Book Detail
Free To Dream |
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Publication Information |
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| Author: Osofsky, Audrey | Illustrator: |
| Title: Free To Dream | Date: 1996 |
| Publisher: Lothrop | City: New York |
| ISBN, paperback: 0-688-10605-6 | ISBN, hardback: |
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| ABE/ABLE: Yes | ESOL: |
| Family: Yes | Young Adult: Yes |
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| Book Type(s): biography and autobiography, nonfiction | |
HSE Descriptor(s): language arts - reading| social studies |
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| This book, subtitled The Making of a Poet: Langston Hughes, offers Hughes's poetry as well as a biography. | |
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| Students may want to make a timeline of Hughes's life and perhaps add other important events from the 20th century. This may lead to discussion or writing that focuses on the interplay between/among current events, Hughes's life, and his poetry. They may also want to study poems from different decades of Hughes's life to focus on what aspects of his poetic style changed and what stayed the same throughout his life. Possible text sets: authors, Harlem Renaissance, Great Migration, the Depression. Langston Hughes www.learner.org/catalog/literature/vvseries/vvspot/Hughes.html; Great Migration www.peak.org/~raransom/pioneers.html; Harlem Renaissance www.nku.edu/~diesmarJ/harlem_intro.html | |
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