Civil Rights Children's Book GENERAL INFORMATION NAME: Sally J. Gummere SCHOOL: Pickerington Ridgeview Junior High School WORKSHOP LOCATION: Columbus TITLE OF ACTION PLAN: Civil Rights ChildrenBs Book GRADE LEVEL: 7/8 SUBJECT AREA: Reading / Language Arts SPECIFIC TOPIC: Civil Rights Movement CONTENT INFORMATION Brief Summary of the Topic / Pathfinder: The challenge of this lesson is to take a difficult issue relative to the Civil Rights Movement and transpire it into a childrenBs book. Explaining some of our historyBs difficult times to a young audience can be difficult. Choosing the right vocabulary and making a complex issue seem simple to understand is the task and assignment. The picture book may be written as fiction or non-fiction. Dewey Numbers: Biography / 920s 300s 800s Fiction Story Collection Subject Headings: Civil Rights Civil Rights Movement Demonstrations Freedom Marches Sit-ins CONTENT CATEGORIES BOOKS (FICTION): Bronx Masquerade F GRI Bud, Not Buddy F CUR Burning Up F COO Forged by Fire F DRA Heaven F JOH JazminBs Notebook F GRI Just Like Martin F DAV Maniac Magee F SPI Monster F MYE Necessary Roughness F LEE Othello F LES Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry F TAY Romiette and Julio F DRA Second Cousins F HAM Spite Fences F KRI Tears of a Tiger F DRA Thank You, Jackie Robinson F COH The House of Dies Drear F HAM The Land F TAY The Library Card F SPI The Mouse Rap F MYE The Moves Make the Man F BRO The Other Side of Truth F NAI The Skin IBm In F FLA The Watsons Go to Birmingham F CUR The Well F TAY To Kill a Mockingbird F LEE Toning the Sweep F JOH True Believer F WOL YolandaBs Genius F FEN 145th Street: Short Stories SC MYE Witness SC SHA BOOKS (NON-FICTION): Black Like Me 301.451 GRI Carver: A Life in Poems 811 NEL Celebrate America: In Poetry & Art 811.08 CEL Coretta Scott King B KIN Ida B. Wells B WEL Jackie Robinson B ROB Jefferson's Children 920 LAN Martin Luther King Junior B KIN Mary Church Terrell B TER Rosa Parks B PAR To Sir with Love 373.42 BRA WEB SITES (FOR STUDENTS): http://www.ala.org/alsc/caldecott.html http://www.ala.org/ala/srrt/corettascottking/corettascott.htm SELECTED ARTICLES FROM INFOhio ELECTRONIC RESOURCES: 1. The power of a moment. (cover story) By: Kulman, Linda. U.S. News & World Report, 3/22/2004, Vol. 136 Issue 10, p95 2. SCHOOL COLORS. (cover story) Weekly Reader - Senior, 3/12/2004, Vol. 82 Issue 21, p4, 2p, 3bw; 3. They Risked Their Lives to Fight Injustice. (cover story) By: Gourley, Catherine. Writing, Feb/Mar2004, Vol. 26 Issue 5, p4 They Risked Their Lives to Fight Injustice. (cover story) By: Gourley, Catherine. Writing, Feb/Mar2004, Vol. 26 Issue 5, p4, 6p, 1c, 7bw; Reading Level (Lexile): 790; (AN 12010366) SCHOOL COLORS. (cover story) Weekly Reader - Senior, 3/12/2004, Vol. 82 Issue 21, p4, 2p, 3bw; (AN 12422540) The power of a moment. (cover story) By: Kulman, Linda. U.S. News & World Report, 3/22/2004, Vol. 136 Issue 10, p95, 1p, 1c; Reading Level (Lexile): 1140; (AN 12522735)