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The Hundred Dresses Mod 7

The Hundred Dresses

 

By:  Eleanor Estes

Book Blog Module:  7

Module Descriptor and Page #:  Theme Pg. 256

A.    Author	Eleanor Estes
B.     Title	The Hundred Dresses
C.     Illustrator	Louis Slobodkin
D.    Readability Score	Grade 3-5 Lexile Score 890L GLE 5.0
E.     Genre	Fiction
F.      Subgenre	Friendship
G.    Theme	Bullying, Immigration, forgiveness
H.    Primary and Secondary Characters	Wanda Petronski, Maddie, Peg, the Teacher, Mr. Petronski, other students
I.       Awards/Date of Publication	Originally Published in 1944 Republished in 2004 Awards Newberry Honor Book
J.       Publishing Company	Harcourt, Inc
K.    ISBN Number	9780152052607
L.     Summary	Wanda Petronski is a Polish girl that goes to a school with kids who make fun of her.  She lives in a poor section of town, she has a funny-sounding last name, and she wears the same light blue dress to school every day.   A girl named Maddie taunted Wanda every day.  Wanda desperately wanted to belong so she told the kids that she had a hundred dresses at home.  The kids turned this into the dress game because every time Wanda was asked how many dresses she had she told them a hundred.  The teacher had students turn in drawings for an art contest and Wanda turned in a hundred drawings of dresses.  Her drawings were the best and she won first prize, but not before her dad moved his family to the big city.  He sent a note to school to tell the teacher that he had moved his family to the big city where Wanda would not be made fun of anymore.  Maddie and Peg search to find Wanda because they felt badly about they had done.  Will they find Wanda?  Will Wanda forgive them for their terrible behavior?  This was a good book about treating others with respect.
M.   Picture of Book Cover
N.    Usage with students	Character Focus ·         Students will describe characters from the story using character traits.  ·         Compare and contrast two main characters from the story. ·         Students will apply their knowledge, understanding, and analysis of characters to determine how they would react in a situation. ·         Create paper dolls and make paper dresses. ·         Draw a dress to be entered into a contest and create a journal entry about your feelings. ·         Research your country of origin and present/discuss it.