I wasnt able to got to class last week so I dont really know what the lecture was on, but here is my author Profile for this week.
Ruby the Copycat
Author: Peggy Rathmann
Age Range: 4-9
This is one of my favorite books, my teacher Mrs. Esquivel read it to my class in fourth grade and I have loved it ever since. It is about a young girl named Ruby who moves to a new school and starts copying a classmate Angela. One day Angela comes to school with a red bow in her hair and later Ruby returns from lunch with a red bow in her hair. When Angela wears a tie-dye shirt and shoes Ruby comes back from lunch wearing the same thing. Every day of school Ruby comes back from lunch wearing the exact same thing Angela was wearing. Ruby even tries to copy a poem that Angela wrote. Angela gets mad at Ruby for trying to copy her and says she is going to tell the teacher, Miss Hart, and she also makes a mean comment about Ruby's hair. After school Miss Hart talks to Ruby and tells her that she doesn't always have to copy Angela, and she should try to be Ruby fist.
I think that this is a really good book to help yours students realize that they don't have to be like any other kids, and that they can just be themselves, and it would be useful for most elementary grades. This website www.peggyrathmann.com has information about Ruby the Copycat, and other books by Peggy Rathmann.
I also found some websites that different ways that you could use this book in the classroom.
Hey I haven't read this book also, ut it loks good thanks for the idea.
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