Where+The+Wild+Things+Are

=Where The Wild Things Are - an AWARD WINNING Book - The Caldecott Medal.=

=SWBAT: I can appreciate [or understand] authors and illustrators who break the mold. I can use digital tools - and create my own Wild Self. This will be a 2 part lesson.=

K Grade will just create a wild creature - and will try to save in google drive [ downloads]. 1st grade will create - save to google drive and place in google slide - using only 3 slides.

=Maurice Sendak [1928 - 2012] -authors who broke the rules - CONTROVERSIAL = Like Seuss and Silverstein, Maurice Sendak wrote about a boy who misbehaved when books were suppose to have children who modeled good behavior. But author/illustrator Maurice Sendak sees Max as a normal child.
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Illustrator/ Author Maurice Sendak
|| ==Winner of the 1964 Caldecott Medal== // I've devoted my life to those other freaky kids // // who lick, sniff, and carry on over their books // // before they even read them.” // —Maurice Sendak, // Childhood Books I Remember // || =A Few Highlights= - [|Excerpt from the Los Angeles Times]
 * Illustrated /authored over 80 books.
 * Change children's books - controversy
 * National Medal of Arts - called it his first grown up award.
 * Wild Things was going to be be Where the Wild Horses Are - but he couldn't draw horses.
 * The Monsters are modeled after his relatives. [ and World War II]
 * It is President Obama's favorite book.

"In Maurice Sendak's "Where the Wild Things Are," less -- 10 sentences, 37 pages, 338 words -- became more: a much-loved children's book that's sold more than 19 million copies worldwide, 10 million in the U.S." by Kenneth Turner

- From [|Mental Floss:] =“Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved it. I answer all my children’s letters — sometimes very hastily — but this one I lingered over. I sent him a card and I drew a picture of a Wild Thing on it. I wrote, “Dear Jim: I loved your card.” Then I got a letter back from his mother and she said, “Jim loved your card so much he ate it.” That to me was one of the highest compliments I’ve ever received. He didn’t care that it was an original Maurice Sendak drawing or anything. He saw it, he loved it, he ate it.” - Maurice Sendak =

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=Make Your Own Wild Self with the New York Zoos and Aquarium Site=



all ages =Step 1 - Make Wild Self & save to Downloads in Google Drive= =Step 2 - try to make a 3 Slide Presentation with Google Slides= media type="custom" key="29628467" =See steps to a 3 slide Presentation=

If time - Online Games from Learning Games for Kids
click on the images below to play
 * [[image:Screen Shot 2015-02-28 at 1.26.44 PM.png width="248" height="181" caption="Which One" link="@http://www.learninggamesforkids.com/literature-games/wild-things-are/where-the-wild-things-are-which-one.html"]] || [[image:Screen Shot 2015-02-28 at 1.29.26 PM.png width="249" height="193" caption="Word-O-Rama" link="@http://www.learninggamesforkids.com/literature-games/wild-things-are/where-the-wild-things-are-word-o-rama.html"]] ||
 * [[image:Screen Shot 2015-02-28 at 1.27.16 PM.png width="240" height="156" caption="Hang Mouse" link="@http://www.learninggamesforkids.com/literature-games/wild-things-are/where-the-wild-things-are-hangmouse.html"]] |||| [[image:Screen Shot 2015-02-28 at 1.40.36 PM.png width="257" height="165" caption="Story Blanks" link="@http://www.learninggamesforkids.com/literature-games/wild-things-are/where-the-wild-things-are-story-blanks.html"]] ||

=Great Wiki of Where The Wild Things Are - Literature-in-the-Curriculum= http://literature-in-the-curriculum.wikispaces.com/Where+the+Wild+Thing+Are

=Teaching Ideas has a wonderful resource [|Where The Wild Things Are]=


 * Illustrators/ Authors [picture books who broke the mold]
 * Big Idea**: I will appreciate the work of illustrator /author Maurice Sendak and the Caldecott award.
 * Learning Objectives: ** Students will review the Caldecott winning book of Maurice Sendak and his contributions. Current Newbery and Caldecott winners will be introduced [age appropriate] and a review of the DDC system
 * Performance Task: ** storytelling, game and computer online practice creating wild animals.

**Lesson Link**

**1.Extention**: Non Fiction, Fiction and Easy - lessons from 1st sememster **3.** **Higher Level thinking skills -** **Is this Fiction or Nonfiction** **4. Kagan:**
 * 2.Technology- online activitiy - brief video **