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Magnolia Wu Unfolds It All
Meet 10-year-old Magnolia Wu, and follow along as she escapes summer boredom with her new friend Iris, who inspires them to quest around New York City reuniting a laundromat’s collection of lost socks with their owners. We chose this book for its playful exploration of important social and emotional themes–friendship, empathy, and community–along with its powerful inclusion of more complex themes of immigration, racism, strength, and trust. Magnolia’s ability to find the joy in everyday life, and her skill of capturing humor even as she dives into harsher realities will inspire and engage young readers; this curriculum will help students build connections between Magnolia’s experiences exploring her city and their own experiences in community.
Magnolia Wu Unfolds It All is a book with themes that deeply resonate with young readers. Magnolia Wu is bored and lonely, spending her hot summer days at the laundromat where her parents work in New York City. She meets Iris Lam, who has just moved to New York with her mom from California. They become friends, and embark on adventures as they try to reunite lost socks with their owners. Getting out and experiencing the world together energizes them both and they develop a strong connection, bringing them closer together. As they work through each sock mystery, not only do Magnolia and Iris gain a deeper understanding of each other, they also grow in their compassion and empathy for other friends and family members, as well as other people in their community.
Author: Chanel Miller
Our Reading with Relevance teacher’s guide breaks the novel into a series of thoughtful lesson plans. Each lesson is designed to support you to meaningfully explore the social and emotional themes of the day’s reading with your students, inspiring them to read deeply, think critically, talk openly, and write reflectively about topics that matter.
This teacher’s guide includes:
- A facilitator’s guide with tips and resources for implementing the curriculum.
- A map of Common Core Standards addressed through this program.
- 8 individual lesson plans, including vocabulary, discussion questions, journal prompts, extension activities, and all handouts.
- Two assessments to monitor student progress throughout the program.
- Regular checkpoints to help teachers assess their students’ progress on ELA standards.
- A culminating essay-building unit.
- An appendix with additional teaching resources and activities to continue exploring this novel.
Pages: 66
Dimensions: 8.5” x 11”
$150.00
