When I Left My Village |
Publication Information
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Author: Shur, Maxine Rose |
Illustrator: Pinkney, Brian |
Title: When I Left My Village |
Date: 1996 |
Publisher: Dial |
City: New York |
ISBN, paperback: 0-8037-1561-7 |
ISBN, hardback: |
Recommended audience:
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ABE/ABLE:
Yes |
ESOL:
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Family:
Yes |
Young Adult:
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Picture:
Yes |
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General Information:
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Book Type(s):
fiction
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HSE Descriptor(s):
social studies
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Summary: |
This book tells the story of an Ethiopian Jewish family and their emigration from their violent and oppressed village to Israel. |
Teaching Ideas: |
Note that there is plenty of text in this suspenseful 62-page book. The scratchboard art is wonderful, and the opening map is helpful for charting the journey. The political events are fascinating and make this book a likely part of a text set on immigration and persecution. It could be paired with Grab Hands and Run and/or Tonight, by Sea (both by Temple). Teachers may want to present the book as a DR-TA or encourage response journals.
Judaism: www.judaism.miningco.com/religion/judaism Africa: www.africa.com |
Teaching Strategies: |
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DR-TA: Directed Reading Thinking Activity
http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/dr_ta.pdf
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