Objective. This lesson is designed to introduce primary students to finding the main idea as a reading-comprehension strategy. The lesson uses the book Chrysanthemum, by Ken Henkes, and has students choose the main idea for sections of the story from a few possible choices.
Lawson is the transferred use of an English patronymic surname meaning âson of Laurence/Lawrenceâ from âLawâ which was a medieval pet form of Laurence.
Lawson had a difficult childhood. His father, Niels (also known as Peter), a Norwegian immigrant, spent much of Henry's early years searching for gold, leaving his mother, Louisa, on her own much of the time.