The 100 Dresses Lesson Plan

Teacher: Emily Williams

Title of the Lesson: The 100 Dresses

Author: Eleanor Estes

Publication date: 1944

Grade level(s): Grades 3-5

Multicultural theme: Classism, bullying.

Materials: The book: The 100 Dresses, crayons and paper.

Standard(s): CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.2.3

Describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges.

Objective(s): Students will apply their knowledge, understanding, and analysis of

characters to determine how they would react in a situation with 90% accuracy on role
playing and coloring activity.

Procedure: 

1. Introduce: Has anyone ever made fun of you? How did that feel?

2. Read: Teacher will read the book aloud to the class.

3. Discuss: What would you have done instead?

What do you think the outcome would have been if the classmates
treated Wanda with compassion?

4. Activities: 
1. Role play different scenarios of how the story would be if the students had treated
Wanda differently.

2. Students will draw Wanda's closet with 100 dresses and shoes, using crayons
and paper.

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Evaluation: Are students able to use critical thinking to predict how a character would
react or respond to a situation based on their previously determined character traits?