tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-48640901872100266812024-03-14T05:27:07.862-05:00Purple NinjasThis blog is for teachers, parents, librarians and the general community. Purple Ninjas is about books and the literacy connections that can be made to reading, writing, mathematics, science, social studies, art and music. Reading and writing once were considered to be separate skills; however, today reading and writing are also processes that facilitate learning in content areas.Nancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01606638515158354167noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4864090187210026681.post-3046313962999335292012-10-29T11:29:00.000-05:002012-10-29T11:29:03.829-05:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<strong>Title:</strong> Rachel Carson and Her Book That Changed the World<br />
<strong>Author:</strong> Laurie Lawlor<br />
<strong>Illustrator:</strong> Laura Beingessner<br />
<strong>Publisher</strong>: Holiday House<br />
<strong>Publication Date:</strong> 2012<br />
<strong>Genre/Format:</strong> Picture Book/Nonfiction<br />
<strong>Classification:</strong> Biography<br />
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Rachel Carson loved two things: being outdoors and
writing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In fact she loved writing so
much she wanted to be a professional writer. But writing didn’t pay the bills
and she had to help her mother and sister with household expenses. After a
visit home, Rachel returned to college and entered a biology class and changed
the focus of her studies. Eventually, she found she could do both things she
loved; being outdoors and writing about what she experienced in the outdoors. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Rachel’s most famous book, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Silent Spring, </i>is a book that pointed out
the dangerous effects of chemicals and pesticides have on animals and the air
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<strong>Personal thoughts and connections</strong>: I love reading biographies. Even as a young child, reading about other people's lives was one of my favorite passtimes. I can remember my parents reading and talking to my brothers and I about the book <em>Silent Spring. </em>I remember how cool it would be to be some sort of scientist and travel the world. <br />
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I like the way the author documents her research in the Epilogue and Source Notes at the end of the book. Included in the Source Notes is a recommended reading list of other books by Rachel Carson. In addition, there is a list of books about Rachel Carson by several authors. </div>
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<strong>Read Together:</strong> K-3<br />
<strong>Read Without Help:</strong> 3-12</div>
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<strong>Other book connections:</strong> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Rachel-Story-Carson-Amy-Ehrlich/dp/B007BWIT8U/ref=sr_1_6?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1351436814&sr=1-6&keywords=rachel+carson#_" target="_blank">Rachel: The Story of Rachel Carson</a><strong>,</strong> by Amy Ehrlich; <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Clean-Sea-Rachel-Carson-Story/dp/1880599627/ref=pd_sim_b_3" target="_blank">A Clean Sea: The Rachel Carson Story</a>, by Carol Hilgartner Schlank
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All her life, Rachel Carson was curious and determined. She
was born on May 27, 1907, on the outskirts of Springdale, a small town in
Pennsylvania. Since her brother and sister were much older and neighborhood
seldom came to visit, Rachel often went on her own to explore her family’s
sixty-five acres of woods, orchids, and fields. (Unnumbered page)</div>
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As early as 1945, Rachel had read about studies of the declining bird populations across the country. Each year researchers reported fewer nesting and migrating birds. The more she investigated, the more alarmed she became. Insecticides were deadly to birds, insects, fish, and other animals. But what about people? (Unnumbered page)</div>
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<strong>Connections to Writing--Narrative</strong> (1) Simulated diary entry--pretend you are Rachel Carson and write a journal entry about the time you went scuba diving off the coast of Nova Scotia. (2) Rachel Carson loved her job as a biologist and a writer. If you could have any career or job you wanted, what would it be? Why?<br />
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<strong>Connections to other content areas</strong>: Biology, Science, Social Studies <br />
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I borrowed this book from my local public library.<br />
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Have you read this book? I would love to hear your ideas on how you used this in your classroom.<br />
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<br />Nancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01606638515158354167noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4864090187210026681.post-2464273522382294362012-10-24T11:47:00.002-05:002012-10-28T13:03:49.188-05:00<div style="text-align: left;">
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<strong>Author:</strong> Tracey Fern</div>
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<strong>Illustrator:</strong> Boris Kulikov</div>
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<strong>Publisher</strong>: Margaret Ferguson Books/ Farrar Straus Giroux</div>
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<strong>Publication Date:</strong> 2012</div>
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<strong>Genre/Format</strong>: Picture Book/Nonfiction</div>
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<strong>Classification:</strong> Biography</div>
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<strong>Summary:</strong> Barnum was a very unusual boy. He loved hunting fossils. He collected so many fossils his mother asked him to move his collection to the laundry house. In 1902, Barnum went to Hell Creek, Montana in search of dinosaurs. Today the <em>Tyrannosaurus rex</em> dinosaur skeleton is housed in the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.<br />
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<strong>Personal thoughts and connections:</strong> I saw the word "Barnum" and assumed this book was about the Barnum and Bailey circus. A pleasant surprise when I read this book was about Barnum Brown, the man who found the largest skeleton of <em>Tyrannosaurus rex</em> dinosaur. I waited to read this book to my three grandsons who are dinosaur fanatics. They loved the book--and the book spurred us to take a virtual tour of the American Musuem of Natural History. Fabulous read.<br />
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The Author's Note and bibliography are terrific. A great way to get started to research dinosaurs.</div>
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<strong>Read together:</strong> K-3</div>
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<strong>Read alone:</strong> 3-12</div>
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<strong>Other book connections:</strong> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Rare-Treasure-Anning-Remarkable-Discoveries/dp/0618310819/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1351094992&sr=8-1&keywords=rare+treasure+mary+anning+and+her+remarkable+discoveries" target="_blank">Rare Treasure: Mary Anning and Her Remarkable Discoveries</a>, by Don Brown</div>
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Barnum, who was an unusually nice dresser, sometimes went prospecting in a fur coat, a suit and tie, buffed black boots, and a bowler hat. (Unnumbered page)</div>
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One morning in 1902, Barunum's friend William Hornaday, the director of the New York Zoological Park, gave Barnum and interesting rock that he found on a hunting trip...The rock wasn't any rock--it was the horn of a <em>Triceratops</em>. (Unnumbered page)<br />
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<strong>Connections to writing: Expository--</strong> (1) You have just found out that you have been selected to participate in a dinosaur dig in another state. Write a letter to persuade your parents to let you participate in this once in a lifetime experience. (2) Barnum Brown took pride in fossil discoveries. Discuss the importance of pride in the work you do.<br />
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<strong>Connections to writing: Narrative--(</strong>1)Pretend you are Barnum Brown on an archeological dig. Write a letter to "My Dear Professor" about your first week in the field. (2) Write an acrostice poem about Barnum Brown.<br />
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Connections to other content areas: Social Studies, Science, <br />
Translated to other languages: No<br />
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This book was checked out of my local library.<br />
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I'd love to know your thoughts and ideas about this book. What other content areas could you connect to with the book?<br />
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Nancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01606638515158354167noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4864090187210026681.post-19228611170544678932012-10-16T20:43:00.000-05:002012-10-28T13:04:35.800-05:00<div style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;">
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<strong>Title:</strong> Brothers at Bat: The True Story of an Amazing All-Brother Baseball Team<br />
<strong>Author</strong>: Audrey Vernick<br />
<strong>Illustrator</strong>: Steven Salerno<br />
<strong>Publisher</strong>: Clarion Books<br />
<strong>Publication Date</strong>: 2012<br />
<strong>Genre/Format</strong>: Picture Book/Nonfiction<br />
<strong>Classification</strong>: Biography<br />
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<strong>Summary</strong>: The Acerra family had sixteen children; twelve were boys. In fact, for twenty-two years their local high school baseball team had at least one of the Acerra boys on the team. For fifteen years, the Acerra brothers were a semi-pro baseball team and coached by their father. This is the story of Anthony, Joe, Paul, Alfred, Charlie, Jimmy, Bobby, Billy, Freddie, Eddie, Bubbie and Louie Acerra of Long Branch, New Jersey.<br />
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<strong>My thoughts and connections</strong>: My two brothers played on the same baseball team and their coach was our father. During baseball season, baseball was the topic of conversation at our house; even at the dinner table. Looking through the local library, I came across this book as was intrigued by the title--I had never heard of a whole baseball team made entirely made up of brothers! A delight to read and the illustrations take nostalgic look back into a different time.<br />
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This book includes both author and illustrator notes about the Acerra brothers. The author reveals how she became interested in the Acerra brothers and their story. <br />
<strong>Read together</strong>: Grades K-3<br />
<strong>Read alone:</strong> Grades 3-12<br />
<strong>Other book connections:</strong> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Poem-Runs-Baseball-Douglas-Florian/dp/0547688385/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1350322906&sr=8-1&keywords=poem+runs" target="_blank">Poem Runs: Baseball Poems</a>, by Dan Florian; <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Baseball-Saved-Us-Ken-Mochizuki/dp/1880000199/ref=la_B001IZPT7U_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1350323089&sr=1-1" target="_blank">Baseball Saved Us</a>, by Ken Mochizuki; <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Home-Run-Baseball-Alphabet-Books/dp/1585362190/ref=sr_1_9?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1350323060&sr=1-9&keywords=baseball++books" target="_blank">H is for Home Run: A Baseball Alphabet</a>, by Brad Herzog.<br />
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In one New Jersey town near the ocean, back in the 1920s and 30s, you could hear the same door slam over and over. Three brothers raced out. Out went three more. And more. And still more. It sounds like a fairy tale: twelve baseball-playing brothers. But Anthony, Joe, Paul, Alfred, Charlie, Jimmy, Bobby, Billy, Freddie, Eddie, Bubbie and Louie Acerra were real. (Unnumbered pages)<br />
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In 1938, the brothers ranged in age from seven to thirty-two. The oldest nine formed their own semi-pro team and competed against other New Jersey teams. Their father coached them and never missed a game. Their uniforms all said the same thing: Acerras. (Unnumbered pages)<br />
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<strong>Connections to writing: Expository</strong>-- (1)
Most students have a favorite baseball team. Write to explain why your team is your favorite.
(2) Create an ABC book of baseball terms.<br />
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<strong>Connections to writing : Narrative--</strong> (1) You are a member of a professional sports team. Write a letter home about your life on the road. <br />
<strong>Connections to other content areas</strong>: Physical education--professional sports, Social Studies, <br />
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<strong>Translated to other languages: </strong>No<br />
<strong>Other formats: </strong>None<br />
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I borrowed this book from the local library.<br />
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<o:p> </o:p><strong>Title</strong>: <em>The Fabulous Flying Machines of Alberto Santos-Dumont<o:p></o:p></em></div>
<strong>Author</strong>: Victoria Griffith<o:p></o:p><br />
<strong>Illustrator:</strong> Eva Montanari<o:p></o:p><br />
<strong>Publisher:</strong> Abrams Books for Young Readers<o:p></o:p><br />
<strong>Publication Date:</strong> 2011<o:p></o:p><br />
<strong>Genre/Format</strong>: Picture
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<strong>Classification:</strong> Nonfiction<br />
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<o:p> Alberto Santos-Dumont,
born in Brazil and raised in Paris, France, loves to fly. In the early 1900’s
you could look up in the sky and you might see him flying his dirigible, his
personal flying machine, from one errand to another as he moves about the city.
Although he loves flying in his dirgible, Santos-Dumont wants to move faster and fly longer distances. In 1906, three years after the Wright brothers first flew at Kitty Hawk, he becomes the first person in Europe to take and lnad a completely self-propelled airplane.
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<o:p><strong>Personal thoughts:</strong> I fell in love with this book by accident. I was at my local library looking at for another book when I chanced to hear the children's librarian book talk the book to a group of elementary students. After the book talk, I asked the librarian if I could take a look at the book. Well the rest is history because I checked out the book from the library. (I've since purchased my own copy.) The endnotes add rich details and facts about this adventurous man. An excellent read-aloud story. Dreamy pictures. Wonderful end notes and bibliography.</o:p><br />
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<strong>Read With</strong>: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Wright-Brothers-They-Invented-Airplane/dp/082341082X/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1349632405&sr=1-2&keywords=the+wright+brothers" target="_blank">The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Ariplane</a>, by Russell Freedman; <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Amelia-Earhart-Legend-Lost-Aviator/dp/0810970953/ref=sr_1_7?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1349634188&sr=1-7&keywords=amelia+earhart" target="_blank">Amelia Earhart: The Lost Aviator</a>, by Shelely Tanaka<br />
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Alberto Santos-Dumont loved floating over Paris in his own personal flying machine. It had helped make him one of the most famous men in the city, if not the world! <em>Everyone, </em>he thought,<em> should have this much fun running a simple errand.</em> (Unnumbered page)<br />
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For a moment, it seemed the airplane would come back down to Earth with a thud. Instead, it pushed into the sky until it was soaring over the heads of the spectators. Higher and higher it went. Alberto turned around in the air and headed back. (Unnumbered page)<br />
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<strong>Connections to Expository Writing</strong>—(1) You are going on a trip to Paris, France. Research your
destination and create a list poem of all the places you might visit. (2) <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> Create an obituary for Alberto Santos-Dumont.</span></div>
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<strong>Connections to Narrative Writing</strong>—(1) Create a journal entry from the point of view of Alberto Santos-Dumont as he is thinking about his first self-propelled flight. (2) In this story, Alberto and Louis Cartier are best friends. Write about a time in your life in your life when you and your best friend did something fun.<br />
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<strong>Topics Covered</strong>: Dirigibles,
Airplanes, Cartier, Wright Brothers, Flying,
Wrist Watch</div>
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<o:p></o:p><br />Nancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01606638515158354167noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4864090187210026681.post-69014457919306319352012-10-01T15:16:00.002-05:002012-10-01T15:34:05.208-05:00<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMqeWcrnLPolNZmt9sqK5GwbAx3_ys_5wIRfkEowxa_mNVwnpRVmE8tdGvEVwZwA_hLd2b_nI2tmvVxqlegPWh2wajMY7TnZu8ot3InT8TTmkXH3-56Km455JNnA3k0TChhN5kizjEGsg/s1600/sixteen-years-in-sixteen-seconds.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMqeWcrnLPolNZmt9sqK5GwbAx3_ys_5wIRfkEowxa_mNVwnpRVmE8tdGvEVwZwA_hLd2b_nI2tmvVxqlegPWh2wajMY7TnZu8ot3InT8TTmkXH3-56Km455JNnA3k0TChhN5kizjEGsg/s320/sixteen-years-in-sixteen-seconds.jpg" width="240" /></a><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Title: <em>Sixteen Years in
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Dom Lee</span><br />
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Books Inc.</span><br />
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Date: </strong>2005</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 3.15pt;">
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sammy Lee fell in love with diving and dreamed of
diving in the Olympics. As a Korean-American, and a person of color, he was
only allowed to use the pool one day a week. His father wanted Sammy to be a
doctor and only agree to let Sammy dive if his grades were good enough to get
him in medical school. In 1940 and 1944, the Olympics were cancelled<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>due to World War II and in 1943 Sammy’s
father died. Sammy decided to honor his father’s dream for him and in 1946 he
worked hard and became a doctor. Even though Sammy became a doctor he never
gave up his dream of diving in the Olympics.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In 1948, in London, he finally got his chance and became the first
Asian-American to win a gold medal.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I read this book several years ago and fell in love with the story. A dream that came to fruition at age 28, after becoming a doctor and honoring his father’s dream, a story of perseverance and following one’s dream. I became curious about Dr. Sammy Lee and found out he was still living. Fast forward to the summer of 2012 and, as an avid Olympic watcher, I heard on television Dr. Sammy Lee was going to be honored at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sixty-four years after he won a gold and bronze medal, both he and Mrs. Lee were honored guests of the United States Diving Team. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What an inspiration!<o:p></o:p></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Read
Together:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>grades K-4</span><br /><span style="font-size: small;">
Read without help: grades 4-12</span></h1>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><strong>Read With: </strong><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Dukes-Olympic-Feet-Ellie-Crowe/dp/0896103927/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1349046557&sr=1-1&keywords=Duke%27s+Olympic+Feet" target="_blank"><strong>Duke's Olympic Feet</strong></a><strong>, by</strong> Ellie Crow<strong>, </strong><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Gold-Medal-Olympics-Alphabet-Sleeping/dp/1585364622/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1349046639&sr=1-1&keywords=g+is+for+gold+medal+an+olympics+alphabet" target="_blank"><strong>G is for Gold Medal: An Olympics </strong></a></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><strong>Alphabet</strong><strong> by</strong> Brad Herzog</span><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></b><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Other notes of interest:</span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> The
author has included an Author’s Note page telling other facts about Dr. Sammy Lee.
Connect to her website </span><a href="http://www.paulayoo.com/"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">www.paulayoo.com</span></a><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">“The sign on
the swimming pool read: MEMBERS ONLY. Twelve- year- old Sammy Lee knew exactly what
the sign meant—only whites were permitted to enter even though it was a public
pool. This was the practice in 1932. Sammy would have to wait until Wednesday
when people of color were allowed to go inside.” (Unnumbered page)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">“For the
final dive in the 10-meter platform event, Sammy decided to perform the forward
three-and-a half somersault. This was a very dangerous move. The slightest
miscalculation in timing could lead to a serious, even fatal, injury. Never
before had Sammy felt such intense pressure. He had trained for sixteen years
for this—a moment that would last barely sixteen second from the time he dived
to when the scores would be revealed.” (Unnumbered page)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<strong><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Connections to Writing: </span><span style="color: #7e0000; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Expository</span></strong><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><strong>—</strong>
(1)<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Each year millions
of people visit California. Before you write, think about California and the
many places people like to visit on vacation. Now write to explain why California
is such a popular place for families to go on vacation. (2) Sammy Lee was born
in Fresno, California but he was raised, along his older sisters, in Highland
Park, California. Create a brochure for a travel company listing things to do
and see in both communities.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<strong>Connections to Writing: <span style="color: #7e0000;">Narrative</span>—</strong><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(1) Write
a journal entry, from the point of view of Sammy Lee, how it felt to be
excluded from the public swimming pool.( 2) Create an alphabet book about the
life of Dr. Sammy Lee, doctor and <span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;">Olympic gold medal diver.</span>
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to Social Studies: </strong><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Racism in California in the 1930’s, Migrant farm
workers in 1930’s,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dust Bowl of 1930’s</span></span></div>
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to Spanish:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> No </span></span></b></div>
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languages:</span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> No</span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Classification:</span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> Juvenile Fiction</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Summary:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Georgia O’Keefe
sailed to the Hawaiian Islands in 1939 courtesy of the Hawaiian Pineapple
Company (later known as Dole). This company wanted Ms. O’Keefe to create two
paintings to promote the pineapple business and benefits of pineapple
juice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Instead she fell in love with the
Hawaiian landscapes and painted flowers, the islands and the sea. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">My thoughts and connections:</span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> In the early 1980’s my parents moved to the Big Island
of Hawaii and I fell in love with the culture and the landscape. Akaka Falls on
the Hilo side of the Big Island has the most beautiful flowers and fauna I’ve
ever seen. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The pictures in this book
truly captured the very essence of family photographs and the pictures that are
etched in my mind. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The book
includes both an author’s note and an illustrator’s note page, map of the
Hawaiian Islands, bibliography and end papers that truly capture the essence
Georgia O’Keefe favorite Hawaiian flowers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Read Together:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>grades K-3</span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br />
<b>Read without help: grades</b> 3-12<br />
<b>Other Book Connections:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><b><br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Through-Georgias-Rachel-Victoria-Rodriguez/dp/0805077405/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1348348253&sr=1-3&keywords=georgia+in+hawaii" target="_blank">Through Georgia’s Eyes by Rachel Victoria Rodriquez </a></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/My-Name-Is-Georgia-Portrait/dp/015204597X/ref=pd_sim_b_3#_" target="_blank"><strong>My Name is Georgia by Jeanette Winder </strong></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Georgia painted waterfalls
and green pleated mountains, lava hardened into fantastic shapes and delicate,
feathered fishhooks that she collected like seashells. And Georgia painted the
blue, blue sea.” (Unnumbered page)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">“Georgia had created nearly
twenty paintings of Hawaii. But she had not painted a pineapple. Instead she
gave the Hawaiian Pineapple Company paintings of a heliconia flower and a
papaya tree.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They were not happy. They
wanted a pineapple. Georgia was not happy either. She was not going to be told
what to paint.” (Unnumbered page)</span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Connections to Writing: </span></b><b><span style="color: #7e0000; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Expository</span></b><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">—</span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Most of us travel to Hawaii by airplane;
however that was not the case when Georgia O’Keefe traveled there at the
request of the Hawaiian Pineapple Company.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>(1) Research the types of transportation Ms. O’Keefe took to travel from
her home in New York City to Honolulu, Hawaii. (2) <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Georgia O’Keefe was a major figure in American
art. In this era of school budget cutting, many fine arts teachers are being
told they no longer have a teaching position. Explain why this is not a good
decision for students.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Connections
to Writing: <span style="color: #7e0000;">Narrative</span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">— (1) </span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Write a simulated diary journal or blog as if you were Georgia
O’Keefe as she travels from New York City to Honolulu, Hawaii. (2) Create an
obituary celebrating the life of Georgia O’Keefe.</span></div>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Connections to Art: Study the
mediums Georgia O’Keefe </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Topics Covered: Art, Hawaii, flowers, landscape, The Hawaiian
Pineapple Company</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Other formats:</span></b><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> None</span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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Nancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01606638515158354167noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4864090187210026681.post-61530684931789997032012-01-18T17:01:00.000-06:002012-01-18T17:01:43.912-06:00White Water<div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; line-height: 19.2pt; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilr7q3at19Atuy2Lt924ggsX5oEsz5NmsntPxq1-DT1XhLzxELAIS14KkBu9LBs_0wzv1vyCLxpNsMj9vfWNBx5m_SMCpOLSji7NFJMjmjQ0eEdDsp7KsDCkTJAncloaAYpmgJEBC6Irg/s1600/WhiteWater.Bandy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" nfa="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilr7q3at19Atuy2Lt924ggsX5oEsz5NmsntPxq1-DT1XhLzxELAIS14KkBu9LBs_0wzv1vyCLxpNsMj9vfWNBx5m_SMCpOLSji7NFJMjmjQ0eEdDsp7KsDCkTJAncloaAYpmgJEBC6Irg/s1600/WhiteWater.Bandy.jpg" /></a><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Title: </span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">White Water</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 3.15pt;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Author: </span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Michael S. Bandy and Eric Stein</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 3.15pt;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Publisher:</span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> Candlewick Press</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 3.15pt;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Publication Date: 2011</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 3.15pt;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Genre/Format:</span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> Picture Book</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 3.15pt;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Classification:</span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> Fiction </span><span style="font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 3.15pt;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Summary: </span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Inspired by a true story by the author (Bandy), Michael and his grandmother travel to town in a hot, dusty bus. When they arrive in town, Michael is very thirsty and runs to get a drink at the Colored drinking fountain. After a few sips, the water tastes rusty. Michael notices a white boy drinking at the White drinking fountain, and he decides the water from that fountain must taste “icy cold” and is determined to drink from that fountain.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Personal thoughts:</span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> Not familiar with the co-authors, I was first drawn to this book because of illustrations. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As the story unfolded, I found myself caught up in Michael’s antics on meticulous plans he made to drink out of the forbidden water fountain. A delightful twist at the end of the story when he happens to fall at the water fountain and finds the same pipe fed both fountains!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Read Together:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>grades K-3<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><br />
<b>Read without help: grades</b> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">2-4</b><br />
<b>Read With:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Other-Side-Jacqueline-Woodson/dp/0399231161">The Other Side</a>, Jacqueline Woodson (2001), <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_0_6?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=sit-in+how+four+friends+stood+up+by+sitting+down&sprefix=sit-in%2Cstripbooks%2C335">Sit-In; How Four Friends Stood Up by Sitting Down</a>, Andrea Davis Pinkney (2010).<b></b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Snippet of Text: </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">“By the time we finally got to town, I was really thirsty. I couldn’t wait to run to the drinking fountain and take a big, long drink. I guess that other boy was thinking the same thing.” </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">(Unnumbered pages)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">“I was so thirsty that even the warm, rusty water tasted OK. But only for a few sips. After those first few sips, it tasted like nasty, muddy, gritty yuck.” </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">(Unnumbered pages)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">“It didn’t make any sense to me when that boy from the bus kept on drinking. The water he must be drinking must be cool. It must be fresh. I was sure it must be pure and icy cold, like mountain water. Suddenly I just had to know what that white water tasted like.” </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">(Unnumbered pages)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Connections to Writing: </span></b><b><span style="color: #7e0000; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Expository</span></b><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">— (</span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">1) Many people believe that one small change can make the world a better place. What one change would you make to make the world a better place to live? Be sure to explain to the reader why your change would make the world a better place. (2) Have students pick a specific historical event and write their own picture book.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Connections to Writing: <span style="color: #7e0000;">Narrative</span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">—(1) </span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Simulated journal—pretend you are Michael and write in a journal as he makes his plans to drink out of the “White” drinking fountain. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">(2) Dialogue—create a dialog between Michael and his grandmother when she finds out his plan to drink out of the forbidden drinking fountain.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"></b></span></div><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">Connections to Social Studies: </span></b><span style="color: black;">This book can serve as catalyst to talk about segregation at the beginning of the Civil Rights movement. </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Topics Covered: </span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Segregation<b>, </b>African-American<b></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Translated to Spanish: </span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Translated to other languages:</span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> No</span></div><b><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Other formats: </span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">None</span>Nancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01606638515158354167noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4864090187210026681.post-6152930219315227142011-12-05T05:14:00.001-06:002011-12-05T05:16:51.482-06:00Mind Your Manners, Alice Roosevelt<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.2pt; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><img border="0" dda="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtyzjhJ81t5zj9eMOvkN1XyAPKD4u84ck7wsk6_8uYb0nk1uJcjGROg14PUcsbtRfuwH1YfR-md1ULO8Caf93lm2YHYB2i7_OzwA12nWAltzCO5m-6kGGBUcC7XH703npbmoCVQUL6UmQ/s1600/Mind+your+Manners.jpg" /> Title: </span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Mind Your Manners, Alice Roosevelt</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 3.15pt;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> Author: </span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Leslie Kimmelman</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 3.15pt;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> Illustrator:</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Adam Gustavson<a href="http://www.blogger.com/" name="_GoBack"></a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 3.15pt;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Publisher:</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> Peachtree</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 3.15pt;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> Publication Date: </span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">2009</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 3.15pt;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> Genre/Format:</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> Picture Book</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 3.15pt;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> Classification:</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> Fiction </span><span style="font-family: "Times", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height: 115%; 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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 3.15pt;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Summary: </span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Alice Roosevelt was headstrong, famous for her unconventional behavior and the oldest child of President Theodore Roosevelt. Alice did things her way and earned the nickname “Princess Alice.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While her father was in the White House she kept a pet snake, rode a pig and roller skated down the White House hallway. After Alice married and left the White House, she continued to be an unconventional force in politics.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A brief author’s notes provide further bibliographical information.</span><span style="font-family: "Times", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Personal thoughts:</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The first thing I noticed was the cover of the book where Alice is sitting on a desk and has a green snake wrapped around her arm. In the background you see her father scratching his head as if he doesn’t really know what to do with her. How many times have my own children seen me scratching my head in exasperation trying to figure out what I should do next? The illustrations are delightful, humorous and action filled throughout the book. I think children will love the fact that Alice doesn’t always conform to the rules just as they sometimes don’t conform to the rules either.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Read Together:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>grades K-3</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
<b>Read without help: grades</b> 3-6<br />
<b>Read With:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/What-Do-About-Alice-Roosevelt/dp/0439922313">What To Do About Alice?: How Alice Roosevelt Broke the Rules, Charmed the World, and Drove Her Father Teddy Crazy<b>!</b></a></span></i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Barbara Kerley, 2008)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Snippet of Text: <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">“Teddy knew how to handle being vice president of the United States. Then when President McKinley died suddenly in 1901, Teddy took charge and learned how to handle being president. But Teddy Roosevelt didn’t always know how to handle his oldest daughter, Alice.” (Unnumbered page)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">“Alice we don’t eat asparagus with gloves on.” (Unnumbered page)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">“Alice, that’s not how to ride a bicycle.” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Unnumbered page)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">“But handling Alice and her pet snake was not so easy. The snake’s name was Emily Spinach: Emily after Alice’s very thin Aunt Emily and Spinach for her green color.” (Unnumbered page)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Connections to Writing: </span></b><b><span style="color: #7e0000; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Expository</span></b><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">— </span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">(1)<b> </b>While Alice lived in the White House she had many different kinds of pets: dogs, birds, cats, and a snake. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Think of your favorite animal you might like to have as a pet and describe that animal. (2) <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Connections to Writing: <span style="color: #7e0000;">Narrative</span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">—(1) </span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Pretend your mother or father became president of the United States and you have just moved to the White House. Write a letter to your best friend back home telling him all about the wonderful things you were able to do on the first day of your new home. (2)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you lived in the White House you probably would be able to order any of your favorite foods. Write a menu of the foods you would like to have served to you while you live in the White House.</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">Connections to Social Studies: </span></b><span style="color: black;">(1) This book can serve as means to research the White House and how the building has changed from the original building. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Topics Covered: </span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Children who lived in the White House, Teddy Roosevelt, Alice Roosevelt</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Translated to other languages:</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> None</span></div><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Other formats: </span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">None</span><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtyzjhJ81t5zj9eMOvkN1XyAPKD4u84ck7wsk6_8uYb0nk1uJcjGROg14PUcsbtRfuwH1YfR-md1ULO8Caf93lm2YHYB2i7_OzwA12nWAltzCO5m-6kGGBUcC7XH703npbmoCVQUL6UmQ/s1600/Mind+your+Manners.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a></div>Nancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01606638515158354167noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4864090187210026681.post-38914907148494107552011-11-23T14:18:00.003-06:002011-11-23T14:24:50.648-06:00<div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; line-height: 19.2pt; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXK4pu3EzYQyLIpi0rpg7Nm16I5giXtdRYi3iZA928RFcy3ju2BF9MH6NzSrynpdvIxtBohhwfZ7I2WgVncOJxXyMeKpv4j94uUc-Axyu7Rw2RYltTJ-ff4ZRtWD4-qioPNvO-P15A0Go/s1600/14Cows.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" hda="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXK4pu3EzYQyLIpi0rpg7Nm16I5giXtdRYi3iZA928RFcy3ju2BF9MH6NzSrynpdvIxtBohhwfZ7I2WgVncOJxXyMeKpv4j94uUc-Axyu7Rw2RYltTJ-ff4ZRtWD4-qioPNvO-P15A0Go/s1600/14Cows.jpg" /></a></div><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.2pt; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Title: <em>14 Cows for America</em></span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 3.15pt;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Author: </span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Carmen Agra Deedy</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 3.15pt;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Illustrato</span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">r: Thomas Gonzalez<b></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 3.15pt;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Publisher:</span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Peachtree</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 3.15pt;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Publication Date: </span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">2009</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 3.15pt;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Genre/Format:</span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Picture Book</span><span style="font-family: "Times", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 3.15pt;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Summary: </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 3.15pt;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Wilson Kimeli Naiyomah is a student in New York studying to be a doctor during the time of 9/11. He returns to his native Kenya shortly thereafter and tells and the Maasai children a story that has “burned a hole in his heart.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In Kenya the cow is a symbol of life and Niyomah asks the elders of his tribe to bless his cow to give to help the people of America.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Altogether 14 cows were offered that day as a symbol of hope and healing for a grieving American nation.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 3.15pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Personal thoughts:</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I am always looking for new books to read and share with students. Many stories about 9/11 have emerged in the last few years, but I had not heard of the story of <span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Wilson Kimeli Naiyomah. I think it was the title that drew me to the book first, then I recognized the author (love her books….<em>The Yellow Star: The Legend of King Christian X of Denmark</em> is my one of my favorites); however it was the illustrations by Thomas Gonzalez that kept me turning page after page. Look at the last illustration in the book and you will be surprised at what you see in the child’s eyes.</span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/" name="_GoBack"></a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Read Together:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b>grades K-12<br />
<b>Read without help: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">grades</span> 3-12<br />
<b>Read With:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b><em>The Little Chapel that Stood </em>(A. B. Curtiss, 2003<em>); FIREBOAT: The Heroic Adventures of the John J. Harvey</em> (Maira Kalman, 2002).<b></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Snippet of Text: </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">“Buildings so tall they can reach the sky? Fires so hot they can melt iron? Smoke and dust so thick they can block out the sun? The story ends. More than three thousand souls were lost. A great silence falls over the Maasai.” (Unnumbered pages)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">“They treat their cows as kindly as they do their children. They sing to them. They give them names. They shelter the young ones in their homes. Without the herd, the tribe might starve. To the Maasai, the cow is life.” (Unnumbered pages)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Wilson Kimeli Naiyomah news report trailer</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YRdKYadnnA&feature=related"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YRdKYadnnA&feature=related</span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><a href="http://www.14cowsforamerica.com/"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: purple;">http://www.14cowsforamerica.com/</span></span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><br />
</div><b>Connections to Writing: Expository—</b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">(1) Write about the factors that contributed to the Maasai’s to nomadic lifestyle. (2) Compare and contrast your lifestyle and the lifestyle of the Maasai tribe. (3) </span><span style="color: black;">Create an ABC book about Kenya and/or the Maasai tribe<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">. </b></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Connections to Writing: Narrative</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">—</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(1) Create a found poem using words and phrases in <em>14 Cows for America</em> (2) After reading, students will write a personal connection response in journal. Share in small groups then ask for students to share writing in a whole class setting. (3) Write a journal entry, from the point of view of<span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> Wilson Kimeli Naiyomah, as he remembers that awful day of September 11, 2001.</span></span></div><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">Connections to Social Studies: </span></b><br />
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="color: black;">This book can serve as a catalyst for a research project on Kenya and the Maasai tribe: culture, geographic location, shelter, diet, music and dance and clothing.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Topics Covered: </span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Compassion, generosity<b>, </b>cattle, 9/11, Kenya, Maasai, nomadic people, South Africa, Naiyomah Wilson Kimeli, gifts</span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Translated to Spanish:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Yes</span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Translated to other languages:</span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> No</span></div></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Other formats: </span></b>No</div></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div>Nancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01606638515158354167noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4864090187210026681.post-3374774816660702512011-08-08T05:53:00.001-05:002011-08-08T05:54:44.039-05:00Guts<div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; line-height: 19.2pt; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsJ8UPRFOrgPqIC2LsbOLLuewtB3v_Y5hCEctnd1t4owIz5bqSUZ6Np2Bg9ajcNXA5iWIfpdBRO7kFgQk-0qKno_8xLgSgXCtNW9zSb8L6eAwlH3YdlCpNVH2EP5kOyODFKXGn5Ruj2kY/s1600/Guts.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" naa="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsJ8UPRFOrgPqIC2LsbOLLuewtB3v_Y5hCEctnd1t4owIz5bqSUZ6Np2Bg9ajcNXA5iWIfpdBRO7kFgQk-0qKno_8xLgSgXCtNW9zSb8L6eAwlH3YdlCpNVH2EP5kOyODFKXGn5Ruj2kY/s1600/Guts.jpg" /></a><b><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Title: </span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Guts: Our Digestive System</span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 3.15pt;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Author:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Seymour Simon<b></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 3.15pt;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Publisher:</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> Harper Collins</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 3.15pt;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Publication Date: </span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">2005<b></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 3.15pt;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Genre/Format:</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> Picture Book/ Nonfiction</span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 3.15pt;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Summary</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">: A detailed explanation of how food is digested as it travels along the digestive system in the human body.<b> </b></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Personal thoughts: </span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Simon’s books never stay in my classroom library. Both boys and girls will enjoy this book, although, I’ve had many a boy not want to put it back on the shelf when the bell rang. (Many of Simon’s books have disappeared off my shelves over a number of years. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If I didn’t own the book, I might be tempted to take it home and not return it either.) I’ve read several of Simon’s books and never cease to amaze me the quality of actual photographs included in his books. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Read Together:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">grades 2-7</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
<b>Read without help:</b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> grades</span> 4-7<br />
<strong>Read With:</strong> <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/The%20Heart:%20Our%20Circulatory%20System">The Heart: Our Circulatory System,</a></span><span style="color: white;">,</span>Seymour Simon (1996); <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Muscles-Muscular-System-Seymour-Simon/dp/0688177204/ref=pd_sim_b_3">Muscles: Our Muscular System</a>, Seymour Simon (2000)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Snippet of Text: <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">“When you swallow food, it <span style="background-color: white;">doesn’t</span> just fall down into your stomach. In fact, you can eat standing on your head (don’t try it, though; you might choke) and still get food to your stomach. Food is pushed along by two sets of muscles that line the esophagus. The muscles tighten and relax, pushing food along the tube—something like squeezing a tube of toothpaste. This movement is called peristalsis.” (Unnumbered page)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">“Point to your stomach. Surprise! It’s not behind your belly button, but higher up, tucked just beneath the left side of your rib cage.” (Unnumbered page)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Connections to Reading:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Activating background knowledge, Making connections, Vocabulary, Author’s purpose</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Connections to Writing: </span></b><b><span style="color: #7e0000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Expository</span></b><b><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">—</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The human body is an amazing machine that is made up of several body systems. Write a composition about the role of the digestive system in your body.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Connections to Writing: <span style="color: #7e0000;">Narrative</span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">— </span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">(1)<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b>Create a Top 10 list of why the digestive system is important to the human body; (2) You are a piece of bread and you love to travel to new places. Create a dialogue piece between two pieces of bread traveling along in the digestive system. </span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Connections to Art: </span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Create an ABC book about the digestive system.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Topics Covered: Translated to Spanish: </span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Translated to other languages:</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> No</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Other formats: </span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">No</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div><br />
<div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>Nancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01606638515158354167noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4864090187210026681.post-49478731141213662942011-08-04T12:02:00.003-05:002011-08-04T14:17:44.091-05:00The Pirate of Kindergarten<div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; line-height: 19.2pt; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfPKFAY0m8j5P9wzj8AtGrseEmxDnObZE4oZ4nuLdzwvnCpOzJADZ5vOg-6X11Si9xeedEsiozh7GWk5qn_uqttvhdVYghBQmjGeOQPdCg1MEibCWuNiQ48INLbw73N4bWTZOZUBnty7Y/s1600/Pirate.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfPKFAY0m8j5P9wzj8AtGrseEmxDnObZE4oZ4nuLdzwvnCpOzJADZ5vOg-6X11Si9xeedEsiozh7GWk5qn_uqttvhdVYghBQmjGeOQPdCg1MEibCWuNiQ48INLbw73N4bWTZOZUBnty7Y/s1600/Pirate.jpg" t$="true" /></a> <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.2pt; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><strong>Title: </strong>The Pirate of Kindergarten<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 3.15pt;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><strong>Author: </strong>George Ella Lyon</div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 3.15pt;"><strong><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Publisher:</strong> Atheneum Books for Young Readers</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 3.15pt;"><strong>Publication Date: </strong>2010</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 3.15pt;"><strong>Genre/Format:</strong> Picture Book/Fiction<span style="font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 3.15pt;"><strong>Summary: </strong>Ginny loves school, especially reading. Her eyes play tricks on her; in fact, everything she sees has a double. Ginny runs into chairs and tables and her classmates laugh at her clumsiness. It is only during a routine school vision check up that it was found she has double vision. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her persona changes after the doctor prescribes an eye patch—the pirate of kindergarten. <span style="font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><strong>Personal thoughts:</strong> I pulled this book from the library shelf because of the title. I have a grandson who just finished kindergarten, and he loves all things about pirates and pirate treasure. Thinking this might be a book I could read aloud, I pulled the book from the library shelf. <strong>It was not what I had expected; it was so much more!</strong> I love how the author bases this book on her own childhood experience and the colors the illustrator uses invites me to keep looking at the illustrations.(By the way, he and his younger brothers love the book; we even had to fashion an eye patch for all three boys to they could be pirates.) I think this would be a book to use in the classroom to talk about diversity. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><strong>Read Together</strong>:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>grades K-3<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
<strong>Read without help</strong><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">: grades</span> 2-4<br />
<strong>Read With:</strong><strong> </strong><span style="color: red;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Patch-Justina-Chen-Headley/dp/1580891705/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1312478094&sr=1-1">The Patch</a></span>, Justina Chen Headley (2007); <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_0_16?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=my+travelin%27+eye&sprefix=my+travelin%27+eye">My Travelin’ Eye</a>, Jenny Sue Kostecki-Shaw (2008).</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><strong>Snippet of Text: </strong></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">“Ginny loved Reading Circle. Getting there was hard, though, with all those chairs. She knew only half of them were real, but which ones? She always ran into some. Someone always laughed.” (Unnumbered pages)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">“Then came Vision Screening Day. Ginny was a little scared when they lined up to go into the gym.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She did fine at first reading letters on the white chart. The nurse put a black spoon over one eye and asked her to name the letters. She could do that. With one eye, she only saw one. It was the same when he covered the other eye. But when the nurse said, Now use both, Ginny froze.” (Unnumbered pages)<strong><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></strong></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><strong>Connections to Reading: </strong>Prediction, Author’s Purpose, Questioning, Visualizing,<strong> </strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Connections to the Text<span style="color: black;"></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><strong><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Connections to Writing: <span style="color: red;">Expository</span>—</strong><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Your little brother or sister has just found out they need glasses. You can remember what it was like to wear glasses for the very first time. Write an expository composition to your brother or sister about the things you like about glasses and the things you don’t like about wearing glasses (pros and cons).</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><strong>Connections to Writing: <span style="color: #7e0000;"><span style="color: red;">Narrative</span></span>— </strong><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">(1)<strong> </strong>Write a whole class Acrostic Poem describing Ginny.</span></div><strong>Connections to Health: </strong>Eating nutritious foods is an important part of a healthy diet to in order to keep your eyes healthy and strong. Research ten (10) fruits, nuts, vegetables and fish that will keep your eyes strong.<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><strong>Topics Covered: <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></strong>Visual impairment, double vision, self-esteem, kindergarten<strong>, </strong>vision screening</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><strong>Translated to Spanish:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></strong>No</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><strong>Translated to other languages:</strong> No</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.2pt; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><strong>Other formats: </strong>No</div></div>Nancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01606638515158354167noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4864090187210026681.post-65279887176368010212011-08-01T18:28:00.001-05:002011-08-01T18:34:54.141-05:00Piano Starts Here: The Young Art Tatum<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.2pt; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiMxKFs44wHWGzIa1_XRK0E5cFgzewhbqQNpdzS5wGoEonj3j9fz9lWc3J0Mq-wZLH7uCM0fkchyphenhyphenj8sC3SXYCK3roQ61eJVFk8xN-QOmSs-_n8dU-9TW5mJDYgMvEmGzhjKVaqNLz0fOY/s1600/Art+Tatum.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiMxKFs44wHWGzIa1_XRK0E5cFgzewhbqQNpdzS5wGoEonj3j9fz9lWc3J0Mq-wZLH7uCM0fkchyphenhyphenj8sC3SXYCK3roQ61eJVFk8xN-QOmSs-_n8dU-9TW5mJDYgMvEmGzhjKVaqNLz0fOY/s1600/Art+Tatum.jpg" t$="true" /></a><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Title: </span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Piano Starts Here:<b> </b>The Young Art Tatum<b></b></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 3.15pt;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Author: <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Robert Andrew Parker</span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 3.15pt;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Publisher:</span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> Schwartz & Wade Books</span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 3.15pt;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Publication Date: </span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">2008<b></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 3.15pt;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Genre/Format:</span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> Picture Book/ Biography/Nonfiction</span><span style="font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 3.15pt;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Summary: </span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">At a very young age, Art Tatum loved to play the piano. Musically inclined and born virtually blind in one eye with very limited sight in the other eye, he first plays at home, then in church, cafes, in bars, and eventually one the radio. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After being heard on the radio, Art travels all over the country to play as a professional jazz musician becoming one of the world’s most acclaimed jazz pianists.<b></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Personal thoughts:</span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> I absolutely love this book. While in the bookstore, and looking for another book, I saw this book on the shelf and picked it up to read. Written and illustrated by the author, you can feel the music of Art Tatum through words and illustrations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I immediately thought of other great musicians who are visually impaired:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ray Charles, Stevie Wonder, and Roy Orbison. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Read Together: </span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">grades </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">K-3<br />
<b>Read Without Help: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">grades</span> 3-12<br />
<b>Read With: </b></span><b><span style="color: red; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Charlie-Parker-Played-Be-Bop/dp/0531070956/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1312241491&sr=1-1">Charlie Parker Played Be Bop</a></span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">, (Chris Raschka, 1997) and </span><b><span style="color: red; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Ella-Fitzgerald-Tale-Vocal-Virtuosa/dp/B002ECEVVQ/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1312241542&sr=1-1">Ella Fitzgerald</a></span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> (Andrea Pinckney, 2002).</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Snippet of Text: “</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">My father never says much about my music, but I know he’s listening. Sometimes he even dances. Though he hardly moves, I can feel his big feet shake the floor. His rhythm matches mine, and I imagine I’m playing with a bass player tap-tapping his feet and slap-slapping his fingers. When I start Memphis Blues, my father pulls my mother from the kitchen, throws her apron on a chair and swings her across the floor until she laughs in spite of herself.” (Unnumbered page)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">“Now when I play, my fingers can do everything I want them to. I can make them whistle, I can make them sing. I can play one song and then weave another song in and out and through it.” (Unnumbered page)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxadblDT6zI&feature=related">Hear Art Tatum play ragtime jazz</a></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Connections to Reading:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span style="color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Activating Background Knowledge, Making Connections, Asking Questions, Visualizing, Author's Purpose</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></span></b><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Connections to Writing: </span></b><b><span style="color: #7e0000; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Expository</span></b><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">—</span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Everyone has that listens to music has a type that is their favorite. Think about the music you like to listen to and explain why you like listening to it. Be sure to include a few of your favorite artists and the songs you like to hear them sing. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Connections to Writing: <span style="color: #7e0000;">Narrative</span></span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">—(1) Pretend you are Art Tatum and write several (2-3) entries in your journal/diary as you travel from performance to performance. (2) <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Write a To-Do list of things that need to get done before your next musical performance.</span></div><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">Connections to Art: </span></b><span style="color: black;">Create a collage<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b>about a famous musician</span><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">Connections to Social Studies:</span></b><span style="color: black;"> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jazz music was an important part of the early 20<sup>th</sup> Century. Research jazz as it pertains to World War I and World War II, The Roaring Twenties and the Great Depression.</span><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Topics Covered: </span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Jazz, jazz<b> </b>musicians, </span><span style="font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">family, music, self-esteem, overcoming physical disabilities </span><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Translated to Spanish: </span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Translated to other languages:</span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> No</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Other formats: </span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">None</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><br />
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</div>Nancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01606638515158354167noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4864090187210026681.post-55640245811387154202011-07-28T05:56:00.005-05:002011-08-04T14:18:59.300-05:00Blockhead: The Life of Fibonacci<div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbIxPn2N533iD84OZoBIVt6gwJ6xCABb_fAFjZaqxnJp_zbMQiopjaUw5MCQkDBOPOxpJC9InZjk96uZ4t3rS1GFfn3e84AS_ZjOkbdMmxJFDmHNzDDbTuiAX8ovTOgK2r_zcyyvyHD1Y/s1600/Blockhead_Fibonacci.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbIxPn2N533iD84OZoBIVt6gwJ6xCABb_fAFjZaqxnJp_zbMQiopjaUw5MCQkDBOPOxpJC9InZjk96uZ4t3rS1GFfn3e84AS_ZjOkbdMmxJFDmHNzDDbTuiAX8ovTOgK2r_zcyyvyHD1Y/s1600/Blockhead_Fibonacci.jpg" t$="true" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.2pt; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Title: </span></b><b><span style="color: #7e0000; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Blockhead: The Life of Fibonacci</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 3.15pt;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Author: </span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Joseph D’Agnese</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><br />
<b>Publisher:</b> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Henry Holt</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><br />
<b>Publication Date: </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">2010</span><br />
<b>Genre/Format:</b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> Picture book/Nonfiction/Biography</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 3.15pt;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Summary</span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">: Perhaps one of the greatest Western mathematicians of all times, Leonardo Fibonacci was born in Pisa, Italy around 1170. Fibonacci was a whiz at math, in fact; he thought about numbers all of the time that he appeared to be daydreaming.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While on a trip with his father to a city in northern Africa, Fibonacci noticed merchants using a new numeral system borrowed from the Hindi in India, rather than the traditional Roman numerals. As an adult, Leonardo wrote a book about the Hindi-Arabic numbers, but he is most remembered for his number pattern called the Fibonacci sequence, a special numbered pattern that appears in nature.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 3.15pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Personal thoughts:</span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> <b>Read Together:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>grades </b>K - 12<b> </b><br />
<b>Read without help: grades</b> 4 – 12.<br />
<b>Read With:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Rabbits-Everywhere-Fibonacci-Tale/dp/1570918961/ref=pd_bxgy_b_img_c">Rabbits, Rabbits Everywhere: A Fibonacci Tale</a></span></b> (Ann McCallum, 2007); <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Growing-Patterns-Sarah-Campbell/dp/1590787528/ref=pd_bxgy_b_img_c">Growing Patterns: Fibonacci Numbers in Nature</a></span></b> (Sarah Campbell, 2010);<b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #7e0000; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Snippet of Text: </span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">“You can call me Blockhead. Everyone else does. One day when I was just a boy, Maestro wrote out a math problem and gave us ten minutes to solve it. I solved it in two seconds.” (pg.5-6)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">“My father took me to live in a city called Bugia in northern Africa. In my new home, I noticed the Arab merchants didn’t use Roman numerals. They used numerals they borrowed from the Hindu people of India. Back home, we wrote this: XVIII. Here, the merchants wrote this: 18. See how much easier it is? I wanted so much to learn about these numerals.” (pg. 21)</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/mpd/permalink/mJ5SQI45SIY9D/ref=ent_fb_link">Watch the book trailer for Blockhead: The Life of Fibonacci</a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Connections to Reading:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Activating background knowledge, Making connections, Set purposes for reading</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Connections to Writing: </span></b><b><span style="color: #7e0000; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Expository</span></b><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">—</span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Describe how you feel about solving math problems.<b></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Connections to Writing: <span style="color: #7e0000;">Narrative</span><span style="color: black;">—</span></span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">(1) You have just found out Fibonacci has died. You want to honor him by writing an <b>obituary </b>(2) Write an Acrostic Poem </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Connections to Art: (</span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">1)<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b>Draw a picture of all you know about mathematics. (2) Design a bumper sticker about Fibonacci sequence.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><br />
</div><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">Connections to Science: </span></b><span style="color: black;">The Fibonacci sequence emerges in nature and found in a variety of flowers and trees, generally associated with some kind of spiral structure. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For example, the leaves on a stem of a flower or a branch of a tree many times grow in a corkscrew, spiraling around the branch as new leaves form further out. Look at plants and flowers that illustrate the Fibonacci sequence: pinecones, pineapples and sunflowers.</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Topics Covered: </span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Fibonacci sequence, mathematics, mathematicians, Roman and Hindi-Arabic numbers</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Translated to Spanish:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">No</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Translated to other languages:</span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> Japanese</span></div><b><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Other formats: </span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">DVD (animated); audio</span>Nancyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01606638515158354167noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4864090187210026681.post-24696260449592896922011-07-24T16:13:00.013-05:002011-08-04T14:20:10.771-05:00Pink and Say<div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEid48fwleJ07UhzDim6enKqya3tI4Zm3S-vOjvhrI6gaSmzeNJDYWKVd52I47_A90ti92YwWFwLjTk_4G4iPjHNEjU5ab9yqogtwYOnh1JBjMrVWWCqWx9WsmgTFaQQOpphtN95V-edfpo/s1600/Pink+and+Say.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200px" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEid48fwleJ07UhzDim6enKqya3tI4Zm3S-vOjvhrI6gaSmzeNJDYWKVd52I47_A90ti92YwWFwLjTk_4G4iPjHNEjU5ab9yqogtwYOnh1JBjMrVWWCqWx9WsmgTFaQQOpphtN95V-edfpo/s200/Pink+and+Say.jpg" t$="true" width="150px" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Title: </span></b><b><span style="color: #7e0000; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Pink and Say</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Author: </span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Patricia Polacco<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Publisher:</b> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Philomel Books</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Publication Date: </b>1994<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Genre/Format:</b> Picture book/Historical fiction</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 3.15pt;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Summary: </span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Set during the Civil War and<b> </b>based on a true incident in the author’s own family history,<b> </b>Pink and Say is a story about interracial friendship of two young boys, Sheldon Curtis (Say) and Pinkus Aylee (Pink) both who are members of the Union Army.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Say is injured on the battlefield and Pink finds him, takes him home to his mother, Moe Moe Bay, where he and mother nurse him back to health. Before Pink is fully recovered, marauders come to Moe Moe’s house and both boys are captured and sent to Andersonville Prison.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pink was hanged and Say lives to tell the story that is passed on from generation to generation.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Personal thoughts:</span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> I still get goose-bumps after reading this story no matter how many times I read it. I love reading the book aloud to students as many of them have never heard <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Pink and Say</i>. I am always elated when I find that Say returned home, married, had a family and lived a very long life. There is such loss and sorrow when I read that Pink died just a short time after entering Andersonville Prison. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A powerful book to read aloud.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Read Together: <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>grades </span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">3 - 12<b> </b><br />
<b>Read without help: grades</b> 4 - 12<br />
<b>Read With: <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b></span><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #7e0000; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Januarys-Sparrow-Patricia-Polacco/dp/0399250778/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1311542503&sr=1-1">January’s Sparrow</a></span></i></b><span style="color: #7e0000; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> (</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Patricia Polacco, 2007), <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Just-Abraham-Lincoln-Patricia-Polacco/dp/0399254714/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1311542779&sr=1-1"><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #7e0000;">Jus</span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #7e0000;">t<b> in Time, Abraham Lincoln</b></span></i></a>(Patricia Polacco, 2011)<span style="color: #7e0000;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and </span></span><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #7e0000; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Sarah-Emma-Edmonds-Great-Pretender/dp/0761353992/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1311542660&sr=1-1">Sarah Emma Edmonds was a Great Pretender: The True story of a Civil War Spy</a></span></i></b><b><span style="color: #7e0000; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">(Carrie Jones, 2011).</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Snatch of Text:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">“I watched the sun edge toward the center of the sky above me. I was hurt real bad. For almost a year I’d been in this man’s war. The war between the states.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Being just a lad I was wishin’ I was home. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">My leg burned and was angry from the lead ball that was lodged in it just above my knee. I felt sleepy and everything would go black. Then I’d wake up again. I wanted to back to our farm in Ohio and sometimes when I’d fall into one them strange sleeps, I’d be there with my Ma, tastin’ baking powder biscuits fresh out of her wood stove.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Then I heard a voice. For a moment I thought I was fever-dreamin’, but then I felt strong hands touch my brow, splash water I my face.” (unnumbered page)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Connections to Reading: <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Activating background knowledge, Making connections, Anticipation Guide</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Connections to Writing: </span></b><b><span style="color: #7e0000; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Expository</span></b><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">—</span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Friendships are very important to middle school (elementary and high school) students. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Write a definition of what your friends mean to you and be sure you include examples.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Connections to Writing: <span style="color: #7e0000;">Narrative</span><span style="color: black;">—(</span></span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">1). Imagine yourself as a battlefield reporter for the Union Army and interview Pink and Say (2) Write a simulated journal/diary entry, for at least two days, from the point of view of either Pink or Say. (3) Create a Found Poem using words in the text.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Connections to Art: </span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Illustrate and create an <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ABC</b> book about the Civil War</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Connections to Social Studies: <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">This book can serve as catalyst for a research project for older students who are studying the Civil War. Students may work by themselves, pairs, or in groups of four to research the causes of the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln, Andersonville Prison, leaders of the Union or Confederate Armies.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><br />
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