BG Library Summer Session 2013 Program

Five Week Plan

Correlation with Collaborative Summer Library Program (CSLP)

R. Klug BG Library Media Specialist

BG Middle 5 8th Grades Beneath The Surface @ Your Library

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Theme: Spy Thrillers Real & Imagined

Weeks 1 & 3
Week 1: What? Codes, Code Makers, and Code Breakers
Learning Targets Students will: Determine a theme or central idea of a text and how it is conveyed through particular details; provide a summary of the text. Compare and contrast texts in different forms or genres in terms of their approaches to similar themes and topics. Booktalk Main informational texts o Spy Codes and Ciphers by Susan Mitchell o Amazing Tricks of Real Spies by James De Winter o Mysterious Messages: A History of Codes and Cipers by Gary Blackwood o Navajo Code Talkers by Andrew Santella o Secrets, Lies, Gizmos, and Spies: A History of Spies and Espionage by Janet Wyman Coleman o Top Secret: Shady Tales of Spies and Spying (eBook) by Laura Buller Main fiction texts o Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein o Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Maries of World War Two by Joseph Bruchac

Activity Notebook presentation about famous real spies (Benedict Arnold) and fictional spies (James Bond). Use Destiny resource list to show the variety of spy novels / informational text in the library. Ex. Alex Rider Series, Artemis Fowl Series, etc. Use book trailers. Lesson on how spies used codes and ciphers to communicate information, even today with mobile devices / technology. Students will develop their own code / cipher with a key and write a message. Their team will have to break the code. Materials Writing paper Websites / Tech Tools (All lesson websites will be linked on Destiny.) All featured lesson book trailers will be curated on the BG Library YouTube Channel under Library Lessons. International Spy Museum Secret Code Breaker Voynich

Week 3: Spy School

Learning Targets Students will: Determine a theme or central idea of a text and how it is conveyed through particular details; provide a summary of the text. Compare and contrast texts in different forms or genres in terms of their approaches to similar themes and topics. Booktalk Main informational texts o Top Secret: Shady Tales of Spies and Spying (eBook) by Laura Buller o Spies Around The World Series various authors o The CIA and other American Spies by Michael Goodman o Spies Around The World Series by Michael Goodman Main fiction texts o Spy School Series by Stuart Gibbs o Alex Rider Series by Anthony Horowitz o Artemis Fowl Series by Eoin Colfer Activity Notebook presentation about CIA / FBI agent training. Readings from above texts. Students will complete a Spy School Course: o Secret Agent Stuff Stations Make A Disguise: Fake Mustache Create Invisible Ink and write a message Laser Obstacle Course Fingerprint Analysis

Materials Red yarn Black construction paper Watercolors Brushes Hat Raincoat Index cards Ink pads Websites / Tech Tools (All lesson websites will be linked on Destiny.) All featured lesson book trailers will be curated on the BG Library YouTube Channel under Library Lessons.

BG Elementary 1 , 2nd, & 4th Grades Dig Into Reading @ Your Library Theme: Ancient Egypt
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Weeks 2 & 4
Week 2: Walk Like An Egyptian
Learning Targets Students will: Integrate and evaluate content presented in diverse media and formats, including visually and quantitatively, as well as in words. Analyze how two or more texts address similar themes or topics in order to build knowledge or to compare the approaches the authors take. Booktalk Main informational texts o Ancient Egypt by Tea Benduhn (eBook / 1st grade) o Ancient Egypt by Meredith Costain (eBook / 2nd & 4th grade) Main fiction text o Egypt's Mysterious Pyramids: An Isabel Soto Archaeology Adventure by Agnieszka Biskup Supplemental texts o Egyptology by Dugald Steer, o The Kane Chronicles by Rick Riordan o The 5,000 Year Old Puzzle: Solving A Mystery of Ancient Egypt by Claudia Logan o Tut, Tut by Jon Scieszka o Mummies in the Morning by Mary Pope Osborne

o Mummies and Pyramids by Will Osborne o Pyramid by David Macaulay Lesson Notebook presentation introducing archaeology using the eBook Stones and Bones: Archaeology In Action by Kathryn Steele. Discuss what is an archaeologist, archaeology tools, etc. Use National Geographic Pyramids Kit. Use Google Earth to take a virtual trip to Egypt. BrainPop Jr. video on Ancient Egypt Use booktalk eBooks to discuss the symbols of Ancient Egypt. Discussion about one of these symbols: Pharaoh Tutankhamuns headdress Activity Students will create a pharaohs headdress based on given model and photographic models from the Imagine, Explore, Create blog (November 21, 2011 post) Materials / Props Pith helmet Archaeology bag Large white construction paper Scissors Crayons Markers Colored pencils Egyptian Designs student packets Pharaoh headdress template National Geographic Pyramids Kit

Websites / Tech Tools (All lesson websites will be linked on Destiny.) Dig: The Archaeology Magazine for Kids Google Earth Imagine, Explore, Create blog National Geographic Kids: Ancient Egypt Neferchichis Tomb The British Museum: Ancient Egypt The Kane Chronicles Hieroglyphic Typewriter Archaeology Games BBC. History. Dig Deeper Quiz. www.bbc.co.uk/history/ ancient/archaeology/launch_gms_dig_deeper.shtml. Take a quiz to test your archaeology knowledge. BBC. History. Hunt the Ancestor. www.bbc.co.uk/ history/ancient/archaeology/launch_gms_hunt_ ancestor.shtml. Play Hunt the Ancestor with this Flash Player game. The Dig Quiz. www.digonsite.com/quiz/index. html. More than 100 multiple-choice quizzes about archaeology from Dig magazine. Nova. Archaeology. www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/laventa/ archaeologist.html. You must reassemble a pot in this online game. Egyptian Games Aton-Ra, the Lost Statue. funschool.kaboose.com/globerider/explorer-adventures/games/game_aton-ra_the_ lost_statue.html. Brush up on your spelling skills in this word game. Explore Ancient Egypt. www.childrensuniversity. manchester.ac.uk/interactives/interactive_ fs.asp?swfpath=history/egypt/egyptianmap.swf. Learn the basics about Egypt then take a quiz. Funmin. funmin.com/online-games/senet/index.php. Play Sennet online Hieroglyphs. www.childrensuniversity.manchester. ac.uk/interactives/interactive_fs.asp?swfpath=history/ egypt/hieroglyphs.swf. Learn all about hieroglyphics with this interactive link.

 Make a Mummy. www.childrensuniversity.manchester. ac.uk/interactives/interactive_fs.asp?swfpath=history/ egypt/makeamummy.swf. Learn the process of creating a mummy, and then take a quiz. Mummy Maker. www.bbc.co.uk/history/interactive/ games/mummy_maker/index_embed.shtml. Prepare a body for mummification with this interactive guide. Terrys Egyptian Page. wesheb.tdonnelly.org/egame3. html. Play Senet online. Virtual Egypt. www.virtual-egypt.com/newhtml/ glyph/glyph.html. Create a name tag with this virtual cartouche maker

Week 4: Write Like An Egyptian

Learning Targets Students will: Integrate and evaluate content presented in diverse media and formats, including visually and quantitatively, as well as in words. Analyze how two or more texts address similar themes or topics in order to build knowledge or to compare the approaches the authors take. Booktalk Main informational texts: o Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs by Kathy Allen (eBook) o Hieroglyphs by Kremena Spengler Main fiction text o Uncovering Mummies: An Isabel Soto Archaeology Adventure by Agnieszka Biskup o The Kane Chronicles by Rick Riordan Lesson Review of Week 1 Lesson 4th Graders will watch The Kane Chronicles book trailer and view the book website Notebook presentation using eBooks on Egyptian writing: Hieroglyphics Ancient Egyptians would often write their names inside a cartouche, which is an oval or oblong shape. They believed the cartouche would protect the holder of the name from evil magic. The ancients believed that a cartouche hanging around their necks acted as a magic amulet to ward off injury or the evil eye.

Activity Students will create their own cartouche after viewing a model of a cartouche. 2nd and 4th graders will also write a story using hieroglyphics. Materials / Props Pith helmet Archaeology bag Cartouche templates on cardstock Hieroglyphics alphabet sheet Scissors Crayons Markers Colored pencils Yarn Egyptian thematic writing paper Glue Metropolitan Museum of Art Hieroglyphics Kits Websites / Tech Tools See Week 1

Week 5 5th Grade Make-Up on Monday due to July 4th Holiday Elementary / Middle School maintenance School website maintenance Finalization of inventory & reports Card catalog maintenance Close both libraries