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Belonging to a Movement: One Crazy Summer

Lesson 22

ELA

Alternate Unit 5

5th Grade

Lesson 22 of 31

Lesson Overview

Objective

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

Readings and Materials

Book: One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia

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Rubric: Narrative Writing Rubric (G5)

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Lesson Map

Lesson

Analyze the role Delphine plays in the family.

Materials

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

Standards

RL.5.3

Lesson

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

Materials

One Crazy Summer — "Secret Agent Mother"

Standards

RL.5.3

Lesson

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.

Materials

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

Standards

RL.5.3RL.5.6

Lesson

Narrative Writing

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

Materials

One Crazy Summer
Narrative Writing Rubric (G5)

Standards

RL.5.6W.5.3

Lesson

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

Materials

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

Standards

RL.5.3

Lesson

Summarize what the Black Panthers believed based on evidence from the Ten Point Platform.

Materials

10-Point Platform

Standards

RI.5.3

Lesson

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.

Materials

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

Standards

L.5.3.bRL.5.3

Lesson

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

Materials

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

Standards

L.5.3.bRL.5.2RL.5.3

Lesson

Narrative Writing

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

Materials

One Crazy Summer
Narrative Writing Rubric (G5)

Standards

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

Lesson

Opinion Writing

4 days

Write your own Ten-Point program addressing issues in your community and defend which points are most important and why.

Materials

10-Point Platform
One Crazy Summer
Grade 5 Literary Analysis and Opinion Writing Rubric
Two-Paragraph Outline — (Use outline depending on students needs)
Three Paragraph Outline — (Use outline depending on students needs)
10-Point Platform Student Brainstorm

Standards

L.5.1.cSL.5.1SL.5.2W.5.1W.5.1.aW.5.1.bW.5.1.c

Lesson

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

Materials

“I, Too”
“Dream Variations”

Standards

RL.5.2RL.5.5

Lesson

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

Materials

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

Standards

RL.5.3RL.5.6

Lesson

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.

Materials

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

Standards

RL.5.3RL.5.6

Lesson

Defend if Delphine should have been allowed to read the Black Panther paper and why.

Materials

Newspaper 1
Newspaper 2
Newspaper 3
Newspaper 4

Standards

RI.5.3W.5.1

Lesson

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

Materials

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

Standards

RL.5.2RL.5.3RL.5.5

Lesson

Discussion

Analyze and debate Unit Essential Questions.

Materials

One Crazy Summer

Standards

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

Lesson

Writing

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

Materials

One Crazy Summer

Standards

W.5.1W.5.9

Lesson

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

Materials

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

Standards

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

Lesson

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.

Materials

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

Standards

RL.5.2RL.5.9

Lesson

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

Materials

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

Standards

RL.5.2RL.5.3

Lesson

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

Materials

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

Standards

RL.5.2RL.5.3

Lesson

Narrative Writing

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

Materials

One Crazy Summer
Narrative Writing Rubric (G5)

Standards

L.5.1.aRL.5.6W.5.3

Lesson

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

Materials

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

Standards

RL.5.2

Lesson

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

Materials

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

Standards

RL.5.2

Lesson

Writing

Write a poem from a character’s point of view by using poetry to develop experiences using effective literary techniques, descriptive details, and clear sequence.

Materials