Notable Trade Book Lesson Plan: It’s Back to School We Go! Available to Purchase

It’s Back to School We Go! First Day Stories From Around the World by Ellen Jackson, is a fiction book, using short, first-person narratives to compare the first day of school for 11 children from different countries. The lesson plan, designed for grade levels 3-5, asks students to compare and contrast their own lives with those of the characters in the book. Students learn that humans from diverse cultural environments interpret similar childhood experiences from different, yet interesting, frames of reference. Exchange of perspectives and ideas may assist students in visualizing themselves as world citizens capable of promoting global understanding. The lesson plan includes graphic organizers and examples to implement the lesson.