Casey at the Bat
Publication Information
Author:  Bing, Christopher	Illustrator:  Bing, Christopher
Title:  Casey at the Bat	Date:  2000
Publisher:  Handprint Books	City:  Brooklyn, NY
ISBN, paperback:  1-929766-00-9	ISBN, hardback:
Recommended audience:
ABE/ABLE:   Yes	ESOL:
Family:   Yes	Young Adult:   Yes
Picture:   Yes
General Information:
Book Type(s):    easy reading, poetry, legends, tales, and myths
HSE Descriptor(s):    language arts - reading
Summary:
This is the famous baseball poem told in scrapbook form with illustrations and "news clippings".
Teaching Ideas:
"Casey at the Bat" is a classic in American narrative poetry written in (mock) heroic couplets. Readers could write a sports account from the newspaper about a current baseball, basketball, or football game in couplets. lose. The rhythms and rhymes encourage a Readers' Theater activity. Learners will enjoy looking at the fictional newsclippings, stereopticon shots, and engravings.If several students are reading the book, teams can make up trivia questions based upon the information in the illustrations. Math activities might compare the cost of a ticket in 1888 and aticket for an Indians game cost today.
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Social Studies > anthropology > folklore > folktales History > time period > 19th Century Math > statistics Sports/Recreation > baseball Literature and Language > poetry

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