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From: Susan Daugherty <susaninaruba_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 20:34:49 -0700 (PDT)
I was fascinated by the following newish book on John Henry, a person I hav e always been curious about. I've looked for information about him and n ot found much. I thought the process the author went through to search f or the info on John Henry was as interesting as the stuff he found. I do n't remember many nonfiction books that are as transparent about the search as this book was. It was also accessible to a pretty wide range of ages with nice illustrations and excellent format. I have to admit that thou gh I bought this book because it was listed as a best book of the year and I read it and loved it, I was not successful in getting any kid in my schoo l to check it out and even the history teacher didn't seem that excited alt hough I checked it out to him and he did look at it. The kids in my scho ol generally only checked out nonfiction when they were forced to have a bo ok source to go along with their internet sources. Often they were surprised that a book could be so helpful and infor mative.
Ain't Nothing but a Man: My Quest to Find the Real John Henry by Scott Reynolds Nelson and Marc Aronson
Susan Daugherty
--- On Tue, 10/12/10, maggie_bo_at_comcast.net wrote:
From: maggie_bo_at_comcast.net Subject: Re:
Google is the new nonfiction To: bookmarch_at_aol.com Cc: ccbc-net@lists.wisc.edu, csteward@aclibrary.org, gholch@nyc.rr.com Date: Tuesday, October 12, 2010, 9:11 PM
#yiv78398940 #yiv78398940yiv323905400 p {margin:0;}"Teachers thus can use o ur books to model process..." Absolutely. I think too often nonfiction books are only valued and used by teachers for the facts they contai n. We can use these books to study not only how facts are synthesize d, but also how arguments are made, the effective use of graphics and illus trations, and even more "literary" aspects such as imagery, figurative la nguage, etc. . . . the possibilities are endless. Covering all the facts just gets more and more impossible every year. If that's what a print nonfiction collection is supposed to be about, we might as well give up the ghost. But I really like Marc's idea of providing models, which to m e is even more of an argument for focusing on buying the best, most int eresting, well written nonfiction books I can find, as opposed to trying to "cover" everything.
Received on Tue 12 Oct 2010 08:34:49 PM CDT
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 20:34:49 -0700 (PDT)
I was fascinated by the following newish book on John Henry, a person I hav e always been curious about. I've looked for information about him and n ot found much. I thought the process the author went through to search f or the info on John Henry was as interesting as the stuff he found. I do n't remember many nonfiction books that are as transparent about the search as this book was. It was also accessible to a pretty wide range of ages with nice illustrations and excellent format. I have to admit that thou gh I bought this book because it was listed as a best book of the year and I read it and loved it, I was not successful in getting any kid in my schoo l to check it out and even the history teacher didn't seem that excited alt hough I checked it out to him and he did look at it. The kids in my scho ol generally only checked out nonfiction when they were forced to have a bo ok source to go along with their internet sources. Often they were surprised that a book could be so helpful and infor mative.
Ain't Nothing but a Man: My Quest to Find the Real John Henry by Scott Reynolds Nelson and Marc Aronson
Susan Daugherty
--- On Tue, 10/12/10, maggie_bo_at_comcast.net wrote:
From: maggie_bo_at_comcast.net Subject: Re:
Google is the new nonfiction To: bookmarch_at_aol.com Cc: ccbc-net@lists.wisc.edu, csteward@aclibrary.org, gholch@nyc.rr.com Date: Tuesday, October 12, 2010, 9:11 PM
#yiv78398940 #yiv78398940yiv323905400 p {margin:0;}"Teachers thus can use o ur books to model process..." Absolutely. I think too often nonfiction books are only valued and used by teachers for the facts they contai n. We can use these books to study not only how facts are synthesize d, but also how arguments are made, the effective use of graphics and illus trations, and even more "literary" aspects such as imagery, figurative la nguage, etc. . . . the possibilities are endless. Covering all the facts just gets more and more impossible every year. If that's what a print nonfiction collection is supposed to be about, we might as well give up the ghost. But I really like Marc's idea of providing models, which to m e is even more of an argument for focusing on buying the best, most int eresting, well written nonfiction books I can find, as opposed to trying to "cover" everything.
Received on Tue 12 Oct 2010 08:34:49 PM CDT
