SeedFolks
Title: SeedFolks
Author/Illustrator
Paul Fleischman
Genre Chapter book
Skills/Strategies
characterization
critical literacy
Standards
5.RL.2.3: Describe two or more characters, settings, or events in a story or play, drawing on specific details in the text, and how they impact the plot
5.RL.3.1: Explain how a series of chapters, scenes, or stanzas fits together to provide the overall structure of a particular story, play, or poem.
5.RL.3.2: Describe how a narrator’s or speaker’s point of view influences how events are portrayed
6.RL.3.2:Explain how an author develops the point of view of the narrator or speaker in a work of literature and how the narrator or speaker impacts the mood, tone, and meaning of a text.
Content Connections
Characters
Kim-dad died/ no memories/wants to make Dad proud/dad was a farmer/Vietnam/not in Ohio long/ ritual/alter/vacant lot/bad part of town? Watering plants/farmers
Ana-old/take care of parents/white/across from lot/been their for a while/nosy/suspicious only whites
Wendell-janitor/helpful/white only whites watering plants/farmers
Each have a loss and lonely
Gonzald- dad doesn’t speak English/8th grade/ janitor to wendell
Leona-driven/sassy/mother/tries to get the lot cleaned up/ doesn’t take no for an answer
Sam-friendly/ 78/ retired/Jewish/ “living well”/philampolist
Is the lot becoming its own entity? Its own character?
Virgil- just finished 5th grade/found the locket (gift from garden god)/from hati/ wants a garden for the bike
Sam-Korea/husband died/ robbed so doesn’t trust people/owns own laundry mat/5 sisters/likes to be by people even if not talking/ helps Curtis/ helps people come up with a new way to water
Curtis- trying to get girlfriend back/huge ego/meat head/head over heels for the girl/ determined/ gets help from curtis
All want something different from garden
Social studies: Identify the countries, cities, and continent from which the characters in the novel have immigrated. Then plot each person on a world map.
English : An original poem or song that summarizes how the garden changes from the beginning to the end of the novel! (figurative language)
: Venn diagram compare yourself to an character
:themes and what themes go for each character
art: Students reflect on the characters from the novel, and create individual paper quilt squares representing them. Completed quilts are pieced together to make a collaborative classroom quilt mural!
Other connections
Girl with the dragon tattoo---adult book can use for connecting characters
Students plant their own plants
Students do service project and can plant flowers or plants for a business or school or old lady or clean garbage off the side of rode.
