BOOK EXTENSION ACTIVITY - LESSON PLAN

Your Name: Meghan Arellano

Genre of the Book: Folklore

Book Title: The Dragons Pearl

Author: Julie Lawson

Publisher: Clarion Books

Date: October 7, 2014

1. Activity/Lesson Standards: Choose one [Clark County School District Curriculum Standards
K-2 grade or Nevada Pre-K Standards.] To find these go to www.csn.edu/education click on
Resources see curriculum choices on the left. Click on the links and locate the standards you
will use in your activity/lesson.
4.0 Students understand the visual arts in relation to history and cultures.
2. Objectives: Write 1 objective for your activity/lesson from the standard you selected. The
objective must be observable one must be able to see the children perform the objective- list,
write, color, tell, show, select, etc.
Students will be able to identify cultural significance from the art activity into the book.
3. Materials/Equipment:
1. Colored paper
2. Glue
3. Googly eyes
4. Glitter
5. Scissors

List all materials needed for your activity.

4. Procedures: Use numbers, letters or bullets to sequence the teaching of the objectives and
the students participation in the extension activities. The procedures
section should explain the following:
I will ask if anyone ever heard of China before.
Has anyone thought they had to keep a secret to protect someone or something.
At the end of the book, I will ask the students what they thought of Xiao Shengs actions
and what could have been done differently.
I will then talk more about dragons the significance they have on Chinese culture.
I will tell them we will be making our own dragon from paper.
They will need different colored paper and I will remind them that each color has a
meaning behind it.
First they will cut the paper into strips.
Next they will glue two pieces of strips together just at the tips, in the shape of a capital
L.
Then they will fold them like a spring.

Once they are done with the that paper, they will take more colored paper and connect
them to the already formed spring and fold them again, until theyre done with their
paper or are satisfied with their sizes.

5. Closure:

Plan a closure that connects the story and the extension activity.

I will ask the students what colors Xiao Sheng was after he turned into a dragon and wonder
what they meant, considering where he was from and what he did. Then I
will ask the students to share their dragons and ask them if the colors they
chose were significant.
6. Assessment:

Paying attention
Making a dragon
Offering to show their
dragon/the meaning
behind it

How will the lesson objectives be assessed? How will we know the
children have achieved the planned objectives/standards???? [Checklists
or rubric are effective.]

5
They pay attention to
the story and
ask/answer questions
They follow the
instructions and create
a dragon
They offer to show
their dragon and talk
about the meaning of
the colors.

3
They pay attention to
the story but do not
ask/answer questions
They follow the
instructions but quit
halfway through.
They offer to show
their dragon but not
talk about the
meaning.

1
They do not pay
attention.
They do not follow
instructions.
They do not offer to
talk about their
dragon.