Out of the Ordinary Lesson Plans

As part of the unit on immigration for 5th grader in U.S. History, students will connect to the story, Out of the Ordinary by Michelle Barone, through a variety of lesson plans designed to engage students through differentiated instruction.  At the end of the lessons will be an acculative assessment demonstrating student understanding of concepts in Out of the Ordinary by creating a Storybird.  Each lesson plan incorporates Minnesota State Standards for grades 4-8.

• Student's will develop their understanding of vocabulary through Marzano's 6 steps in activities on Out_of_the_Ordinary_Vocabulary_Page. 

• Over the course of three days, students will read portions of the text out loud, in class, followed by the discussion lesson plan.

• Interaction and discussion of characters and events that took place in the book will be incorporated into the Out_of_the_Ordinary_Discussion_Lesson_Plan.

• Over the course of the week, students will demonstrate their understanding of bullying by participating in classroom discussion, research and presentations of an anti-bullying campaign at Out_of_the_Ordinary_Citizen_Action_Plan.  

• After presentations from the citizen action lesson plans are complete, students will be assessed through the Out_of_the_Ordinary_Lesson_Plan_Assessment.

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