A guided reading or interactive read aloud lesson plan for the realistic fiction mentor text book The People's Painter: How Ben Shahn Fought for Justice with Art by Cynthia Levinson and Evan Turk. Great for studying community, Jewish Americans, painters / muralists and social justice! Google Slides presentation and student activities on Google Docs. Lessons and activities focus on: Summarizing key details (4 strategies: narrative retell, timeline, graphic organizer, Somebody Wanted But Then So