Black Eyed Susan
Picture Book Award
2011-2012 Nominees
The award seeks to promote
literacy and lifelong reading
habits by encouraging
students to read quality,
contemporary literature.
Students must read a
minimum of 8 of the
15 picture books to
vote.
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Related Websites
 Author's site - Meghan McCarthy
http://www.meghan-mccarthy.com

Gum-chewing blog - thinkgum - for teacher use
http://www.thinkgum.wordpress.com/about
Curricular Connections
• Research inventors and inventions
• Investigate gum ingredients
• Research history of gum chewing
• Invent your own candy or gum
• Write a persuasive letter
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Curricular Connections
• Timeline of events in the Civil Rights Movement
o Read's Drugstore in Baltimore
http://www.baltimoreheritage.org/2011/01/w
hy-the-west-side-matters-reads-drug-storeand-baltimores-civil-rights-heritage
• Figurative language
o "they were treated like the hole in a doughnut - invisible."
• Illustrations in "scratchboard" technique
o
http://www.brianpinkney.net

• Quotations from Martin Luther King, Jr
Sit-In by Andrea Davis Pinkney
Writing Prompt
• Treasures Reading Program
o Grade 5
 Unit: "Fight Back"
• Students write a paragraph - in the first person describing a moment in time.
o Use strong sentences to focus on feelings emotional and physical - at the moment when
food is poured on you by the angry mob.
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Author Website
http://www.devinscillian.com
Curricular Connections
• Write a personal diary, memoir, or autobiography
• Fiction & Non-Fiction -compare
• Research goldfish and their care
http://www.pebblego.com/content/animals/pgo_player.php
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Curricular Connections:
• Math
o fractions
o exponents
o multiplication
o division
o fair share
• Character Education
o sharing
o manners
http://www.justanimal.org/
http://mrsbird.yolasite.com/fractions.php
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Curricular Connections:
• Language Arts
o adjectives
o descriptive language
o folk tales
 Chicken Little
 Henny Penny
o point of view
http://www.the-best-childrens-books.org/Chicken-Big.html
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Curricular Connections
*Language Arts: Biography: Research further Dave's life
Discuss quotations
*Art: Collaborate with the art teacher and have the students
create their own piece of pottery using the medium of clay.
A 45 page educator’s guide with information on American
Folklore and Folk Art, Pottery Basics, and Lesson Plans on
Pottery Making, Craft Traditions and Written and Oral
Traditions, and much more can be found at:
http://www.digitaltraditions.net/html/D_Resources.cfm
*Social Studies: African Americans, Slavery, history of pottery
Design your own pottery jar with or without a poem.

http://www.digitaltraditions.net/html/D_Resources.cfm
45 page educator's guide. Need to adapt to grade level.
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Map of Vietnam
From www.vietnam.com
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Curricular Connections:
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Folk/fairy tale elements
Determination/persistence
Cleverness, creativity, and imagination
Resourcefulness
Lesson Ideas:
• Reader’s Theater
• Sequencing: Create a “cake” out of paper or felt and have students remove the
parts of the cake as the story progresses; write the sequence of events on
sentence strips and have students put them in order
• Create invitations to a party and decide on a perfect gift for a princess.
• Older students can use the author’s C-L-A-P-S method and graphic organizer to
write an original tale.
CLAPS= Character, Location, Action, Problem, Solution
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Curricular Connections
*Language Arts:
• Myths, folktales
• Writing
• Readers' Theater
http://www.theoi.com/Khthonios/Persephone.html
*Ancient Greek art
*Science: Seasons
*Social Studies: Agriculture
Suggestion:
Use story in December at the beginning of winter.
Script available at:
http://www.myfreshplans.com/2011-03/persephone-and-demeter-lesson-plans/
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Curricular Connections
*Language Arts:
• Poetry
• Descriptive language
• Now and then
*Science:
• Seasons
• Nature
http://hmhbooks.com/guyku/club.html
The authors suggest using nature to spark creativity when
writing your own haiku – a great idea for Green School
certification.
http://hmhbooks.com/guyku/
www.pbs.org/parents/creativity/ideas/haiku.html
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http://www.patmora.com/childrens_books.htm
http://daiglerworkshop.wikispaces.com/file/view/foldables.pdf
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• Why are libraries
important?
• How is information
shared in a
community?
• How do you think
libraries began?
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Curricular Connections
• Identify the fairy tale
characters featured in
each poem
• Older grades: Write a
reversible poem
• Choose a favorite fairy tale character and
use first person narrative to tell his/her
perspective of events
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Curricular Connections
• Make predictions. What does
this puppy have to say?
• Use the poems as writing
models to speak in your own
voice. What would your
"What I Don't Like" poem
say?
• Use expressive animal photos to create
poems from other animals' points of view
http://nationalzoo.si.edu/