Resources: Personal Learning Device (iPad/Chromebook/Laptop) or other device to view video, GoFormative Account (It’s free!) or Scholastic Reading Counts or Accelerated Reader (for use with assessments), Paper and colored pencils or Digital program for written response, Optional: a physical copy of the picture book. Remember that your simile will need to use the word ‘like’ or ‘as.’ Then, you should draw a colorful picture of your simile that we will share.” Writing: “The story tells us that the old woman was, ‘as plump and sweet as a strawberry.’ We know that this is a simile because it compares two things using the words “like” or “as.” Write your own simile comparing someone that you know and food. If there is time after the assessment, they should complete the writing exercise.
Once they have completed the listening exercise, they should access the assessment (in the Assessment section) to demonstrate comprehension. They can use the pause or rewind button to review any part of the story. They can access this video on any device that has internet. It would be helpful for the student to have his/her own copy of the book to track the words and follow along with the story.
Procedure: The student will access this web address to view and listen to the story “A Bad Case of Stripes by David Shannon: Picture Book Video. Objective: Students will be able to listen to a read aloud story, accurately answer comprehension questions about the story and create a simile poster. 3.RV.3.1 Determine how the author uses words and phrases to provide meaning to works of literature, distinguishing literal from nonliteral language, including figurative language (e.g., similes). Indiana Standard: 2.SL.3.1 Determine the purpose for listening (e.g., to obtain information, to enjoy humor) and paraphrase or describe key ideas or details from a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media. You are amazing and you are going to help it be better from now on.Grade Level: Advanced 2nd Grade, On-Level 3rd Grade, Struggling 4th Gradeĭuration: Listening - 12 minutes, Assessment - 10 minutes, Activity - 10/15 minutes And we certainly aren’t meant to carry it alone. This world needs you, all of you, vulnerable you. What are your lima beans? What do you need in this moment to be wholly you? Wholly understood? Wholly present? Whatever it is, find its source and drink from its well. And nothing, not pandemic, not politics, not people, should be allowed to steal it from you. Your identity is hard earned by the talent you give to this world. All of the specialists in the world can’t give you identity. We are not meant to hold all of society together at the expense of ourselves. The disease that ails us can’t be cured by a vaccine. This situation wants to so fully absorb us that we don’t know who we are anymore.īut there is an antidote. And many days, no matter how hard we try to rally, we are just met with another no-win decision. Our isolation has been the perfect petri dish for the disease. It has in some ways put us at war with one another so as to distract us from being unified. So what does this have to do with where we are today? Can you relate to this allegory? This pandemic is doing its best to steal away everything that makes us great our joy, our tolerance, our culture, our power. Camilla eats the beans and is immediately cured. Nearly all of her identity is lost until a wise woman brings her some lima beans. The bad case of stripes consumes Camilla until she is totally absorbed into her environment. They can only see the symptoms of her choice.
Doctors and specialists can’t determine what is wrong with her. Her case of stripes worsens and begins to extend to the world around her. So she decides to quit eating them, and, in doing so, she loses herself. Camilla loves lima beans but the other kids make fun of her for liking them. It is the perfect analogy for what I think we are all going through.Ĭamilla develops a bad case of stripes because she refuses to eat lima beans. I haven’t been able to get this book out of my mind for the last two weeks. It reminds me of a book I read to my girls when they were little. The harder we try, the more challenges we continue to face. But let’s face it, our surge capacity is fried. We talk a lot about surge capacity…that innate ability to rally enough hope and energy to make it through difficult circumstances. These last 18 months have been THE MOST challenging of my 20+ year career and that’s saying something because I once used myself as a body shield to break up a fight between two girls (much taller than I am) in a lunchroom in Little Rock in 2010. Can we talk about the elephant in the room for a minute? I know you’re all feeling it as heavily as I am.
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