Big Philosophy for Little Kids

An Affective Curriculum While Learning to Write


Fifth Grade Edition, California Standards

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Teacher-Modeling Video Online Courses about

Big Philosophy for Little Kids

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Unit 2: Tell Me a Story & The Legend of English

The fundamentals of story-telling: Setting, Character, Plot;

The Story of English

(and a basic view of 2000 years of Western History)


Children Practice Self-Expression While Exercising the Features of Story-Telling

From Across the Parking Lot to My Fun Story


The Legend of English


Autobiographical Frames

Retelling Fairy Tales

Common Core Standards Addressed: Writing Narratives 3a, b, d, e; 4, 5, 10 Speaking and Listening: 1 b, c Collaboration

Reading Informational Text: 5, 6


PLEASE NOTE: This lesson is teacher-in-place intensive. The video lesson mainly concerns the Legend of English Story, and introduces the features of Story-Telling. The Teacher-in-place (you!) will  have to seriously dive into the parts of story-making as described in the book and video.

The curriculum Big Philosophy for Little Kids is FREE in pdf form below.

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PDF of ENTIRE Curriculum

BigPhilosophyforLittleKidsALL-.pdf

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CORE ALL-Stories.pdf:

(Supplemental World-Cultural Stories to Support the Lessons in Big Philosophy for Little Kids)


BODY OF ENGLISH POSTER=> BodyofEnglishPOSTER.pdf



$12


Video Lesson

25 minutes playing time