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Stella By Starlight: Complete Unit of Study

January 27, 2017 By Dani Wagner 2 Comments

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Welcome back to Live Love Learn Gracefully and another Literature Unit. This is a complete unit of study for  Stella by Starlight by Sharon M. Draper. This unit is packed full of ideas that will expose your kids to pieces of U.S. History, Grammar, projects, Literature, and more. Stella by Starlight Stella by Starlight is an amazing story of family, community, faith, and bravery. The main character, Stella, is a young girl growing up in a segregated South in the 1930's. She sees first hand … [Read more...]

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Literature Unit Project: Character Suitcase

January 20, 2017 By Dani Wagner 2 Comments

In addition to writing Literature Units, like Keeping Score by Linda Sue Park, I will also be focusing on a specific project each month. These projects can easily be done with almost any novel.  Projects like the Character Suitcase, which we are talking about today, will only enhance your students' or childs' understanding of the novel and allow them to show their understanding in a creative way. Character Suitcase Character suitcases are an awesome project that you can do with just about … [Read more...]

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Paper Wishes Literature Unit

December 30, 2016 By Dani Wagner Leave a Comment

Paper Wishes by Lois Sepahban is an incredible historical fiction novel about a girl and her experiences in a Japanese American Internment Camp in Manzanar, California. Through this literature unit your child will learn a little about World War II, but more specifically what was going on in America during this time. Through research, reading, primary source documents, and hands on STEM activities this Paper Wishes Literature Unit will expose your child to Japanese culture, tsunamis, the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Homeschooling, Literature Units Tagged With: activities, homeschool, literature, Literature Unit, Lois Sepahban, Middle School, Paper Wishes, projects, research, STEM, writing, yalit

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