I'm doing my unit plan on the book The Girl Who Drank The Moon. I'm really excited to continue to create this unit plan and see how everything comes together in the end!!
To start, when I researched this book, it came up as a fifth-grade reading level book. I had originally thought this book would be perfect for fifth graders, and this just confirmed it! So, I'm planning my unit plan for fifth graders.
Some ELA fifth grade guidelines that I want to include in my process of creating my unit plan are:
5.1.1.1: Quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.
5.1.2.2: Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from detail in the text, including how characters in a story or drama respond to challenges or how the speakers in a poem reflects upon a topic; summarize the text.
5.1.3.3: Compare and contrast two or more characters, settings, or events in a story or drama, drawing on specific details in the text.
Goals:
Some goals that I have for this lesson plan based off some of these ELA standards are:
-Activities comparing and contrasting settings and characters in the book.
-Determine the major themes in the book as we read the book, and then have a reflection activity on them.
-Including an activity where I have the students do a group project (to be determined what the project is; maybe creating a kahoot or presentation for the class) and include quotes from the text and being able to explain why they included them or thought they were important.
Research:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3JXsIk3kJ4
- This is an interview with the author where she talks about her book The Girl Who Drank The Moon. I think this would help prepare me to teach this Unit Plan. I also think it would be beneficial to perhaps showing the students a clip from the interview so they have a better understanding/some background knowledge before we dive into the book.
http://www.suzyred.com/The-Girl-Who-Drank-the-Moon.html
-This source is one that I could gather a lot of inspiration from. There are different lesson ideas that I think would be engaging to include in my unit plan in teaching The Girl Who Drank The Moon. For example, pictured on the website in a jeopardy game for the book. I hadn't thought of that before seeing in on this source but that definitely made me intrigued. I think a jeopardy game might be a fun way to "quiz" the students on different aspects of the book.
https://quizlet.com/228597335/the-girl-who-drank-the-moon-flash-cards/
-I liked this quizlet for this book because it included page numbers with the answers. I think if I created my own quizlet for my unit plan I could use some inspiration from this quizlet. I also think that it might be helpful to see what other people think are the valuable things to take away from this book, and looking at other teacher's quizlets show me what they value from the book!
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/40813940361127259/
-I really like this worksheet outline for comparing characters! I think this would be a resource that I could just print off and give to the students to work on. I think that since most compare and contrast worksheets look the same it would be kinda pointless for me to create my own when I could just use one already made in an organized, easy-to-read outline.
https://fifthgd.weebly.com/uploads/4/6/9/1/46913849/compare_contrast_settings_answers.pdf
-I found this ELA standards worksheet that shows exactly how to compare and contrast the setting of a novel in an efficient and effective ELA way. I think this would be such a helpful source in creating my unit plan! I could pull so much useful information from this source that would help me create an activity where the students could compare and contrast the setting in the book.
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