Great for beginning or end of the year activities, team challenges, sub days, indoor recess, and morecategories included in this pack include. Extra yarn printables, classroom activities, teacher. A response sheet for students and answers for the teacher are provided. Sherman alexie author, yuyi morales illustrator thunder boy jr. He wants a name that celebrates who is he and what he has accomplished. Questions are offered in task card and printable worksheet formats. Explain that sherman alexie, the author, is a spokane native american, and that in many native american tribes many names are derived from nature. He wants his own name, one based on his talents, like learning to ride a bike when he was three gravitys best friend.
Just because people call his dad big thunder doesnt mean he wants to be little thunder. Receive 26 multiple choice questions for the story. Thunder boy reminds us that we learn about ourselves from the people and world around us. Literacy lessons prepared by primary teachers of years 1. Below are activities that you can do with students in order to extend the learning from the book.
Sherman alexie discusses his novel, thunder boy, jr. Just when he had given up hope, his father comes up with the perfect name. Read or recap any of the biblical figures mentioned. Just because people call his dad big thunder doesnt mean he wants to be little.
Even though he is named after his father, the native american boy strives to carve out his own identity. He wants a name that celebrates something cool hes done, like touch the clouds, not afraid of ten thousand teeth, or full of wonder. Activities like the worksheet her cousins son brought home not only. Yuyi morales phillip and brock are best friends, although everyone else thinks brock is imaginary, so when phillip gets tired out at the big fair while brock is still having fun, they are separated and it will take a very special twosome to bring them back together again. Sherman alexie set out to write a childrens book featuring a nonwhite child. Explore classroom activities, puzzles, teacher resources and. Alexies muchloved humor is front and center of this story. Back in february, i preordered a copy of sherman alexies picture book, thunder boy jr. Lot of kids and adults wish they had a different name. His father is called big thunder, but he doesnt want to be known as little thunder. Because his father is also thunder boy smith, thunder boy jr.