Lesson+Plan



**Read Aloud Activity For //The Story of Ruby Bridges//: **

For my read aloud activity, I will be reading //The Story of Ruby Bridges.// I will use this story to introduce my Civil Right Movement unit. Before reading I will activate students’ prior background knowledge on the subject. I will then read the story, continuing to stop and ask a variety of comprehension questions to the students. After reading, I will discuss the characters within the novel with the students. We will also discuss the various perspectives within the book and the emotions people were experiencing during this time period. I will ask the students to pick a character within the story, aside from Ruby, and rewrite the story from their perspective. Students will be focusing on point of view and will have to think about the possible emotions of people of ethnicities and Ruby’s family members while writing.

