Title: Mama Played Baseball
Author & Illustrator: David A. Adler Copyright: 2003 Publisher: HMH Books for Children Medium: N/A Summary: During World War II, Amy's father is sent overseas. Now her mother must find a job to support their family while her father is away. Her mother decided to take a job on the All American Woman's League. Amy is confused about this, but sees how hard her mother has worked to earn that spot. Ideal Students: I believe young girls would really enjoy this book because it shows them that if they really enjoy something they can do it. Core Standards: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.3.1 Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers. I believe this standard works with this book because students should be able to understand the text by listening intently.
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Title: Back of the Bus
Author & Illustrator: Back of the Bus Copyright: 2010 Publisher: Philomel Books Medium: Colored Pencil Summary: It's December 1, 1955 and a woman her child are sitting in the back of the bus (where they are supposed to be) heading home. The boy watches his marble move up and down the aisle and until a commotion breaks out. A woman sitting in front, Mrs. Parks, from the tailor shop will not give up her seat. This will be a bus ride he will never forget. Ideal Students: I believe young student would really enjoy this book because it shows students that they can be apart of something bigger. Core Standards: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.3.3 Describe the relationship between a series of historical events, scientific ideas or concepts, or steps in technical procedures in a text, using language that pertains to time, sequence, and cause/effect. This book works with this standard because it uses historical events to tell the story. Title: Follow the Drinking Gourd
Author & Illustrator: Bernadine Connelly and Yvonne Buchanan Copyright: 1997 Publisher: Rabbit Ears Books Medium: N/A Summary: This book uses the song "Follow the Drinking Gourd" to tell the story of how slave family escapes into the night using the song as the directions. Eleven year old Mary has heard rumors about many slaves escaping to the North by using the song "Follow the Drinking Gourd" as a guide. She doesn't believe them until her mother decides that her family is leaving the plantation to meet their father who went to the North. Ideal Students: I believe many students who African American roots would really enjoy this story Core Standards: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.2.1 Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text. This standard works with this book because students can answer these questions when reading the story. Title: The Name Jar
Author & Illustrator: Yangsook Choi Copyright: 2001 Publisher: Random House Books Medium: Painting Summary: Unhei is new to the country. She and her family have just immigrated from Korea and she worries that people will not be able to pronounce her name so she decides to pick a new one, but is unsure of what name she will choose. Her classmates decide to help her by giving her a name jar for her to pick out a name. She realizes that she likes her name and decides to keep it because it means Grace in English. Ideal Students: I believe students who are immigrants would really relate to this story because describes what these students may feel firsthand. Core Standards: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.3.2 Determine the main idea of a text; recount the key details and explain how they support the main idea. This standard works with this book because students should refer to examples in the text help determine the main idea of story. Title: The Butterfly
Author & Illustrator: Patricia Polacco Copyright: 2000 Publisher: Philomel Books Medium: Watercolor Summary: In the 1940's, the Nazis occupied a small French village and terrorized it. Monique is not surprised by it. One night, she sees a little girl sitting at the edge of her bed. She thinks she is ghost until the little girl tells her that she is living under the floor because Nazis are hunting people who are Jewish. The two become friends. One night someone saw her in the window and they had to leave or risk being discovered. Ideal Students: I believe many students can relate to this story because it's about a friendship, which many students can relate to. Core Standards: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.3.1 Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers. This standard works with this book because in order to understand the story students need to have background knowledge about the historical facts discussed. Title: The Bracelet
Author & Illustrator: Yoshiko Uchida and Joanna Yardley Copyright: 1976 Publisher: Philomel Books Medium: Watercolor Summary: The author recounts her life as a Japanese-American during World War II. It is 1942, Japan and the United States are at war and as ordered by the government, Japanese-Americans are sent to internment camps. Seven-year-old Emi is preparing to leave for the internment camp but before she leave, her friend gives her bracelet to remember their friendship. When Emi gets to the camp, she realizes she lost the bracelet. Soon Emi realizes she doesn't need a bracelet to remember her friend. Ideal Students: I believe many students who have parents that are immigrants would really love this book Core Standards: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.5.8 Explain how an author uses reasons and evidence to support particular points in a text, identifying which reasons and evidence support which point(s) This book works with this standard because at the end of the book students can read an afterword that supports the ideas from the story. Title: Just Like Josh Gibson
Author & Illustrator: Angela Johnson and Beth Peck Copyright: 2004 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers Medium: Pastel Summary: In this story, the narrator recounts their grandmother's life of wanting to be just like Josh Gibson, an African American baseball player. It is the 1940's and girls could not play baseball with boys, but they always let the grandmother play. One day, one of the team members hurts their arms. It gives Grandmama an opportunity to play just like Josh Gibson. Ideal Students: I believe young girls would really enjoy this story because it tells them that just because they are a girl it does not mean they can't do things that boys can do. Core Standards: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.1.2 Identify the main topic and retell key details of a text. I believe this standard works with this book because the main idea is that stated throughout the entire story. Title: Pink and Say
Author and Illustrator: Patricia Polacco Copyright: 1994 Publisher: Philomel Books Medium: Watercolor Summary: Say Curtis is telling the story about how he met Pinkus Alyee, a black soldier during the Civil War, to his daughter. Pink found Say laying the field wounded and rescued him. Pink took him home and helped him recover and developed a meaningful friendship. Tragically, the two were captured in placed in Confederate camps. Say was released, but Pink had died. Ideal Students: I believe students who love hearing stories told to them would love this book because it begins with a grandfather telling a story to a granddaughter. Core Standards: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.4.3 Explain events, procedures, ideas, or concepts in a historical, scientific, or technical text, including what happened and why, based on specific information in the text. This standard fits with this book because it uses history to tell the story that readers can learn more in depth about. Title: Grandfather's Journey
Author & Illustrator: Allen Say Copyright: 1993 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company Medium: N/A Summary: This tells the story of the author's grandfather and his journey to America. His grandfather visits one country and then feels homesick for another. The author does not understand what this means until he experiences the same thing. Ideal Students: I believe students who have immigrated from another country would really relate to this story. Core Standards: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.3.6 Distinguish their own point of view from that of the author of a text. I believe this standard works with this book because the story is told from one point of view but describing it from another. Title: Titanicat
Author & Illustrator: Marty Crisp and Robert Papp Copyright: 2008 Publisher: Sleeping Bear Press Medium: N/A Summary: This tells the story of a boy named Jim who is part of the cabin crew aboard the Titanic. The boy sees a cat hanging around the docks. He believes that all cats are lucky. As the ship begins to board, the boy realizes that he cannot find the cat. He goes out in search of the cat missing, which causes the ship to leave without him. He did not realize that cat saved his life. Ideal Students: I believe students who love animals, especially cats would really enjoy this story. Core Standards: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.4.5 Describe the overall structure (e.g., chronology, comparison, cause/effect, problem/solution) of events, ideas, concepts, or information in a text or part of a text. This standard works with this book because it obscurely uses cause and effect to tell the story. |