Katherine Applegate is an American children fiction and young
adult writer. Born October 9, 1956 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. However, she has
lived all over the country including Texas, Florida, California, Minnesota,
Illinois, and North Carolina. She even lived in Italy for a year. After that
she in her husband settled in Irvine California. She is the mother of three children
and quite a few pets ("Reading Rockets", 2021).
“I write to see where I’ve already been. I read to see where I might yet go. A good book is like GPS for the soul.” -Katherine Applegate
Katherine got her start when she served as a ghostwriter for Sweet
Valley Twins in 1997 alongside her husband, author Michael Grant. She is well
known for her science fiction and fantasy series. However, she has also written
realistic fiction novels ("Kiddle", 2020).
Growing up Katherine viewed herself as a reluctant reader. In
fact, she hated reading. To this day she still considers herself to be a “slow
reader” she thinks this has a lot to with the reason she writes short books.
She thought reading was boring until she found the book that she believed was
written just for her. She would tell students, “There’s a book out there that’s
like your best friend. And when you find it, your life will change.” For her,
that book was Charlotte’s Web. I think her story along is worth retelling in
the classroom. We may have students in our classes, who may share some of those
same feelings, who may be a reluctant reader. I think it’s important for
students to see that those feelings towards reading can very well change. I
think Katherine story can change lives. Students need to see her achievements,
read her books, and know that they can do it too.
Featured Books by Katherine Applegate:
Crenshaw
Endling
Home of the Brave
Ivan: The Remarkable True Story
of the Shopping Mall Gorilla
Roscoe Riley Rules #1: Never Glue
Your Friends to Chairs
The One and Only Bob
The One and Only Ivan
Wishtree
Awards and Honors:
2008 Golden Kite Award for
Fiction: Home of the Brave
2013 John Newbery Medal: One and
Only Ivan
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Literature Unit: 2nd Grade |
Literature Unit 5th grade
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Book: Ivan: The
Remarkable True Story of the Shopping Mall Gorilla |
Book: One and Only
Ivan |
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Reading Objective: By the end of this unit students should be able to use information gained from illustrations and words in print to demonstrate an understanding of its characters, setting, or plot. Students will understand and use different text features such as caption, bold print, subheading, glossaries, indexes, menus and icons. Students will be able to identify author’s purpose ("Walton Academy ", 2018). |
Reading Objective: By the end of this unit students will be able to discuss the importance of a part of the story to the whole or the part of a nonfiction text to the whole. They will be able to explain how an author uses reasons and evidence to support particular points in a text, identifying which reasons and evidence support which point(s) ("The School District of Clayton", 2012-2021). |
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Writing Objective: Student will demonstrate and practice three kids of writings
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Opinion: student’s thoughts ·
Informative: true and fact based ·
Narrative: story style writing |
Writing Objective: Students will be able to conduct short research projects that uses and evaluate several sources to build knowledge through investigation of different aspects of a topic. Students will draw on relevant information from experiences from print and digital sources and paraphrase information in notes and finished work. Students will provide a list of sources ("The School District of Clayton", 2012-2021). |
Assessment
for Writing:
Students
will have learned and practiced writing three kinds of writings at this point into
our school year. For this assessment students will be tasked to complete an opinionated
writing piece. They have learned that they can disagree, or feel strongly about
a book/decision/movie/food ect. as long as they can explain their reasons. Students
will be expected to use their knowledge to produce a writing piece that
reflects correct spelling, and punctuation. They will be allowed time to revise
and make corrections. We always want to encourage a level a critical thinking
for our students. This will be implemented through writing as well. After reading
Ivan: The
Remarkable True Story of the Shopping Mall Gorilla by Katherine Applegate. Students
will be given three writing prompts to choose from, the prompt will allow students
to think deeper about the way they feel about the book as well as providing
support/reasons to justify those opinions.
Wringing Prompt:
1.
In
your Opinion what are the strengths and weaknesses of Ivan’s character in this
story? What evidence can you provide?
2. Do you like the way the
story ended? Why or why not? How would you prefer the story to end?
During
this unit, 5th grade students will be reading One in Only Ivan by Katherine
Applegate. Students will be given several formative assessments that will allow
teachers to conduct progress monitoring, and gain a better understanding of student’s
comprehension and or learning needs.
Round Robin
Chart: Students will break into groups of 4
or 5. Students will be provided chart
paper and markers. A different open-ended question will be written on each
chart. Each group will start with a chart, this chart will be rotated around
the room for each group to answer.
Class
Discussion: Teacher will use the strategic questioning
strategies that will force students to think in a higher order. Examples: Why
do you think the Author choose a Circus for the place of captivity? Do you think
the author purposely made Ivan a Gorilla to incite fear? What evidence did the
author provide to support your response?
Exit/Admit
Tickets: Students will be given an index card
with a reading response question of the section of the book covered during that
reading block. Students will drop the index card into a bin on the way out the
door.
Quiz: Kahoot of Go Formative platform
Summative Activity:
5th
grade Reading Objective:
Students will be able to conduct short research
projects/portfolio that uses and evaluate several sources to build knowledge
through investigation of different aspects of a topic.
After this unit students will complete a final project or portfolio based on the story One in Only Ivan. Students will be provided a rubric that will outline all requirements and weighted percentage of each part. The portfolio should include a short bio on Katherine Applegate, summary of the story including characters, setting and plot, Key details and an explanation of the authors purpose from those details. Portfolio should be organized and turned in at the end of the unit.
References:
Reading Rockets(2021). https://www.readingrockets.org/books/interviews/applegate#bio
The School District of Clayton (2012-2021). https://www.claytonschools.net/Page/13457
The School District of Clayton
(2012-2021). https://www.claytonschools.net/Page/18483#:~:text=Readers%20in%20fifth%20grade%20can,support%20which%20point(s).
Walton Academy (2018). https://waltonacademyk5.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/2nd-Grade-English-Language-Arts-Goals-and-Objectives.pdf
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