Thunder at Gettysburg
Publication Information
Author:  Gauch, Patricia	Illustrator:  Gammell, Stephen
Title:  Thunder at Gettysburg	Date:  1990
Publisher:  G.P. Putman	City:  New York, NY
ISBN, paperback:  0-399-22201-4	ISBN, hardback:
Recommended audience:
ABE/ABLE:   Yes	ESOL:
Family:   Yes	Young Adult:
Picture:   Yes
General Information:
Book Type(s):    historical fiction
HSE Descriptor(s):    social studies
Summary:
This book is written in five chapters of free verse and tells the story of a young girl who was a witness to the battle of Gettysburg in 1863. The text is accompanied by several line drawings and a concluding historical note.
Teaching Ideas:
This book fits well into a unit on the Civil War, especially with Polacco's Pink and Say. Students may want to record their observations in a reading journal or may work to write a comparison description of an event that they lived through which affected them and changed them deeply. Teachers may want to discuss the dream-like quality of the art and the progression in the text from excitement and glory to compassion and grief. www.nps.gov/gett/index.htm; users.lr.net/~duda/; members.aol.com/jno1863/intro7.html
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Emotions-Personal Issues > emotions > death History > time period > 19th Century History > region > U.S. history History > topic > war > Civil War > Gettysburg History > topic > war > children and war

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