In Coal Country
Publication Information
Author:  Hendershot, Judith	Illustrator:  Allen, Thomas B.
Title:  In Coal Country	Date:  1989
Publisher:  Knopf	City:  New York
ISBN, paperback:	ISBN, hardback:  0-394-88190-7
Recommended audience:
ABE/ABLE:   Yes	ESOL:
Family:   Yes	Young Adult:
Picture:   Yes
General Information:
Book Type(s):    fiction, easy reading, memoirs/reminiscences
HSE Descriptor(s):    social studies
Summary:
Living in a small Ohio mining town, a small girl tells of her family's life in the first part of this century.
Teaching Ideas:
This book could be part of a geographical unit on Ohio or part of a unit on reminiscences. Readers may want to tell their own childhood stories or those of their parents. This book might fuel an oral history project and inspire readers to interview their elders. It could be the basis of comparison and contrast writing (i.e., then and now, coal mining region vs. another region). Family literacy teachers may want to contrast this book with George Ella Lyon's Mama is a Miner. For more information about the area, see website (http://cass.etsu.edu/archives/). For additional books on family history and Ohio history see the Family History and the Ohio History Matrices
Teaching Strategies:
Matrices or Charts    http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/matrices_charts.pdf
Keywords: select any link below for a list of resources which also have that keyword
Family > children > childhood memories Family > family history Family > grandparents > grandparent-child relationships History > region > Ohio Communities > rural > rural life Work Geography > locations > U.S. states/regions > Appalachia

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