Summary Writing #1

SOMEBODY
WANTED
BUT
SO
THEN

Amal wanted to have a baby brother, but her mother gave birth to another girl. Amal was sad, but she was also happy to have a healthy baby sister. She accepted what happened and wants everyone to be happy the baby is healthy.

Sharing Our Hometowns

We are a grade 5 class in Burlington, Ontario, Canada. There are 22 students in the class.

Burlington is right next to Lake Ontario. We are about 45 minutes away from Toronto and 60 minutes away from Niagara Falls.

Pre-reading thoughts

Global Read Aloud - Amal Unbound

Observe the cover of the book. What do you notice? And what do you wonder?

Ms. Toding's Class Thoughts
-hands with flowers, bird, sun, clouds
-lots of nature
-looks like something is growing on her hands
-vines on her wrists, kind of look like handcuffs, pulling her hands
-tattoos or henna?
-do the hands have something to do with the story?
-why is part of Unbound underlined?