I would love a copy of this too, if you don't mind. The Watsons is one of my favorite books to teach.
May Dartez/6th/GA On Dec 4, 2006, at 12:47 PM, Andrea Countryman wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ 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
