Fear not, Standard Sticklers, I made sure to pick a good mentor text which led to a lot of rich discussion and the practice of some essential CC skills.
Wednesday's pick...
- Grace is a wonderful character to analyze for traits based on her thoughts, actions, and feelings.
- Good text clues in which to make inferences
- A great story for determining theme
- Has a very positive message about self-confidence and perseverance
Thursday's pick...
- This book is great for inferring Grace's feelings and thoughts; not just what they are, but why she has them
- There is opportunity for self-to-text and text-to-text connection as concepts of family and divorce are discussed
- A few opportunities for predicting
- A great story for determining theme
- Seeing a "known" character on another adventure allowed for deeper character analysis
- It would be easy to look at story events from another character's perspective (ie. her dad's or stepmother's)
