Teach Gratitude over Grumbling this Thanksgiving Season! This poem based complete lesson plan is perfect for pointing your students toward gratitude. This no prep activity pack will leave you and your students with grateful hearts and a beautiful hallway or bulletin board display complete with art and lettering!

Students will discover by focusing on gratitude over grumbling, their outlook changes and they become little gratitude magnets! With the poem as the anchor, students analyze and compare and contrast the two points of view and the effects of both.

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Benefits to your students:

• The learning is beyond "I am thankful for..."
• They will be ENGAGED and excited
• They see the benefits of LIVING in Thanksgiving vs. A Season of Thanksgiving
• The final product is oh so cute!

Contents:

• Complete Teacher Directions
• An Original Gratitude Over Grumbling Anchor Poem for the lesson
• Compare/Contrast Activity with Key
• Cause/Effect Activity in Gratitude with Key
• Cause/Effect Activity in Grumbling with Key
• Poem Analysis Activity with Key
• 2 Versions of Writing Reflection in Color
• 2 Versions of Writing Reflection in Black and White
• Black and White Version of open write for older students
• THANKSLIVING IS- Bulletin Board Letter to Display Student Work

Perfect for:

• Whole group instruction

• Preparing Hearts for Thanksgiving

• A Darling display of student writing about gratitude

• Students in 2nd-5th Grades

Common Core Alignment:

✏️CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.2.4: I can describe how words and phrases supply rhythm and meaning in a poem.

✏️CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.2.9: I can compare and contrast two versions of the same story.

✏️CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.2.8: I can recall information from experiences or gather information from provided sources to answer a question.

✏️CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.3.4: I can determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, distinguishing literal from non literal language.

✏️CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.3.5: I can refer to parts of poems when writing about a text.

✏️CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.3.9: I can compare and contrast

✏️CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.3.4: I can produce writing in which the development and organization are appropriate to task and purpose.

✏️CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.4.4: I can determine the meaning of words and phrases s they are used in the text.

✏️CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.4.6: I can compare and contrast the point of view

✏️CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.4.4: I can produce clear and coherent writing

✏️CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.5.5: I can explain how a series of stanzas fits together to provide the overall structure of a poem.

✏️CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.5.9: I can compare and contrast

✏️CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.5.4: I can produce clear and coherent writing

You will❤️ it because:

Teachers will love the ease of the no prep print and go nature of the unit as well as the complete package from lesson plan to bulletin board display. Students will love it because it is a unique twist on Thanksgiving providing a different perspective in LIVING in gratitude.

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