We’ve included the following suggested weekly lesson sequence for your convenience.

Monday

Start your week by watching The Character Tree video. • Before watching: If you have time for a quick discussion, you could

ask your students what they think they already know about the character trait of bravery and have them share with a partner or call on a couple students to share with the whole class.

• After watching: If you have time after the video, have students share examples of bravery from the video. To extend their concept of bravery you could ask them to think of a specific way that they could show this trait in the coming day or week.

Tuesday

Follow up the video with the foldable book. Read as a whole class, or have students read independently. These books would make a nice home-school connection, or add them to student’s book boxes or bags and keep them at school. Depending on how much time you have, the cut and paste comprehension page would be a good fit as a subsequent activity.

Wednesday

Use our template to create a class book that showcases ways each child has seen and experienced bravery in their own life. After each student has completed their page, assemble the book and read it to the class. Adding the completed book to your classroom library, or other shared space in your classroom, would be a great way to encourage your students to revisit and read the book on their own.

ThursdayAfter spending time learning and talking about bravery and Ruby Bridges during the first half of the week, today would be a good day to check student understanding with our comprehension questions.

FridayIf there is anything that you didn’t get to earlier in the week, finish that up today. Otherwise, today would be a good day for the making words activity and the word search.

Learning Objective: Students will be able to define the character trait of bravery, give an example and write about it.

Common Core Standards: • SL.1.2 Discuss key details in a video• RI.1.2 Identify the main topic• RI.1.3 Describe the connection between a person and concept• RI.1.4 Determine the meaning of vocabulary

Picture Book Recommendations: These picture books would be great to read to your class during this week, as well as throughout the year! Use them to open up further discussions with your class about this week’s character trait.

• Ruby Bridges by Simone T. Ribke

• The Story of Ruby Bridges by Robert Coles

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Name:

The white parents were so upset by

Ruby coming to school that they

didn’t send their children. Ruby was in

a class all by herself with just her

teacher, Mrs. Henry. It was very

lonely, but Ruby stayed brave and

never missed a day of school.

Eventually, the other children came

to school and Ruby learned and played

with both black and white children.©The Primary Pal & The Character Treewww.charactertree.com

When Ruby Bridges was a little girl all

of the schools where she lived were

segregated. That means black

children and white children weren’t

allowed to go to school together.

These rules were unfair and they

were finally changed. When Ruby was

in first grade she went to a new

school and was the first black child

to attend there. ©The Primary Pal & The Character Tree

Some of the white parents at

Ruby’s school didn’t want their

children to go to school with Ruby.

They stood in front of the school

with mean signs and shouted at her.

Ruby had federal marshals come

with her to protect her and keep her

safe. Ruby was never mean back. She

may have been scared, but she

showed bravery. www.charactertree.com

N a m e : D a t e :

Ruby Bridges showed bravery by becoming the first black child to go to

her school.

Cut out the pictures below and glue them in the correct order. Read the words below each box to make sure the picture matches.

Some of the white parents at the

school were mean to Ruby. They held mean signs when she came to the

school.

Federal marshals were with Ruby to protect her as she

went to school.

The white parents didn’t send their

children to school. Ruby was in class by

herself, with her teacher Mrs. Henry.

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A collection of stories and examples of bravery.

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Our ClassBook of:

By:

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A collection of stories and examples of bravery.

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Our ClassBook of:

By:

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Draw a picture and write some words about a time when you showed bravery.

N a m e : D a t e :

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Use what you learned from the video about Ruby Bridges and Bravery to help you answer the questions below.

N a m e : D a t e :

1. What grade was Ruby Bridges in when she went to her new school?

a. kindergarten b. first grade c. second grade

2. How did Ruby show bravery?

3. True or False: When she first went to school Ruby was alone in her class, with only her teacher.

4. Why did the white parents not want Ruby to come to school?

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Comprehension Questions

True False

b r a v e r y

N a m e : D a t e :

Cut out the letters at the bottom of the page. Use the letters to make as many words as you can. Write the words that you make on

the lines below.

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Making Words Spelling Practice

RUBY

BRIDGES

BRAVE

SCHOOL

LEARN

TEACHER

CLASS

ALONE

STUDY

FIRST

SCARY

STRONG

L S A S R S C H O O L Q

C C H T L D W S K M Z E

L A S L E A R N L C P A

A R E M O A Y N I H A A

S Y D T E T C E U C L N

S T U D Y K L H K P O R

H C S H E I E B E M N E

A B R I D G E S R R E A

C T U E R T F I R S T R

E E B R A V E E L V L O

T E Y E K I P T O Y J E

S P X L T O S T R O N G

Search for the words from the word list. Then, circle each word in the puzzle once you find it.

N a m e : D a t e :

©The Primary Pal & The Character Tree

Word Search

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RUBY

BRIDGES

BRAVE

SCHOOL

LEARN

TEACHER

CLASS

ALONE

STUDY

FIRST

SCARY

STRONG

L S A S R S C H O O L Q

C C H T L D W S K M Z E

L A S L E A R N L C P A

A R E M O A Y N I H A A

S Y D T E T C E U C L N

S T U D Y K L H K P O R

H C S H E I E B E M N E

A B R I D G E S R R E A

C T U E R T F I R S T R

E E B R A V E E L V L O

T E Y E K I P T O Y J E

S P X L T O S T R O N G

Search for the words from the word list. Then, circle each word in the puzzle once you find it.

N a m e : D a t e :

©The Primary Pal & The Character Tree

KEY

Word Search

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