The Tale of Despereaux – Compare/ Contrast Mobile Grade: Third, Fourth, or Fifth Nevada Power Standards: 1.4.5 Read silently and aloud with a focus on prosody, accuracy, automaticity, and reading rate. 2.4.2 Select during-reading strategies appropriate to text and purpose; use self-correcting strategies; make, confirm, and revise predictions; understand and use key vocabulary; identify main idea and supporting details; make inferences; adjust reading rte; apply knowledge of text type. 2.4.3 Select after-reading strategies appropriate to text and purpose: recall details/facts, restate main ideas, organize information, record information, synthesize text, and evaluate the effectiveness of reading strategies. 3.4.1 Describe, make inferences, and draw conclusions about elements of plot in text with a focus on external conflict and resolution; identify how one event may cause another event. 3.4.7 Compare texts from different cultures and time periods. 3.4.9 Make connections to self, other texts, and/or the world. 6.4.4 Write responses to literary text that demonstrate an understanding of setting, character development, and motivation. 7.4.1 Listen for a variety of purposes: gaining information, being entertained, and understanding directions. 8.4.3 Use public speaking techniques to deliver presentations; communicate information by maintaining a clear focus, following a logical sequence and illustrating information.

Materials: 3 thin sticks (preferably from a tree) String (preferably red) Card Stock (multiple colors) 1 sewing spool (preferably wooden) Procedure: 1. SW read The Tale of Despereaux with T. 2. TW brainstorm with S, using a tree map, key descriptors of the three Worlds in The Tale of Despereaux (The Mouse World, The Rat World, and The Human World). 3. SW create a mobile of the three Worlds in The Tale of Despereaux. 4. Cross the three sticks to overlap each other, creating a triangle. 5. Cut 3 pieces of string in 18 inch pieces. Take one piece of string and tie it to the end of the branch. Then using a figure eight motion, wrap the string two times overlapping two of the branches together. Repeat the same procedure with the other two corners of the triangle branches. 6. Take the three loose end pieces and tie their ends together, forming a triangular pyramid. 7. Identify each corner end with each of the three World Titles. Attach the title card with a 4 inch string. 8. SW create four illustrations for each World, labeling on the back of each illustration a description. 9. Attach each illustration under the correct World using a piece of 4 inch string. 10. When mobile is completed, bring mobile to teacher for a grade, and to attach a center string for hanging. Ripandelli-Created 9.21.10

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The Tale of Despereaux Contrast Mobile Project Step 1: Students will read The Tale of Despereaux or Teacher will read aloud. Step 2: Tree Map Brainstorming The Human World

The Rat World

The Mouse World

Step 3: Draw the key descriptors brainstormed and discussed representing each of the three worlds from the Tale of Despereaux contrasting the three worlds. Step 4: After each key descriptor has been drawn and colored, write a description why that artifact belongs in that world on the back of the artifact. Then ask the teacher to hole-punch each artifact so you can later hang from the mobile. Step 5: Create a mobile using strip and three tree branches. Cross the three tree branches to make a triangle and tie each corner with a piece of string 18 inches long. Tie the three loose ends together at the center of the triangle. Then take another 12 inch piece of string and tie to the center of where the other three pieces meet. Step 6: Create a title card for each world to identify each corner of the mobile. Step 7: Using three more 18 inch pieces of string, loop each artifact through the hole, then attach the entire strand to the appropriate corner branch for each world. Have Fun!  Rubric

Total Grade: __________/ 20 Presentation

Criteria

Contrasting

Conventions

“A” Grade

The mobile is neat and

At least three artifacts were

Each world is properly

Demonstrates good spelling,

Total 20 points

legible. Your handwriting

included for each world in

contrasted, all artifacts

punctuation, capitalization,

is easy to read. (5 pts.)

your mobile. Each world is

included in that world

grammar and usage, and

clearly identified. (5 pts.)

directly relate in some way

readability. Complete

to that world. (5 pts.)

sentence is used. (5 pts.)

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