Anti-Bullying
Sumi’s first day of school
Author(s): Joung Un Kim & Soyung Pak
Links:
Amazon: https://amzn.to/3cnzhqd
Indigo: Not Available (N/A)
Social Justice focus: Discrimination against different cultures; bullying
Synopsis: The story follows Sumi, a young Korean girl, on her first day of school in a new classroom. The social justice issues that this book deals with are discrimination against different cultures as well as bullying.
Lesson Plan: Amber Bauman
Primary/Junior/Intermediate Lesson Plan (Abbreviated Template)
Consecutive and Concurrent Programs
Unit/Topic: Social Justice
Grade: 5
Lesson: What is the focus of this lesson in relation to the unit?
Discrimination and bullying
Curriculum Areas: What are possible connections to other curricular areas?
Language, Health and Physical Education
Curriculum Expectations: What Overall and Specific Expectations will be addressed?
Grade 5 Language Arts
Overall:
Reading 2: recognize a variety of text forms, text features, and stylistic elements and demonstrate understanding of how they help communicate meaning.
Writing 3: use editing, proofreading, and publishing skills and strategies, and knowledge of language conventions, to correct errors, refine expression, and present their work effectively.
Specific:
2.3 Text Features: identify a variety of text features and explain how they help readers understand texts.
3.6 Proofreading: proofread and correct their writing using guidelines developed with peers and the teacher.
Grade 5 Health and Physical Education
Overall:
Healthy Living 3: demonstrate the ability to make connections that relate to health and well-being – how their choices and behaviours affect both themselves and others, and how factors in the world around them affect their own and others’ health and well-being.
Specific:
3.2 Personal Safety and Injury Prevention: explain how a person’s actions, either in person or online, can affect their own and others’ feelings, self-concept, emotional well-being, and reputation.
Learning Goal(s): What are students expected to know, do and understand? We are learning to….
- We are learning to use features of the text, such as pictures to help us make predictions about the text, as well as to help us understand the text
- We are learning to peer edit by following a checklist of things to look for
- We are learning to understand and explain how our actions can make other people feel by writing ourselves into situations similar to what Sumi experienced on her first day of school
Success Criteria: How will students know they have met the learning goal? I can….
- I can look at a picture and predict what is going to happen in a story
- I can edit my classmates’ work by using a checklist to help guide what I look for
- I can explain the affect that my actions have on other people and the way that they can make people feel
MODIFICATIONS / ACCOMMODATIONS
- The use of technology
- Option to create a comic book instead of writing out a full story
- Option to crea