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Subject/Topic: Bridge to Terabithia: Social Interaction Grade/Class: 7 Date: March 28, 2010

Objectives: (What do you want the students to learn? These should be observable.)

1. How to create relationships through examining a literary work and practice oral skills.2. How to gain social skills while learning literary and media work.3. How to create a poem around their understandings of a concept from literary work.

Academic Standards: Reading Standard: Grade 7Strand 1: Reading ProcessConcept 5: FluencyPO1. Read from a variety of genres with accuracy, automaticity, and prosody.Concept 6:Comprehension StrategiesPO3. Generate clarifying questions in order to comprehend text.PO5. Connect information and events in text to experience and to relate text and sources.PO6. Apply knowledge of the organizational structures (cause and effect relationships) of text to aid comprehension.Strand 2: Comprehending Literary TextConcept 1:Elements of LiteraturePO3. Describe a character, based upon the thoughts, words, and actions of the character, the narrator’s description, and other characters.Strand 3: Comprehending Informational TextConcept 1: Expository TextPO9. Apply knowledge of organizational structures of expository text to aid comprehension.Concept 3: Persuasive TextPO3. Describe the intended effect of persuasive strategies and propaganda (peer pressure, transfer) that an author uses.Writing Standard: Grade 7 Strand 1: Writing ProcessConcept 1: Prewriting PO1. Generate ideas through a variety of activities (prior knowledge, discussion with others, printed material or other sources).PO4. Establish a central idea appropriate to the type of writing. PO5. Use organizational strategies to plan writing.PO6. Maintain a record of writing ideas.PO7.Use time management strategies to produce a writing product within a set time period.Concept 2: DraftingPO2.Organize writing into a logical sequence that is clear to the audience. Strand 2: Writing ComponentsConcept 1: Ideas and ConceptsPO3. Develop a sufficient explanation or exploration of the topic.PO4. Include ideas and details that show original perspective.Concept 3: VoicePO1. Show awareness of the audience through word choice, style, and an appropriate connection with, or distance from, the audience.PO2. Convey a sense of identity through originality, sincerity, liveliness, or humor appropriate to the topic and type of writing.

PO3. Use language appropriate for the topic and purpose.PO4. Choose appropriate voice for the audience and purpose.Concept 4: Word ChoicePO1.Use accurate, specific, powerful words that effectively convey the intended message.PO2.Use words that consistently support style and type of writing.PO3.Use vocabulary that is original, varied, and natural.Concept 5: Sentence FluencyPO1. Write a simple, compound, and complex sentence.PO2.Creat sentences that flow together and sound natural when read aloud. PO3.Vary sentence flow together and sound natural when read aloud.PO4.Use effective and natural dialogue when appropriate.Concept 6: ConventionsPO1.Use capital letters correctly PO2. Use commas to correctly punctuate.PO3. Use quotation marks to punctuate.PO6. Use apostrophes to punctuate.PO8. Use common spelling patterns/generalizations to spell words correctly.PO11. Use paragraph breaks to indicate an organizational structure.PO12. Use the parts of speech correctly in simple sentences.Strand 3: Writing ApplicationsConcept 1: ExpressivePO1. Write a narrative.PO2. Write a variety of expressive forms (poetry) according to type of writing.Concept 2: ExpositoryPO 1. Record information related to the topic.Concept 5: Literary Response PO1. write a response to literature. Language Arts StandardsStandard 3: Listening and SpeakingLS-E1. prepare and deliver an organized speech and effectively convey the message through verbal and nonverbal communications with a specific audience.LS-E3. Interpret and respond to questions and evaluate responses both as interviewer and interviewee.Standard 4: Viewing and PresentingVP-E3. Compare, contrast and establish criteria to evaluate visual media for purpose and effectiveness.Workplace Skills Standards Essentials Grades 4-8Standard 11WP-E1. Deliver a speech clearly, with expression and in an organized fashion, making eye contact with audience, and convey the message through nonverbal as well as verbal communications.1WP-E3. Demonstrate correct grammar and punctuation in writing.1WP-E4. Respond to oral and written presentations by formulating relevant feedback, expressing options, discerning the main idea and distinguishing fact from opinion.5WP-E2. Demonstrate work ethics and behaviors for success as defined by school and community.5WP-E5. Apply the basic academic skills to develop a resume, job application and interviewing techniques. Materials:*Bridge to Terabithia (novel)

*”Bridge to Terabithia” (2007 movie)*Assignment example handouts

Anticipatory Set/Motivation (How will you get the students interested?):*Relate the characters of the novel to the students to the age of the characters.*Sparking the student’s imagination, just like the characters had.*Get the students to relate the topic to their everyday lives and relationships (family and peer interaction).

Activities: (This can include direct instruction, cooperative learning and group work, or individual or class activities)What is friendship? *Watch video snippets of both Bridge to Terabithia and Because of Winn-Dixie*Pre-writing: (5 minutes) Create a web for what you think friendship/being a friend and keeping them/aspects of a relationship is based on your personal experiences and/or the video clips.*Assignment: (15 minutes) Create a poem using the ideas from the web.*Read the poem out loud.*Class Discussion: Relate the topic of friendship and family interaction to the lives of the characters in the novel and why these topics can cause problems in education and the lives of the students.

Assessment: (How will you determine what the students have learned, and whether or not they understand the lesson?)*Participation (In class)*Comprehension (Poem)*Keeping up with the reading (Discussion)

Troubleshooting (Plan for what might go wrong, alternate activities, etc.):Alternative book: Because of Winn-DixieSame concepts.Same assignments.

Rationale TemplateA rationale should include:

A bibliographic citation of the workPaterson, Katherine. Bridge to Terabithia. Harper Collins, 1977. Print.DiCamilo, Kate. Because of Winn-Dixie. Candlewick Press, 2000. Print."Banned and Challenged Books." ALA. American Library Association, 2010. Web. 29 Mar 2010. <http://www.ala.org/ala/issuesadvocacy/banned/aboutbannedbooks/index.cfm>.

The intended audienceThe Classroom of 7th grade students and the administration.

A brief summary of the workStudents will learn about banned books and underlying themes by reading either Bridge to Terabithia or the alternative book Because of Winn-Dixie. Each student is required to read the book, complete assignments, and participate in class discussions.

In class video will be shown to depict the characters interaction and relationship to those in their lives. Students will then use their interpretation and/or personal experiences to connect ideas into schema in the form of a pre-writing Web. From their thoughts they will create a poem and practice their oral skills by reciting it. Then, there will be a discussion on the topic of friendship, relationship, and social interaction as well as what complications may arise from the topics discussed in the book and seen in the film. .

The educational significance of the workBoth deal with relationships, peer pressure and social interaction, death, and dealing with the hardships of life.

The potential impact of the bookStudents will explore different kinds of relationships, peer pressure and social interaction, death, imagination, and things that could occur in their every day life; which would spark the discussion topic of why the book was banned.

The purpose of using the workStudents will learn the importance of reading, writing, social interaction, family dynamics, etc, that they will, at some point in their lives, deal with and use within their educational and occupational careers by reading and interpreting the literary work.

How the work will be usedThe book will be read out of class and in class. Film clips will be shown in class. Students will interpret the readings and clips.

The relationship of the work to the rest of the curriculum or unitStudents will learn the importance of pre-writing, analysis to a literary work, practicing their oral presentation, while understanding complex ideas.

Potential problems with using the workParents and Administration will have problems with the stories tone of death and pain that the characters experience.

How to handle potential problems1. Create the lesson plan.2. Run it by the administration3. Hand out permission slips explaining why the book is banned and why it is

important for children to read, but also state that there is an alternate book. 4. Assign the books in accordance to the permission slips.5. Show video clips of banned book first, then bring in the alternative novel students

and show their clips before continuing on with the pr-writing assignment.

Alternative works an individual student might read or viewBecause of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamilo

A collection of information about the book and/or published rationalesLiterary Work:Katherine Paterson’s novel Bridge to Terabithia follows the relationship of fifth graders Jess Aarons and Leslie Burke as they meet and become friends. The book can be used as a means for students to understand and explore the value of friendship. In this lesson, which is most appropriate for use in fourth- through sixth-grade classrooms, students make predictions about the book and its main characters, complete character studies as part of an in-depth look at Jess and Leslie’s friendship, and relate the characters’ experiences to their own as they define friendship and identify ways to make and keep friends (Paterson).The summer Opal and her father, the preacher, move to Naomi, Florida, Opal goes into the Winn-Dixie supermarket and comes out with a dog. A big, ugly, suffering dog with a sterling sense of humor. A dog she dubs Winn-Dixie. Because of Winn-Dixie, the preacher tells Opal ten things about her absent mother, one for each year Opal has been alive. Winn-Dixie is better at making friends than anyone Opal has ever known, and together they meet the local librarian, Miss Franny Block, who once fought off a bear with a copy of War and Peace. They meet Gloria Dump, who is nearly blind but sees with her heart, and Otis, an ex-con who sets the animals in his pet shop loose after hours, then lulls them with his guitar. Opal spends all that sweet summer collecting stories about her new friends, and thinking about her mother. But because of Winn-Dixie or perhaps because she has grown, Opal learns to let go, just a little, and that friendship-and forgiveness-can sneak up on you like a sudden summer storm (DiCamilo).

Leading Discussion Questions

How would you define friendship?

How would you make and keep friends?

What were the implications of the importance of friendship to the characters?

What do the characters face at home and at school?

o Have you ever dealt with anything similar?

Why do you think these topics would be of any controversy?

o Why do you think it is important to learn about banned books?

What do you hope to gain from reading this novel?

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