Amazing Grace
By Mary Hoffman & Caroline Binch
I chose to read Amazing Grace because I was told by several teachers that it is a desirable book. It’s a piece of literature for K-6. The book is about a little girl named Grace who loves stories and liked people who told stories. Grace was an actor. In the book, she acted out adventure stories and fairy tales. Grace played all the parts herself. Some of the parts Grace played was pretending to be a soldier, a spider named Anansi, exploring for a lost kingdom, a parrot with a peg leg, an Indian named Hiawatha, and a jungle girl. One day Grace’s teacher said that she needs someone to do Peter Pan for a play. Grace became excited and told her teacher that she wanted to be Peter Pan. Her teacher replied “ you can’t be Peter…that’s a boy. At the end, Grace played the character Peter.
Themes that might arise after students read the book Amazing Grace is that you can be whatever you want to be. We know this because we learned that whatever you enjoy doing, you will be great at it. In a book report, you could state that one theme for Amazing Grace is that your imagination could take you places that you haven’t gone before. We could also say the theme was about being different characters. Guiding questions : Looking at the cover of the book, what other character(s) do you think is in the story? Do you think that you could act out some of the characters that Grace did? Lastly, do you think you would have audition for the part of Peter Pan once your teacher told you that it was for the opposite sex? Extension activities : role play and rewrite the book using a different setting or nationality.
regina finney / 3rd grade
By Mary Hoffman & Caroline Binch
I chose to read Amazing Grace because I was told by several teachers that it is a desirable book. It’s a piece of literature for K-6. The book is about a little girl named Grace who loves stories and liked people who told stories. Grace was an actor. In the book, she acted out adventure stories and fairy tales. Grace played all the parts herself. Some of the parts Grace played was pretending to be a soldier, a spider named Anansi, exploring for a lost kingdom, a parrot with a peg leg, an Indian named Hiawatha, and a jungle girl. One day Grace’s teacher said that she needs someone to do Peter Pan for a play. Grace became excited and told her teacher that she wanted to be Peter Pan. Her teacher replied “ you can’t be Peter…that’s a boy. At the end, Grace played the character Peter.
Themes that might arise after students read the book Amazing Grace is that you can be whatever you want to be. We know this because we learned that whatever you enjoy doing, you will be great at it. In a book report, you could state that one theme for Amazing Grace is that your imagination could take you places that you haven’t gone before. We could also say the theme was about being different characters. Guiding questions : Looking at the cover of the book, what other character(s) do you think is in the story? Do you think that you could act out some of the characters that Grace did? Lastly, do you think you would have audition for the part of Peter Pan once your teacher told you that it was for the opposite sex? Extension activities : role play and rewrite the book using a different setting or nationality.
regina finney / 3rd grade
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