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This document summarizes an evaluation form for the book "Marisol McDonald Doesn't Match" by Monica Brown. 1) It describes the book's style and language as using easy to understand word choices and sentence lengths, with dialogue and a flow that moves the reader along. Each page includes Spanish words. 2) The main character, Marisol McDonald, is quirky and likes her own unique style, even if it doesn't match. Readers can relate to having their own quirks. 3) The plot follows Marisol, who is Peruvian-Scottish-American and likes to mix and match her clothes and food, learning she should accept herself for who she is.

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Marisol Mcdonald Doesnt Match-Long Form

This document summarizes an evaluation form for the book "Marisol McDonald Doesn't Match" by Monica Brown. 1) It describes the book's style and language as using easy to understand word choices and sentence lengths, with dialogue and a flow that moves the reader along. Each page includes Spanish words. 2) The main character, Marisol McDonald, is quirky and likes her own unique style, even if it doesn't match. Readers can relate to having their own quirks. 3) The plot follows Marisol, who is Peruvian-Scottish-American and likes to mix and match her clothes and food, learning she should accept herself for who she is.

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Fic on Evalua on Form

(Picture Books, Folklore, Modern Fantasy, Contemporary Realis c Fic on, Historical Fic on, Mul cultural Books)

Your Named: Wendy Cooper Book Title: Marisol McDonald Doesn’t Match
Author: Monica Brown Illustrator: Sara Palacios

Genre: Mul cultural Publisher/Year: Lee and Low Books, Inc/2011

EVALUATE THE BOOK USING THE FOLLOWING ELEMENTS

STYLE and Language: Explain the language used – word choices, sentence length, dialogue, rhythm, rhyme.
Explain unexpected insights or interes ng informa on the reader learns from the story. Give examples form
the book for each one:

Word choice: Easy to understand


Sentence length: Not long, not short
Dialogue: Easy dialogue to understand
Rhythm: Good ow, moves the reader along
Rhyme: No rhyme
Insights/interes ng informa on: Each page includes words in Spanish, so that a reader can read it in Spanish.

CHARACTER – Who is the main character? Explain the character’s personality traits. How can the reader
relate to the character, become involved in the story?
Who are the suppor ng characters? Give examples of each from the book.

Main character: Marisol MacDonald


Personality traits: Quirky, likes what she likes, even if it doesn’t match
How reader can relate to main character: Even if one is not of mixed race, we almost all have some kind of
quirk that is ours alone.
Suppor ng characters: Teacher

1. PLOT: (Explains the major events in the story.) Summarize the plot

Marisol MacDonald doesn’t match. She is a Peruvian-Sco sh-American. She has mixed features and
chooses to mix and match everything from her clothes to her food. She like who she is, but one day
she tries to match and is miserable.

2. SETTING – Explain the place and me of the book.


THEME- What is the story’s theme or lesson?
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Se ng: School and Home


Theme: We are who are, don’t try to change just to t it.

ILLUSTRATION –Analyze the illustra ons in the book (see Chapter 4 for details on the categories below.)
Choose a 2-page spread in the book to answer the following:
What Style (realism, surrealism, expressionism, impressionism, naïve, cartoon art)?
Realism

Illustra on and Text: explain how illustra on and text combined to tell the story.
Then, explain what illustra ons show that text does not explain?

Page design —Describe:


The Borders: No boarders
Use of white/dark space: Very li le white space.
Text placement: Runs in a paragraph at a me in block forma on
Font size: Medium
Placement of illustra ons: Front and center. They are bright and colorful and tell more of the story.

3. CHILD DEVELOPMENT THEORIES – CHOOSE 2 of theories below and evaluate the book according to the
developmental theories. (How the book ts the developmental stage and age?)

PIAGET-COGNITIVE-INTELLECTUAL DEVELOPMENT
Name the stage Period: Preopera onal and the age: 2-7
Explain ONE cogni ve development trait from the stage: Rapid development of concepts
Give examples from the book show how the book ts that trait and cogni ve stage: Marisol realizes
that she is di erent and is okay with it.

ERIKSON – PSYCHOSOCIAL DEVELOPMENT


Name the stage Ini a ve VS Guilt and the age: Preschool
Explain ONE social development trait for this stage: Ini a ve Stage comes with the ability to do
many physical ac vi es and use language.
Give examples from the book that support that social development trait and of this stage: Marisol
understands she is di erent and expresses it verbally as well as with her personal style.

EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Iden fy the Age: PreK
Explain ONE emo onal development trait for this age: Begin to recognize characteris cs that make
them unique.

Give examples from the book to illustrate that emo onal development trait and this age: She tells
her cousin that she knows she looks di erent from the rest of her family.
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