Book Detail
Brothers War, The: Civil War Voices in Verse |
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Publication Information |
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| Author: Lewis, J. Patrick | Illustrator: |
| Title: Brothers War, The: Civil War Voices in Verse | Date: 2007 |
| Publisher: National Georgraphic | City: Washington, DC |
| ISBN, paperback: 978-1-4263-0036-3 | ISBN, hardback: |
Recommended audience: |
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| ABE/ABLE: Yes | ESOL: |
| Family: | Young Adult: Yes |
| Picture: Yes | |
General Information: |
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| Book Type(s): poetry, nonfiction | |
HSE Descriptor(s): social studies |
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Summary: |
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| Well-known poet J. Patrick Lewis includes archival photographs and factual information to expand the emotional of his poems that give voice to individuals who were caught up in the Civil War. The book also includes a map, a timeline, a bibliography, and the author's notes on each poem. | |
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| This book joins an extensive text set on the Civil War. Individual poems can be excerpted to supplement class study e.g. slavery, Frederick Douglass, John Brown. The personal voice of many poems would make a moving Readers' Theater exercise. Students might discuss issues that have divided their families. Lewis uses diverse poetic forms that might encourage readers to try to write one of their own. Since several poems are letters, students might write an "unsent letter" to one of the characters. | |
Teaching Strategies: |
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 Bleich's Heuristic for Responding to Readinghttp://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/bleichs_heuristic.pdf |
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Copy Change http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/copy_change.pdf |
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Fluency Activities http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/fluency_activities.pdf |
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Reader's Theater http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/readers_theater.pdf |
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Unsent Letters http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/unsent_letters.pdf |
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