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Rosie’s Story

Submitted by Sharon House

Standards: 3C, 4A, 4B, 4C

Materials: the book, Rosie’s Story, written by Martine Gogoll, writing paper

Time: 30 minutes

Goals: To help students become aware of how they see and treat others. To observe students interacting together. To help students understand how hurtful words create conflict. To help students understand how to solve a conflict in a positive way.

Lesson: Rosie’s Story is published by Mondo and should be easy to find. It’s about a little girl who was unhappy because children make fun of her red hair and freckles. They tease her every day and she dreads going to school. She wrote a story about how she f feels and read it to the class. Once the children were aware of how they were treating her and realized they also had been teased over something, they all became friends. Read the book and have a conversation with the students about Rosie’s problem and how she solved it. Make sure they talk about the things the other children shared about being teased themselves and how they solved it. Ask the children to draw and write about a time they were teased and how they solved the problem. Partners share stories with each other. Volunteers could share their writing with the class.

Assessment: Observe the children interacting with each other discussing times they were teased and how it was solved. Score drawings/writing showing understanding.