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As a little boy searches for his cat in Eric Carle’s Have You Seen My Cat? he repeatedly asks the titular question only to have to answer „This is not my cat!” when he’s met with tigers, lions, and other felines that clearly aren’t the boy’s cat. This lesson uses Carle’s predictable text and a […]

When visiting the recommended website in this lesson, students learn about the Underground Railroad and „walk in the shoes” of an escaping slave. Using the picture book Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt, students create a problems/solutions/events chart to help them understand the relationships between Clara’s problems and how she solves them. Similar to Clara’s […]