I Survived the Bombing of Pearl Harbor, 1941 Book Club Focused on Story Elements

I Survived the Bombing of Pearl Harbor, 1941 Book Club Focused on Story Elements

When Danny and his mother moved from New York City to Hawaii, it was to get away from the dangers of a big city. Angry with his mother’s decision to move, Danny plans to leave and return to New York. When the skies above him fill with fighter planes and bombs pound the harbor, Danny is truly afraid and reconsiders whether he can leave his mother after all. Like all of the books in the I Survived Series, this chapter book is the perfect blend of fact and fiction. The author's sequencing of events creates a fast-paced historical fiction that students will enjoy reading, making it a smart choice for mini lessons focused on sequence of events and conflict and resolution.

  • Included in this resource
  • Lesson plans for 5 book club meetings focused on Story Elements
  • Chapter by chapter discussion questions and key vocabulary
  • Book Club calendar
  • Conversation prompts
  • Student self-evaluations forms
  • Reading response board
  • Culminating activity
  • Instructional focus assessment, answer key, and rubric
  • Note: This set of instructional resources is for use with the book I Survived the Bombing of Pearl Harbor, 1941 by Lauren Tarshis. A copy of the book is not included in this set of resources.
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When Danny and his mother moved from New York City to Hawaii, it was to get away from the dangers of a big city. Angry with his mother’s decision to move, Danny plans to leave and return to New York. When the skies above him fill with fighter planes and bombs pound the harbor, Danny is truly afraid and reconsiders whether he can leave his mother after all. Like all of the books in the I Survived Series, this chapter book is the perfect blend of fact and fiction. The author's sequencing of events creates a fast-paced historical fiction that students will enjoy reading, making it a smart choice for mini lessons focused on sequence of events and conflict and resolution.

  • Included in this resource
  • Lesson plans for 5 book club meetings focused on Story Elements
  • Chapter by chapter discussion questions and key vocabulary
  • Book Club calendar
  • Conversation prompts
  • Student self-evaluations forms
  • Reading response board
  • Culminating activity
  • Instructional focus assessment, answer key, and rubric
  • This set of instructional resources is for use with the book I Survived the Bombing of Pearl Harbor, 1941 by Lauren Tarshis. A copy of the book is not included in this set of resources.
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Book Club resources

The management resources include a Book Club Calendar, conversation prompts, Student Self-Evaluation forms, Reading Response Board (with optional Common Core alignment), and an Expectations for Book Club anchor chart.

The instructional overview includes instructional background for sequence of events, a list of instructional objectives for each of the Book Club meetings, and a list of the materials and preparation necessary to I Survived the Bombing of Pearl Harbor, 1941 Book Club.

I Survived the Bombing of Pearl Harbor, 1941 by Lauren Tarshis is the perfect text to use for a Book Club focused on sequence of events. This first meeting provides the foundation by introducing a graphic organizer to help the students sort out the timeline of the events in the text.

Author Lauren Tarshis uses flashbacks in I Survived the Bombing of Pearl Harbor, 1941. This Book Club meeting focuses on how the author's use of flashbacks impacts the storyline.

In this I Survived the Bombing of Pearl Harbor, 1941 Book Club, students will use a Story Line Graph to help sort out the sequence of events.

Author Lauren Tarshis included both major and minor conflicts in I Survived the Bombing of Pearl Harbor, 1941. realizing that the major conflicts are connected to the factual parts of the text and the minor conflicts are connected to the fictional parts of the story will help students more deeply understand the text.

Using Lauren Tarshis' I Survived the Bombing of Pearl Harbor, 1941, students will discuss how the author used the story events to develop the main character and how the main character's development supports the main idea of the book.

Use this six-question assessment to determine whether or not students understand the key concepts associated with tracking sequence of events.
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Book Title:
I Survived the Bombing of Pearl Harbor, 1941
Book Author:
Lauren Tarshis
Grade Level:
4
Genre(s):
Historical Fiction
F&P Guided Reading Level:
R
DRA Level:
40
Reading Recovery Level:
40
Theme(s):
Adventure, Family, History, Perseverance
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Common Core Alignment: RL.4.1, RL.4.2, RL.4.3, RL.4.4, RL.4.5, RL.4.6, RL.4.7, RL.4.9, RL.4.10, SL.4.1a, SL.4.1b, SL.4.1c, W.4.8, L.4.4a, L.4.5c, L.4.6, W.4.9
Vocabulary Connections: L.4.4a, L.4.5c, L.4.6
TEKS Alignment: 4.1A, 4.1C, 4.1D, 4.6A, 4.6B, 4.6C, 4.6D, 4.6E, 4.6F, 4.6G, 4.6H, 4.6I, 4.7A, 4.7B, 4.7C, 4.7D, 4.7E, 4.7F, 4.7G, 4.8A, 4.8B, 4.8C, 4.8D, 4.9A, 4.9B, 4.9D(i), 4.9D(ii), 4.9D(iii), 4.9E(i), 4.9E(ii), 4.9E(iii), 4.9F, 4.10A, 4.10B, 4.10C, 4.10D, 4.10E, 4.10F, 4.10G, 4.13A, 4.13C, 4.13E, 4.13H
Vocabulary Connections: 4.7E, 4.7F, 4.3A, 4.3B
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