The Mighty Miss Malone (African-American History and The Great Depression)

You are completing prereading and other activities for the book, The Mighty Miss Malone by Christopher Paul Curtis.  Complete each of the following activities:

(1) Use the following chart to tell what you know already about one of the themes in the book:

The Great Depression
African-American History

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1VVIkvR8Tp0OikL2uUGgfpR3huJoonPpkzYbMMqFOjCc/formrestricted  (Input Your Name, Teacher, theme chosen as the topic, and K only then submit).


(2) View the Book Trailer for The Mighty Miss Malone (Gaggle Tube): https://www.gaggle.net/gaggleVideoProxy.do?op=view&v=7acea6060982df3b1b9d06be2910a65249a9d9176523d86d


(3) Read the summary by Scholastic for The Mighty Miss Malone
http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/book/mighty-miss-malone#cart/cleanup

(4) Do a KLEW Chart:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1VVIkvR8Tp0OikL2uUGgfpR3huJoonPpkzYbMMqFOjCc/formrestricted (Input Your Name, Teacher, theme chosen as the topic, and the following: L-Learning/Learned, E-Evidence/Source for information learned about the topic (example: video book trailer, social studies book, etc.) and W-What you are wondering about the topic so far and then submit) > Click Read an Article >


K-Know, W-Want to Know, and L-Learned

or

K-Know
L-Learning
E-Evidence of what you are learning (source title and page, description of when/where
W-What are you wondering about so far

(5) After completing the prereading activities, login to Renaissance Place:
https://hosted330.renlearn.com/214870/Public/RPM/Login/Login.aspx?srcID=s  (also on the FHSA Symbaloo) >  click read an article > see My Group Library > Check to see if the sample of the Mighty Miss Malone is available > If so, access the book using your Gaggle Login for Google Play.  Begin reading the book and see Mrs. Williams if it is not available or if there are any problems.

Note: You can also read about the Great Depression Using Myon (Migrant Mother: How a Photograph Defined the Great Depression) or by utilizing the additional resources below.

Additional Resources

African-American Life During the Great Depression from www.britannica.com

"The Great Depression of the 1930s worsened the already bleak economic situation of African Americans. They were the first to be laid off from their jobs, and they suffered from an unemployment rate two to three times that of whites. In early public assistance programs African Americans often received substantially less aid than whites, and some charitable
organizations even excluded blacks from their soup kitchens." Click the Link to Read More
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/67474/African-Americans/285193/African-American-life-during-the-Great-Depression-and-the-New-Deal

Great Depression Facts from www.kidsconnect.com

• " Some people who became homeless would ride on railroad cars, because they didn’t have money to travel. Some believe that more than 50,000 people were injured or killed while jumping trains. Many of these people traveled together and were called hobos.
• Almost half of the children who were living in the United States at that time did not have enough food, shelter, or medical care. Many suffered diseases. By the 1930s, thousands of schools were operating on reduced hours or were closed down entirely. Some three million children had left school, and at least 200,000 took to riding the rails either with their parents or as orphans.
• African Americans, Native Americans, Mexican Americans and women were bitterly discriminated and the hardest hit during the Great Depression. They were looked at as the groups that could take jobs away from white men. The Great Depression also changed the family in several ways. Many couples delayed getting married, and divorce rates and birth rates dropped. Some men also abandoned their families. A 1940 poll revealed that 1.5 million married women had been abandoned by their husbands."  Click to read more at: https://kidskonnect.com/history/great-depression/

Author's Purpose: http://fhsalmc.blogspot.com/2015/02/authors-purpose.html 

QAR Chart: http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/lesson_images/lesson980/question.pdf

Explanation: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3D1ejiMUFXs/SWQ-
Kq3thHI/AAAAAAAAAj8/0HvH_Fp0UBk/s400/qar.gif

Time Photo Gallery
http://content.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,2106839_2335559,00.html

Teacher Resources

The Mighty Miss Malone
http://www.bmionline.com/files/samples/S3831-sample.pdf

QAR
http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/lesson-plans/teachers-allowed-student-book-980.html

http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/lesson-plans/guided-comprehension-self-questioning-227.html


Additional Assignments and Summaries: 
The Mighty Miss Malone questions and/or summaries are due before the next library class if not completed during library time. Submit the completed work as a comment to this post Mighty Miss Malone Post on the Gaggle Library Class Wall.. In addition on your own each week,  read at least the next chapter using the free sample in AR 360 or Google Play Books.

https://docs.google.com/a/lrsd.org/document/d/1sBfyU0caUm1sVx_4UL3Jj8hY1wYDcZU0T_Jhmnov6PE/edit?usp=sharing