To be a Slave
To be a slave. The words of black men and women who had themselves been slaves, accompanied by Julius Lester's historical commentary and Tom Feelings's powerful and muted paintings, To Be a Slave has been a touchstone in children's literature for over thirty years.
To be a slave. The words of black men and women who had themselves been slaves, accompanied by Julius Lester's historical commentary and Tom Feelings's powerful and muted paintings, To Be a Slave has been a touchstone in children's literature for over thirty years.
Memoirs of the period are usually larded with murders, suicides, mass brainwashing, cruel and unusual bullying, and injustices. Red Scarf Girl is no exception. At one point, Jiang even enters a police station to change her name in a confused attempt to dissociate herself from her branded and maligned family. Red Scarf Girl will be appreciated as a page-turner and as excellent discussion material for social studies curricula.
I am Malala
The Girl Who Stood Up For Education and Was Shot by the Taliban is an autobiography written by Malala Yousafzai, with the help of Christina Lamb, a five-time Foreign Correspondent of the Year. Malala begins her story as a young girl who lives in Pakistan in modern times.
The Freedom Writers' Diaries
As an idealistic twenty-three-year-old English teacher at Wilson High School in Long Beach, California, Erin Gruwell confronted a room of “unteachable, at-risk” students. One day she intercepted a note with an ugly racial caricature, and angrily declared that this was precisely the sort of thing that led to the Jewish Holocaust—only to be met by uncomprehending looks. So she and her students, using the treasured books Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl and Zlata’s Diary: A Child’s Life in Sarajevo as their guides, undertook a life-changing, eye-opening, spirit-raising odyssey against intolerance and misunderstanding.
Other Side of Sky: A Memoire
The Other Side of the Sky: A Memoir (originally published as The Story of my Life: An Afghan Girl on the Other Side of the Sky) is a memoir by Farah Ahmedi with Tamim Ansary. The book profiles the life of Farah Ahmedi from the time she was born until she was seventeen years old.
Escape from Slavery
The journey of one slave along the Underground Railroad continues with a daring escape north through the woods to freedom. Learn how slaves used the stars, trees, and rivers to help guide them.
Revolution is Not a Dinner Party
is a work of historical fiction written by Ying Chang Compestine and published in 2007. The story is set at the end of the Cultural Revolution in Wuhan, China. The novel is about a young girl from an upper-class family facing persecution and other challenges brought upon the upper class ...
Road of Lost Innocence
Somaly Mam wrote of being sold into sex slavery, then eventually making her way to freedom and working to make sure other girls escaped that fate.
Persepholis
Persepolis is a graphic autobiography by Marjane Satrapi that depicts her childhood up to her early adult years in Iran during and after the Islamic revolution. The title is a reference to the ancient capital of the Persian Empire, Persepolis.
Overview of Unit (see Nonfiction Guidelines/Schedule - top right side bar)
Every day the students will write about their reading on topics such as author purpose, characters, settings, conflicts and themes. We will work as a class to edit and revise student journal entries and then work in partnerships to improve our writing styles. In a week or so, students will learn about researching articles that align to their reading and comparing two texts on similar topics. This project will be due Dec. 13.
