I would love it- I'm teaching it right after winter break. Annie --- Amy Holtzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Lori, If you decide to teach Watsons as a unit, let > me know. I teach it every year in my sixth grade > class, and I have a good webquest using news > articles about the bombings. Amy Holtzer > > ________________________________ > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of > ljackson > Sent: Sun 12/3/2006 7:40 AM > To: Teachers Applying Whole Language; A list for > improving literacy with focus on middle grades.; > [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Mosaic: A > Reading Comprehension Strategies Listserv > Subject: [LIT] Race, Identity, Relationships and > Literature > > > > I have three young teachers working with small > groups of students in grades > 5 through 8. Each works within a small school with > multi-level classrooms > and each school is isolated geographically from one > another. We are > designing an inquiry based literature unit which > will use Blackboard > technology to facilitate lit groups across these > classrooms. The question > we have posed as central to the unit is: > > How does race inform identity and impact > relationships? > > We are beginning to brainstorm novels which could be > used with this study. > Here is what we have so far: > > Iggy;s House > Maniac Magee > Edger Allen > > Help!! In my former life, I was a first and second > grade teacher. Can you > help us build this list? I would love to include a > book in which there was > romance impacted by race, but it needs to be > relatively tame. > > Thank you all in advance!! > -- > Lori Jackson > District Literacy Coach & Mentor > Todd County School District > Box 87 > Mission SD 57555 > > http:www.tcsdk12.org > ph. 605.856.2211 > > > Literacies for All Summer Institute > "Literate Lives: A Human Right" > July 12-15, 2007 > Louisville, Kentucky > > http://www.ncte.org/profdev/conv/wlu > > > > _______________________________________________ > The Literacy Workshop ListServ > http://www.literacyworkshop.org > > To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go > to > http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/lit_literacyworkshop.org. > > Search the LIT archives at > http://snipurl.com/LITArchive > > > > _______________________________________________ > The Literacy Workshop ListServ > http://www.literacyworkshop.org > > To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go > to > http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/lit_literacyworkshop.org. > > Search the LIT archives at > http://snipurl.com/LITArchive > _______________________________________________ The Literacy Workshop ListServ http://www.literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/lit_literacyworkshop.org. Search the LIT archives at http://snipurl.com/LITArchive
