My Name Is Sangoel by Karen Lynn Williams

Students will be able to classify happy and not happy feeling words.We will also be discussing where our names come from. Students will begin to associate names with places, and be able to find and color these places on a mapĪs a class we will read René Has Two Last Names by René Colato Laínez and discuss how our names connect us to our families.Students will make text-to-self connections.Students will continue to sort positive and negative feeling words.Students will be able to break their names into parts and create images associated with these parts.We will look at the importance of the pronunciation of our names, and valuing where our names come from.

We will discuss Sangoel’s experience as a refugee and the struggle he has with identity, particularly regarding his name.

To see the full learning activity plan click hereĪs a class we will read My Name is Sangoel by Karen Lynn Williams and Khadra Mohammed. Students will be able to make connections to Chrysanthemum’s experience.Students will be able to put feeling words into positive and negative categories.Students will be able to compare name lengths, describing which names have more or less letters.Students will be able to communicate the number of letters, consonants, vowels, and parts they have in their names.Students will be able to differentiate between letters, consonants, vowels, and parts of a word.We will begin discussing our names and analyzing the different parts of our names. As a class we will read the book Chrysanthemum by Kevin Henkes.

My Name Is Sangoel by Karen Lynn Williams