Lesson Plan Template s17

Lesson Plan Template Rev 10/1/09 Dr. Thieman

Name: Kali Burns Age/Grade Level: 8th grade Subject Area(s): Language Arts/ Library Media Unit Title: Multicultural Literature Lesson Title: Multicultural and Global Choice Books Estimated Time: 45 minutes

Purpose/Rationale for lesson: To introduce students to a selection of literature from various cultures and countries around the world.

Curriculum Framing Questions: Essential Question: -What does multiculturalism mean to me? Unit Question that applies to this lesson: -What does multicultural literature teach us about the people of the world? -Where do I see multiculturalism in my daily life?

Lesson/ Content Questions: -Who are the main characters in the story? -What culture is being depicted in the book/ DVD? -How am I the same or different than the characters in this book/ DVD? -Where does the story take place? -Which people, aspects of the culture, or items in that culture sparked your interest to learn more?

Goal: For students to become aware of the variety of books available in the library about various cultures in the United States and around the world. To discover a perspective that is unique to their own and to become more tolerant of other ways of interacting with the world.

Learning Objective(s): To expose students to multicultural and global books from a variety of cultures.

Curriculum Standard(s): AASL Standards for the 21st century learner: 1.1.6 Read, view, and listen for information presented in any format )e.g., textual, visual, media, digital) in order to make inferences and gather meaning.

2.1.6 Use writing process, media and visual literacy, and technology skills to create products that express new understandings.

Materials Needed: Smart Board, or computer with digital projector, with a connection to the internet. Fifty global and multicultural selections: print sources, bilingual books, audio books, DVDs, about other countries or cultures, non-fiction books, novels, and graphic novels, and picture books. 30 spiral notebooks to be used as journals, and pencils. Posters of a few of the books selected.

Background knowledge or skills students need prior to lesson: Knowledge of library procedures, check-out rules, reading and writing.

Hook or Introduction: The book talk presentation will be visually entertaining and engaging.

Procedures: 10:00-10:10 Students arrive to the library and the librarian reads chapter 3: Wendell, of Seedfolks by Paul Fleishman.

10:10-10:20 Students write in response to listening to the chapter and to the questions handed out by librarian:

1. Why does Ana call Wendell?

2. How are Wendell and Ana affected by Kim planting the seeds trash filled vacant lot?

3. What is Wendell talking about when he says that he looks out for Ana?

4. What does Wendell mean when he says “A child shall lead them”? What does Wendell do next?

10:20-10:30 Before the students have arrived to the library the librarian has preselected approximately 50 different multicultural and global; print, DVD, and audio book selections. The library is decorated with posters featuring some of the selections. An author visit is planned to host a talk about a selected title for later in the unit. The students meet at the tables and sit facing the Smart Board at the front of the library media center. The Librarian introduces 10 book choice selections from a cart of approximately 50 titles. The books are introduced in the form of a PowerPoint presentation, Realia, and an Animoto book trailer. The idea is to get the students excited about the books. The books are presented and a choice is given so students can select “just right” books for their personal reading level. Also the element of choice is important for to students to have a sense of ownership for their educational experience.

10:30-10:35 Students browse through the print sources and DVDs on the cart and tables. The Choice Books include multicultural and global literature books. The selections are everything from graphic novels, to DVDs about a culture, to non-fiction selections about a person or country, to multicultural novels, to picture books depicting a culture or country or a personal story of a person living within this culture.

10:35-10:45 Students check out one book/DVD/Audio book to be read/view personally over the week and to be returned and shared in some form during class and library time of the next week. The students are given work sheets with the following questions to be answered as they read or watch their selection.

-What makes a good multicultural book or DVD? -Who are the main characters in the story? -How am I the same or different than the characters in the book/ DVD? -Where does the story take place? -Which people, aspects of the culture, or items in that culture sparked your interest to learn more? -Be prepared to share the key elements in this book/DVD with the class next week’s library time. The following are options of ways to share this selection with the class: -book talk -poem -Animoto/book trailer -painting/drawing -letter to a character in the story -dramatic reading -recipe/food experience -PowerPoint -other (approved by the language arts teacher or librarian)

Differentiation/Accommodation: There are many different ways students may accomplish the assignments in this lesson. A student may read, listen to or view a multicultural or global selection. There are bilingual materials also for students who speak another language or wish to learn more about another language. The presentations are also choice driven allowing students to choose the way to present their multicultural or global selection to the class.

Attention to Literacy: Students are reading a variety of books from large selection of multicultural and global literary titles. Each selection is a quality book source. There will also be a wide range of books available for different reading levels. Students are given the choice of what book they wish to read from a great list, many on the award lists. This freedom to choose the book they are reading increases a student’s interest and drive to improve their literacy. Closure: To end the lesson I as the librarian will open up the library to give the students time for browsing the titles offered. The students will be given examples of quality multicultural and global literature available in the library for check out.

Assessment and Evaluation of Student Learning: How will you determine what progress the students have made toward accomplishing the learning objectives? Consider formal or informal, formative or summative methods. Identify specific criteria for assessing the students’ work.

Notable Books for a Global Society Booklist:

All these books were copyright in 2005:

Ahmadi, Farah. The story of my life: An Afghan girl on the other side of the sky. New York: Simon and Schuster.

Bartoletti, Susan Campbell. Hitler youth: Growing up in Hitler's shadow. New York: Scholastic.

Carling, Amelia Lau.Sawdust carpets. Toronto: Groundwood/Douglas & McIntyre.

Carvell, Marlene. Sweetgrass basket. New York: Dutton.

Chamberlin, Mary and Chamberlin, Rich. Mama Panya's pancakes: A village tale from Kenya. Illus. by Julia Cairns. Cambridge, MA: Barefoot Books.

Cheng, Andrea. Shanghai messenger. Illus. by Ed Young. New York: Lee and Low Books.

Giovanni, Nikki. Rosa. Illus. by Bryan Collier. New York: Henry Holt and Company.

Hillman, Laura. I will plant you a lilac tree: A Memoir of a Schindler's list survivor. New York: Atheneum.

Johnson-Davis, Denys. Goha the wise fool. Illus. by Hag Handy and Hany. New York: Philomel.

Jurmain, Suzanne. The forbidden schoolhouse: The true and dramatic story of Prudence Crandall and her students. New York: Houghton Mifflin.

Krinitz, Esther Nisenthal, and Steinhardt, Bernice. Memories of survival. New York: Hyperion.

Lester, Julius. The Old African. Illus. by Jerry Pinkney. New York: Dial Books.

Millman, Isaac. Hidden child. New York: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux. Nelson, Marilyn. A wreath for Emmett Till. Illus. by Philippe Lardy. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

Park, Linda Sue. Project mulberry. New york: Clarion.

Rappaport, Doreen. The school is not white! A true story of the Civil Rights Movement. Illus. by Curtis James. New York: Hyperion.

Reich, Susanna. José!: Born to dance: The story of José Limon. Illus. by Raul Colon: New York: Simon & Schuster.

Ruurs, Martriet. My librarian is a camel: How books are brought to children around the world. New York: Boyds Mills Press.

Say, Allen. Kamishibai man. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

Staples, Suzanne Fisher. Under the persimmon tree. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux.

Tal, Eve. Double crossing. El Paso, TX: Cinco Puntos Press.

Weatherford, Carole Boston. A Negro league scrapbook. Honesdale: Boyds Mills Press.

Williams, Mary. Brothers in hope: The story of the lost boys of Sudan. Illus. by R. Gregory Christie. New York: Lee & Low books.

Woodson, Jacqueline. Show way. Illus. by Hudson Talbott. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons.

Yoo, Paula. Sixteen years in sixteen seconds. Illus. by Don Lee. New York: Lee & Low.

NON-FICTION Africa Tunisia to Africatrek: A Journey by Bicycle Through Africa Dan Buettner South Africa (1998 NBGS) West Africa Amistad: A Long Road to Freedom (1999 NBGS) Walter Dean Myers At Her Majesty’s Request: An African Princess Walter Dean Myers in Victorian England (2000 NBGS) Asia China China’s Son: Growing Up in the Cultural Revolution Da Chen (2002 NBGS) Confucius: The Golden Rule (2003 NBGS) Russell Freedman Japan Grass Sandals: The Travels of Basho (1998 NBGS) Dawnine Spivak *Hana’s Suitcase (2004 NBGS) In Search of the Spirit: The Living National Sheila Hamanaka Treasures of Japan (2000 NBGS) and Ayano Ohmi *Passage to Freedom: The Sugihara Story (1998 NBGS) Ken Mochizuki *Special Fate: Chiune Sugihara, Hero of the Holocaust Alison Leslie Gold (2001 NBGS) Korea My Freedom Trip: A Child’s Escape From North Korea Frances Park and (1999 NBGS) Ginger Park Tibet Our Journey From Tibet: Based on a True Story Laurie Dolphin (1998 NBGS) Vietnam Ten Mice for Tet (2004 NBGS) Pegi Deitz Shea and Cynthia Weill Note. Books noted with asterisk (*) are also listed in Europe and Religions sections. Booklist to accompany Breaking Boundaries With Global Literature: Celebrating Diversity in K–12 Classrooms by Nancy L. Hadaway and Marian J. McKenna, editors. © 2007 International Reading Association. Available at www.reading.org. May be printed and copied for classroom use. 1 Country or Culture Represented Book Title and Year Selected Author Europe Czechoslovakia Fireflies in the Dark: The Story of Friedl Dicke-Brandeis Susan Goldman Rubin and the Children of Terezin (2001 NBGS) Czechoslovakia Hana’s Suitcase (2004 NBGS) Karen Levine (and Japan) Germany Luba: The Angel of Bergen-Belsen (2004 NBGS) Luba Trysznska- Frederick Parallel Journeys (1996 NBGS) Eleanor H. Ayer Holland and Anne Frank: A Hidden Life (2001 NBGS) Mirjam Pressler Germany Ireland *One Belfast Boy (2000 NBGS) Patricia McMahon Lithuania **Passage to Freedom: The Sugihara Story Ken Mochizuki (1998 NBGS) **Special Fate: Chiune Sugihara, Hero of the Alison Leslie Gold Holocaust (2001 NBGS) Poland, Germany, No Pretty Pictures: A Child of War (1999 NBGS) Anita Lobel and Sweden Note. Book noted with asterisk (*) is also listed in Religions section. Books noted with two asterisks (**) are also listed in Asia section. Middle East Israel *Masada (1999 NBGS) Neil Waldman Egypt, Syria, *Saladin: Noble Prince of Islam (2003 NBGS) Diane Stanley and Kingdom of Jerusalem (12th century) Note. Books noted with asterisk (*) are also listed in Religions section. 2 Country or Culture Represented Book Title and Year Selected Author North America African American *“Dear Friend”: Thomas Garrett & William Still, Judith Bentley Collaborators on the Underground Railroad (1998 NBGS) Free to Dream—The Making of a Poet: Audrey Osofsky Langston Hughes (1997 NBGS) Going Back Home: An Artist Returns to the South Michele Wood (1997 NBGS) and Toyomi Igus Harlem Stomp! A Cultural History of the Harlem Laban Carrick Hill Renaissance (2005 NBGS) I Have a Dream (1998 NBGS) Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Leagues Apart: The Men and Times of the Negro Lawrence S. Ritter Baseball Leagues (1996 NBGS) Osceola: Memories of a Sharecropper’s Daughter Alan Govenar (2001 NBGS) Slavery Time: When I Was Chillun (1998 NBGS) Belinda Hurmence (editor) Through My Eyes (2000 NBGS) Ruby Bridges The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson Russell Freedman and the Struggle for Equal Rights (2005 NBGS) Slave Spirituals and the Jubilee Singers (2002 NBGS) Michael L. Cooper Japanese American The Children of Topaz: The Story of a Japanese- Michael O. Tunnell American Internment Camp (1997 NBGS) and George W. Chilcoat Mexican American Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez Kathleen Krull (2004 NBGS) In My Family/En Mi Familia (1997 NBGS) Carmen Lomas Garza Mexico The Pot That Juan Built (2003 NBGS) Nancy Andrews- Goebel Multicultural Immigrants (1996 NBGS) Martin W. Sandler Tenement: Immigrant Life on the Lower East Side Raymond Bial (2003 NBGS) Muslim American Celebrating Ramadan (2002 NBGS) Diane Hoyt-Goldsmith Russian American *Streets of Gold (2000 NBGS) Rosemary Wells (Jewish) 3 Country or Culture Represented Book Title and Year Selected Author Vietnamese Escape From Saigon: How a Vietnam War Orphan Andrea Warren American Became an American Boy (2005) Native American Children of Native America Today (2004 NBGS) Y.W. Dennis and Arlene Hirschfelder Lasting Echoes: An Oral History of Native Joseph Bruchac American People (1998 NBGS) Native American Lacrosse: The National Game of the Iroquois Diane Hoyt-Goldsmith (Iroquois) (1999 NBGS) Native American Lakota Hoop Dancer (2000 NBGS) Jacqueline Left Hand (Lakota) Bull and Suzanne Haldane Native American Sitting Bull and His World (2001 NBGS) Albert Marrin

Graphic Novels:

Geary, Rick. Trotsky: A Graphic Biography. Hill and Wang. 2009. The mind behind the Soviet Revolution and the foundation of the U.S.S.R.

Guibert, Emmanuel. Photographer: Into War-Torn Afghanistan with Doctors without Borders. First Second. 2009. In 1986 a young French photographer accompanied Doctors Without Borders into war torn Afghanistan. This is his story.

Gaiman, Neil and P. Craig Russell. Sandman: The Dream Hunters. DC Comics/Vertigo. 2009. The tale of a young Buddhist monk and the fox spirit who loves him.

Kim, Dong Hwa. The Color of Earth. First Second. 2009. The Color of Water. First Second. 2009. The Color of Heaven. First Second. 2009. Romance blooms in the parallel stories of a young girl and her widowed mother in traditional Korean society.

Komura, Ayumi. Mixed Vegetables, vol 1. VIZ Media. 2008. Hanayu longs to be a sushi chef, but can she abandon her family's bakery to follow her heart?

Fleming, Ann Marie. The Magical Life of Long Tack Sam. Penguin Group, 2007. Ann Marie traces the path of her great-grandfather's life, uncovering her roots and the magic behind them. Nonfiction.

Kouno, Fuyimo. Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms. 2007. Last Gasp $9.99 (ISBN13: 978-0867196658). Everyday life is haunted by the past. Fiction.

Satrapi, Marjane Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood