Book Detail
Freedom on the Menu |
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Publication Information |
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| Author: Weatherford, Carole Boston | Illustrator: Lagarrique, Jerome |
| Title: Freedom on the Menu | Date: 2005 |
| Publisher: Dial | City: New York |
| ISBN, paperback: 0-8037-2860-3 | ISBN, hardback: |
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| ABE/ABLE: Yes | ESOL: Yes |
| Family: Yes | Young Adult: |
| Picture: Yes | |
General Information: |
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| Book Type(s): historical fiction, easy reading | |
HSE Descriptor(s): social studies |
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Summary: |
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| The author portrays the 1960's Civil Rights sit-ins at the Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina through the eyes of a young Southern black girls. Richly muted paintings illustrate the story. | |
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| Teachers will want to use this book in a text set on Civil Rights. Unsent Letters could be developed from the young girl to her older siblings as they are jailed for their part in the protests. A Venn Diagram comparing and contrasting the lunch counter protests and the bus boycotts would raise important issues about how a movement starts, often with a person or small group, and grows and evolves to some change. Students could create a classroom newspaper about the event. | |
Teaching Strategies: |
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 Agree? Disagree? Why?http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/agree_disagree_why.pdf |
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Creating a Classroom Magazine http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/create_class_zine.pdf |
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Matrices or Charts http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/matrices_charts.pdf |
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Venn Diagrams http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/venn_diagrams.pdf |
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Unsent Letters http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/unsent_letters.pdf |
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