Everybody Needs a Rock
Before reading Everybody Needs a Rock, I asked the class, "In which region of the country do we live?" They replied by saying the Southwest, or the desert. I then said that I was going to read a Southwest literature book to them, and I gave them a summary of the story. While I read the story, a scribe wrote each of the ten rules on how to choose a rock on the board. After reading the story, the children ventured outside and had to follow the ten rules to select a rock of their own. They then had to name the rock and write a story about the origin of the rock based on its smell.
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