Maniac+Magee

= Maniac Magee = =By: Jerry Spinelli﻿=

** Big (Essential) Questions for our Unit: **

 * ===What is a stereotype?===
 * ===Are stereotypes fair or unfair?===
 * ===How can we help to break stereotypes in our school?===
 * ===Why do people react the way they do to other groups of people who are different then them?===
 * ===What is the problem or conflict that the knot stands for?===
 * ===Why does Grayson have the stereotypes he does?===
 * ===What stereotypes do we see on TV and/or hear on the radio?===


 * **** 1. Before we start our unit it is important that we think about the essential questions from above and come up with things that we already know about stereotypes. Click on the link below and fill out the "K" and "W" (what you __know__, what you __want__ to know) on the KWL chart. ****

[|KWL about stereotypes]

Once you have completed the "K" and "W" portion please email your chart to me at: jnolan@berlin.k12.wi.us
===2. Click on the youtube video below to learn about the book we will be reading, the author who wrote it, and how this book will be able to help us answer our BIG QUESTIONS! After watching the video you will be expected to fill out the "L" portion of the KWL chart.===

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===3. Now that you have finished watching the video, open the KWL chart again and fill in the "L" portion (what you have __learned__) and email again at jnolan@berlin.k12.wi.us===