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Loc: Teachers: Photos From Great Depression: Jacob Have I Loved WebsiteLoc: Teachers: Photos From Great Depression: Jacob Have I Loved Website
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3rd - 8th
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Loc: Teachers: Photos From Great Depression: Jacob Have I Loved

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A collection of images from the period of the Great Depression to World War II provide students with visual references as they read and examine Katherine Paterson's novel, "Jacob Have I Loved." Lesson encourages critical thinking about historical events captured in photographs, literature, and movies.

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jacob have i loved, katherine paterson, west virginia

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  • Knovation Readability Score: 5 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)

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Jacob Have I Loved: Semantic Feature Analysis Chart

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Do not allow your pupils to ignore the connections among the characters in Katherine Paterson’s Newbery Medal winning novel, Jacob Have I Loved. Instead, provide them a semantic feature analysis chart that asks them to note things Louise...
7th - 9th English Language Arts
Lesson Plan

QAR - Jacob Have I Loved

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What kinds of questions could be asked with different pieces of literature? Use QAR questions to help your middle schoolers develop the skills to find information in a text. Thorough directions, a text excerpt, and a set of reading...
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Study Guide

Jacob Have I Loved: Novel Study

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Twins always have double the fun, right? Sara, in Jacob Have I Loved, always is in the shadows of her twin sister. Scholars identify synonyms, answer comprehension questions, foreshadow, and create alliterations as they read about how...
5th - 8th English Language Arts
CCSS: Adaptable
Lesson Plan

KWHL Jacob Have I Loved

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Your class has just begun reading Jacob Have I Loved, and they're coming upon the fifth chapter. Pause their reading and have them complete a KWHL chart (not included) to detail what they've learned from the novel's beginning. An example...
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Lesson Plan

How Hard Were the Times? Investigating the Meaning and Significance of the Great Depression

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Students examine causes and effects of Great Depression and its significance on twentieth-century life, analyze value of various types of historical information, specifically primary sources, and relate events, issues, problems, and...
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Through this series of terrific lesson plans, pupils learn about the extent of poverty in the state of Arkansas during the Great Depression. They read documents from the period which describe how hard times were, view an online photo...
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Jacob Have I Loved

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Middle schoolers examine visual images about the novel, Jacob Have I Loved. They compare pictures from "America from the Great Depression to World War II" that are described in the book and other studies of the Chesapeake Bay. They...
6th - 8th English Language Arts
Lesson Plan

I Hate My Sibling?

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Third graders read the book Jacob Have I Loved, then ask themselves whether they can truly hate their siblings.
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Lesson Plan

Introduce Vocabulary: I Love You the Purplest (Joosse)

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