Julius, the Baby of the World
By: Kevin Henkes
Have you ever had a new baby brother or sister? How did you feel: excited, protective, jealous? When Lilly's family brings home her new baby brother, Julius, she became jealous because she was not getting as much attention. Her parents loved Julius and said that he was "the baby of the world." But, Lilly disagreed and she even said that she hated him. But what happens to Lilly's selfish behavior when someone else talks bad about baby Julius?
One way that I could use this in my future classroom is by doing a read aloud with accountable talk. I can read the story to my students and ask them open-ended questions as I am reading. The focus of these questions, or this lesson, would be on point of view. Therefore, the questions can have the students responding to how they think that the different characters in the story are feeling based on what is happening. The accountable talk aspect of the read aloud is important because it creates a classroom discussion setting, where the students are responding to each other's ideas instead of only to the teacher's questioning. I believe that this book is a good way to begin a unit on point of view because the characters have clearly different thoughts on baby Julius. Therefore it will help students to begin to think why the characters are feeling a certain way, or the reasons that they react they way that they do.
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