Book Detail
Find Where the Wind Goes |
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Publication Information |
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| Author: Jemison, Mae | Illustrator: |
| Title: Find Where the Wind Goes | Date: 2001 |
| Publisher: Scholastic | City: New York |
| ISBN, paperback: 0-439-13195-2 | ISBN, hardback: |
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| ABE/ABLE: | ESOL: |
| Family: | Young Adult: Yes |
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| Book Type(s): biography and autobiography | |
HSE Descriptor(s): social studies| language arts - writing |
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| This is an autobiography of Mae Jemison, the first woman of color to become an astronaut. She uses the metaphor of "wind" to describe events from her life. | |
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| Learners may want to develop a personality profile as they read. They may want to describe Mae as a child and consider how her personal characteristics aided her adult accomplishments. Additional information about space exploration is located at Yahooligans.com (search on "space"). An online biography for Jemison is located at http://www.quest.arc.nasa.gov/women/TODTWD/jemison.bio.html.Since this is a somewhat unusual format for an autobiography (it's chronological but written as a series of vignettes), teachers may want to use it as a springboard for discussing possible formats for biography and autobiography. Learners may want to consider why Mae chose those incidents to portray. | |
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 Book Conversationshttp://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/book_conversations.pdf |
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Helping Students in the Writing Process http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/help_writing_process.pdf |
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Save the Last Word for Me (Adaptation) http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/adapt_save_last_word.pdf |
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