We really got "a good bang for our buck" using this book. Along with our other activities, we also had the students extend the story of Wump World. This is one the requirements of the Common Core Narrative piece.
To begin their story, the students needed to use information from the original text to describe the characters, and to write their exposition to the extended story. From there they had to decide whose point of view they were going to choose, either the Wumps' or the Pollutians'.
To help the students with their writing, we gave them guidelines to follow. To extend the story from the Wump's point of view, these were the guidelines:
*Include how the Wumps cleaned up their environment
*Include what the Wumps did to prevent this from happening again
*Include how they planned to protect their world
*Include how the Wumps' attitude changed
The guidelines for the Pollutians' point of view were:
*Include a new setting- describe where it is (name), what it looks like, sounds like, smells, like, and who lives there
*Reintroduce the Pollutians and give some background on them
*Introduce the new characters living on the planet- describe what they look like, and how they act
*Tell what the Pollutians try to do, and the problems they create
*Create a new way for the main characters to deal with the Pollutians, and how they stop them.
*Have a solution or resolution
*Do the Pollutians learn a lesson?
*Have the main characters helped the Pollutians change their perceptions?
*Did the Pollutians now see what damage they have caused everywhere they have been?
Below are some of the finished products from the students. They did an amazing job, and we are so proud of them. Feel free to try this with your students because it was fun and rewarding for both the students and for us.
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| Students illustrated the summary of their extended story on a six-piece summary wheel. |
Happy Fourth of July!
Kim and Anne
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