Questions for Chapter 11: Informational Books and Biography
1. Choose a
category of an informational books and a book discussed in the chapter. Describe
the book and find an internet site to support the topic.
2. Choose
a category of a biography and a book discussed in the chapter. Describe the
book you selected. Find an internet site to support the book or the person.
1. The category that I chosen is Understanding Peoples and Cultures. The book that I have chosen is "A Life Like Mine: How Children Live Around the World." This book is illustrated with colored pictures of children around the world and goes in depth about how children are just the same around the world. We all need basic necessities to survive and the book expresses its importance of an education.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.timeforkids.com/around-the-world
2. The category of biographies that I have chosen was Biographies: The Lives of All Kinds of People. The book that I have chosen is Promises to Keep: How Jackie Robinson Changed America. This biography is told by his daughter and she shares the memories that she possesses of her father. Jackie Robinson was an outstanding athlete that broke the racial barrier in baseball during the civil rights era.
http://www.jackierobinson.com/about/bio.html (has the full biography for Jackie Robinson)
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DeleteWell done Valene! Excellent website resources!! I love Jackie Robinson and there are so many ideas of things you could do with the Time for Kids website!!
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ReplyDeleteThe category of informational books I chose is History. The book I chose in this category is “Girls: A History of Growing Up Female in America”. “This story about growing up female in America is not just one girls story, but many: Native American, colonial, slave, immigrant, pioneer, rich, middle-class, and poor.
Website: http://pennycolman.com/girls-a-history-of-growing-up-female-in-america/
A category I have chosen for biography is Picture Book Biographies. A book I had chosen for this category is “Freedom River”. This book is about an incident in the life of John Parker, an ex-slave who became a successful businessman in Ohio and a conductor of the Underground Railroad.
Website: http://2009bookclubblog.blogspot.com/2008/02/freedom-river-by-doreen-rappaport_03.html