Me, All Alone, at the End of the World |
Publication Information
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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:
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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):
fiction
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HSE Descriptor(s):
social studies
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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: |
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Agree? Disagree? Why?
http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/agree_disagree_why.pdf
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Bleich's Heuristic for Responding to Reading
http://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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Reader's Theater
http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/readers_theater.pdf
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