Amos and Boris Making Text Connections
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Amos and Boris by William Steig
Lesson Plans by Ashley Trudeau
This book is a great way to introduce key lessons to elementary students, including comparing and contrasting, picking up on key themes, and analyzing vocabulary words. Including storyboards in these activities will enhance creativity and comprehension due to the visual nature of storyboarding!
Storyboard Description
Amos and Boris Text Connections Activity - Have students make connections from their life to the stories they read!
Storyboard Text
- TEXT
- MAKING CONNECTIONS
- "I want you to remember that if you ever need my help I'd be more than glad to give it!"
- "How could that little mouse ever help me? Little as he is, he's all heart. I love him, and I'll miss him terribly."
- TEXT
- Please let me go. One day I will repay you!
- HA, HA, HA! How could you, a tiny mouse, ever help me?!
- Amos claims that if Boris ever needs his help that he would be glad to give it. Boris does not believe that the little mouse would ever be able to help him because he is so tiny but he loved him anyway.
- TEXT
- In the Aesop fable, "The Lion and the Mouse", a mouse gets captured by a lion. The mouse pleads to be let go and tells the lion he will help him one day. The lion laughs so hard that the mouse escapes. The next day, the lion is captured in a net and the mouse nibbles the net to free the lion. The lion realizes he was foolish for ridiculing the mouse for being small.
- SELF
- Wow, this is so beautiful!
- ZzZ..
- CANNONBALL!!!!
- Amos becomes so overwhelmed by the beauty of the sea and his surroundings that he forgets he is on his boat and he rolls off into the ocean!
- TEXT
- "Amos, help me...I think I'll die if I don't get back in the water soon."
- One time, I was relaxing on a float in my pool. I was so comfortable with my surroundings that I dozed off. I was awoken when my sister jumped into the pool causing me to fall off my float!
- WORLD
- Amos gets beached on to the shore by a storm called, Hurricane Yetta.
- I saw on the news that a whale was beached on the shore near Cape Cod. There were marine biologists and volunteers trying to help it get back into the ocean.
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