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Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
by Robert C. O'Brien
Summary: Mrs. Frisby, a widowed mouse, lives with her family in a cinderblock. When her youngest son develops pneumonia, she asks an old friend, Mr. Agnes, to help her. While the medicine does help, her son cannot go out in the cold for at least 3 months after. Unfortunately, the mice need to relocate to their spring home before the farmer begins plowing and plows right over their home. After flying on the back on a crow to the wise owl and getting advice, Mrs. Frisby consults the Rats of Nimh. They're carrying a secret that they're reluctant to share with Mrs. Frisby, until they realize who her husband was. Many meetings and plans later, Mrs. Frisby's house is relocated with the help of the rats and her son survives the winter.
Evaluation: I thought this book was very intriguing! It was unlike any book I've ever read before and kept my attention throughout. I thought it was creatively written and definitely a book that would be suitable for a 3-5 class read aloud.
Teaching: To teach this book, I would most likely use it as a read aloud. We would make predictions and inferences at different points of the story and evaluate how they change and evolve throughout the story. Students could evaluate the different parts of the story, draw what they visualized the inside of the rats' home to look like, or even create a plan for moving the cinderblock before they knew what actually happened. I think it would really be neat to incorporate some engineering and science into it for the upper grades and see what inventions or creations they could make to move a cinderblock using materials from around the house.
Evaluation: I thought this book was very intriguing! It was unlike any book I've ever read before and kept my attention throughout. I thought it was creatively written and definitely a book that would be suitable for a 3-5 class read aloud.
Teaching: To teach this book, I would most likely use it as a read aloud. We would make predictions and inferences at different points of the story and evaluate how they change and evolve throughout the story. Students could evaluate the different parts of the story, draw what they visualized the inside of the rats' home to look like, or even create a plan for moving the cinderblock before they knew what actually happened. I think it would really be neat to incorporate some engineering and science into it for the upper grades and see what inventions or creations they could make to move a cinderblock using materials from around the house.