Yamada, K., Besom, M., Forster, S., Clark, M. H., Riedler, A., & Flahiff, J. (2013). What do you do with an idea? Seattle, WA: Compendium Kids.
What do you do with an idea? Would you hide it? Would you show it off to the world?
Would you make a change?
What would you do with an idea? tells the story about how an idea is born. The young man in the book goes through his journey of having the idea pop in his head all the way to seeing it through and change the world.
If you want your students to know what how ever small they think an idea might be, or no matter how big your dream is, it can always be possible with encouragement and perseverance.
This book can be make from students as low as kindergarten all the way up to high school.
This book is great read due to the enormous message behind it. All of the most influential inventors throughout history all started out with a tiny idea. The moral coming from this story pushes students to realize that no idea is too unimportant to be absolutely groundbreaking in the long run.
What's inside?
Theme:
This piece has many themes such as ideas, hope, courage, and doubt.
Personification: The actual idea itself is given humanlike qualities, such as being friend to this main character boy.
I decided to protect it, to care for it. I fed it good food. I worked with it, I played with it. But most of all, I gave it my attention.
Dialogue:
Where did it come from? Why is it here?" I wondered, "What do you do with an idea?"
The illustrations are very interesting since they are minimally colored, but the idea always presents itself as a golden colored egg.
How can we teach this?
Pose this question to you students:
"What would you do with an idea?"
Allow this time for your students to write a persuasive argument piece about why their idea is the best, and what it is going to do to change the world. They first have to come up with an idea and make sure to give them examples like an invention or a plan to make the world a better place. Then they must present an argument as to why their idea is the best idea in the classroom.
When your "groupmates" showed us this book for your service learning project, I instantly LOVED it! It's so beautifully written and illustrated, and the message is wonderful! I would definitely read this book to my class - I'm glad you guys included it in your project.
ReplyDelete