All That I Am

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Description (from Crossroads Series)

This unit, usually given at the beginning of a school year, gives students the opportunity to explore who they are and to find out more about their classmates. Selections should reflect on what makes us individuals and how our family and family history help to shape our identities.

Student may read anecdotes, poems and short stories, as well as view comic strips and art essays. They might be given the opportunities to develop knowledge and literacy skills, such as experimenting with metaphor, examining the elements of fiction, using symbolism, analyzing artwork, or creating a self-portrait.

Major Integrated Resource (MIR)

• Crossroads 9 available from Nelson Publishing Company

• Character Education Free Resources - This is an excellent teaching resource for middle school. It contains discussion questions, writing assignments, and student activitiesfor character education and life skills. Just click on a topic.
• Comics - Students can review a variety of comic strips on this site.
• Middle School Talent Search - Students develop an appreciation for the diversity of learning styles, talents, and strengths present in their class. A great getting-to-know-one-another activity for the beginning of a school year.

Related Novel Sets Available from the Curriculum Materials Centre

• Letters from a Slave Girl: The Story of Harriet Jacobs by Mary E. Lyons - A fictionalized version of the life of Harriet Jacobs, told in the form of letters that she might have written during her slavery in North Carolina and as she prepared for escape to the North in 1842.
• Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech - After her mother leaves home suddenly, thirteen-year-old Sal and her grandparents take a car trip retracing her mother's route. Along the way, Sal recounts the story of her friend Phoebe, whose mother also left.
• Izzy, Willy Nilly by Cynthia Voigt - A car accident causes fifteen-year-old Izzy to lose one leg and face the need to start building a new life as an amputee.
• Blood Red Ochre by Kevin Major - Living in Newfoundland, fifteen-year-old David meets a mysterious new girl named Nancy and makes a startling discovery while doing research for a school project on the Beothuck Indians.

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