Graphic+Oragnizers

= __**GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS**__ =



**Compare and Contrast Chart for //Through My Eyes// and //The Story of Ruby Bridges://**

Students will use a compare and contrast chart to analyze how //Through My Eyes and The Story of Ruby Bridges// are both alike and how they are different. This can also be done through a Venn Diagram depending on the type of graphic organizer being used. Both of these books are written about Ruby Bridges story. //Through My Eyes//, is her own personal narrative and is full of real world photographs from the time period. //The Story of Ruby Bridges// however, is a picture book written in Ruby’s perspective. The students should be able to examine both books after and find many similarities and many differences between them.



**Seed Discussion Organizer for** **//My Brother Martin A Sister Remembers Growing Up With the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr://** After exploring the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his contributions to society within our textbooks, students will read //My Brother Martin A Sister Remembers Growing Up With the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.// and complete the seed discussion organizer while reading. They will take notes on information that they do not clearly understand, things they find surprising, unfamiliar vocabulary, and things that remind them of something else (this would be where students would be making connections to themselves, other texts, or to the world). This organizer will plant the seed for a class discussion or journal entry on how Dr. Martin King Jr. was not simply just a civil rights activist. It, along with the book, allows students to see that he was just an ordinary man at one point in his life, who believed in something more and changed his community through his actions.



**Sequence of Events Chart for //Martin’s Big Words://**

Students will complete this graphic organizer after reading //Martin’s Big Words//. The students will have to chart the events that happen within the book in chorological order. I will ask them to pay particular attention to the words and meanings that Martin is saying throughout the text. This will help the students better comprehend the book and their meaning. The chart will also be a visual aid to better display the cause and effect relationships made apparent within the text.