Black Eyed Susan Picture Book Award Nominees

The award seeks to promote literacy and lifelong reading habits by encouraging students to read quality, contemporary literature. Students must read a minimum of 8 of the 15 picture books to vote.

Related Websites  Author's site - Meghan McCarthy  Gum-chewing blog - thinkgum - for teacher use

Curricular Connections Research inventors and inventions Investigate gum ingredients Research history of gum chewing Invent your own candy or gum Write a persuasive letter

Curricular Connections Timeline of events in the Civil Rights Movement o Read's Drugstore in Baltimore Figurative language o "they were treated like the hole in a doughnut - invisible." Illustrations in "scratchboard" technique o Quotations from Martin Luther King, Jr Sit-In by Andrea Davis Pinkney hy-the-west-side-matters-reads-drug-store- and-baltimores-civil-rights-heritage

Writing Prompt Treasures Reading Program o Grade 5  Unit: "Fight Back" Students write a paragraph - in the first person - describing a moment in time. o Use strong sentences to focus on feelings - emotional and physical - at the moment when food is poured on you by the angry mob.

Author Website Curricular Connections Write a personal diary, memoir, or autobiography Fiction & Non-Fiction -compare Research goldfish and their care

Curricular Connections: Math o fractions o exponents o multiplication o division o fair share Character Education o sharing o manners

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Curricular Connections: Language Arts o adjectives o descriptive language o folk tales  Chicken Little  Henny Penny o point of view

Curricular Connections *Language Arts: Biography: Research further Dave's life Discuss quotations *Art: Collaborate with the art teacher and have the students create their own piece of pottery using the medium of clay. A 45 page educator’s guide with information on American Folklore and Folk Art, Pottery Basics, and Lesson Plans on Pottery Making, Craft Traditions and Written and Oral Traditions, and much more can be found at: *Social Studies: African Americans, Slavery, history of pottery

Design your own pottery jar with or without a poem.

45 page educator's guide. Need to adapt to grade level.

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Curricular Connections: Folk/fairy tale elements Determination/persistence Cleverness, creativity, and imagination Resourcefulness Lesson Ideas: Reader’s Theater Sequencing: Create a “cake” out of paper or felt and have students remove the parts of the cake as the story progresses; write the sequence of events on sentence strips and have students put them in order Create invitations to a party and decide on a perfect gift for a princess. Older students can use the author’s C-L-A-P-S method and graphic organizer to write an original tale. CLAPS= Character, Location, Action, Problem, Solution

Curricular Connections *Language Arts: Myths, folktales Writing Readers' Theater *Ancient Greek art *Science: Seasons *Social Studies: Agriculture Suggestion: Use story in December at the beginning of winter.

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Curricular Connections *Language Arts: Poetry Descriptive language Now and then *Science: Seasons Nature The authors suggest using nature to spark creativity when writing your own haiku – a great idea for Green School certification.

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Curricular Connections Identify the fairy tale characters featured in each poem Choose a favorite fairy tale character and use first person narrative to tell his/her perspective of events Older grades: Write a reversible poem

Make predictions. What does this puppy have to say? Curricular Connections Use expressive animal photos to create poems from other animals' points of view Use the poems as writing models to speak in your own voice. What would your "What I Don't Like" poem say?