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K–12 teaching and learning · from the UNC School of Education

Emily Vann is a sixth grade teacher at Four Oaks Middle School in Johnston County.

Resources created by Emily Vann

The Great Gilly Hopkins - Characterization and Prediction
In the final chapters of the novel, Gilly's grandmother learns she has a granddaughter and decides to take Gilly out of foster care. Many of my classroom readers are often dismayed by this unexpected conflict and its outcome. In this lesson, the classroom becomes a courtroom where students predict the outcome of this conflict.

This activity can be used at the end of the novel, but I like to use it after reading chapters 10 and 11 so students can compare the courtroom decision to the end of the novel.
Format: lesson plan (grade 6 English Language Arts)
By Emily Vann.