Author: Christopher Paul Curtis
Publisher: Yearling
ISBN: 0385382952
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Celebrate the 25th anniversary of this Newbery and Coretta Scott King Honoree about a hilarious family on a road-trip at one of the most important times in America's history. This special edition makes a perfect gift and includes bonus content! Enter the hilarious world of ten-year-old Kenny and his family, the Weird Watsons of Flint, Michigan. There's Momma, Dad, little sister Joetta, and brother Byron, who's thirteen and an "official juvenile delinquent." When Byron gets to be too much trouble, they head South to Birmingham to visit Grandma, the one person who can shape him up. And they'll be in Birmingham during one of the darkest moments in America's history. "Every so often a book becomes a modern classic almost as soon as it arrives on bookshelves. That happened in the mid-'90s when Christopher Paul Curtis released his first book, The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963." --NPR "One of the best novels EVER." --Jacqueline Woodson, Newbery Honor and National Book Award–winning author of Brown Girl Dreaming
The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963
Author: Christopher Paul Curtis
Publisher: Yearling
ISBN: 0385382952
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Celebrate the 25th anniversary of this Newbery and Coretta Scott King Honoree about a hilarious family on a road-trip at one of the most important times in America's history. This special edition makes a perfect gift and includes bonus content! Enter the hilarious world of ten-year-old Kenny and his family, the Weird Watsons of Flint, Michigan. There's Momma, Dad, little sister Joetta, and brother Byron, who's thirteen and an "official juvenile delinquent." When Byron gets to be too much trouble, they head South to Birmingham to visit Grandma, the one person who can shape him up. And they'll be in Birmingham during one of the darkest moments in America's history. "Every so often a book becomes a modern classic almost as soon as it arrives on bookshelves. That happened in the mid-'90s when Christopher Paul Curtis released his first book, The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963." --NPR "One of the best novels EVER." --Jacqueline Woodson, Newbery Honor and National Book Award–winning author of Brown Girl Dreaming
Publisher: Yearling
ISBN: 0385382952
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Celebrate the 25th anniversary of this Newbery and Coretta Scott King Honoree about a hilarious family on a road-trip at one of the most important times in America's history. This special edition makes a perfect gift and includes bonus content! Enter the hilarious world of ten-year-old Kenny and his family, the Weird Watsons of Flint, Michigan. There's Momma, Dad, little sister Joetta, and brother Byron, who's thirteen and an "official juvenile delinquent." When Byron gets to be too much trouble, they head South to Birmingham to visit Grandma, the one person who can shape him up. And they'll be in Birmingham during one of the darkest moments in America's history. "Every so often a book becomes a modern classic almost as soon as it arrives on bookshelves. That happened in the mid-'90s when Christopher Paul Curtis released his first book, The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963." --NPR "One of the best novels EVER." --Jacqueline Woodson, Newbery Honor and National Book Award–winning author of Brown Girl Dreaming
The Watsons Go to Birmingham Novel Units Teacher Guide
Author: Lori Mammen
Publisher: Novel Units
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Describes suggested activities to be used in the classroom to accompany the reading of The Watsons go to Birmingham--1963.
Publisher: Novel Units
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Describes suggested activities to be used in the classroom to accompany the reading of The Watsons go to Birmingham--1963.
A Guide for Using The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963 in the Classroom
Author: Debra J. Housel
Publisher: Teacher Created Resources
ISBN: 0743931556
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
Pages perforated for removal and reproduction.
Publisher: Teacher Created Resources
ISBN: 0743931556
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
Pages perforated for removal and reproduction.
An Instructional Guide for Literature: The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963
Author: Suzanne Barchers
Publisher: Teacher Created Materials
ISBN: 1425897282
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 75
Book Description
Connect students with events from the past by completing fun, challenging activities and lessons with this e-book guide about a story based on tragic events that occurred in Birmingham as a result of racism. The Watsons visit their grandma in Birmingham, intending to have their troubled son stay with her to learn some discipline, but return home when there is a bombing in a local church. This literary instructional guide is filled with rigorous cross-curricular lessons and activities that work in conjunction with the fictional text to teach students how to comprehend complex literature and help them understand the significance of the historical events the story is based on. This resource supports Common Core Learning Standards and is packed with tools to teach students how to analyze story elements in multiple ways, practice close reading and text-based vocabulary, determine meaning through text-dependent questions, and more. This is the perfect way to add rigor to your students' explorations of rich, complex literature.
Publisher: Teacher Created Materials
ISBN: 1425897282
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 75
Book Description
Connect students with events from the past by completing fun, challenging activities and lessons with this e-book guide about a story based on tragic events that occurred in Birmingham as a result of racism. The Watsons visit their grandma in Birmingham, intending to have their troubled son stay with her to learn some discipline, but return home when there is a bombing in a local church. This literary instructional guide is filled with rigorous cross-curricular lessons and activities that work in conjunction with the fictional text to teach students how to comprehend complex literature and help them understand the significance of the historical events the story is based on. This resource supports Common Core Learning Standards and is packed with tools to teach students how to analyze story elements in multiple ways, practice close reading and text-based vocabulary, determine meaning through text-dependent questions, and more. This is the perfect way to add rigor to your students' explorations of rich, complex literature.
Nonfiction Comprehension Test Practice: Level 6
Author:
Publisher: Teacher Created Materials
ISBN: 1425892590
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 147
Book Description
Based on articles from TIME for Kids magazine, activities provide reading comprehension practice in standardized test format.
Publisher: Teacher Created Materials
ISBN: 1425892590
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 147
Book Description
Based on articles from TIME for Kids magazine, activities provide reading comprehension practice in standardized test format.
The Watsons Go to Birmingham, 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis
Author: Anita Yeoman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781897157152
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781897157152
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
Teaching Banned Books
Author: Pat R. Scales
Publisher: American Library Association
ISBN: 9780838908075
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
As a standard-bearer for intellectual freedom, the school librarian is in an ideal position to collaborate with teachers to not only protect the freedom to read but also ensure that valued books with valuable lessons are not quarantined from the readers for whom they were written.
Publisher: American Library Association
ISBN: 9780838908075
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
As a standard-bearer for intellectual freedom, the school librarian is in an ideal position to collaborate with teachers to not only protect the freedom to read but also ensure that valued books with valuable lessons are not quarantined from the readers for whom they were written.
Nonfiction Comprehension Test Practice Level 4
Author: Jennifer Overend Prior
Publisher: Teacher Created Materials
ISBN: 142580425X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 147
Book Description
Contains 20 nonfiction articles and comprehension exercises in standardized test format designed to help students become better readers and test takers.
Publisher: Teacher Created Materials
ISBN: 142580425X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 147
Book Description
Contains 20 nonfiction articles and comprehension exercises in standardized test format designed to help students become better readers and test takers.
A Wrinkle in Time
Author: Madeleine L'Engle
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
ISBN: 1429915641
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
NEWBERY MEDAL WINNER • TIME MAGAZINE’S 100 BEST FANTASY BOOKS OF ALL TIME • NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM DISNEY Read the ground-breaking science fiction and fantasy classic that has delighted children for over 60 years! "A Wrinkle in Time is one of my favorite books of all time. I've read it so often, I know it by heart." —Meg Cabot Late one night, three otherworldly creatures appear and sweep Meg Murry, her brother Charles Wallace, and their friend Calvin O'Keefe away on a mission to save Mr. Murray, who has gone missing while doing top-secret work for the government. They travel via tesseract--a wrinkle that transports one across space and time--to the planet Camazotz, where Mr. Murray is being held captive. There they discover a dark force that threatens not only Mr. Murray but the safety of the whole universe. A Wrinkle in Time is the first book in Madeleine L’Engle’s Time Quintet.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
ISBN: 1429915641
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
NEWBERY MEDAL WINNER • TIME MAGAZINE’S 100 BEST FANTASY BOOKS OF ALL TIME • NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM DISNEY Read the ground-breaking science fiction and fantasy classic that has delighted children for over 60 years! "A Wrinkle in Time is one of my favorite books of all time. I've read it so often, I know it by heart." —Meg Cabot Late one night, three otherworldly creatures appear and sweep Meg Murry, her brother Charles Wallace, and their friend Calvin O'Keefe away on a mission to save Mr. Murray, who has gone missing while doing top-secret work for the government. They travel via tesseract--a wrinkle that transports one across space and time--to the planet Camazotz, where Mr. Murray is being held captive. There they discover a dark force that threatens not only Mr. Murray but the safety of the whole universe. A Wrinkle in Time is the first book in Madeleine L’Engle’s Time Quintet.
A Guide for Using The Adventures of Tom Sawyer in the Classroom
Author: Katie Eyles
Publisher: Teacher Created Resources
ISBN: 157690637X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
A quality collection of treasured classics, fully illustrated and carefully adapted for children.
Publisher: Teacher Created Resources
ISBN: 157690637X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
A quality collection of treasured classics, fully illustrated and carefully adapted for children.