The Red Pencil by Michelle Heller https://padlet.com/mheller12/bnfrpe4elqxpps99 How can you use this text to challenge bias and create change? en-us 2021-06-09 18:09:55 UTC 2025-12-06 14:33:31 UTC hello@padlet.com After reading Part 1 write the Part 1 Discussion Guide Questions on poster paper. Each poster gets one question. Hang them up around the room and use the protocol Carousel Brainstorm to answer. mheller12 https://padlet.com/mheller12/bnfrpe4elqxpps99/wish/1596537937 2021-06-09 18:13:09 UTC https://padlet.com/mheller12/bnfrpe4elqxpps99/wish/1596537937 Put students into partnerships and create Frayer Models for each Glossary word and important terms in the book (found at the end of the book). Hang these up in the classroom to be able to reference. mheller12 https://padlet.com/mheller12/bnfrpe4elqxpps99/wish/1596543630 2021-06-09 18:15:24 UTC https://padlet.com/mheller12/bnfrpe4elqxpps99/wish/1596543630 In what ways are Pinkney’s line breaks, stanza breaks, use of white space, and word choice part of the story itself. mheller12 https://padlet.com/mheller12/bnfrpe4elqxpps99/wish/1596546763 2021-06-09 18:16:45 UTC https://padlet.com/mheller12/bnfrpe4elqxpps99/wish/1596546763 Have students select their favorite poems/chapters as a mentor text for their own poetry writing. Consider supporting students to develop original characters as Pinkney did and use poetry to convey historically grounded events. Read additional novels in verse such as Home of the Brave, Caminar, All the Broken Pieces and Aleutian Sparrow. They will provide additional inspiration and models for students’ compositions. mheller12 https://padlet.com/mheller12/bnfrpe4elqxpps99/wish/1596549247 2021-06-09 18:17:48 UTC https://padlet.com/mheller12/bnfrpe4elqxpps99/wish/1596549247 Have your students research more about the Sudan and South Sudan over the past ten years, and then write a sequel to The Red Pencil that takes place at any point from 2005-2014. Do they actually get out of the camp? What would Amira be doing now, a decade later? mheller12 https://padlet.com/mheller12/bnfrpe4elqxpps99/wish/1596553521 2021-06-09 18:19:38 UTC https://padlet.com/mheller12/bnfrpe4elqxpps99/wish/1596553521 Support students to make connections between Amira and Malala’s life circumstances and the ways that reading and writing changes their lives. Consider with students the issues of power and fear that are associated with girls and literacy both in the novel and in various regions of the world. In what ways are Muma’s fears about her daughter’s literacy development surprising to us? How can we come to better understand her position? In what ways is a pencil a powerful weapon for social change? mheller12 https://padlet.com/mheller12/bnfrpe4elqxpps99/wish/1596559322 2021-06-09 18:22:24 UTC https://padlet.com/mheller12/bnfrpe4elqxpps99/wish/1596559322 Educator's Guide to the Red Pencil mheller12 https://padlet.com/mheller12/bnfrpe4elqxpps99/wish/1596573034 2021-06-09 18:28:50 UTC https://padlet.com/mheller12/bnfrpe4elqxpps99/wish/1596573034 ART: Choose one of the poems without an illustration and create your own art to go with it.Or use another art form to pair with one of the poems or your own writing. mheller12 https://padlet.com/mheller12/bnfrpe4elqxpps99/wish/1596579076 2021-06-09 18:31:21 UTC https://padlet.com/mheller12/bnfrpe4elqxpps99/wish/1596579076 In our daily lives, we never consider the value that one little pencil might have. Think about the little things you take for granted. Choose one item to write about. mheller12 https://padlet.com/mheller12/bnfrpe4elqxpps99/wish/1596580543 2021-06-09 18:32:02 UTC https://padlet.com/mheller12/bnfrpe4elqxpps99/wish/1596580543 Figurative Language: Identify various types, the meanings and the effects mheller12 https://padlet.com/mheller12/bnfrpe4elqxpps99/wish/1596581916 2021-06-09 18:32:41 UTC https://padlet.com/mheller12/bnfrpe4elqxpps99/wish/1596581916 What details help you enter Amira’s world? mheller12 https://padlet.com/mheller12/bnfrpe4elqxpps99/wish/1596585134 2021-06-09 18:34:12 UTC https://padlet.com/mheller12/bnfrpe4elqxpps99/wish/1596585134 Brown Girl Dreaming mheller12 https://padlet.com/mheller12/bnfrpe4elqxpps99/wish/1597349729 By Jacqueline Woodson]]> 2021-06-10 02:01:00 UTC https://padlet.com/mheller12/bnfrpe4elqxpps99/wish/1597349729 Inside Out & Back Again mheller12 https://padlet.com/mheller12/bnfrpe4elqxpps99/wish/1597354275 By Thanhha Lai]]> 2021-06-10 02:03:09 UTC https://padlet.com/mheller12/bnfrpe4elqxpps99/wish/1597354275 What do students notice about the sounds and structures Pinkney uses to portray Amira’s thoughts, feelings, and life experiences? mheller12 https://padlet.com/mheller12/bnfrpe4elqxpps99/wish/1597385381 2021-06-10 02:18:21 UTC https://padlet.com/mheller12/bnfrpe4elqxpps99/wish/1597385381 Create a timeline of the events that happened in Amira's life. mheller12 https://padlet.com/mheller12/bnfrpe4elqxpps99/wish/1597397419 2021-06-10 02:24:04 UTC https://padlet.com/mheller12/bnfrpe4elqxpps99/wish/1597397419 What is a Refugee? Refugee Camp? mheller12 https://padlet.com/mheller12/bnfrpe4elqxpps99/wish/1597430911 2021-06-10 02:40:09 UTC https://padlet.com/mheller12/bnfrpe4elqxpps99/wish/1597430911 Locate on a map where Sudan and South Sudan is located. What is the language, religion, neighboring countries, climate, physical properties. mheller12 https://padlet.com/mheller12/bnfrpe4elqxpps99/wish/1597431777 2021-06-10 02:40:32 UTC https://padlet.com/mheller12/bnfrpe4elqxpps99/wish/1597431777 What is free verse poetry? mheller12 https://padlet.com/mheller12/bnfrpe4elqxpps99/wish/1597445968 2021-06-10 02:47:01 UTC https://padlet.com/mheller12/bnfrpe4elqxpps99/wish/1597445968 ReadWorks Article about Darfur and the Kalma Camp lcumming7 https://padlet.com/mheller12/bnfrpe4elqxpps99/wish/1620633968 2021-06-23 00:52:47 UTC https://padlet.com/mheller12/bnfrpe4elqxpps99/wish/1620633968 Is there an object, word, book, or quote that comforts you in difficult times or that has helped you get through a difficult time? Or is there an object that comforts someone you know (a child, spouse, partner, parent, friend)? mikeheller https://padlet.com/mheller12/bnfrpe4elqxpps99/wish/1651187070 2021-07-15 13:34:30 UTC https://padlet.com/mheller12/bnfrpe4elqxpps99/wish/1651187070