Marvelous Mattie |
Publication Information
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Author: McCully, Emily |
Illustrator: McCully, Emily |
Title: Marvelous Mattie |
Date: 2006 |
Publisher: Farrar, Strauss, Giroux |
City: New York |
ISBN, paperback: 0-374-34810-3 |
ISBN, hardback: |
Recommended audience:
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ABE/ABLE:
Yes |
ESOL:
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Family:
Yes |
Young Adult:
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Picture:
Yes |
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General Information:
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Book Type(s):
biography and autobiography, easy reading, true story
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HSE Descriptor(s):
science
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Summary: |
Based on the life of Margaret E. Knight, the book portrays an imaginative girl who overcomes the barriers of poverty and sexism to become an inventor of over 90 inventions with 22 patents. The author's note gives more biographical information while patent diagrams plus wonderful pen and ink and watercolor drawings illustrate the story. |
Teaching Ideas: |
Readers will want to note the character traits that enable Mattie to overcome great obstacles as well as the people who took Mattie seriously when she was a child and when she was an adult--and who didn't. The passages that concern industrial safety and child labor could be augmented by Lyddie and Kids at Work, both on the Eureka database. Since Mattie had to wage a legal battle to protect her paper bag machine, students might be interested in researching patents on the United States Patent and Trademark Office at www.uspto.gov/main/patents.htm. An Internet search using the keywords Margaret E. Knight results in many web sites for more information, especially about the machine for making paper bags. |
Teaching Strategies: |
Helping Students in the Writing Process
http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/help_writing_process.pdf
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Save the Last Word for Me (Adaptation)
http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/adapt_save_last_word.pdf
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Sketch to Stretch
http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/sketch_stretch.pdf
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Problem and Solution Outline and Text Frame
http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/prob_solution.pdf
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Unsent Letters
http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/unsent_letters.pdf
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Keywords: select any link below for a list of resources which also have that keyword |
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