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El Deafo
​                   Grades 3-5

​A 2015 Newbery Honor Book Going to school and making new friends can be tough. But going to school and making new friends while wearing a bulky hearing aid strapped to your chest? That requires superpowers! In this funny, poignant graphic novel memoir, author/illustrator Cece Bell chronicles her hearing loss at a young age and her subsequent experiences with the Phonic Ear, a very powerful—and very awkward—hearing aid.
The Phonic Ear gives Cece the ability to hear—sometimes things she shouldn’t—but also isolates her from her classmates. She really just wants to fit in and find a true friend, someone who appreciates her as she is. After some trouble, she is finally able to harness the power of the Phonic Ear and become “El Deafo, Listener for All.” And more importantly, declare a place for herself in the world and find the friend she’s longed for.

Level 2.7; 2 points

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Activity One

Cece uses many different kinds of clues to help her lip-read. (pages 30–31) What are the 4 types of clues? How do they help with lip-reading? In what other ways can these clues be helpful? Make sure your answers fill at least half of a page of paper.
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Activity Two

Mrs. Catawba, Cece’s guidance counselor, shared the idea of “warm fuzzies” and how spreading kindness can make you and others feel good all day. How can you use this same philosophy without making warm fuzzies? (pages 223–224) Create your own special kind of warm fuzzies and spread them to three different people. Either take a picture of the "fuzzies" and share with me, or write down the experience on paper. If you want to remain anonymous, you'll have to be clever in your presentation. Remember, my email is jjack@esu11.org.
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Activity Three

Different organisms vary in how they look and function because they have different inherited information. Knowing this, why does Cece talk differently after losing her hearing? (page 24) Why does the hearing aid make feedback when not in Cece's ear? (page 39) How do hearing aids work? There are several different ways you can present this information. You can make a web, video, poster, PowerPoint, or write it out in paragraph form. Whatever you do, have fun with it and learn!!
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