https://padlet.com/jabbuhl49/r3003894mz6v Now that students have looked at the text and have learned to see the themes, characters, and other perspectives in stories, now it is time to bring that learning into real life and how books relate to real life. I want to save this for last as it will help students find these connections from the elements that they have found from our previous lessons. I will make sure that student learn about the ways in which the text can connect to other things, like other texts students have read, the world, and their own lives. Then we will be reading these stories presented below to find connections that appear to the students (I also want to connect them to their previous readings as well). After which we will have a few activities that will help them make connections, like the web activity they will craft. I also wanted to bring all the students together so that they share what they found from these stories. In the end I want to make sure that the students grasp how connecting these stories to their lives is important, as they may effect how they view the world and the ideas that they come up with. Some of the essential questions that they should keep in mind is why is it important to connect the stories that we read to real life? Why do you think that it is important to connect texts about the past to the present? How do your preferences in books relate to the connections you make to real life? en-us 2016-08-01 20:12:42 UTC 2023-03-04 22:18:22 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Templeball.png jabbuhl49 https://padlet.com/jabbuhl49/r3003894mz6v/wish/117391516 This is a story about a young teen named Brian. He was flying on a plane going into Canada when his pilot suddenly suffers a heart attack. Brain survives the crash but now is stranded in the Canadian wilderness. Now he needs to survive on his own, armed with the hatchet he just received before the plane crashed, he needs to find a way to get help before winter sets in and he stranded. I think that this would be a good connection book for those students who have lived in the wilderness or have gone camping with their family. They could see some of the similarities to their own lives in the story. Of course, they could also connect it to times when they were lost and were trying to find out where they are.]]> 2016-08-02 18:24:56 UTC https://padlet.com/jabbuhl49/r3003894mz6v/wish/117391516 jabbuhl49 https://padlet.com/jabbuhl49/r3003894mz6v/wish/117478557 When students are trying to make their own stories, I want to help them in telling their story, Especially with nonfiction characters, so I want to include this article with their lesson, so that they have an idea on how to represent their characters. This should help as an aid for students if they decide to craft a narrative in the activities that I have planned.]]> 2016-08-03 18:20:54 UTC https://padlet.com/jabbuhl49/r3003894mz6v/wish/117478557 jabbuhl49 https://padlet.com/jabbuhl49/r3003894mz6v/wish/117480728 Deza Malone is a 12 year old girl living during the great depression. She and her family is trying to make things go their way while they dealing with the trying times. It doesn't help when Deza's family is starting to split up. Her father is going of to  find money for his family while her brother is going off on his own to make it big. It She also has personal problems with her teeth that cause her pain. It will be a challenge for her as she tried to survive this bad situation she is in. I wanted to include this book so that students can see how actual event could have effected a person during this time. I think connecting this book to real events could have happened is another way in which I can get students to relate this book to something that happened.]]> 2016-08-03 19:03:49 UTC https://padlet.com/jabbuhl49/r3003894mz6v/wish/117480728 jabbuhl49 https://padlet.com/jabbuhl49/r3003894mz6v/wish/117482552 This is the story of young Annmarie during the time that Nazi's invade Denmark. During this time, her parents help smuggle Jews past the Nazi's and get them to safety. As time goes on Annmarie notices a great deal of things that happen now that Germans have come into power, she learns how things have changed for other people and what they have to do now that her family is helping these persecuted refugees. All of this is told form the point of view of a young girl who is trying to understand a dangerous world. I felt that this is a good way to help students make connection to people that help them, like these people did. Or they could make connections to how certain people will help others even thought it will get them in trouble. In any case, I am sure that there are a few connections that I think that kids will be able to make from this story, where the kid is trying to understand their parents choices and actions.]]> 2016-08-03 19:49:12 UTC https://padlet.com/jabbuhl49/r3003894mz6v/wish/117482552 jabbuhl49 https://padlet.com/jabbuhl49/r3003894mz6v/wish/117482964 Jackie Robinson was a man who  changed baseball, he was a great athlete and baseball player. While many people know about him, we now get to see that story from the perspective of his daughter. Get to know the stories that weren't on the field, but from the perspective of a close member of his family. This story is of an actual event that I hope that students see some similarities between themselves and Jackie. I am sure that this would be a great way to help students make connections to actual people, and see that even heroes are people and they have their own lives that might paint them in a different life.]]> 2016-08-03 19:59:03 UTC https://padlet.com/jabbuhl49/r3003894mz6v/wish/117482964 jabbuhl49 https://padlet.com/jabbuhl49/r3003894mz6v/wish/117484718 Esoeranza was a girl that had a great life, she was the daughter of a wealthy landowner in Mexico. But after an accident with her father she needs to escape with her family from those that want to harm them. Escaping to America she has to adapt to new living conditions, now she must work for her family and try to get by in a difficult time, the great depression. It is like a reverse fairy tale story that the young girl comes into reality. I think that this story would connect not only to events but to other stories that students have read, like Cinderella. It is a great story to take a look at and read until the end. ]]> 2016-08-03 20:44:00 UTC https://padlet.com/jabbuhl49/r3003894mz6v/wish/117484718 jabbuhl49 https://padlet.com/jabbuhl49/r3003894mz6v/wish/117484981 This is the actual story to Philo, the one who invented the television. We get to see how his idea came from when he was working in the field. Then from that idea, it grew into a project that he pursued and it eventually turned into something that people have used everyday. I want to use this for the creative students or the ones that like to dream. It would also be great or encouraging students to pursue their dreams and get them to be proactive in their learning. It is something that might motivate them to purse their ideas and cultivate their imaginations.]]> 2016-08-03 20:49:17 UTC https://padlet.com/jabbuhl49/r3003894mz6v/wish/117484981 jabbuhl49 https://padlet.com/jabbuhl49/r3003894mz6v/wish/117562205 The expression of students is a way in which we can help students find ways to create text based on real events. I would like to offer this activity as a way for students to use the events or feelings that they have had in real life and use them to create a poem about their feelings about an event. I will have to refer the students back to some of the poems that we have read in this big idea topic.]]> 2016-08-04 20:02:56 UTC https://padlet.com/jabbuhl49/r3003894mz6v/wish/117562205 jabbuhl49 https://padlet.com/jabbuhl49/r3003894mz6v/wish/117562223 Once students have read the books, I want to split the students up by the books that they have read, then they can discuss the connections that they have made from the text to other parts of their lives. I will emphasize using the graphic organizer and the connection web activity that have talked about so they can show others these connections that they made. They might make more connections form this conversation and gain more insight into the story. I also hope to pull out some ideas that seem to reoccur and show students how this connects to the class as a whole.]]> 2016-08-04 20:03:15 UTC https://padlet.com/jabbuhl49/r3003894mz6v/wish/117562223 jabbuhl49 https://padlet.com/jabbuhl49/r3003894mz6v/wish/117617525 This is a little graphic that I want to include to help students see the ways that we can connect the texts to other parts of our lives. This include personal relations, text relations, and world relations. This is important to think about since these it can effect how we view the world or ourselves, which is why I want to emphasize this in my lesson]]> 2016-08-05 17:40:47 UTC https://padlet.com/jabbuhl49/r3003894mz6v/wish/117617525 jabbuhl49 https://padlet.com/jabbuhl49/r3003894mz6v/wish/117617801 This is an article about an idea to help students with connecting the text to other things , like life. It is something that I think will help when I a trying to teach students how to help students see how important it is to connect the text to other things in their life. I want to make sure that students understand that these books can have an impact on how they think and what they view in the world. I also liked the sentence starters that could help students get started on how to ask what connect to text, self, and to the world. I know that having sentence starters helps students would help students get this concept.]]> 2016-08-05 17:46:19 UTC https://padlet.com/jabbuhl49/r3003894mz6v/wish/117617801 jabbuhl49 https://padlet.com/jabbuhl49/r3003894mz6v/wish/117617850 This is a graphic organizer that will help students connect the text to other parts of their life. I know that it helps students if they have some way to keep their thoughts organized and put down on paper. It will also help them when they are trying to share parts of the relationship to others in the class.]]> 2016-08-05 17:47:46 UTC https://padlet.com/jabbuhl49/r3003894mz6v/wish/117617850 jabbuhl49 https://padlet.com/jabbuhl49/r3003894mz6v/wish/117620033 This was an idea that I thought about while I was thinking about connections, In this activity I want to helps students see the connections that they can make from the book. I want students to start off with the book at the center and create braces off of them detailing the types of connections that they can think about from the book. Then they keep adding on from each of the points until they cant think of any more. May make this a group activity and might consider using Coggle to make this more interactive]]> 2016-08-05 18:17:02 UTC https://padlet.com/jabbuhl49/r3003894mz6v/wish/117620033 jabbuhl49 https://padlet.com/jabbuhl49/r3003894mz6v/wish/117620746 PowToons is a website that allows people to create cartoons. I want student to use this website to help them craft stories that come from their lives or are based on their own lives. I like to make sure that I am providing students with a variety of activities to practice their learning that appeal to their strengths and interests. ]]> 2016-08-05 18:33:43 UTC https://padlet.com/jabbuhl49/r3003894mz6v/wish/117620746 jabbuhl49 https://padlet.com/jabbuhl49/r3003894mz6v/wish/117620768 This is a website that allows students to create their own stories with pictures to accompany them, provided by themselves or by the community of this website. I want to use this to helps students craft stories that are from their life or based on something that happened to the students. I wanted to include an activity twich will appela to differnt types of students, which is why I want to give students a chance and give them the option to try something different.]]> 2016-08-05 18:33:57 UTC https://padlet.com/jabbuhl49/r3003894mz6v/wish/117620768