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From: Jane Kurtz Goering <jane_kurtz>
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 12:54:42 -0600
Kathy, I would think that THE LONGITUDE PRIZE by Joan Dash (Farrar, 2000) would fascinate some of your students. I know it fascinated me! It's a nonfiction book that tells of the hunt to find a way to fix longitude, sweetened by a prize of 20,000 pounds that the British parliament was dangling. As the flap says, "Set in an exciting historical framework--shipwrecks, politics, voyages of exploration--this is the story of one man's creative vision, his persistence against great odds, and his lifelong struggle for recognition of a brilliant invention."
Also useful for the whole biography/autobiography/seeking of truth discussion is Monica Edinger's wonderful new book, SEEKING HISTORY: TEACHING WITH PRIMARY SOURCES IN GRADES 4-5 (Heinemann). Monica and I spoke together as part of an IRA preinstitute last year (and will again this year) and the rest of us on the program were all in awe as she described the ways she gets her students to connect with primary sources, nonfiction, and fiction in the search for the truth. Her book is a great description of those processes.
Jane Kurtz www.janekurtz.com
Received on Fri 10 Nov 2000 12:54:42 PM CST
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 12:54:42 -0600
Kathy, I would think that THE LONGITUDE PRIZE by Joan Dash (Farrar, 2000) would fascinate some of your students. I know it fascinated me! It's a nonfiction book that tells of the hunt to find a way to fix longitude, sweetened by a prize of 20,000 pounds that the British parliament was dangling. As the flap says, "Set in an exciting historical framework--shipwrecks, politics, voyages of exploration--this is the story of one man's creative vision, his persistence against great odds, and his lifelong struggle for recognition of a brilliant invention."
Also useful for the whole biography/autobiography/seeking of truth discussion is Monica Edinger's wonderful new book, SEEKING HISTORY: TEACHING WITH PRIMARY SOURCES IN GRADES 4-5 (Heinemann). Monica and I spoke together as part of an IRA preinstitute last year (and will again this year) and the rest of us on the program were all in awe as she described the ways she gets her students to connect with primary sources, nonfiction, and fiction in the search for the truth. Her book is a great description of those processes.
Jane Kurtz www.janekurtz.com
Received on Fri 10 Nov 2000 12:54:42 PM CST
