Who Came Down That Road?
Publication Information
Author:  Lyon, George Ella	Illustrator:  Catalanotto, Peter
Title:  Who Came Down That Road?	Date:  1996
Publisher:  Orchard Books	City:  New York
ISBN, paperback:  0-531-05987-1	ISBN, hardback:
Recommended audience:
ABE/ABLE:   Yes	ESOL:
Family:   Yes	Young Adult:
Picture:   Yes
General Information:
Book Type(s):    easy reading, fiction
HSE Descriptor(s):    social studies| science
Summary:
A mother answers her son's question, "Who came down that road, Mama?" by going back through time to the creation of the world.
Teaching Ideas:
Students could make a timeline, developing and redeveloping a scale to represent time, using markers such as Civil War, Native American life, mastodons, and inland sea to research dates. Students may enjoy discussing how we know that these events occurred. The transition from personal history to political history to history of species to geological history suggests that family history is the starting point for historical understanding. Students may want to try to research their "history" in this pattern. The illustrations make excellent writing prompts.
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Family > mothers > mother-child relationships History > time period > Prehistory History > region > Ohio

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