This Is the Rope: A Story from the Great Migration |
Publication Information
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Author: Woodeson, Jacqueline |
Illustrator: Ransome, James |
Title: This Is the Rope: A Story from the Great Migration |
Date: 2013 |
Publisher: Nancy Paulsen Books |
City: New York |
ISBN, paperback: 978-0-399-23986-1 |
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):
memoirs/reminiscences
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HSE Descriptor(s):
language arts - reading
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Summary: |
A rope found by a little girl becomes a multigenerational object to her family and helps to tell the story of their migration from the South. It has many uses and eventually becomes a storytelling prompt. |
Teaching Ideas: |
Use this book as a read aloud to prompt the writing of memoirs and family stories. Compare and contrast rural life in the South with urban life in the North. Create a time line for this story.
Write a letter to one of the characters in this book.Create a reader's theater script from this book and perform it. Brown Girl Dreaming could be paired with this book. |
Teaching Strategies: |
Copy Change
http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/copy_change.pdf
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Creating a Classroom Magazine
http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/create_class_zine.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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Sketch to Stretch
http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/sketch_stretch.pdf
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