Give guidance and feedback to students' plans, encouraging, refining, and helping them to be responsible for their own learning. Maintain high expectations for completion of chosen options. Summarize by reviewing the whole, bringing students "full circle" to the experience with which the learning began.
Have the children write three ways they could have changed their terrible day
Objective: To have the children create a class list of coping strategies.
Activity: Have the children write three ways they could have changed their terrible day, (the one they illustrated in Quadrant Two, Right Mode), into a not so bad day. Share these with a partner or in their small group.
Assessment: Originality and workability of their choices.
“Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day”
Subject:
Children's Literature
Grade:
Primary, Intermediate
Concept:
Coping
Bridge:
Good Days/Bad Days
Content:
"Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day" by Judith Viorst