This unit is chunked full of teaching and learning activities that directly correlate to the Common Core State Standards. In this unit, students work on making predictions based on the illustrations, learn more about personification and figurative language, learn to compare and contrast using Ruby's move as a catalyst, sequence the life of Ruby using a storyboard map, write a narrative envisioning a day in the life of Ruby, and then finally writing a business letter to the Ruby Bridges Foundatio