Book Detail

Homemakers, The

Publication Information
Author:  Fisher, Leonard Everett Illustrator:  Fisher, Leonard Everett
Title:  Homemakers, The Date:  1973
Publisher:  Marshall Cavendish City:  New York
ISBN, paperback:  0-7614-0512-7 ISBN, hardback:  

Recommended audience:
ABE/ABLE:   Yes ESOL:  
Family:   Yes Young Adult:  
Picture:   Yes

General Information:
Book Type(s):    nonfiction

HSE Descriptor(s):    social studies

Summary:
The author presents American colonial history through descriptions of making candles, soap, cider, and brooms. Detailed black and white woodcuts illustrate these processes. The author includes a helpful index.

Teaching Ideas:
Teachers who like informational texts will appreciate the many strategies that can be used with this interesting book: skim, scan, Herringbone, clustering, mapping, historical then and now, and K-W-L. Students might enjoy the hands-on experience of making candles or brooms, which could entail writing, math and research possibilities. Use the book in a text set describing daily tasks of early American life such as Warm As Wool and Log Cabin Quilt. www.mos.ort/sin/Leonardo/InventorsToolbox.html

Teaching Strategies:
bullet Clustering
   http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/clustering.pdf
bullet Herringbone
   http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/herringbone.pdf
bullet K-W-L Instruction Strategy
   http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/k_w_l.pdf

Keywords: select any link below for a list of resources which also have that keyword
bullet Construction/Engineering > Building > machines
bullet History > region > U.S. history > founding of the country > early American life
bullet History > region > U.S. history > Westward Expansion > settlers' lives
bullet Science > physics


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