Lesson Plan, Resources, and Extension Activities for

THE GRUDGE KEEPER

By Mara Rockliff & Eliza Wheeler

	FRA Lesson Plan for “The Grudge Keeper” Quick print & use lesson plan includes Florida State Standards, Reading Content Focus, Vocabulary, Essential Questions, Activating Prior Knowledge, Guiding Questions, Guided Practice, Independent Work, Extension Activities, Assessment, and MORE!
	Publisher Website: http://peachtreepub.blogspot.com/2014/04/the-making-of-grudge-keeper.html Ever wonder how a book is made? This site includes an interview with the author and illustrator that describes the creative process.
	Teacher Resources: http://trpub.booksource.com/TeacherResources/TitleLevel/BE45831A-2F5E-4C7E-A0BC-382E3C8D3D2F Use this helpful tool to support students in an in-depth study of “The Grudge Keeper.” Complete with forgiveness-related videos, picture books, and more.
	Author Website: http://mararockliff.com/index.html Learn about the author, Mara Rockliff. Includes information, FAQs, and other books she has written.
	I’m Sorry: Teaching Kids How to Apologize: http://www.cyh.com/HealthTopics/HealthTopicDetailsKids.aspx?p=335&np=287&id=2686 This website is designed to help kids understand when and how to apologize. It includes points on what to say and how apologizing can make kids feel.
	Learn to Apologize: Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ev3JVVFWdbA This short 2-minute video teaches kids how to say “sorry.”
	Idioms for Kids: http://examples.yourdictionary.com/idioms-for-kids.html The Grudge Keeper is filled with idioms. Help kids learn new idioms using this quick list of idioms and their easy definitions
	Idiom Games: http://www.vocabulary.co.il/idioms/ Have fun exploring students’ understanding of idioms with these online games!
	Amazing Tornado Footage: http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/videos/weather/tornadoes.html This short 1.5 minute video includes footage of various tornadoes, similar to the one that went through Bonnyripple!
	Weather for Kids: Tornadoes: http://www.weatherforkids.org/tornadoes.html Quick tornado facts for kids.
	In-Depth Look: Creating the Book Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUQ1Z2VT4Uo This 40-minute video is an extensive video with Mara Rockliff and Eliza Wheeler, discussing the stages of writing, illustrating, and producing a picture book.
	Extension Activity: Forgiveness Object Lesson: Have a student come to the front of the room and give him/her a backpack to put on his/her back. Talk about the different types of grudges students have against each other. For each grudge, put a rock into the backpack allowing it to get heavier and heavier with each grudge. Then discuss how grudges weigh us down. But if we forgive one another, take out the rocks for each forgiveness, we will feel much better. After the object lesson, provide each student with a rock to keep as a reminder of this lesson.
	Extension Activity: Author Study: Read other books by Mara Rockliff. How are they the same? How are they different? Create a double-bubble or Venn-diagram comparing and contrasting “The Grudge Keeper” with another book.