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Alouette Library Learning Commons - Teachers' Guide: Grade 6/7

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To This Day

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This book can be found:

in Mrs. Waterman's office 

To This Day: For the Bullied and Beautiful  by Shane Koyscan

Appropriate for Intermediate

  • Talk about Spoken Word Poetry
  • Read "To This Day" including intro
  • Play Youtube Video
  • Get students to respond in any way they choose to what they heard

Click here to watch the To This Day Project  by Shane Koyczan video

 

Click here to watch the Toledo High School To This Day Youtube Video

Active Responses

So, you've just read or seen something that has made you think differently or changed you in some way...

Act out your favorite scene using actual dialogue from the story

Perform a Spoken Word response. (Basically a free verse poem capturing key words and feeling from the text)

 

How to Write Spoken Word

 A great website teaching students to write Spoken word step by step

Looking Like Me by Walter Dean Myers

Using Mentor Texts

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On Being Yukiko by Jeff Chiba Stearns

Click on the image below to go to the On Being Yukiko website.  You will find lesson plans (see link below) as well as a more comprehensive teaching unit that was too large to attach.

Refugee by Alan Gratz

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This book can be found:

in the MATURE FICTION section under F GRA

The War that Saved My Life

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This book can be found:

on the Carousel under Bookfest Books

in the FICTION section under F BRA