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Lesson Title: Chrysanthemum by Kevin Henkes Tableaus

Grade Level: 1st Time Required: 30 minutes

Content Objectives: Fine Art(s) Objectives:

ELAGSE1RL1: Ask and answer questions about key details in a
text
ELAGSE1RL2: Retell stories, including key details, and
demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson
ELAGSE1RL3: Describe characters,settings, and major events
in a story, using key details.
ELAGSE1RL4: Identify words and phrases in stories or poems
that suggest feelings or appeal to the senses.
TAES1.3Acting by developing, communicating, and sustraining
roles within a variety of situations and environments.
TAES1.1 Discuss how dramatic elements such as character,
setting, plot, problem, and resolution in theatre experiences are
like, and unlike, real life.
TAES1.2 Uses dramatic elements such as character, setting,
problem, plot, resolution, beginning-middle-end in developing
dramatizations

Vocabulary: Vocabulary:
Wilted Tableau
Dreadful Freeze
Scarcely Audience
Precious Performance
Begrudging Body neutral
Discontented
Jaundiced
Additional Applications: (connections with other content areas)

Materials:
Book : Chrysanthemum by Kevin Henkes
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Lesson Development/Procedures
Pre-assessment:
Sequence events of the story

Engagement:
Review what happened in the beginning, middle, and end of the story.
Students will pick important events from begninng, middle, and end and chart on paper.

Activity:
Use what we know about the events of the story, Chrysanthemum by Kevin Henkes to act out important events from the beginning,
middle, and end.
Before doing the tableaus we need to practice the important parts of the frozen picture and discuss the vocabulary. Practice using
our faces to show our feelings. Practice creating different levels with our bodies, and practice creating relationships between
characters using the spaces between people and our eye direction.
After practicing all of this and learning how to freeze and go back to body neutral, students will be split into three groups. The first
group will create a picture of Chrysanthemum on the 1st day of school when the other kids were teasing her. The second group will
create a picture of her parents making her feel better when she has a terrible day. The third group will create picture of ending when
the music teacher talks about naming her baby Chrysanthemum.

Transition:
Send students to their groups, give them 5 or so minutes to prepare, then bring everyone back to the carpet to be the audience while
we watch the tableaus.

Closure:
Each group will perform their tableau. The teacher will tap students to life and ask questions about their position, character, feeling,
etc to check for comprehension. Have the audience notice things that the performers are doing well.

Assessment: (Review of Anticipation Guides; Post-tests; BCRs; Quizzes; Tests; Projects; Essays: Performance Assessments, etc.)
 Assessment is the final tableaus. Teacher will note if students can answer questions about and relate to the feelings of
Chrysanthemum during the different parts of the story.
Differentiation:
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This will happen when you create the groups, they should be mixed level groups so that everyone can have support and be
successful.
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