Book Detail

Borning Room, The

Publication Information
Author:  Fleischman, Paul Illustrator:  
Title:  Borning Room, The Date:  1991
Publisher:  Harper City:  New York
ISBN, paperback:   ISBN, hardback:  0-06-447099-7

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

General Information:
Book Type(s):    fiction, historical fiction, memoirs/reminiscences

HSE Descriptor(s):    social studies

Summary:
The narrator remembers growing up in southern Ohio in the 19th century, remembers farm life, celebrates her relatives with their varying ideas about slavery and religion, remembers her part in hiding slaves.

Teaching Ideas:
This 101-page book could be used with any of the Underground Railroad books in this collection. It also may be part of a unit on Ohio; see the Ohio History Matrix for additional titles. The details, language, and people are lovingly created and may invoke good creative writing among students. The rural setting may also provide teachers with good teaching possibilities. Teachers may want to work with the old-fashioned vocabulary, comparing dialects and regional differences in language, or may want to discuss various ways people throughout history have interpreted the Bible.

Keywords: select any link below for a list of resources which also have that keyword
bullet Emotions-Personal Issues > emotions > death
bullet Emotions-Personal Issues > personal issues > individual > morality
bullet Family > parent > birth
bullet History > time period > 19th Century
bullet History > topic > war > Civil War > Underground Railroad
bullet History > region > Ohio
bullet Religion/Philosophy > Bible
bullet Communities > rural > rural life > farms
bullet Social Studies > sociology > social issues > racism > prejudice


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