Book Detail

This Is the Rope: A Story from the Great Migration

Publication Information
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:
ABE/ABLE:   Yes ESOL:  
Family:   Yes Young Adult:  
Picture:   Yes

General Information:
Book Type(s):    memoirs/reminiscences

HSE Descriptor(s):    language arts - reading

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:
bullet Copy Change
   http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/copy_change.pdf
bullet Creating a Classroom Magazine
   http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/create_class_zine.pdf
bullet Fluency Activities
   http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/fluency_activities.pdf
bullet Reader's Theater
   http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/readers_theater.pdf
bullet Sketch to Stretch
   http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/sketch_stretch.pdf

Keywords: select any link below for a list of resources which also have that keyword
bullet Ethnic Groups > African-American
bullet Geography > locations > U.S. states/regions > New York
bullet History > region > U.S. history > Great Migration
bullet History > region > U.S. history > Civil Rights
bullet History > region > U.S. history > Civil Rights > segregation
bullet Communities > rural > rural life
bullet Communities > urban > urban living
bullet Geography > locations > U.S. states/regions > New York > New York City


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