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Birmingham, 1963 |
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Publication Information |
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| Author: Weatherford, Carole | Illustrator: |
| Title: Birmingham, 1963 | Date: 2007 |
| Publisher: Wordsong | City: Honesdale, PA |
| ISBN, paperback: 1-59078-440-5 | ISBN, hardback: |
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| ABE/ABLE: Yes | ESOL: Yes |
| Family: Yes | Young Adult: |
| Picture: Yes | |
General Information: |
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| Book Type(s): historical fiction | |
GED Descriptor(s): social studies |
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Summary: |
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| A fictional narrator tells, in poetry, about the day she turned 10, which was also the day of the church bombing in Birmingham | |
Teaching Ideas: |
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| This will be a wonderful addition to a text set about this incident or more broadly, about Civil Rights, especially paired with The Watson's Go to Birmingham. K-W-L would determine what students already know about the Civil Rights Movement. The Author's Note and poems about the girls who died are must reads and should lead to discussion. The poem is easy to read yet very powerful. | |
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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Copy Change http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/copy_change.pdf |
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K-W-L Instruction Strategy http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/k_w_l.pdf |
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Word Sorts http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/word_sorts.pdf |
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Unsent Letters http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/unsent_letters.pdf |
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