Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes
By Eleanor Coerr
Warm Up
Lesson
-draw and label a picture showing what you know
about a “carnival”
-share under the document camera
-connect the idea of a carnival to “Peace Day” that is
an important element of the plot
-Distribute graphic organizer (plot chart) and
prediction
-preview the text, before reading strategy
-use post it notes to mark text examples of Peace
Day, during reading strategy
-Read chapter 1 orally, whole group, bump reading
-stop periodically to complete graphic organizer under
the document camera
-write a prediction… ”That’s silly; spiders don’t really
bring good luck. Just wait and see!” Will the spider
bring Sadako good luck on Peace Day…explain why
or why not you think it will
-share predictions orally
-Read Chapter 2 orally
-revisit predictions, determine if your prediction was
correct
-Describe what you learned about Peace Day in the
text by adding to your warm up picture of a carnival
-complete reading comprehension quiz on chapters
1-2
Closure
Exit Pass-What does the Sasaki family call the atomic
bomb…the thunderbolt
Homework
EXIT PASS
“The lanterns carried the names of relatives who had died because
of the ________________ (Atomic Bomb).”
Circle the name Sudako’s family gave to the Atomic Bomb:
Chizuko, Tatami, Thunderbolt
The story of
Sadako and the Thousand
Paper Cranes
by Elizabeth Coerr
....tells the story of a small girl's determination to get better once she is
told she has leukemia. As the legend goes in Japan, if you fold one
thousand paper cranes any wish you make will be granted. It was
Sadako's friends who managed to fold the remaining cranes to make up
the thousand needed
....and many children throughout the world, not only those in Japan, now
fold paper cranes
....but they fold them because they wish for peace.
Near the end of World War II, on August the 6th, 1945, an Allied Forces' plane dropped one
single atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima in Japan. Then, three days later, another
bomb was dropped on the city of Nagasaki. In Hiroshima alone about 13 square kilometres
of the city were destroyed and between 70,000 and 100,000 people are believed to have
been killed in the explosion. Many more people died afterwards from the effects of atomic
radiation. The city, Hiroshima, has been rebuilt and now has a population of 1.1 million.
The city is prosperous and serves as an inspiration to our world. Sadako died of radiation
poisoning which caused her to get leukemia 10 years later.
But we must not forget the terrible day in an act of war 55 years ago that devastated these
cities and destroyed the lives of so many people, even in the years that followed the
explosions.
On 6th of August every year the citizens of Hiroshima celebrate
Peace Day
to learn how to fold paper cranes go to.....
http://www.jwindow.net/KIDS/SCHOOL/ART/origami/kids_origami_crane1.html
Peace Links
Find out more about Hiroshima.
http://www.city.hiroshima.jp/
Explore the Peace Park and peace memorials
http://www.city.hiroshima.jp/peacesite/
Examine photographs taken of Hiroshima after the bomb was dropped.
http://www.lclark.edu/~history/HIROSHIMA/gallery.html
Find out more about the story of Sadako.
http://www.sadako.org/