Fortune's Bones |
Publication Information
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Author: Nelson, Marilyn |
Illustrator: photographs |
Title: Fortune's Bones |
Date: 2004 |
Publisher: Front Street |
City: Asheville, NC |
ISBN, paperback: 1-932425-12-8 |
ISBN, hardback: |
Recommended audience:
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ABE/ABLE:
Yes |
ESOL:
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Family:
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Young Adult:
Yes |
Picture:
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General Information:
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Book Type(s):
poetry, nonfiction
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HSE Descriptor(s):
science| social studies
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Summary: |
A powerful poem, written in the form of a requiem, recovers the life and reconstructed history of a skeleton used by a Dr. Porter to teach anatomy in Waterbury, Connecticut. The format places author's notes across from sections of the poem told by different people. The book includes a glossary and information about the reclamation project. |
Teaching Ideas: |
There are so many discussion possibilities. Why does the author subtitle the work Manumission Requiem? What does Dr. Porter mean when he says, "I enter Fortune, and he enters me/I was not this body; I was not these bones." Why do you think the poet chose this reclamation project as the subject for her poem? This poem would be a powerful Readers Theater piece. Students could research information about about the use of forensics and anthropology to identify bodies. |
Teaching Strategies: |
Agree? Disagree? Why?
http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/agree_disagree_why.pdf
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Bleich's Heuristic for Responding to Reading
http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/bleichs_heuristic.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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Reader's Theater
http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/readers_theater.pdf
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Word Sorts
http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/word_sorts.pdf
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