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Krista Harmsworth,

Amy Soupiset,

Ian McLaren

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Guide: https://goo.gl/N3fbmg - Global Read Aloud 2017 (Early Readers)

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Here is a final project I made to go along with the middle grade novel Count Me In

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created by Sarah Brower

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Stamped by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi

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Stamped by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi

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A digital notebook to support students reading Stamped. Created by
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Hyperdocs novel

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see title slide for credit to muliple teachers

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I survived...

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Raisin in the Sun/1950s intro Hyperdoc for sharing

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Created by Stephanie Foo @Stephanie_GXY
https://deck.toys/decks/QJiHA7ycD/Front-Desk

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001 Fahrenheit 451 - A Novel Hyperdoc (2020)

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001 The Catcher in the Rye Novel Hyperdoc (2023)

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Created by Bobbi Hopkins @bhopteacher

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Just Kidding - A novel HyperDoc on Bullying

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Just Kidding - A novel HyperDoc on Bullying

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Kimberly fine

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By Smaira Khan
@NetZeroKhan

skkhan@coppellisd.com

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by Tracy Burkett

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Karly Moura,

Krista Harmsworth,

Amy Soupiset,

Ian McLaren

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Please see slide 2 for information regarding resources used in this hyperdoc.

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Nadine Gilkison

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Kelley Brown

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Kimberly Fine

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Claire Simms Crowley

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Michelle Waggoner

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Bobbi Hopkins

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The Diary of Anne Frank Hyperdoc (updated)

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The Diary of Anne Frank Hyperdoc (updated)

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The Diary of Anne Frank - A Hyperdoc Unit (Updated)

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Karly Moura, Michele Waggoner, Sean Fahey, and Heather Marshall

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Amanda Sandoval

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Laura Conroy, Maddy La Voe, Jennifer Wagner, Christina Levy

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Copy of A Long Walk to Water Curriculum Guide

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Guide: https://goo.gl/bPG1ap - Global Read Aloud 2017 (Young Adult)

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Guide: https://goo.gl/y7S79b - Global Read Aloud 2017 (Upper Elementary/ Middle Grade)

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The Wild Robot (Google Site & Google Slides version-the blog post explains

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The Wild Robot (Google Site & Google Slides version-the blog post explains

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by Karly Moura, Michele Waggoner, Sean Fahey & Heather Marshall

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by Kevin Feramisco

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GRA 2017
By Steph
https://deck.toys/decks/X1TlEWhqm/Fenway-and-Hattie

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Guide: https://goo.gl/N3fbmg - Global Read Aloud 2017 (Early Readers)

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Karly Moura, Sean Fahey & Michele Waggoner

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Novel HyperDoc Template (Elementary Level)

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Steph
https://deck.toys/decks/XkaHF4-_m/Fish-in-a-Tree

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(sorry-I'm unsure who made this, please let me know if it's yours.)

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Nadine Gilkison

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Copy of cricket in times square template

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Carol Leyendecker

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HD by Nadine Gilkison

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Jill Schwartzman

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Kevin Feramisco

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Copy of M - The Outsiders - A Novel Hyperdoc

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Copy of The Great Gatsby - A Novel Hyperdoc

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It's hard to put into words. Gorilla's are not complainers. We are dreamers, poets, philosophers, nap takers.
"The One and Only Ivan" by Katherine Applegate

"The One and Only Ivan" by Katherine Applegate is the story of a Silverback Gorilla that is being kept in a shopping mall zoo. Inspired by actual events, the story is told from the gorilla's perspective and touches on the thematic topics of b​Guiding Questions:
How are characters transformed through their relationships with others?
What are the responsibilities of the individual / society in regard to animals and their environments?
With wild habitats disappearing worldwide, what role (if any) should zoos have in the conservation of endangered species, research and education?
What does it mean to live in an unnatural environment? Do humans live in unnatural environments? ullying, friendship, loneliness, isolation, loss, freedom, loyalty, identity, and animal rights. Because the book was inspired by real events, there are opportunities to explore fact/fiction, as well as the author's influence.

Ivan spends his days with Bob, a stray dog, and a former circus elephant named Stella. The characters are all haunted by bad experiences with humans from their lives before the mall, leading to the acceptance of their current substandard living conditions, and the poor treatment that they receive. When a new character is introduced, a baby elephant named Ruby, a promise is made and everything changes.

This is an excellent novel for teaching students about static and dynamic characters, as well as motif and theme. There are also opportunities to explore connotative and denotative word meanings around the idea of cage vs. domain, which is a topic of discussion among the animals throughout the story.

It was such a beautiful story, I read it in a single day and was unable to put it down. I knew that it needed to be shared, so I read it to a 4th/5th grade summer reading class that I was teaching at the time. They loved it! When the summer session was over I turned the lessons that I had taught into Google Slides that I could share with other teachers.
In this Google Hangout On Air the zoo keepers from Zoo Atlanta talk about "Ivan the Gorilla: Beyond the Book".
"The One and Only Ivan" is a fictional story, but it was inspired by a true story of a Gorilla named Ivan that lived in a shopping mall until public outrage led to his sale and removal to Zoo Atlanta.
This interview leads to some excellent opportunities for students to compare the real Ivan with the character from the novel.

This pairing explores the state of an animals mental health when kept in captivity, as well as the term "zoochosis". While it starts out lighthearted, using humor and animation to introduce the topic, this pairing goes deeper into the issues around animals in captivity through the text set of online articles. What I like about this text set is that it doesn't just highlight an issue, but it also shows ways in which people are coming up with creative solutions to address the problem.
The pairing addresses the question: What are the responsibilities of the individual / society in regard to animals and their environments?

﻿ Discussion Questions for the Short Film:
What are the most common complaints that the zoo animals have?
What are some of the things that the animals state that they like about their life in the zoo? How might these animal interviews had been different if animals from a circus or amusement park zoo (like Ivan & Ruby) had been interviewed instead?

​What makes a good zoo?

The image below is from the digital lesson for this pairing that I created for the novel. The digital lesson is packaged in Google Slides and is intended to be distributed to students with each student working through their own slide book. You will notice that many of the slides have a "Post Here" link. That link goes to a class blogging site that I set up for this novel. When you make a copy of this lesson and add it to your Google Drive, you may want to edit the lesson and remove those links if you don't want your students posting comments to this blog. I don't mind if you leave the links and they do post there. The way that I have it set up is that I have posted a prompt related to the novel/lesson and the students posts are added to that prompt as comments. One thing that is nice about using the links is that it amplifies your students voice, giving them a bigger audience for their writing and it makes the discussion about the text more social as they could potential be interacting with students from anywhere in the world that are also using the blogging links.

If you aren't comfortable with that format, there are other options.

1. You can change the link to take your students to a Google Doc and turn the prompts into a reading/writing journal. Students can share links to their Google Docs with their classmates on a Padlet (see #3).

2. You can remove the "Post Here" altogether and have students discuss the questions.

3. You can change the link to a Padlet ( www.padlet.com ) which is an online bulletin board where students can post text, images, Google Docs or Slides, links to online sites, videos, etc. Padlet allows the teacher to monitor posts and adjust privacy settings and is quite safe for students.

4. You can remove the "Post Here" and change the assignment altogether.

Have students explore the Owen and Mzee website and watch the Owen an Mzee documentary (12-15 min for each part).
​After allowing time for exploration and new learning ask: How does the introduction of a new animal (Ruby) to the domain differ from the introduction of a new animal (a female hippo) in a real life animal sanctuary?

The pairing of this short film called "The Dam Keeper" with the novel engages students in discussion about plot, theme and conflict. Encourage students to go beyond the surface level comparisons that Ivan is like Pig and Ruby is like Fox. How are the characters similar? How is the relationship between Pig and Fox similar to the relationship between Ivan and Ruby? How are they different?

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The Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson

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The Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson

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Paired Texts for Crenshaw by Katherine Applegate

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A young boy is reunited with his imaginary friend, a giant cat named Crenshaw. He has a hard time accepting that Crenshaw has returned because he feels that he is too old for that sort of thing, but…

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Heather Marshall-The Hyperdoc is at the end of the blog post. The blog explains the novel and some of the lessons in the hyperdoc. There is a slightly different version of this hyperdoc on a google site that can also be found at the bottom of the post.

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He points at the ledge we've been leaning on. Names. I was drawn to the holes. The water. My mind didn't connect the markings. Names. Hundreds. Thousands of names.
Page 195, Towers Falling by Jewell Parker Rhodes

﻿Deja is a young girl living in a homeless shelter in New York City and is about to begin her first day of fifth grade in a new school. She is befriended by Ben and Sabeen. Through the careful crafting of these characters the author shows us three very different perspectives on the September 11th terrorist attack. Deja's family is experiencing hardships because her father suffers from crippling PTSD as a survivor of the Twin Towers collapse. Ben is also new to the school. His parents separated after his father returned from active duty in Afghanistan. Sabeen is kind, popular and full of positivity. Although she has a happy family, they are Muslim and must deal with racism and discrimination. As the three friends learn about the history of 9/11, the reader learns about each of their different experiences as well as how their lives have been impacted by this tragedy. In the beginning, Deja is frustrated and believes that learning about the past does not make your life better, or put bread on the table. As the students learn about what it means to be a part of a social group, Deja learns that everyone/ everything is connected through their shared history, even though their experience may be different. She also learns how even though 9/11 happened before they were born, it has had a major impact in shaping her current situation and that it also affected the lives of her friends in different ways.

​Common Sense Media rates this book as appropriate fro kids ages 10+. Read their review

Why do we bother to study/examine the past? What is a social group and what are the individual's responsibilities to the group as well as the group's responsibilities to the individual?
Why do we memorialize tragic events in our history?
What is the importance of a shared History to a society?

﻿Towers Falling is a coming of age story. When introducing the idea of coming of age to middle school students, I focus on dynamic characters that change over the course of a story through their struggle with a conflict. Coming of age involves a loss of innocence as a character gains new knowledge about the world and our place within the structure of society. Introducing these complex ideas through a short story before reading this novel can be helpful. The short story, "What do Fish Have to do with Anything?", is the perfect text for introducing this genre to your students before reading "Towers Falling". Both texts explore the thematic topics of homelessness, poverty, and have a main character that learns something about a parent that is struggling with sadness.

To give the students some background knowledge about the historical context of the novel, I created a multimedia text set that includes articles and videos about 9/11. I use the 3-2-1 strategy from Making Thinking Visible to assess students background knowledge of 9/11 before and after exploring the text set.

In the novel, Deja decides that she must go to the place where the Twin Towers once stood to understand her father. She skips school with Ben to visit the 9/11 memorial site. There are some great online resources that can allow your students to experience the 9/11 memorial site from anywhere in the world, without having to miss school.

An opportunity for students to recognize how people not only survive, but can even thrive when faced with unthinkable challenges.

﻿ "When Brook Peters set out to make his film about living through 9/11 as a child, he didn't realize THE SECOND DAY would convey a universal story of inner strength and resilience that could inspire people around the world. In response to Brook's Show Your Strength Campaign, over 150 young people submitted their personal stories of courage and hope. And the band Simple Plan supported the campaign by offering their song 'What If'." -From the
SHOW YOUR STRENGTH campaign started by documentary filmmaker Brook Peters

Share your story, change the world: ﻿from the Show Your Strength campaign that stemmed from Brooke Peters' documentary "The Second Day".

There are many more lessons to explore, including a project in which students create a Google MyMap of 9/11 memorials around the world. Click on the "Towers Falling" Hyperdoc button below. After reviewing the lesson, if you decide that you would like to use some or all of it with your class just click on file > make a copy. This will place a copy of my lesson in your Google Drive and will allow you to edit the lesson to fit the needs of your students. If you would like to connect with other classes reading this book, use the lessons from the Google site.

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Shared The Chocolate Touch Novel HyperDoc

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Sean Fahey and Michele Waggoner

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Michele Waggoner & Laurie York

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Kendra Tyler

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Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing Novel Hyperdoc

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Heather Marshall

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