ELA G6: Working with Evidence: Rules to Live By.

Rudyard Kipling (1865-1939) was an English short story writer, poet, and novelist, perhaps best known for The Jungle Book (1894). Kipling wrote in Victorian England, and the following poem is considered representative of the ideal qualities of a proper Englishman during that time.

Just as Bud, from the novel Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis had rules to live by; so does the poem, If by Rudyard Kipling, but how do the two relate?Pupils delve deep into the poem's third stanza, participate in a grand discussion, and take notes using a note taking guide.

Rudyard Kipling (1865-1939) was an English short story writer, poet, and novelist — as well as a contemporary of Robert Louis Stevenson. He is best known for his novel The Jungle Book. Kipling wrote in Victorian England, and “If” (published in 1910) represents some of the ideal qualities of a “proper Englishman” during that time.

In this module, you will consider these questions as they read the novel Bud, Not Buddy, Steve Jobs’ 2005 commencement address at Stanford University, President Barack Obama’s Back-to-School Speech, “If” by Rudyard Kipling, and informational research texts. At the start of Unit 1, you will launch their study of Bud, Not Buddy, establishing a set of routines for thinking, writing, and.

I can select text evidence to support themes from Bud, Not Buddy. I can analyze the writing techniques Curtis uses to convey themes in. Bud, Not Buddy. Most people in the world are kind, especially in hard times. Chapters 8, 10, 12 Write the gist of the detail or event, including chapter and page number. What writing technique does Curtis use to.

In the mid-unit assessment, students will read a new excerpt of “If,” analyze how that stanza contributes to the overall meaning of the poem, determine a theme communicated in that stanza, and compare and contrast how that theme is communicated in Bud, Not Buddy. In the second half of Unit 2, students return to a close reading of the novel as they prepare to write a literary argument essay.

In this module, students consider these questions as they read the novel Bud, Not Buddy, Steve Jobs’ 2005 commencement address at Stanford University, President Barack Obama’s Back-to-School Speech, “If” by Rudyard Kipling, and informational research texts.

Students will continue to explore the theme of “rules to live by” in the novel as well as through close reading of the poem “If” by Rudyard Kipling. Students will be writing a literary argument essay in which they establish a claim about how Bud uses his “rules”: to survive or to thrive. Students will then shift their focus to their own rules to live by and conduct a short research.

Bud, not Buddy Culminating Project You have read several texts of different types to discover the “rules to live by” of other characters and real people: Bud from Bud, Not Buddy, Steve Jobs, President Barack Obama, and poet Rudyard Kipling. Each of these people decided on his “rules to live by” based on his own life experiences. Now you have a chance to share some of the important.

I'll also have students look at the rules for living laid out in this stanza. Engage NY ties this poem into the novel, Bud Not Buddy, but I don't have a class set of this novel. Seeing that we are studying poetry, it will fit in perfectly. The handouts I am using can be found in the Module 2a in the grade 6 ELA section. I have students focus specifically on stanza 4.

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They begin with Bud, Not Buddy, analyzing character development and considering how figurative language contributes to tone and meaning. They read closely Steve Jobs’ speech, focusing on how Jobs develops his ideas at the paragraph, sentence, and word level, and then analyze the poem “If” to compare and contrast how the novel and the poem address a similar theme. In an argument essay.