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Holiday Lesson: Deck the Halls
With Literature Trees
Subjects
Grade
Brief Description
"Deck-orate the halls" of the school with literature trees.
Objectives
Students will
Keywords
book, book tree, literature, literature tree, theme, holiday, Book Week, Library Week
Lesson Plan
This is a simple lesson. Students decorate "literature trees." They select a favorite piece of literature and decorate a tree to represent themes, objects, and characters from the book. Let students brainstorm ideas; they're sure to come up with some great, creative ideas. How about a.
For additional ideas, refer to a series called Summer Book-Tivities that was run on Education World a handful of summers ago. Each weekly article highlighted several books and extension activities for each book. For example, in Summer Book-Tivities #2, one of the spotlighted books was Arlene Alda's 1-2-3. Alda captured with her camera images of the numbers 1 to 10 found in nature. Students might decorate a tree with their own photographs of the numbers in nature.
Ideas for Adapting the Lesson
Assessment
Students might vote for the most creative tree, most beautiful tree, most-closely-tied-to-the-theme tree, most-fun tree...
Lesson Plan Source
Education World
Submitted By
Gary Hopkins
National Standards
FINE ARTS: Visual Arts
GRADES K - 4
NA-VA.K-4.1 Understanding and Applying Media, Techniques, and Processes
NA-VA.K-4.2 Using Knowledge of Structures and Functions
NA-VA.K-4.3 Choosing and Evaluating A Range of Subject Matter, Symbols, and Ideas
NA-VA.K-4.5 Reflecting Upon and Assessing the Characteristics and Merits of Their Work and the Work of Others
NA-VA.K-4.6 Making Connections Between Visual Arts and Other Disciplines
GRADES 5 - 8
NA-VA.5-8.1 Understanding and Applying Media, Techniques, and Processes
NA-VA.5-8.2 Using Knowledge of Structures and Functions
NA-VA.5-8.3 Choosing and Evaluating A Range of Subject Matter, Symbols, and Ideas
NA-VA.5-8.5 Reflecting Upon and Assessing the Characteristics and Merits of Their Work and the Work of Others
NA-VA.5-8.6 Making Connections Between Visual Arts and Other Disciplines
GRADES 9 - 12
NA-VA.9-12.1 Understanding and Applying Media, Techniques, and Processes
NA-VA.9-12.2 Using Knowledge of Structures and Functions
NA-VA.9-12.3 Choosing and Evaluating A Range of Subject Matter, Symbols, and Ideas
NA-VA.9-12.5 Reflecting Upon and Assessing the Characteristics and Merits of Their Work and the Work of Others
NA-VA.9-12.6 Making Connections Between Visual Arts and Other Disciplines
LANGUAGE ARTS: English
GRADES K - 12
NL-ENG.K-12.2 Reading for Understanding
NL-ENG.K-12.3 Evaluation Strategies
NL-ENG.K-12.12 Applying Language Skills
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Updated 11/17/2011