4MAT 4 Literature
A new member to the 4MAT Curriculum Series, the 4MAT Literature Series is a set of complete literature study units combined with a Readers Theater script for each novel.
Dr. Bernice McCarthy, CIO of About Learning, along with Fran Zidron, About Learning Consultant and Trainer, are collaborating to design these units for a selected set of Junior High and High School award-winning titles on approved reading lists for Districts.
Each unit contains a student activity book and reader's theater and an accompanying presenter guide with valuable information about the characters, author's purpose, themes and appropriate graphic organizers to help learners organize their book study.
Sample pages from The Pearl by John Steinbeck Presenter Guide:
Completed titles include:
The Giver by Lois Lowry, 1994 Newberry Medal Winner (Community with complete control, a study in totalitarianism, boy protagonist)
The Pearl by John Steinbeck (Classic parable of hegemony and greed)
My Brother Sam is Dead by Collier and Collier, 1975 Newberry Honor Book (American Revolutionary War, boy protagonist)
The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth Speare, 1959 Newberry Medal Winner (New England and witchcraft fears, girl protagonist)
Titles in the works:
Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls (Rural, dogs and coonhunting, boy protagonist)
Sarah Bishop by Scott O’Dell (Revolutionary War, girl protagonist)
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred Taylor, 1977 Newberry Medal Winner
Julie of the Wolves, Jean George 1973 Newberry Medal Winner (Inuit girl protagonist)
Across Five Aprils, by Irene Hunt, 1965 Newberry Honor Book (Civil War, boy protagonist)
Johnny Tremain, Ester Forbes 1944 Newberry Medal Winner
Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village by Laura Amy Schlitz, 2008
The Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron, 2007 Medal Winner
Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins, 2006 Medal Winner