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2nd Grade ELA- Unit #1 Fiction Literature
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This unit was created by the Rethink Education Content Development Team. This course is aligned to the NC Standards for 2nd Grade ELA.

Subject:
English Language Arts
Reading Literature
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Activity/Lab
Assessment
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Homework/Assignment
Unit of Study
Vocabulary
Author:
AMBER GARVEY
Date Added:
01/11/2023
Aesop and Ananse: Animal Fables and Trickster Tales
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In this unit, students will become familiar with fables and trickster tales from different cultural traditions and will see how stories change when transferred orally between generations and cultures. They will learn how both types of folktales employ various animals in different ways to portray human strengths and weaknesses and to pass down wisdom from one generation to the next. Use the following lessons to introduce students to world folklore and to explore how folktales convey the perspectives of different world cultures.

Subject:
Reading Literature
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Lesson Plan
Unit of Study
Provider:
National Endowment for the Humanities
Provider Set:
EDSITEments
Date Added:
07/31/2019
Amelia Bedelia Up Close! Closely Reading a Classic Story
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In this lesson, students will read Amelia Bedelia by Peggy Parish. Students will discuss text-dependent questions to promote an understanding of the story’s character. Through subsequent readings, they construct and support arguments concerning the character traits of Amelia Bedelia and use the text to determine how Amelia Bedelia and the Rogers can have different reactions to the same events. After these discussions, students demonstrate their understanding of character by completing a trading card for Amelia Bedelia.

Subject:
English Language Arts
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
ReadWriteThink
Author:
Jennifer Neff, Master of Science in Education
Date Added:
02/26/2019
At Home Learning: Ask & Answer Questions
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This lesson is for Grades 1 - 2 on literacy. At Home Learning Lessons are a partnership between the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, PBS North Carolina, and the William and Ida Friday Institute for Educational Innovation.  Each lesson contains a video instructional lesson, a PDF lesson plan with a transcript, and a PDF file of extension activities.

Subject:
English Language Arts
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Author:
Corey McNeill
Date Added:
12/15/2021
At Home Learning: Identify Story Elements
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This lesson is for Grades 1 - 2 on literacy. At Home Learning Lessons are a partnership between the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, PBS North Carolina, and the William and Ida Friday Institute for Educational Innovation.  Each lesson contains a video instructional lesson, a PDF lesson plan with a transcript, and a PDF file of extension activities.

Subject:
English Language Arts
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Author:
Pam Batchelor
Date Added:
05/18/2021
At Home Learning: Retelling the Story
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This lesson is for Grades 1 - 2 on literacy. At Home Learning Lessons are a partnership between the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, PBS North Carolina, and the William and Ida Friday Institute for Educational Innovation.  Each lesson contains a video instructional lesson, a PDF lesson plan with a transcript, and a PDF file of extension activities.

Subject:
English Language Arts
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Author:
Corey McNeill
Date Added:
12/15/2021
Block 2:  Fiction Retelling and Comparing Stories
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In this unit, students will read several books by Kevin Henkes. Students will study the characters, retell the stories, and will compare and contrast the plots of the different stories written by Kevin Henkes.

Subject:
English Language Arts
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
Midland Independent School District
Author:
Midland Independent School District
Date Added:
04/04/2019
Choosing the Right Book: Strategies for Beginning Readers
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In this lesson, students explore the different purposes readers have and how to determine what their purpose for reading is. Students also learn how to evaluate whether a book is at the right reading level and length for their abilities.

Subject:
English Language Arts
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
ReadWriteThink
Author:
Julie Burchstead
Date Added:
02/26/2019
Cinderella - Digital Storytelling
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In this lesson, students will study four different versions of the Cinderella story. As a group students will identify the good characters, mean characters, problem, and solution of each story. Story elements will be written down on a large poster board and categorized so students can draw identify patterns and differences. Then, students will work in small groups of seven to identify the main parts of the traditional story. Each student will choose a part in the story to illustrate. After illustrations are complete students will practice retelling their part of the story. Students will then scan in their illustrations and use the program, Movie Maker, to format their group's story. Students will record their portion of the retelling with a microphone.

Subject:
English Language Arts
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
Digital Wish
Author:
Digital Wish
Date Added:
04/23/2019
Cinderella on the Green Screen!
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This is a multi-day unit on Cinderella and the many versions of the fairy tale. Students will listen to four versions of Cinderella and then compare/contrast two. Then students will design a background, decorate a puppet and use a script to create a green screen video summarizing one of the versions shared. There is also a rubric and assessment component.

Subject:
English Language Arts
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Author:
Martha Levey
Toni Luther
Date Added:
07/30/2019
Combining Read-Alouds With Economics in the Primary Grades
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This lesson uses two books, Charlie Needs a Cloak by Tomie dePaola and A Symphony for the Sheep by C.M. Millen, to provide early exposure to economic concepts while encouraging reading comprehension. Prereading and postreading discussions and activities promote vocabulary building and analytical thinking. Students gain knowledge of the economic terms "natural resource" and "producer" as they make text-to-world connections.

Subject:
English Language Arts
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
International Literacy Association
Author:
Shelby Hawthorne
Date Added:
02/26/2019
Comparing Fiction and Nonfiction with "Little Red Riding Hood Text" Sets
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This lesson plan features an example of a cumulative literary experience or “literature unit” structured around a text set made up of conceptually-related fiction and nonfiction for reading aloud and for independent reading.

Beginning with a comparative study of selected, illustrated retellings of the traditional folktale “Little Red Riding Hood,” including versions from several different cultures, this literature unit continues with a study of modern revisions of this well-known tale. After students have an opportunity to explore similarities and differences among the retellings and revisions, they are introduced to fiction and nonfiction texts featuring wolves in order to provide them with a different perspective of the “villain” in the "Little Red Riding Hood" tales. The unit culminates in a class-written version of the folktale.

Subject:
English Language Arts
Material Type:
Unit of Study
Provider:
International Reading Association/National Council of Teachers of English/ReadWriteThink
Author:
Joy F. Moss
Date Added:
02/26/2019
Cowboys and Castles: Interacting With Fractured Texas Tales
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Students engage with the text by talking back to characters in Cinderella, dramatizing events in Bubba the Cowboy Prince, inserting themselves into the story of Little Red Riding Hood, and critiquing and controlling story elements in Little Red Cowboy Hat. After comparing and contrasting Little Red Riding Hood and Little Red Cowboy Hat, students plan and create an original fractured tale.

Subject:
English Language Arts
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
International Literacy Association
Author:
Stephanie Affinito, Emily Manning
Date Added:
02/26/2019
The Crayon Box That Talked
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In this multiple activity lesson, students will read and watch the video, "The Crayon Box That Talked". Students will discuss the book with a series of questions, graph their favorite colors, perform a Reader's Theater, rhyme words, and explore the story with several other activities.

Subject:
English Language Arts
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
Holocaust Education Resource Council
Author:
Shane DeRolf
Date Added:
04/04/2019
ELA Student Choice Boards
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As a way to support teachers with English Language Arts (ELA) instruction during the pandemic, the NCDPI ELA team created choice boards featuring standards-aligned ELA activities.The intended purpose of these choice boards is to provide a way for students to continue standards-based learning while schools are closed. Each activity can be adapted and modified to be completed with or without the use of digital tools. Many activities can also be repeated with different texts. These standards-based activities are meant to be a low-stress approach to reinforcing and enriching the skills learned during the 2019-2020 school year. The choice boards are to be used flexibly by teachers, parents, and students in order to meet the unique needs of each learner.Exploration activities are provided for a more self-directed or guided approach to independent learning for students. These activities and sites should be used as a way to explore concepts, topics, skills, and social and emotional competencies that interest the learner. 

Subject:
English Language Arts
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Author:
Stacy Miller
Date Added:
01/29/2021
The Empty Pot
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This lesson will help students identify the moral of the story The Empty Pot by Demi. During this lesson, students will have an opportunity to discuss and write about the character trait honesty. Students will share about a time when they demonstrated this character trait

Subject:
English Language Arts
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
Alabama Learning Exchange
Author:
Carol Blair
Date Added:
02/26/2019
Fairy Tale Comparison (AIG IRP)
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Students will read two similar versions of the same fairy tale, such as the traditional tale of The Three Little Pigs and The True Story of the Three Little Pigs by John Scieszka.  Students will acknowledge differences in the points of view of the characters, including speaking in different voices of each character when reading dialogue. Students will use illustrations and details in the two versions to describe the characters, setting, events and plot through questioning and analysis. The product of the lesson will a graphic organizer used to compare and contrast the two different versions of this story.  This lesson fits into the larger context of examining different genres in literature, learning the elements of the particular genre and comparing and contrasting literature. This lesson would fit well into a unit on fairytales, folklore, myths etc. This lesson was developed by NCDPI as part of the Academically and/or Intellectually Gifted Instructional Resources Project. This lesson plan has been vetted at the state level for standards alignment, AIG focus, and content accuracy.

Subject:
English Language Arts
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Author:
Melody Casey
Date Added:
11/16/2020
Fairy Tales Around the World
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As some of the foundational texts for beginning readers, fairy tales are a staple of many classrooms. This lesson allows students to engage with fairy tales from different regions around the world and compare important cultural elements of these stories.

Subject:
Reading Literature
American History
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
National Endowment for the Humanities
Provider Set:
EDSITEments
Date Added:
09/06/2019
Fairy Tales Around the World-Remix
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As some of the foundational texts for beginning readers, fairy tales are a staple of many classrooms. This lesson allows students to engage with fairy tales from different regions around the world and compare important cultural elements of these stories. Students will then have the opportunity to pick three-four key illustrations and retell the story in their own words in a Hip Hop edition.

Subject:
English Language Arts
Reading Literature
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Author:
SHAKEKIA MOSS
Date Added:
05/28/2020
Family Ties: Making Connections to Improve Reading Comprehension
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Students will read books about families and make text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections using those books. Students gain a deeper understanding of a text when they make authentic connections. Beginning with a read-aloud of Donald Crews' "Bigmama's", the instructor introduces and models the strategy of making connections. Read-alouds of "The Snowy Day" by Ezra Jack Keats and "The Relatives Came" by Cynthia Rylant are followed by activities that help students learn to apply each type of text connection when responding to texts. After sharing and discussing connections in a Think-Pair-Share activity, students plan and write a piece describing a personal connection to one of the texts.

Subject:
English Language Arts
Material Type:
Reading
Unit of Study
Provider:
International Reading Association/National Council of Teachers of English/ReadWriteThink
Author:
Violeta L. Katsikis
Date Added:
02/26/2019
GEDB Folktales from Around the World: African Tales (Lesson 1 of 4)
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Using the Zimbabwean folktale "Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters" by John Steptoe, students will learn strategies and methods on how to describe the overall structure of a story. Students will also be shown how to show respect for other cultures through the use of this book, world maps, graphic organizers and other African folktales.This lesson was developed by Lisa Bruet as part of their completion of the North Carolina Global Educator Digital Badge program. This lesson plan has been vetted at the local and state level for standards alignment, Global Education focus, and content accuracy.            

Subject:
English Language Arts
Social Studies
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Author:
Melody Casey
Date Added:
11/22/2019
GEDB Folktales from Around the World: Chinese Tales (Lesson 3 of 4)
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The teacher will use the book, Lon Po Po by Ed Young. The students will learn strategies and methods on how to describe the overall structure of a story. The students will also be shown how to show respect for other cultures through the use of this book, world maps, graphic organizers and other Chinese folktales. While reading this Chinese folktale, the students will be able to explain how the artistic expressions of the culture contributes to the community through food, crafts, and stories. This lesson was developed by Lisa Bruet as part of their completion of the North Carolina Global Educator Digital Badge program. This lesson plan has been vetted at the local and state level for standards alignment, Global Education focus, and content accuracy.

Subject:
English Language Arts
Mathematics
Social Studies
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Author:
Melody Casey
Date Added:
11/22/2019
GEDB Folktales from Around the World: Cinderella Stories (Lesson 2 of 4)
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Students will compare and contrast two or more versions of the same story (e.g., Cinderella stories) by different authors or from different cultures. The students will be able to understand how the cultures differ in food, language and arts through the two stories that are being compared and contrasted. Then, the students will use these tools that they know to help broaden and expand their cultural views by intergrating the folktales into the math, language arts and social studies curriculum.This lesson was developed by Lisa Bruet as part of their completion of the North Carolina Global Educator Digital Badge program. This lesson plan has been vetted at the local and state level for standards alignment, Global Education focus, and content accuracy.            

Subject:
English Language Arts
Social Studies
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Author:
Melody Casey
Date Added:
11/22/2019
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GEDB Folktales from Around the World: Cinderella Stories (Lesson 2 of 4) with addition of Creating a Modern Cinderella Story
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Students will compare and contrast two or more versions of the same story (e.g., Cinderella stories) by different authors or from different cultures. The students will be able to understand how the cultures differ in food, language and arts through the two stories that are being compared and contrasted. Then, the students will use these tools that they know to help broaden and expand their cultural views by intergrating the folktales into the math, language arts and social studies curriculum.This lesson was developed by Lisa Bruet as part of their completion of the North Carolina Global Educator Digital Badge program. This lesson plan has been vetted at the local and state level for standards alignment, Global Education focus, and content accuracy.            

Subject:
Visual Arts
English Language Arts
Social Studies
Material Type:
Lesson
Author:
Marian Faulkner
Date Added:
06/01/2020
GEDB Folktales from Around the World: Culture Projects (Lesson 4 of 4)
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Students will collaborate with a group of students and select a Culture Project to complete together in school.  The group will choose, design and plan and implement what the groups roles will be and what materials are needed to complete the project.  The teacher should allow the students to work on projects in school so that equal participation is taking place and can be observed. The students may select the countries in the folktale unit to research or one of their own as long as the project goals are met and agreed upon by all members in the group.This lesson was developed by Lisa Bruet as part of their completion of the North Carolina Global Educator Digital Badge program. This lesson plan has been vetted at the local and state level for standards alignment, Global Education focus, and content accuracy.            

Subject:
Dance
Music
Visual Arts
English Language Arts
Mathematics
Social Studies
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Author:
Melody Casey
Date Added:
11/22/2019
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GEDB Folktales from Around the World: Culture Projects (Lesson 4 of 4)
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Students will collaborate together to choose, design, plan, and implement groups roles to determine what materials are needed to complete the project.  The teacher observe as student groups complete projects during the school day to ensure participation is achieved in an equitable manner. Students will select and research a specific folktale from the unit  Upon completing the group project, students may research a folktale independently provided the group agrees and their project goals are met.This lesson was developed by Lisa Bruet to fulfill requirements of the North Carolina Global Educator Digital Badge program. This lesson plan has been vetted at the local and state level for standards alignment, Global Education focus, and content accuracy.                

Subject:
Dance
Music
Visual Arts
English as a Second Language
English Language Arts
Reading Literature
Mathematics
Social Studies
Material Type:
Formative Assessment
Lesson
Module
Presentation
Reading
Unit of Study
Author:
DULCE CASTILLO
Date Added:
07/01/2020
How Tiger Got His Stripes: A Folktale from Vietnam
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In this unit, students will read and explore a folktale from Vietnam, while utilizing interdisciplinary connections in language arts, geography, science and social studies. Opportunities are provided for differentiated instruction as well as the development of story vocabulary. Terms include: narrator, point
of view, main character, dialogue, setting, title and quotation marks.

Subject:
English Language Arts
Material Type:
Unit of Study
Provider:
August House
Author:
Rob Cleveland
Date Added:
04/04/2019
Identifying Poetry Themes
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 Students will review April Rain Song and Rain Poem and then use the Seasonal Poetry template to create an original poem to be recorded using Flipgrid.  

Subject:
English Language Arts
Material Type:
Lesson
Author:
EMILY DAVIS
Date Added:
08/05/2021
Imagining Abraham Lincoln
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In this activity, students will read Mr. Lincoln's Whiskers, and then take another look at one dramatic moment in the story. After revisiting the moment, they will create a new scene that is not in the book, based on the character of Abraham Lincoln.

Subject:
Social Studies
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Provider:
Smithsonian Institution
Date Added:
07/05/2017
The Indian's Moral Compass
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Students collect data within their school about current social issues and create graphs to display and analyze the data. Students simultaneously read and write fables based on the prevalent social issues. Students then make 2D illustrations for their fables and practice reading their stories aloud with fluency. The culminating event is a Meet the Author showcase for parents to hear the stories and get autographs from the new authors.

Subject:
English Language Arts
Mathematics
Material Type:
Unit of Study
Author:
Laura Skoczylas
Sigourney Wells
Date Added:
06/25/2019
A Journal for Corduroy: Responding to Literature
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Students listen to A Pocket for Corduroy and three other Corduroy stories and discuss the characters and plots. A letter to parents introduces a follow-up writing activity, in which a stuffed classroom "Corduroy" goes home with a different student each night. With parents' help, students write and illustrate a two- to three-sentence adventure story about Corduroy's stay with them, and share their stories with the class.

Subject:
English Language Arts
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
International Literacy Association
Author:
Marilyn Cook
Date Added:
02/26/2019
Leading Socratic Seminars (AIG IRP)
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After whole class participation in a Socratic seminar led by the teacher, with procedures and ground rules stressed, AIG students will be grouped in pairs to plan and lead small group Socratic seminars for their second grade class. The seminars will focus on fables during a fables and folktales literature unit. This lesson was developed by NCDPI as part of the Academically and/or Intellectually Gifted Instructional Resources Project. This lesson plan has been vetted at the state level for standards alignment, AIG focus, and content accuracy.

Subject:
English Language Arts
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Author:
Melody Casey
Date Added:
11/18/2020
Let’s Build a Snowman
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In this lesson, students will learn that building a snowman is one way to provide food for birds and animals during the winter. Students begin by listening to a book about snow. Students are then introduced to a K-W-L chart and discuss what they know about how animals find food in the winter. As students listen to Henrietta Bancroft's Animals in Winter, they listen for details about how some animals survive during the winter and record those details in the last column of the chart. To continue to build students' knowledge of the topic, they listen to additional fiction and nonfiction books and view a website about animals in winter. As a culminating activity, students use their charts to write and illustrate a story.

Subject:
English Language Arts
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
ReadWriteThink
Author:
Rebecca L. Olness
Date Added:
02/26/2019
Marvin Makes Music - Storybook
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ABCya! presents its fifth children's storybook for the classroom. It's called Marvin Makes Music, an original work by Michelle Tocci. The story is about a frog that is sad because he cannot sing like his friends, until one day when he gets a new musical instrument. This is a great storybook to share with kids using an interactive whiteboard.

*This storybook has narration! Students can click the speaker button to have the story read to them.

Subject:
English Language Arts
Material Type:
Interactive
Provider:
ABCya
Date Added:
02/26/2019
Phonics In Context
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In this lesson, students become familiar with the short /u/ sound as they listen to Taro Yashima’s Caldecott Honor-winning book, Umbrella. Prereading activities build vocabulary and comprehension skills, a read-aloud introduces students to the sounds of the story, and concluding exercises allow students to apply their understanding of phonic elements in other contexts.

Subject:
English Language Arts
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
ReadWriteThink
Author:
Nancy Drew
Date Added:
02/26/2019
Recounting and Finding the Lesson
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In this lesson, students read a folktale. The teacher models the thinking and work required to recount the story and determine the lesson.  Students create story maps of the text that show the major events and the lesson in the text.

Subject:
Reading Literature
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Author:
DEANNA WILES
Date Added:
11/04/2019
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Recounting and Finding the Lesson - Remix
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In this lesson, students read a folktale. The teacher models the thinking and work required to recount the story and determine the lesson.  Students create story maps of the text that show the major events and the lesson in the text.

Subject:
Reading Literature
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Author:
MEREDITH MITCHELL
Date Added:
12/09/2019