Anti-Poverty
The lunch thief
Author(s): Anne C. Bromley and Robert Casilla
Links:
Amazon: https://amzn.to/3b2PzUT
Indigo: https://bit.ly/2WkFxsM
Social Justice focus: Poverty
Synopsis: Someone stole Rafael’s lunch, leaving him quite hungry. Rafael saw Kevin, a new student in his class, sneak his lunch bag from underneath his desk and tuck it in his backpack. Rafael is never one to fight, so he tried to find another solution. Inspired by his mother’s advice to “use your mouth before your fists,” Rafael bides his time, but other kids’ lunch are disappearing too. While running errands with his mom, Rafael sees Kevin carrying a basket of laundry into a motel room, and his mom tells him Kevin’s family might be one of the families who lost their homes in the recent wildfires. The next day, instead of accusing Kevin, Rafael invites him to share his lunch, offering a friendship as well as lunch.
Lesson Plan: Nick Bruccoleri
Primary/Junior/Intermediate Lesson Plan (Abbreviated Template)
Consecutive and Concurrent Programs
Unit/Topic: Social Justice/ Prediction
Grade: 4
Lesson: What is the focus of this lesson in relation to the unit?
Students will begin to understand how students in a classroom have unique stories and it may not be similar to their own, also, how to understand why some people do the things they do.
Curriculum Areas: What are possible connections to other curricular areas?
Literacy: Prediction
Health: Healthy Living/ nutrition
Curriculum Expectations: What Overall and Specific Expectations will be addressed?
Literacy Overall Expectations:
- read and demonstrate an understanding of a variety of literary, graphic, and informational texts, using a range of strategies to construct meaning;
Literacy Specific Expectations
1.4 Demonstrate understanding of a variety of texts by summarizing important ideas and citing supporting details
1.5 Make inferences about texts using stated and implied ideas from the texts as evidence
1.6 Extend understanding of texts by connecting the ideas to their own knowledge, experience, and insights, to other familiar texts, and to the world around them
1.7 Analyze texts and explain how specific elements in them contribute to meaning
Health Overall Expectation:
D3. 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.
Health Specific Expectations:
D3.1 Identify ways of promoting healthier eating habits in a variety of settings and situations
Learning Goal(s): What are students expected to know, do and understand? We are learning to….
- I can look at the cover, title and illustrations in the book to predict the ending of the story
- I understand the connection of nutrition (from the news article) to the story The Lunch Thief
- I can draw on personal experiences to resonate with Rafael/ and or Kevin
- I can read the story to identify