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How ordinary objects become special lesson-an extension to unlikely pairs-(if anything doesn't make sense be sure and contact me-A) Mrs. Katz and Tush needs to have been read and discussed previously. Refer to essential question and why we are studying friendship-to make a trading card to share with others Mystery bag-as you pull out the items from the story: a stuffed kitten, a tea pot, a record, a rock, a lace table cloth solicit from students why this item has significance.

Model-"In Role" (in action strategies book) how Mrs. Katz would talk about each of these items verses Laurnel, and even Laurnel as a boy and Laurnel as a man; put them in groups, boys get to be Laurnel and girls get to be Mrs. Katz; have them be in role and talk about object or act out the part in the story that is the object.

regroup: Do you have an item that was ordinary but is not special? Bring it in tomorrow for an activity Next day: Form an inside outside circle; share objects-what they are and why/ how they became special

Regroup: Show the objects from the story-how did they become special? How did your object become special? We have a list of words on our what is friendship anchor chart, does your object represent a word we have discussed? Or maybe you have thought of a new idea of what it means to be a friend.

Say to the kids: We are going to make a collage out of our items. Here are some words, if your item represents caring, bring it up here around the word, trust ect, Children might change their mind which is ok and actually will spur a great discussion of the interrelatedness of these characteristics.

Final- Write in your Writer's Notebook how does an object become special.