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Subject(s)

• American literature—African American authors—Study and teaching [Browse]
• American literature—African American authors—Bibliography [Browse]
• Young adult literature, American—Study and teaching [Browse]
• Children's literature, American—Study and teaching [Browse]
• African Americans in literature—Study and teaching [Browse]
• Young adults—Books and reading—United States [Browse]
• Young adult literature, American—Bibliography [Browse]
• Children's literature, American—Bibliography [Browse]
• Children—Books and reading—United States [Browse]
• African American illustrators—Biography [Browse]
• African American authors—Biography [Browse]
• Coretta Scott King Award [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Bibliographies [Browse]
• Biographies [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• bibliographies [Browse]
• collective biographies [Browse]

Summary note

Synopsis: Presents descriptions of outstanding children's literature and ideas for using these works in the classroom. Titles are all winners of the Coretta Scott Kind Award and focus on African American voices, although the universal appeal of these winners' narratives has enticed readers of all ethnic backgrounds over three decades. Part I overviews the history of the award, lists and describes winners through 1999, and gives selected biographies of winning authors and illustrators. Part II offers classroom applications of selected fiction titles, with vocabulary lists, discussion and study questions, student worksheets, and activities.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-229) and index.

Contents

• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Part 1: Award
• 1: Coretta Scott King Awards
• Triumphant vision
• Coretta Scott King award seal
• 2: Author Award Winners
• Author awards list
• Annotated bibliography
• 3: Illustrator Award Winners
• Illustrator awards list
• 4: Selected Biographies
• Ashley Bryan
• Leo Dillon and Diane Dillon
• Tom Feelings
• Virginia Hamilton
• Angela Johnson
• Patricia C McKissack and Fredrick L McKissack
• Walter Dean Myers
• Jerry Pinkney
• James E Ransome
• John Steptoe
• Mildred D Taylor
• Rita Williams-Garcia
• Part 2: Classroom Applications: Selected Titles With Classroom Activities
• 5: Coretta Scott King Books In The Classroom And School
• Using Coretta Scott King award books in the classroom
• Illustrator award books
• Author award books
• 6: Christmas In The Big House, Christmas In The Quarters
• About the story
• Objectives
• Notes to the teacher
• Vocabulary
• Discussion and study questions
• Then and now: how people lived
• Digging into the story: being a slave
• Then and now: the politics of slavery
• Digging into the story: holiday customs and traditions
• Crossword puzzle
• Integrated curriculum ideas
• Math
• Science
• Social studies
• Language arts
• Miscellaneous
• Related materials
• Related internet sites
• 7: Her Stories: African American Folktales, Fairy Tales, And True Tales And The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales
• About the books
• Beginning activities for performance
• Mirror games
• Create a machine
• What can it be?
• Tug of war
• Laying the groundwork for oral presentations
• Gossip
• Sound mirroring
• Finish this
• Keep the phrase, change the meaning
• Create a tale
• Characters
• Pre-reading activity
• Post-reading activity
• Reading the folktales
• Presentation
• Readers theatre
• Storytelling
• Scenes and improvisations
• Radio plays
• Follow-up
• 8: I Hadn't Meant to Tell You This
• Chapters 1-5
• Chapters 6-10
• Chapters 11-15
• Chapters 16-20
• Chapters 21-25
• Chapters 26-28
• Literary learning: symbolism and foreshadowing
• Digging into the story: understanding the characters
• 9: Justin And The Best Biscuits In The World
• Objectives --Notes to the teacher
• Chapters 1-6
• Chapters 7-12
• Climb your family tree
• Then and now: rodeo riding
• Who does what?
• 10: Minty: A Story Of Young Harriet Tubman
• Literary learning: making deductions
• Word search
• 11: Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters: An African Tale
• Literary learning: genre
• 12: Origin Of Life On Earth
• Literary learning: myths and mythology
• 13: Roll Of Thunder, Hear My Cry
• Notes to the teacher --Vocabulary
• Literary learning: mood
• Literary learning: point of view
• Integrated curriculum ideas --Math
• 14: Somewhere In The Darkness
• Literary learning: antagonist and protagonist
• Literary learning: empathy
• 15: Toning The Sweep
• Literary learning: major and minor characters
• Literary learning: symbolism and irony
• 16: Uncle Jed's Barbershop
• Literary learning: character pie
• Social Studies
• 17: Watsons Go To Birmingham-1963
• Digging into the story: a journal activity
• Bibliography
• Index.

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ISBN

• 1563086859 ((paperback))
• 9781563086854 ((paperback))

LCCN

99051955

OCLC

42652667

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