Belonging to a Movement: One Crazy Summer

Analyze the role Delphine plays in the family.

One Crazy Summer — "Cassius Clay Clouds" and "Golden Gate Bridge"

Standards

RL.5.3

Explain why the chapter is titled "Secret Agent Mother" and if the title adequately describes the way the girls perceived Cecile.

One Crazy Summer — "Secret Agent Mother"

Standards

RL.5.3

Analyze how Delphine’s point of view influences the way events are described and what Delphine wants a reader to understand about her sisters and Cecile.

One Crazy Summer — "Green Stucco House" and "Mean Lady Ming"

Standards

RL.5.3RL.5.6

Narrative Writing

Rewrite a key scene from One Crazy Summer from another character’s point of view.

One Crazy Summer

Standards

RL.5.6W.5.3

Explain what the girls learn about Cecile in this chapter and how they each respond.

One Crazy Summer — "Collect Call" and "For the People"

Standards

RL.5.3

Debate if Cecile’s actions show that she truly cares for Delphine, Vonetta, and Fern and she just doesn’t know how to show it.

One Crazy Summer — "Glass of Water" and "Inseparable"

Standards

L.5.3.bRL.5.3

Compare and contrast the girls’ attitudes of the revolution with those of the people who work and attend the center.

One Crazy Summer — "Breakfast Program" and "Even the Earth is Revolutionary"

Standards

L.5.3.bRL.5.2RL.5.3

Narrative Writing

Rewrite a key scene from One Crazy Summer from another character’s point of view.

One Crazy Summer

Standards

L.5.1.aL.5.1.cL.5.1.dRL.5.6W.5.3

Determine a theme of a poem and explain how the theme is conveyed through the details and stanzas.

“I, Too”
“Dream Variations”

Standards

RL.5.2RL.5.5

Compare and contrast Cecile and Delphine’s point of view on the significance of names.

One Crazy Summer — "Crazy Mother Mountain" and "Everyone Knows the King of the Sea"

Standards

RL.5.3RL.5.6

Compare and contrast what Cecile, Delphine, the Anktons, Fern, and Vonetta know and understand and how it influences the way they view Miss Patty Cake.

One Crazy Summer — "Coloring and La-La" and "Counting and Skimming"

Standards

RL.5.3RL.5.6

Defend if Cecile is or is not growing more attached to Delphine, Vonetta, and Fern.

One Crazy Summer — "Big Red S," "China Who" and "Expert Colored Counting"

Standards

RL.5.2RL.5.3RL.5.5

Discussion

Analyze and debate Unit Essential Questions.

One Crazy Summer

Standards

RL.5.2RL.5.3SL.5.1SL.5.2

Writing

Write a multiple-paragraph essay to answer a Unit Essential Question.

Standards

W.5.1W.5.9

Analyze how Sister Mukumbu and Delphine view the Black Panther movement.

One Crazy Summer — "Civic Pride" and "Rally for Bobby"

Standards

RL.5.2RL.5.3RL.5.6SL.5.1SL.5.2

Compare and contrast the narrator’s views and understanding of the revolution with Delphine
and her sisters’ and explain what Delphine and her sisters could learn from the narrator.

Brown Girl Dreaming — pp. 302–305, 308–312, 317–320

Standards

RL.5.2RL.5.9

Analyze the ways in which the sisters and Cecile are changing.

One Crazy Summer — "Eating Crow," "Itsy Bitsy Spider," and "Moveable Type"

Standards

RL.5.2RL.5.3

Analyze how the girls respond to Cecile's arrest and what their actions reveal.

One Crazy Summer — "San Francisco Treat," "Wish We Had a Camera," and "The Clark Sisters"

Standards

RL.5.2RL.5.3

Narrative Writing

Rewrite a key scene from One Crazy Summer from another character’s point of view.

One Crazy Summer

Standards

L.5.1.aRL.5.6W.5.3

Determine a theme of a story from details in the text.

One Crazy Summer — "I Birthed a Nation," "Stores of the No Sayers" and "Glorious Hill"

Standards

RL.5.2

Analyze the role poetry plays in the movement, by analyzing details that support the development of theme.

One Crazy Summer — "The Third Thing" and "So"

Standards

RL.5.2