Thematic Unit sign.

Choose five books that are linked together by a common theme. Write a theme statement that links all five books together. Review the idea of topic vs. theme to make sure you have chosen a theme and not a topic.

Choose the grade level you are planning to teach to write your lessons. This should be for elementary school levels. For each book, you will write a lesson that takes about one hour of your classroom day. Find the Language Arts Common Core Standards (linked below) for your grade level. You will use this to write your lessons. Save them for your chosen grade level so that you have them to reference. For each lesson, you should choose a maximum of two standards to guide your instruction. Create activities for each text that help students approach that standard. Use your Children’s Literature, Briefly text and resources from our course to help you create your activities. In the end, you will have five lessons and five books that you should include for your theme unit.

https://www.cde.ca.gov/be/st/ss/documents/finalelaccssstandards.pdf

Questions:

Who are the main characters in the original story? Explain what happens.
Who are the main characters in the second story? Explain what happens.
What are the differences in points of view from the wolf and the pigs? Compare the two stories.
How do they think the pigs feel in both stories? How does the wolf feel?
Do they think the wolf was bad or just misunderstood?
Can students think of a time when something happened that they were blamed for but didn’t get to say their side of the story? How did they feel?
Closure and Assessment: