Growing Up in Coal Country |
Publication Information
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Author: Bartoletti, Susan |
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Title: Growing Up in Coal Country |
Date: 1996 |
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin |
City: Boston |
ISBN, paperback: |
ISBN, hardback: 0-395-67914-5 |
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):
nonfiction
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HSE Descriptor(s):
social studies
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Summary: |
Based on primary documents and oral histories, this book tells the stories of life in the coal mines in eastern Pennsylvania around the turn of the 20th century. |
Teaching Ideas: |
The book presents many issues to work with: child labor, safe working conditions, then-and-now comparisons. Semantic mapping and other graphic organizing would be useful, with headings such as "mining jobs," "mining life and conditions," "mining stories" and so forth. Details could then be mapped out as the text is read. Students could then be supported in developing summary writing by reworking the headings into introductory sentences. Using (Write and Share)2 students could share responses relating to their own working conditions, their own ethnic and social issues in preparation for writing about them. Teachers could use this book in several text sets including work, child labor, and the work of photographer Lewis Hine. |
Teaching Strategies: |
Creating a Classroom Magazine
http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/create_class_zine.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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Semantic Mapping
http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/semantic_mapping.pdf
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(Write and Share) 2
http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/write_share2.pdf
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Venn Diagrams
http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/venn_diagrams.pdf
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