My Name Is Osama

Who is Asher Lev? After reading several chapters of My Name is Asher Lev, have your class write a biopoem to explore the character. This resource contains directions explaining the process, and a fill-in-the-blank guide to help everyone...

In this vocabulary words activity, students read the book My Name is Gabriela and put their vocabulary words into abc order and into sentences. Students do this for 10 words.

Provided here is a short paragraph with 22 blanks from My Name is Asher Lev. The chapter is not specified, but you should be able to find it based on the context. After the class reads the selection, they attempt to complete the 22...

Model for readers how to ask good questions about text by introducing them to Request Strategy. The focus here is on questions that ask readers to make judgements, formulate predictions, or synthesize significant events. Although the...

Students explore the relationship between names and certain cultures and locations. For this identity lesson, students create family migration or immigration maps. Students read excerpts from When My Name was Keoko and Lost Names: Scenes...

Chiam Potok's story about the tension between tradition and individualism, between religion and art, is the focus of a pre-reading strategy designed to help readers relate to Asher's desire to draw. Individuals identify a special talent...

Tim Tyson's Blood Done Sign My Name is the anchor text in a unit study of the history of race relations and the civil rights struggle in the South. The 11 lessons are richly detailed and the unit deserves a space in your curriculum library.

Students complete pre reading, writing, and post reading activities for the book My Name Is Maria Isabel. In this guided reading lesson plan, students complete writing, go over vocabulary, answer short answer questions, have discussions,...

Events in the My Name Is America book series provide the sentence clues for a word scramble worksheet. Links to the titles in the series, more word scrambles, a chapter from one of the books, and trivia games are included. 

Pupils read the story of an Iraqi immigrant boy named Osama who faces taunts of terrorist in his U.S. school after the attack of September 11. They discuss the characters and their struggles in the story. Students respond to questions...