Grade 3

This guide contains 6 reading and writing exercises for elementary students. Assignments are all adapted for use with the Boy Who Made Drogonfly. Assignments created by Emily Cammack and Diana Filar.

With this activity, students can create their own story plot and characters using Ernest Franklin's illustrations for Buster Mesquite's Cowboy Band.

Ernest Franklin (1942-2010) was a Navajo artist who illustrated many books for children and adults - he painted the illustrations for Tony Hillerman’s book, Buster Mesquite’s Cowboy Band, which you can borrow this book from your local library.