Let's read this fun and award-winning book by Kate DiCamillo. Flora is a natural-born cynic and Ulysses is a squirrel. But when tragedy strikes, Flora saves the squirrel. Now Ulysses has superpowers, and together they have many adventures. It is a fun story with some comic strips that will engage your young readers. 

We will meet once a week to discuss this book, answer questions, and share the children's thoughts on the book. 

At the beginning of class, we will go over the assigned questions. I will ask the questions and the children will share their answers. If there is one that has stumped the children, we will explore it further and discuss ways to figure out the answers to questions. Each child will be encouraged to answer, look at the camera, listen to others, and respond to different ideas/opinions respectfully. 

After answering the questions, we will have share time. Each week they will have something that they will work on to share. It may be a vocabulary word they liked. They may be asked to describe a character or find conflict and predict how it will be solved. One week we talk about visualizing, and they will be asked to draw a picture of their favorite part. They will get to share those pictures at the end of the class.  Again we will be working on speaking clearly, listening attentively, and using good manners on the computer. 

Children should be reading on a third-grade level. 

Lesson 1 - Come to class having read pages 1 - 39 and having answered the comprehension questions. We will be focusing on getting to know the characters and the setting. They will then be asked to draw a picture of the neighborhood that Flora lives in. 
Lesson 2 - The children will come to class having read pages 40 - 85. There will be questions about what is happening in the story and we will discuss the plot. The students will present their drawings of the neighborhood to the group. 
Lesson 3 - Discussion of pages 86 - 121. We will discuss the story, answer comprehension questions, and learn about visualizing. They will present information on the plot.  
Lesson 4 - 122 - 163 should be read before coming to class, and the questions answered. We will discuss making connections. Each child will be asked to bring a picture of what they visualized and share what they drew. 
Lesson 5 -  We will discuss 164 - 200, and review vocabulary words with a game.  They will share the connections they made while reading. 
Lesson 6 - This is it. We will finish the book. We will talk about the ending, if we liked it, how we wanted it to end, etc. They will share their vocabulary assignment.