Who is Muggie Maggie? What does "Muggie" mean ???
Maggie Schultz is a third grader that is just beginning to learn cursive, just like all the children in Room 29. But Maggie does not think cursive is very important ... or maybe she is a little worried about learning something new? Ask your child how Mrs. Leeper and Mr. Galloway put together a plan to convince Maggie that she can do whatever she sets her mind to. We use this story to define different connections to a story (text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world), analyze character traits vs. physical traits, and to develop story sequencing.
As a final assignment, the children are choosing a Journal Project which can be either a description of a favorite scene, a diary entry of a time when they had to overcome a challenge, or a persuasive letter to convince me to teach (or not to teach!) cursive to my class next year.
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World of Beverly Cleary to take a quiz about Maggie and to meet other beloved Cleary characters
