1. By: Chloe Chaudemanche
Story Element Project
By: Chloe Chaudemanche

2. Title, author, and illustrator
Title: Thank you, Mr.Falker
Author: Patricia Polacco
Illustrator: Patricia Polacco

3. Characters
Main: Tricia, Mr.Falker, babushka, grandfather, Eric, Miss Plessy.
Other: Other children if Michigan (like Sue Ellyn or Tommy Bob), Tricia’s big brother, other kid of California( like Stevie Joc, Alice Marie, Davy, Michael Mee), Tricia’s mom

4. Description of Main Character
Tricia: she’s the hero, she has red hair, she can not read.
Mr.Falker: he’s the 5th grade teacher of Tricia, he dress very fancy, he will help Tricia to read
Miss Plessy: she’s the reading teacher, and she’s helping Tricia to read with Mr.Falker.
Babushka, grandfather: the babushka help Tricia to fell good, the grandfather put honey on a book for Tricia. They are dead.
Eric: he’s said bad thing to Tricia like “Dumb girl”, “Stupid”, “Ugly”… He’s in Tricia’s class in California.

5. Setting
Where: in school in Michigan, school in California, the grandparent's farm, at Tricia's home
When: on Tricia 5th birthday, kindergarten to 5th grade

6. Problem
The problem is that Tricia can not read, Tricia fell dumb and ugly, she hates school, because the other kids call her “Dumb”, “Ugly”, “Stupid”…

7. Rising Action Tricia’s grandfather put honey on a book
She can not read at school
Tricia, her mother and her brother are moving to California
She meet Mr.Falker (her 5th grade teacher), and other children call her dumb, stupid, ugly…

8. Climax
The climax is when Tricia read a sentence and she understand everything she read.

9. Falling Action Then she read the all paragraph
Mr.Falker and Miss Plessy cry happily

10. Resolution
Tricia put honey on a book. Later she meet Mr.Falker and tell her about her job.

11. Review
I really like the story, because it’s was interesting and it could happen to every one. I really like the drawing.

12. Connection
Me too, I did move from a place to another. And I live in Michigan, too.

13. Vocabulary My vocabulary is: Wobbly: irregular
Abuzz: with a lot of noise in a room

15. Resouces