credits

Subjects Matter by Harvey Daniels Steven Zemelman

■ http://www.heinemann.com/shared/onlineresources/e00595/chapter1.pdf