Texts 

A Difficult Decision - Realistic Fiction           R/W pp. 334-337

Grace for President - Realistic Fiction           Anthology pp. 388-407

Helping to Make Smiles - Narrative Nonfiction         Anthology pp. 410-411

Sidetrips:

• The Teacher's Guide Wonders handouts

• 🥰YouTube about Ryan Hreljac's well project (5 minutes - great for kids *tissues needed*)

• 🥰Return to Ryan's Well  YouTube
  (30 minutes This takes us through his revisiting of communities where his wells have contributed to positive social and economic change. His original well was destroyed by rebels, but has since been replaced. He has started creating latrines, also. The positive effect, especially on the girls and women of these communities, is tearfully amazing!)

• MNN article: 🥰8 People Who Changed the World as Kids (with Ryan)

• Kids Discover Online: Tiny Heroes

• School House Rock Pronoun song - SafeShare

• BrainPopJr Rights & Responsibilities, Plural Nouns

• Epic Collection 

• The Water Princess - illustrated by Peter Reynolds, tells the story of Georgie Badiel and many other children in Burkina Faso, Africa, having to walk most of the day to get water for their families. Here is her foundation which built wells to provide water to 300,000 people in poverty. Here is an SEL/STEM activity to use.

• Minibook and work on Fatima Al-Fihri: both digital and pdf (born around 800 in Tunisia to a wealthy family who encouraged her to be curious and learn, she inherited her father's wealth at a young age. Designed and helped build mosques. The mosque in Fez, Morocco became a university (still is) and her design is used in university systems around the world.)

• Margaret Knight (invented system to make looms in cotton mills safer before she turned 13), Eli Whitney (motivated by learning about the needs of different groups of people and wanting to help) bio minibooks and work.

• Book Reviews Seesaw: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5