Mirror- Jeannie Baker
Unit Plan
This is a unit plan based around Jeannie Baker’s book ‘Mirror’.
1.The first activity in this unit plan will happen before the book is read.
The teacher will show the students the front and back cover and ask the students to write a description of both of the boys. In this piece of writing, students should be thinking about what their personalities might be, their ages, and where the might live. Following this piece of writing, the teacher will ask the students to discuss what they think the story might be about and why they think it might be called Mirror- using inference, making connections and prediction.
2.The next activity used when teaching with ‘Mirror’ is called Pass around retells. Students will be working in groups of three or four with half of the groups focusing on one boy and the other groups focusing on the other boy. A picture will be shown from the book from each side and each student will write some text for the picture they have been allocated on their own paper. When a timer rings, each writer passes their paper to their right. Students will then read what has been written and continue the story from that point for the next picture in the book. Continue until paper reaches back to original writer. At the end of this activity, students will read all of the descriptions written about the various pictures and discuss as a class which descriptions they believe tell the story most successfully.
3.The final activity for this lesson sequence is for students to think of a trip or outing they have taken with a member of their family. The students will then have to tell the story of this trip only using pictures with enough detail in them so words are not needed.
1.The first activity in this unit plan will happen before the book is read.
The teacher will show the students the front and back cover and ask the students to write a description of both of the boys. In this piece of writing, students should be thinking about what their personalities might be, their ages, and where the might live. Following this piece of writing, the teacher will ask the students to discuss what they think the story might be about and why they think it might be called Mirror- using inference, making connections and prediction.
2.The next activity used when teaching with ‘Mirror’ is called Pass around retells. Students will be working in groups of three or four with half of the groups focusing on one boy and the other groups focusing on the other boy. A picture will be shown from the book from each side and each student will write some text for the picture they have been allocated on their own paper. When a timer rings, each writer passes their paper to their right. Students will then read what has been written and continue the story from that point for the next picture in the book. Continue until paper reaches back to original writer. At the end of this activity, students will read all of the descriptions written about the various pictures and discuss as a class which descriptions they believe tell the story most successfully.
3.The final activity for this lesson sequence is for students to think of a trip or outing they have taken with a member of their family. The students will then have to tell the story of this trip only using pictures with enough detail in them so words are not needed.