William Allen White Book Talks (4th-5th)

9/1/2014

William Allen White Book Talks (4th-5th)

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Day 1 for 4th Grade
What is a Little Free Library? (Lesson for 2nd-4th)
This will be the first day lesson for every school except Eisenhower who is going to start with the video.
here is the flipchart that accompanies that lesson

Day 1 for 5th Grade
Lesson Plan Follow up on the Little Free Library
Link to the video about the Leawood Little Free Library
Follow up video to the Leawood Little Free Library

Day 2-4 William Allen White Unit Plan
William Allen White Video
Lincoln and Roosevelt September 1st -12th
Washington and Eisenhower September 15th-26th

2014-2015 William Allen White Powerpoint

No kid knows more about zoo life than Whit. That's because he sleeps, eats and even attends home-school at the Meadowbrook Zoo. It's one of the perks of having a mother who's the zoo director and a father who's the head elephant keeper. Now that he's eleven, Whit feels trapped by the rules and routine of zoo life. With so many exotic animals, it's easy to get overlooked. But when Whit notices a mysterious girl who visits every day to draw the birds, suddenly the zoo becomes much more interesting. Who is the Bird Girl? And why does she come by herself to the zoo? Determined to gain her trust, Whit takes the Bird Girl on his own personal tour of the zoo. He shows her his favorite animals and what happens with them behind the scenes. For Whit, having a friend his own age that he can talk to is an exciting new experience. For Stella the Bird Girl, the zoo and Whit are a necessary escape from her chaotic home life. Together they take risks in order to determine where it is they each belong. But when Stella asks Whit for an important and potentially dangerous favor, Whit discovers how complicated friendship and freedom-- can be.

Suggested excerpt from Blog, I Read Banned Books

Summer of the Gypsy Moths, Sara Pennypacker, 3 mins 33 sec

Don't Feed the Boy, Irene Latham, 2 mins 11 sec

Malcolm at Midnight, W. H. Beck, 58 sec

Freaky Fast Frankie Joe, Lutricia Clifton, 1 min 32 sec

The Adventures of BeanBoy, Lisa Harkrader, 1 min 31 sec

The Five Lives of Our Cat Zook, Joanne Rocklin, 1 min 12 sec

Prairie Evers, Ellen Airgood, 1 min 3 sec

On the Road to Mr. Mineo's, Barbara O'Conner, 2 mins 5 sec

5 Comments

Amanda

8/28/2014 01:46:41 am

It was raining for Day 1 with the 4th grade so our walk to the LFL was cut short. We filled the time by talking about the Leawood LFL and watching those videos. The kids had some interesting ideas about how they could "fight" for their LFL.

Mary

9/12/2014 02:31:49 am

WAW: Day 1; Watched the first 2 trailers. They liked the hangman and did pretty good at guessing. I showed the short you-tube of WAW (was just the right amount of time). Talked about voting too.
I passed the books around to each table; Wanted to show them the amount of words especially, since they would know their reading levels better than me and let them see and feel the books!:)

julie

9/15/2014 11:15:45 pm

we also talked about what an award is, why are they given? Also compared Newbury (voted on by adults) to WAW (voted on by kids)

elizabeth

9/24/2014 02:23:02 am

I kinda of cheated I read through all of your comments before doing WAW great tips! I felt like since we watched the movie they had a very good understanding of who WAW was. But a misconception that held true for a lot of students was that these books were written by WAW.

9/24/2014 02:31:40 am

LFL fifth grade lesson went well. I think they really enjoyed hearing about a peer with a LFL. They could not believe he had to take it down.

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