Last week we told you about the character traits slideshow that our more advanced students created. Our more guided group also focused on Amelia Bedelia's character traits, but in a different manner. Here is what they did.
The students read the books Teach Us, Amelia Bedelia, Thank You Amelia Bedelia, and Amelia Bedelia, in a shared reading format, where they recorded and discussed their thoughts while reading. Most of this time was spent with Anne modeling her own thoughts while reading because this is still a struggle for students.
For their project, they created a character trait web in their notebooks. Then, they selected three of Amelia Bedelia's traits and used a notecard to find the best evidence from one of the books to support that trait. We did the first trait together, and then they had to independently find the next two.
The kids also wrote their opinion to the question, 'Would you want to work with Amelia Bedelia?'
To begin we started with a Tug-of War activity from the book, Make Thinking Visible by Ron Ritchhart, Mark Church, and Karin Morrison to debate our reasons for answering yes to this question or no to the question. Once the students decided on their opinion, they wrote a paragraph on it. In their paragraph, they needed to begin with a lead, state their opinion and give support with two or more reasons and evidence from the text. After working hard, they had fun making their Amelia Bedelia craft.
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To wrap up our unit on Amelia Bedelia, we will be comparing and contrasting two different books using a Venn Diagram, and then we will write a compare and contrast expository paragraph.
We will share these with you next week.
Kim and Anne
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