Capstone Storybook Page Drafting — Each Child Authors One Page on a Constitutional Voice or Reform-Movement Leader (English G5-Spring Literary Essay Cross-Curricular)

THREE PROMISES + 1-minute share-around: 'Which figure is your capstone storybook page about?'

• Three Promises
• Quick share-around

Today is the WRITING + ILLUSTRATING DAY for your capstone storybook page. The class storybook will be 44 pages bound — one per child. THREE COPIES will be bound (Foxfire methodology): self / school library / descendant-community partner organization (we've coordinated with one of: Cherokee Nation Cultural Resource Center, Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe, NMAAHC educator network, Seneca Falls National Historical Park, Frederick Douglass National Historic Site, Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Historical Park). Choose ONE figure from the menu: FEDERALISTS — Madison, Hamilton, Jay, Washington; ANTI-FEDERALISTS — Mason, Mercy Otis Warren, Patrick Henry; BLACK ABOLITIONISTS — Walker, Stewart, Douglass, Truth, Tubman, Garrison (white ally); WOMEN'S RIGHTS — Stanton, Mott, Grimké sisters, Margaret Fuller; INDIGENOUS — Tecumseh, John Ross (Cherokee Principal Chief), Sequoyah; EDUCATION/ASYLUM/LABOR REFORM — Horace Mann, Dorothea Dix, Sarah Bagley (Lowell Mill Girls); TEJANO — Lorenzo de Zavala (signer of Texas Declaration of Independence 1836); MONTICELLO/MOUNT VERNON DESCENDANT COMMUNITY — Sally Hemings descendants, James Hemings, Oney Judge (escaped enslavement at Mount Vernon 1796), or other names from the Monticello Getting Word + Mount Vernon Lives Bound to Mount Vernon descendant-community lists. MG-16 PAGE STRUCTURE: (1) CLAIM — one-sentence thesis about why this figure matters; (2) TWO PRIMARY-SOURCE EVIDENCE quotes from the figure or about the figure with MLA-light citation; (3) ONE VOICE-QUOTE from the figure themselves with citation; (4) ILLUSTRATION (child-drawn or curated) with caption; (5) CITATION list (MLA-light G5 version, 3-5 sources).

• Notice: 1 page, 5 sections, focused. The voice-quote is what brings the page to life.

  model [CLAIM] Maria Stewart was the first American-born woman of any race to deliver public political speeches to mixed-gender audiences. [EVIDENCE 1] In her 1832 Franklin Hall Speech, Stewart asked, ''Why sit ye here and die?'' (Stewart, February 27 1832, Franklin Hall Boston). [EVIDENCE 2] Stewart's published work includes Productions of Mrs. Maria W. Stewart (1835), one of the earliest published works by an African American woman writer (NMAAHC educator resources). [VOICE-QUOTE] ''If you knew the value of your own souls, you would awake.'' [ILLUSTRATION] Drawing of Stewart at podium speaking to Boston audience. [CITATION] Stewart (1832), Stewart (1835), NMAAHC educator resources.

  prompt Model: storybook page on Maria Stewart (teacher modeling)

• Who is your figure?
• What is your claim?
• What 2 evidence sources + 1 voice-quote will you use?

Each child uses 2 primary sources + 1 voice-quote = 3 primary-source citations from the unit's 30+ sources.

M-5-S-CUL-21-A Interactive Physical / non-image

1-page template letter-size with 5 sections: CLAIM box (top) + 2 EVIDENCE boxes (middle, side-by-side) + VOICE-QUOTE box (middle-bottom) + ILLUSTRATION box (bottom large) + CITATION list (bottom narrow strip). MLA-light citation examples printed at bottom. Reverse side has 8 example annotated pages from G4-Spring + G5-Fall capstones (child names redacted).

MG-16 Interactive Physical / non-image

Capstone Storybook Page Template (continued from G5-Fall + adapted for G5-Spring) — 1-page-per-child template with 5 required sections: (1) CLAIM (one-sentence thesis about the constitutional voice or reform-movement leader the child is profiling); (2) TWO PRIMARY-SOURCE EVIDENCE quotes with citation; (3) ONE VOICE-QUOTE from the figure themselves with citation; (4) ILLUSTRATION (child-drawn or curated) with caption; (5) CITATION list (MLA-light G5 version).

M-5-S-CUL-21-B Chart

2-page menu card listing 30+ figures grouped by thread: FEDERALISTS (Madison + Hamilton + Jay + Washington); ANTI-FEDERALISTS (Mason + Mercy Otis Warren + Patrick Henry + Brutus-anonymous); BLACK ABOLITIONISTS (Walker + Stewart + Douglass + Truth + Tubman + Garrison-white-ally); WOMEN'S RIGHTS (Stanton + Mott + Sarah Grimké + Angelina Grimké + Margaret Fuller); INDIGENOUS (Tecumseh + Sequoyah + John Ross + Osceola); EDUCATION/ASYLUM/LABOR (Mann + Dix + Sarah Bagley); TEJANO (Lorenzo de Zavala); MONTICELLO/MOUNT VERNON DESCENDANT COMMUNITY (Sally Hemings family + James Hemings + Oney Judge); Each entry has 1-sentence biography + 3 primary-source citations.

• Outline your page on MG-16 template: claim + 2 evidence + 1 voice-quote + illustration idea.

  scaffold MG-16 template with G4-Spring + G5-Fall example annotated pages

• Share your draft with a partner. Receive ONE strength + ONE suggestion.
• Submit your draft for teacher review.

• Each pair shares ONE strength of their partner's draft
• Preview Lesson 22 — Capstone Gallery Walk + Letter Mailing + Self-Reflection

• Final-pass revision of your storybook page. Bring final clean copy to Lesson 22 capstone day.