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One Crazy Summer Lesson Plans & Teaching Resources Collection

One Crazy Summer Lesson Plans & Teaching Resources Collection

Follow eleven-year-old Delphine and her two younger sisters as they travel from Brooklyn to Oakland, California to meet the mother who abandoned them. With dreams of Disneyland and Tinker Bell, the summer’s reality changes when their mother enrolls the girls in a day camp run by the Black Panthers.

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Focus on how the author uses perspective to tell the story of a pivotal time in America’s history. The mini lessons included in this Book Club resource set make it easy to engage readers as they learn about perspective through the eyes of a character who could be one of their classmates.

This Newberry Honor book won the Coretta Scott King Award and was a National Book Award Finalist.

  • Included in this collection
  • Lesson plans for 6 book club meetings focused on Point of View
  • 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
  • Running Record Assessment
  • Comprehension Assessment
  • Note: This set of instructional resources is for use with the book One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia. A copy of the book is not included in this set of resources.
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Follow eleven-year-old Delphine and her two younger sisters as they travel from Brooklyn to Oakland, California to meet the mother who abandoned them. With dreams of Disneyland and Tinker Bell, the summer’s reality changes when their mother enrolls the girls in a day camp run by the Black Panthers.

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Focus on how the author uses perspective to tell the story of a pivotal time in America’s history. The mini lessons included in this Book Club resource set make it easy to engage readers as they learn about perspective through the eyes of a character who could be one of their classmates.

This Newberry Honor book won the Coretta Scott King Award and was a National Book Award Finalist.

  • Included in this collection
  • Lesson plans for 6 book club meetings focused on Point of View
  • 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
  • Running Record Assessment
  • Comprehension Assessment
  • This set of instructional resources is for use with the book One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia. A copy of the book is not included in this set of resources.
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Book Title:
One Crazy Summer
Book Author:
Rita Williams-Garcia
Grade Level:
6
Genre(s):
Historical Fiction
F&P Guided Reading Level:
W
DRA Level:
60
Reading Recovery Level:
Theme(s):
History, Back to School, Black History Month, Summer, Relationship Skills
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TEKS
Common Core Alignment:
RL.6.1, RL.6.2, RL.6.3, RL.6.4, RL.6.5, RL.6.6, RL.6.7, RL.6.9, RL.6.10, W.6.8, W.6.9, SL.6.1a, SL.6.1b, SL.6.1c, L.6.6, L.6.4a, L.6.5
Vocabulary Connections:
L.6.6, L.6.4a, L.6.5
TEKS Alignment:
6.3A, 6.3B, 6.3C, 6.4, 6.6A, 6.6B, 6.6C, 6.8, 6.9, 6.26A, 6.27, 6.28
Vocabulary Connections:
6.2B, 6.2A, 6.2C
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