Orphan Motif and The Willoughbys

Essential Question:

What is Lois Lowry trying to tell us about our own lives and society through the Orphan Motif in The Willoughbys?

Your Independent Reading Assignment:

Adopt 2-3 pages of The Willoughbys, by Lois Lowry Teach it to a small group of students through multiple modalities (print, visuals, video, audio, and digital texts) and multiple intelligences (bodily/ kinesthetic, interpersonal, verbal/ linguistic, logical/ mathematical, naturalistic, intrapersonal, visual/ spatial/ and musical appeals).

You will have 18 minutes to teach your lesson to a small group of students. Other students will be teaching concurrently with you.

Rubric

Here is the Rubric. Study it as you plan.

Due Date:

You should be ready to teach The Willoughbys starting on the week of March 7, 2017.

Here is the Sign Up Sheet for The Willoughbys. No two students may choose the same pages in the same class.

Components:

Activator

Visual: Theme through Theory, with 2-sentence argument statement

Three Areas of Support with Three Peer-Reviewed Research Resources

Closure

Here are some research resources for you--- some are peer-reviewed, some are not but are helpful, nonetheless, in filling in background knowledge:

Orphan Stories in Overview from Encyclopedia.com

Orphans in Literature from the Huffington Post

From Folktales to Fiction: Orphan Characters in Children's Literature

Orphans in Fiction from the British Library

The Orphan among Us: An Examination of Orphans in Newbery Award Winning Literature

Helpful Hints:

Here is a student sample teaching lesson from another semester and topic--- but it might give you some ideas to meet multimodality and multiple intelligences objectives for this assignment.