From: DAJ <daj9999>
Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2008 17:48:51 -0700 (PDT)

--- On Thu, 9/4/08, Megan Schliesman <schliesman at education.wisc.edu> wrote:


> I've heard from teachers in middle and high school who
> will use a
> picture book to introduce a unit of study that is then
> explored in the
> classroom through other books and resources. Does anyone
> have examples
> of using picture books along with books written for an
> older audience?
>

I teach children's literature to college students and sometimes use this approach. We'll be reading Bryant's _The Trial_ later in the semester, and the students have already seen Burleigh's _Flight_ as an introduction to Charles Lindbergh. In previous years, I've used Stewart's _The Gardener_, Adler's _The Babe and I_, and Littlesugar's _Tree of Hope_ for three picture book perspectives on Depression-era NYC. (_Tree_ is especially nice since there's an online article about the Welles's Macbeth as well as photographs that show some of the source material for the illustrations.) From there, we read _Bud, Not Buddy_ and then either _Out of the Dust_ or _Esperanza Rising_ as a way of sampling a range of experiences -- a fast reminder that there were multiple perspectives during the same time period.

DAJ



      
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