1. A Bad Case of Stripes
Randa Hooper
RDG

2. TEKS
Grade 3
(10) Reading/Comprehension of Literary Text/Literary Nonfiction. Students understand, make inferences and draw conclusions about the varied structural patterns and features of literary nonfiction and respond by providing evidence from text to support their understanding. Students are expected to distinguish between fiction and nonfiction.
(11) Reading/Comprehension of Literary Text/Sensory Language. Students understand, make inferences and draw conclusions about how an author's sensory language creates imagery in literary text and provide evidence from text to support their understanding. Students are expected to recognize that some words and phrases have literal and non-literal meanings (e.g., take steps).

3. A Bad Case of Stripes
Camilla Cream had to overcome a lot to become comfortable and happy in her own skin. Let’s talk about Camilla and her bad case of stripes!

4. Remember
What did Camilla Cream like to eat that her friends did not?

5. Activity
Create a timeline using the following website:
In the timeline, include what happened to Camilla throughout her entire sickness. Remember to include details like Camilla’s favorite food and how she was cured of the stripes.

6. Understand
Why did Camilla stop eating lima beans?

7. Activity
Camilla liked lima beans and it was something that made her a unique individual. We are all unique and all have different likes and dislikes. You will receive a paper person outline, you will paste down construction paper to the body as shown in the picture. On each stripe write something that makes you a unique individual.

8. Apply
If you were Camilla’s friend, how would you have helped her?

9. Activity
Write a letter to Camilla as she is at home sick with a bad case of the stripes. In your letter, tell her how you feel about her sickness.

10. Analyze
If you were Camilla, how would you explain to your friends what it feels like to not fit in with others?

11. Activity
Watch the following video about differences.
Next, find a partner and create a Venn diagram. Fill out the diagram with similarities you share and also differences that make you unique. On a separate sheet of paper write down how you would explain to your friends that you are different, but we are still all similar.

12. Evaluate
Is it more important to give up things you love to fit in or to be true to yourself?

13. Activity
Create a two sided mask with the provided templates. Color one side of the mask with things you love and decorate it to describe you. On the other side, draw things that are “cool” and do not find interesting or fun at all. Glue the paper to popsicle sticks so you have a double sided mask. As a class, discuss whether it is more important to be true to yourself.

14. Create
How would the story be different if Camilla’s condition was “cool”?

15. Activity
Rewrite the story in a shorter form, to make Camilla’s stripes cool and explain that the stripes allowed her to fit in.
After, create a fake social media page for Camilla Cream and include her likes, dislikes, personality, and anything you think you would find on her social media page, if she were to have one.