Cats in Krasinski Square, The |
Publication Information
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Author: Hesse, Karen |
Illustrator: Watson, Wendy |
Title: Cats in Krasinski Square, The |
Date: 2004 |
Publisher: Scholastic |
City: New York |
ISBN, paperback: 0-439-43540-4 |
ISBN, hardback: |
Recommended audience:
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ABE/ABLE:
Yes |
ESOL:
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Family:
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Young Adult:
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Picture:
Yes |
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General Information:
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Book Type(s):
true story, easy reading
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HSE Descriptor(s):
social studies
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Summary: |
With a simple text and marvelous watercolors, Hesse tells a true story of the bravery of the Jewish Resistance who helped the Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II. End matter provides more historical background. |
Teaching Ideas: |
The moving text encourages prediction of facts about the narrator that are not stated: What is a Polish "look" and "walk" and why are they important? What had happened to the narrator and her sister prior to the story?
For a compare/contrast activity, perhaps using a Venn diagram, readers can look at the illustrations, the photographs in The Children We Remember, and the movie "The Pianist" in order to compare the inside of the walled ghetto with the outside in Warsaw, illustrated by the merry-go-round and the busy streets. An Internet search on the Warsaw Ghetto will provide pictures and information about the uprising for further discussion and writing. The text would make an interesting Readers' Theater script. |
Teaching Strategies: |
Literature Circles
http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/lit_circles.pdf
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Reader's Theater
http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/readers_theater.pdf
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Manzo's Guided Reading Procedure (Adaptation)
http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/manzo.pdf
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Problem and Solution Outline and Text Frame
http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/prob_solution.pdf
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Venn Diagrams
http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/venn_diagrams.pdf
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