Class #3, November 28

Class #3, November 28• Papers, Lit circles, etc.• Kate DiCamillo presentation • More books: science & math• Murphy, and Tillage• Book discussion • More books: the arts• Walter Dean Myers presentationBreak• More books: biographies• Gary Paulsen presentation• More books: history & social studies• More books: heavily illustrated• Preview of historical fiction

Class #3, November 28• Papers, Lit circles, etc.• Kate DiCamillo presentation • More books: science & math• Murphy, and Tillage• Book discussion • More books: the arts• Walter Dean Myers presentationBreak• More books: biographies• Gary Paulsen presentation• More books: history & social studies• More books: heavily illustrated• Preview of historical fiction

Odds and Ends

Papers Accumulation of books Adults vs. children Literature circles http://www.

litcircles.org/

Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal(started in 2001)

http://www.ala.org/ala/alsc/awardsscholarships/literaryawds/sibertmedal/Sibert_Medal.htm

Kate DiCamillo presentation

Julia HaydenRachel Porzig

Desiree Villarroel

More books:Science and Math

Jim Murphy Grew up in NJ Worked in publishing Left to write full time Has written more than

30 books about American History (mostly nonfiction)

Awards Lives in NJ with wife, 2 children

http://www.jimmurphybooks.com/

Jim Murphy resources

Jim Murphy’s website

Study guide for An American Plague

Acceptance speech for the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award

Audio of this speech

Leon Walter Tillage& Susan Roth

Oral History resourcesStep-by-step guide:http://www.dohistory.org/on_your_own/toolkit/

oralHistory.html

For teachers:http://memory.loc.gov/learn/lessons/oralhist/

ohhome.html

Book discussion Discuss both Leon’s Story and An American

Plague What grades would you use them in? How would you use them? (whole class,

literature circles, independent reading…) How might you set them up/introduce them? What might you do afterwards to extend the

experience?

More books:The Arts

Walter Dean Myers presentation

Susan Bogue MyslikVeronica Janowicz

Monica Groves

Break

More books:Biographies

Gary Paulsen presentation

Casey CohenDoron Blake

More books:History & Social Studies

More books:Illustrated books for

older children

Next week:Historical fiction