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Me, All Alone, at the End of the World

Publication Information
Author:  Anderson, M.T. Illustrator:  Hawkes, Kevin
Title:  Me, All Alone, at the End of the World Date:  2005
Publisher:  Candlewick Press City:  Cambridge, MA
ISBN, paperback:  0763615862 ISBN, hardback:  

Recommended audience:
ABE/ABLE:   Yes ESOL:  
Family:   Yes Young Adult:  
Picture:   Yes

General Information:
Book Type(s):    fiction

HSE Descriptor(s):    social studies

Summary:
A boy enjoys living quietly by himself at the End of the World until Constantine Shimmer arrives and begins to "improve" the area with an inn and amusement park, demanding that tourists come and have "fun without end.

Teaching Ideas:
Other books with similar themes include Denise Fleming's Where Once There Was a Wood and The Rabbits by John Marsden. Students could discuss if some improvements really do make a place better. Students could also talk and write about how they resolve conflict in their lives.

Teaching Strategies:
bullet Agree? Disagree? Why?
   http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/agree_disagree_why.pdf
bullet Bleich's Heuristic for Responding to Reading
   http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/bleichs_heuristic.pdf
bullet Copy Change
   http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/copy_change.pdf
bullet Reader's Theater
   http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/readers_theater.pdf

Keywords: select any link below for a list of resources which also have that keyword
bullet Social Studies > anthropology > cultures > cultural conflict
bullet Emotions-Personal Issues > emotions > relocation, personal
bullet Emotions-Personal Issues > personal issues > individual > solitude
bullet Geography > environment
bullet Science > ecology
bullet Social Studies > sociology > social issues > exploitation
bullet Emotions-Personal Issues > emotions > independence


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