Book Detail

Snow Toward Evening

Publication Information
Author:  Frank, Josette (Editor) Illustrator:  Locker, Thomas
Title:  Snow Toward Evening Date:  1990
Publisher:  Dial Books City:  New York, NY
ISBN, paperback:  0-8037-0810-6 ISBN, hardback:  

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

General Information:
Book Type(s):    poetry

HSE Descriptor(s):    language arts - reading

Summary:
In this book 13 poets and the landscape painter Thomas Locker combine to invite us to enjoy nature's splendor through the changing seasons.

Teaching Ideas:
Poems could easily be excerpted for use with other units. Learners may want to explore the relationship between the poems and the illustrations. This book might supplement study of the seasons, nature, or cycles of life. A Thomas Locker study might include this and his other texts.

Teaching Strategies:
bullet Agree? Disagree? Why?
   http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/agree_disagree_why.pdf

Keywords: select any link below for a list of resources which also have that keyword
bullet Art and Photography > art
bullet Geography > environment
bullet Science > meteorology > weather > seasons
bullet Science > biology > zoology > animal behavior > life cycles
bullet Science > meteorology > weather
bullet Literature and Language > authors > Hughes, Langston
bullet Science > nature
bullet Literature and Language > poetry


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