Book Detail
Block, The |
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Publication Information |
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| Author: Hughes, Langston | Illustrator: Bearden, Romare |
| Title: Block, The | Date: 1995 |
| Publisher: Viking/ Metropolitan Museum of Art | City: New York, NY |
| ISBN, paperback: 0-87099-741-6 | ISBN, hardback: |
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| ABE/ABLE: Yes | ESOL: |
| Family: Yes | Young Adult: |
| Picture: Yes | |
General Information: |
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| Book Type(s): poetry, biography and autobiography | |
HSE Descriptor(s): language arts - reading |
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| This collection of Langston Hughes poems is complemented by the illustrations of Romare Beardon. An introduction by Bill Cosby precedes the collection, and biographies of the poet and artist conclude it. | |
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| The poems will be excellent choices for response activities in discussion, writing, or both (e.g., Bleich's Heuristic). Think-pair-share activities might focus on the relationship between the poems and the illustrations. Also interesting might be discussion or writing centered on the text as a whole: What conclusions can we draw about "community" as a concept? about life in the city? are these poems current or dated? In addition, individual poems could become part of text sets about love, death, dreams, immigration, or the African American experience. www.learner.org/catalog/literature/vvseries/vvspot/Hughes.html | |
Teaching Strategies: |
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 Bleich's Heuristic for Responding to Readinghttp://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/bleichs_heuristic.pdf |
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Think-Pair-Share http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/think_pair_share.pdf |
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