Planning and Activities

Explore recounts using biographies from the civil rights movement: Henry’s Freedom Box and the story of Rosa Parks' life. Use dialogue punctuation, apostrophes and paragraphs.
Start with the core unit to introduce key texts. Then select from comprehension, SPAG and composition units.
There is no spelling and grammar presentation for this unit.
Texts
Henry’s Freedom Box by Ellen Levine
Texts
Henry’s Freedom Box by Ellen Levine
Presentations
SPAG: Writing and Punctuating Dialogue
Texts
Who was Rosa Parks? by Yona Zeldis McDonough
Optional Texts
Little People, Big dreams: Rosa Parks by Lisbeth Kaiser
Presentations
SPAG: Paragraphs
Texts
Little People, Big dreams: Rosa Parks by Lisbeth Kaiser
Who was Rosa Parks? by Yona Zeldis McDonough
Presentations
SPAG: Uses of Apostrophes
There is no spelling and grammar presentation for this unit.
Texts
Henry’s Freedom Box by Ellen Levine
Who was Rosa Parks? by Yona Zeldis McDonough
Little People, Big dreams: Rosa Parks by Lisbeth Kaiser
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