Theme: |
Defining Our Personalities Through Objects
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Grades: |
6 - 8
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Subject: |
Reading and Language Arts
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Duration: |
Two class periods
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Standards
& Goals: |
Florida State Learning Standards
- The student will listen to, read and discuss familiar and conceptually challenging text.
- The student will explain how ideas, values and themes of literary work often reflect the historical period in which it was written
Note that standards in this lesson plan are for example only. This lesson can be easily adapted to meet your state's specific standards.
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Objectives: |
Students will:
- Read or listen to Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis.
- Use a map to locate Flint, Michigan.
- Gain an understanding of life during the Great Depression.
- Create a suitcase that has several personal belongings that help identify themselves as an individual (similar to Bud’s suitcase).
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