Vherses: A Celebration of Outstanding Women
Publication Information
Author:  Lewis, J. Patrick	Illustrator:  Summers, Mark
Title:  Vherses: A Celebration of Outstanding Women	Date:  2005
Publisher:  Creative Editions	City:  Mankato, MN
ISBN, paperback:  1-56846-185-2	ISBN, hardback:
Recommended audience:
ABE/ABLE:   Yes	ESOL:   Yes
Family:   Yes	Young Adult:
Picture:   Yes
General Information:
Book Type(s):    poetry, biography and autobiography
HSE Descriptor(s):    social studies
Summary:
Beautiful woodcuts and brief biographical paragraphs accompany poems about Rachel Carson, Emily Dickinson, Gertrude Ederle, Ella Fitzgerald, Anne Frank, Jane Goodall, Martha Graham, Fannie Lou Hamer, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Georgia O'Keefe, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Venus and Serena Williams.
Teaching Ideas:
Students might want to learn more about one of the women and then discuss/ write about how this author selected ideas for poems. Pairs of students could work with brief biographies, select important words and phrases, and then develop poems using them. Poems may be performed (The Williams sisters poem may be particularly good for this.)
Teaching Strategies:
Bleich's Heuristic for Responding to Reading    http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/bleichs_heuristic.pdf
Copy Change    http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/copy_change.pdf
Fluency Activities    http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/fluency_activities.pdf
Reader's Theater    http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/readers_theater.pdf
(Write and Share) 2    http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/write_share2.pdf
Keywords: select any link below for a list of resources which also have that keyword
Heroes and Heroines > well-known heroes Social Studies > sociology > women > women in history Social Studies > sociology > women > heroines History > region > U.S. History > well-known people > Roosevelt, Eleanor Literature and Language > poetry

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