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Mrs. Gru's Quote:
What does it say? (Explain in your own words what the quote is telling you to do.)
John Lennon's quote, "Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans," from the song, "Beautiful Boy," is explaining that sometimes we spend so much time planning out our future, that we forget to be present in the moment and pay attention to what is happening in our lives right now.
What does it mean? (Explain how you should change your life in order to use the quote's advice.)
What John Lennon is telling us to do is to find happiness in the moment and not wait for some future event to make us happy.
Why does it matter? (Explain how your life and the world will be better if everyone would take the quote's advice)
If everyone were to find happiness and be grateful for what they have in their lives right now, people would rely less on material things to find happiness and the world would be a better place.
Curriculum Connections:
My Perspectives Grade 6 Unit 2 Explanatory Essay:
How to elaborate on textual evidence
Video Introduction:
Book Introduction
If you don't have access to video or Youtube, read the introduction on Precepts from 365 Days of Wonder {Mr. Browne's Book of Precepts} by R. J. Palacio
or p. 45-48 "Choose Kind" from Wonder by R. J. Palacio
Read Mr. Browne's Precepts for the school year in the Appendix of Wonder or print them from here:
Mr. Browne's Precepts FREEBIE on Teachers Pay Teachers
Use p. 65 Mr. Browne's Precept in Wonder as an example or see mine above.
Printable Quotes to use as a starting Point:
A Blank Frame for students to write their quote (see below).
Website for looking up quotes by topic:
Three questions to help students expand (write commentary) on their quotes
What does it say?
What does it mean?
Why does it matter?
Here's an explanation of the SAY MEAN MATTER Strategy.
See Also:
Extensions:
Make a class book of precepts
I have also done this on Google Docs and let students search for images of popular quotes.
In this lesson, we talk about how to find an image source and post the link in a Works cited.
The electronic version of this assignment takes several class periods, as we also cover formatting a document with sources.
The best student examples are printed and used to make a class books of precepts.
Read it forward by Jan Badovinac posted to YALSABK: Release a copy of Wonder for students to read and pass on to someone else. They can sign a pledge to "Choose Kind" in the blank beginning and end pages of the book.
Bulletin Board Idea:
Precept Definition.pdfDefinition of Precept for Bulletin Board
3W Template.pdfCopymaster for student assignment
Resources:
I Am Auggie Pullman Video of Children with Craniofacial differences
My Blog about this lesson on Mrs. G. Talks Books
Link back to Middle School Lessons. Last used with students at Stanford Middle School and Lindsey Middle School on 11/12/2021Links Checked by mrsgteach@yahoo.com on 11/18/2019
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