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What Color is My World? MC BIN/OVERCOMING
ADVERSITY
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Summary of content/review: This book highlights
the inventions, still used today, by African American inventors. Many of these inventors are overseen, but
without their inventions, life as we know it today wouldn’t exist. This text highlights these inventors and
their accomplishments, all while paying tribute to their African American
heritage.
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Evaluation: This book is an informational text,
set up in a fun and engaging format for elementary-aged audiences. It has a handful of flaps, filled with fun
facts about these inventors and inventions.
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Target audience: 4th-6th
grades
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Connection to classroom: I would use this text
in my classroom as a reference for conducting research about these people and
their inventions. I would also use this
text when speaking about accomplishments of African Americans.
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Julie Andrews Poems POETRY
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Summary of content/review: This work is an
assortment of poems hand picked, and some even written by Julie Andrews and her
daughter, describing coming of age.
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Evaluation: The overall theme of these poems is
coming of age. These poems explore the
innocence of childhood, to the tribulations of teenage years, to the arrival of
adulthood.
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Target audience: 6th grade and up
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Connection to classroom: I would use these poems
during a coming-of-age unit as a supplementary text, having students pay close
attention to the specific diction and word choice used to convey the theme.
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Tuck Everlasting COMING OF AGE BIN
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Summary of content/review: This fictional novel
describes young love and a confrontation with a life-changing choice. Winnie Foster’s childhood/adolescence, set in
the Victorian era, is showing of the times.
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Evaluation: The major theme in this novel is
coming-of-age. Winnie is faced with a
life-changing decision that of which would affect every facet of her current
position.
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Target audience: 4th-6th
grades
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Connection to classroom: I would use this text
when discussing theme of texts, specifically, coming-of-age. I would use this text as a mentor text.
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Words Set Me Free – MC BIN/OVERCOMING ADVERSITY
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Summary of content/review: This text depicts
Fredrick Douglass through his childhood years, along with his love for writing,
and his desire for African Americans to be treated equally.
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Evaluation: This text uses the theme of overcoming
adversity and remaining true to self in times of struggle. The depiction of Frederick Douglass as a
young boy makes him relatable to children.
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Target audience: 3rd-5th
grade
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Connection to classroom: I would use this text
in a thematic bin focusing on the overcoming of adversity. I would also use this text during a social
studies unit that depicts adversity and how it was shown throughout U.S.
history.
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Love that Dog POETRY
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Summary of content/review: This text depicts the
unwillingness of the main character, Jack, to read or write poetry, but all
that changes once he meets his favorite author, and write about the connection
and heartbreaking experience of losing his dog.
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Evaluation: This text uses rhyme, as well as
characterization, to relate to young readers, as well as inspire them to read
and write poetry.
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Target audience: 2nd-4th
grade
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Connection to classroom: I would use this text
to introduce poetry at the beginning of the year, as well as ignite interest
among unwilling readers in my classroom.
I feel that Jack’s unwillingness to read and write poetry may inspire
reluctant readers in the classroom.
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The Hundred Dresses MULTICULTURAL BIN/OVERCOMING
ADVERSITY
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Summary of content/review: This story’s main
character Wanda, is a Polish immigrant now attending a public school in
Connecticut. Wanda, coming from a poor
family, is teased and fabricates this story that she has 100 dresses in her
closet. The teasing becomes so terrible
that Wanda’s parents remove her from the school, all the while she wins a
drawing contest that highlights her amazing talent, a talent that also awes the
classroom bullies.
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Evaluation: The theme of being faced with and
overcoming adversity is prominent throughout this story. Also, the occurrence of bullying is something
that makes this book relatable and a learning source for many school-aged
children.
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Target audience: 2nd-3rd
grades
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Connection to classroom: I would use this text
when discussing bullying and feelings.
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The Liberation of Gabriel King MC/FACING FEARS
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Summary of content/review: This story highlights
the fears and confrontation of fears of Gabriel King, along with his friend
Frita. Gabriel lives in a world of
diversity and segregation that he must deal with on a daily basis.
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Evaluation: The theme of facing fears and being
confronted with adversity is running throughout this story, as well as having
characters that are easily relatable to young readers.
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Target audience: 5th grade
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Connection to classroom: I would use this text
when discussing segregation, and what daily life was like during this time
period.
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