Book Detail
In the Promised Land |
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Publication Information |
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| Author: Rappaport, Doreen | Illustrator: Van Wright, Cornelius & Ying-Hwa Hu |
| Title: In the Promised Land | Date: 2005 |
| Publisher: Harper Collins | City: New York |
| ISBN, paperback: 0-688-17150-8 | ISBN, hardback: |
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| ABE/ABLE: Yes | ESOL: |
| Family: | Young Adult: |
| Picture: Yes | |
General Information: |
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| Book Type(s): biography and autobiography | |
HSE Descriptor(s): social studies |
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| From Asser Levy in 1654 to Steven Spielberg today, this book provides one-page illustrated biographies of thirteen famous Jews. In addition, the author includes other print and web resources. | |
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| In preparation for writing or discussion, students might develop a matrix to note the dates, contributions and characteristics of the people included in the text for purposes of comparison and contrast. Since the selection of outstanding Jewish Americans seems somewhat arbitrary, readers may want to research other figures, add them to the matrix, and write a brief description of them using those in the book as models. These web sites provide information on outstanding American Jews: www.amuseum.org/jahf/virtour/index.html. and http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_American_Jews. Readers could also research a famous American of their own national or ethnic group to present to the class. | |
Teaching Strategies: |
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 Clusteringhttp://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/clustering.pdf |
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Matrices or Charts http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/matrices_charts.pdf |
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Think-Pair-Share http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/think_pair_share.pdf |
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Brainstorming Activities (Guidelines) http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/brainstorming.pdf |
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(Write and Share) 2 http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/write_share2.pdf |
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