Blacker the Berry, The |
Publication Information
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Author: Thomas, Joyce Carol |
Illustrator: Cooper, Floyd |
Title: Blacker the Berry, The |
Date: 2008 |
Publisher: Harper Collins |
City: New York |
ISBN, paperback: 978-0-06-025375-2 |
ISBN, hardback: |
Recommended audience:
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ABE/ABLE:
Yes |
ESOL:
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Family:
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Young Adult:
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Picture:
Yes |
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General Information:
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Book Type(s):
poetry
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HSE Descriptor(s):
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Summary: |
The author explores all the warm colors of skin tones in delicious to the tongue words and images. |
Teaching Ideas: |
Pair these poems with those of Arnold Adoff's All the Colors of the Race and Thomas's Brown Honey and Broomwheat Tea. Readers can experiment with poems about the color of their skin. The poems encourage discussion of attitudes toward skin color between races but also within racial communities. Thomas's poetry always provides opportunities to explore uses of sound and metaphor in poetry. |
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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Discussion Webs
http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/discussion_webs.pdf
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Fluency Activities
http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/fluency_activities.pdf
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