Mary Smith
Publication Information
Author:  U'Ren, Andrea	Illustrator:  U'Ren, Andrea
Title:  Mary Smith	Date:  2003
Publisher:  Farrar, Straus and Giroux	City:  New York
ISBN, paperback:  0-374-34842-1	ISBN, hardback:
Recommended audience:
ABE/ABLE:	ESOL:
Family:	Young Adult:
Picture:
General Information:
Book Type(s):    true story, easy reading, biography and autobiography
HSE Descriptor(s):
Summary:
Before the advent of alarm clocks, Mary Smith's job was to wake the workers of her village with her trusty peashooter.
Teaching Ideas:
Readers may enjoy brainstorming ideas and writing about how Mary woke herself each day in order to wake others. The book could be used in a small text set on historical work to explore jobs that no longer exist for discussion and then-and-now writing. Teachers can use the text to teach onomatopoetic words. Students can rewrite the story for a Readers' Theater activity. Learners may want to research the history of time-keeping in The Story of Clocks and Calendars: Marking a Millenium or online.
Teaching Strategies:
Book Conversations    http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/book_conversations.pdf
Fluency Activities    http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/fluency_activities.pdf
Helping Students in the Writing Process    http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/help_writing_process.pdf
K-W-L Instruction Strategy    http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/k_w_l.pdf
Reader's Theater    http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/readers_theater.pdf
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