Thunder at Gettysburg |
Publication Information
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Author: Gauch, Patricia |
Illustrator: Gammell, Stephen |
Title: Thunder at Gettysburg |
Date: 1990 |
Publisher: G.P. Putman |
City: New York, NY |
ISBN, paperback: 0-399-22201-4 |
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):
historical fiction
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HSE Descriptor(s):
social studies
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Summary: |
This book is written in five chapters of free verse and tells the story of a young girl who was a witness to the battle of Gettysburg in 1863. The text is accompanied by several line drawings and a concluding historical note. |
Teaching Ideas: |
This book fits well into a unit on the Civil War, especially with Polacco's Pink and Say. Students may want to record their observations in a reading journal or may work to write a comparison description of an event that they lived through which affected them and changed them deeply. Teachers may want to discuss the dream-like quality of the art and the progression in the text from excitement and glory to compassion and grief.
www.nps.gov/gett/index.htm; users.lr.net/~duda/; members.aol.com/jno1863/intro7.html |
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