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Book: A Life Like Mine, Overhead Display, Whiteboard, Handouts, Secured Tack
Board with World Map firmly attached, Easy-push Tacks, Magazines (that feature
different places, cultures, practices, traditions, religions, languages, neighborhoods,
careers, families, etc.), Colored Construction Paper, Crayons/Colored
Pencils/Colored Pens & Markers, Regular Pencils & Pens, Scissors, and Glue.

CSS.ELA – Literacy. RL. 5.6

- Describe how a narrator’s or speaker’s point of view influences how
events are described.

Students will be able to discuss how personal perspectives and feelings

shape how events are perceived and described in group discussion and
identify where each of the children from the book live by matching part of
each child’s story to a picture of their country with 95% accuracy.
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1. Introduce: Display the book on the overhead projector so that all students
can clearly read each passage and see the images from the children featured.
I will read the title and publication information then give the students a
summary of what the book is about. Specifically, I want to take the time to
discuss what UNICEF does and how it, along with UNCROC (The United
Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child), aims at familiarizing
children and young people with the lives of children and people around the
world.

2. Read: As a collective class group, students will volunteer to each read 1 of

the 18 accounts.

3. Discuss: In small groups and then as a class, students will discuss ways that
children and young adults can help further activist programs like UNICEF
and UNCROC.

 Question 1: What type of issues should conference’s like UNCROC

focus on?
 Q2: How would you promote multicultural and cross-cultural discussions
around the world?
 Q3: What similarities and differences in economic status did the children
in the book encounter in the countries where they live?
 Q4: How do these similarities and differences compare to what we see in
the United States?
 Q5: What can we do as a class to continue to learn about the way
children live in other countries not covered in the book?
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4. Activities:

 Activity 1: In small groups, students will fill out the handout matching
each child’s passage to the picture of the country they live in.
o Each student will recount and/or draw at least one personal detail
about each child:
 How many family members they live with,
 What the family (and/or the child themselves) does for a
living,
 Type of house and/or neighborhood they live in,
 What they like to do for fun,
 What they want to do or try in the future.

 Activity 2: Students will create a personal collage of their own life.

o Each collage will include, at minimum, three of the following
aspects of the student’s life, which will be listed on the whiteboard
before the project begins:
 A picture(s) of the places they have visited and/or lived in,
 A picture(s) of their extended family,
 A picture(s) representing the cultures that make up their
family,
 A picture(s) of important cultural and/or religious
tradition(s),
 A picture(s) of where they might want to live or visit in the
future.
 Students may include written forms (i.e. passages, poems,
songs, etc.) if they want.
o When students are done, they will pin their collages to the world
map with tacks over a country of their choice.
o During the last 10-15 minutes of the period, students will share to
the class why they picked the country they did to pin their collage
to.
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I will be grading students on how accurate they matched each child from the book
with the country said child lives in on the handout and if their college includes
depictions of at least three of the specific areas listed on the whiteboard.
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References

Bibliography of Children's Books. (n.d.). Retrieved February 25, 2017, from

http://www.understandingprejudice.org/readroom/kidsbib.htm

Dorling Kindersley. (2003, April 23). A Life Like Mine: How Children Live

Around the World by DK, in association with Unicef. Retrieved February

25, 2017, from https://www.unicef.org/publications/index_4263.html

Elaine, K. (2015, March 22). “Children of The World”/ “A Life Like Mine”: A

Song and a Book Review. Retrieved February 25, 2017, from

https://theforeveryears.wordpress.com/2015/03/23/children-of-the-world-a-

life-like-mine-a-song-and-a-book-review/

Puckett, A. (n.d.). A Life Like Mine: How Children Live Around the World by

DK, in association with Unicef. Retrieved February 25, 2017, from

http://www.librarypoint.org/life_like_mine_dk