REVIEW OF SIT-IN: HOW FOUR FRIENDS STOOD UP BY SITTING DOWN A. BIBLIOGRAPHY Pinkney, Andrea D. SIT-IN: HOW FOUR FRIENDS STOOD UP BY SITTING DOWN. Illustrated by Brian Pinkney. New York, NY: Little, Brown and Company, a division of Hatchette Book Group, Inc. ISBN 978-0-316-07016-4. B. PLOT SUMMARY The year was 1960. Four young male African American college students decided that they would challenge a racially discriminatory practice called segregation by conducting a sit-in at a local retail store. They sat at a lunch counter and each ordered doughnut, a coffee, and cream on the side. They waited to be served. They waited. They waited. They waited. The waitress would not serve them because, at the time in this part of the United States, blacks were not supposed to mix with whites in certain places, including lunch counters. So they decided to sit there to make their point, that they should be allowed to eat there, just as white people were allowed to. Finally, ...
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REVIEW OF WE ARE WOLVES A. BIBLIOGRAPHY Nannestad, Katrina. WE ARE WOLVES. New York City, NY: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Simon & Schuster . ISBN 9781665904223. B. PLOT SUMMARY Three generations of the Wolf family happily live together in East Prussia (a part of Germany) during the time that Adolph Hitler was Chancellor of Germany. There are the grandfather (Opa), grandmother (Oma), father (Herr Wolf), mother (Frau Wolf), and three children (daughter Liesl, son Otto, and baby daughter Mia.) In the early stages of the war, things were going well for the family. Unfortunately, as the war took a bad turn for Germany, many normally unsuitable candidates for the German army were drafted, including Herr Wolf. Upon his departure things continue to worsen for the family until the point that they are forced to evacuate as the Russian army advances into their part of Germany. They join many other German families fleeing, along with the German army in retrea...
REVIEW OF CATHERINE’S WAR A. BIBLIOGRAPHY Billet, Julia. Illustrated by Claire Fauvel. Translated into English from the French by Ivanka Hahnenberger. CATHERINE’S WAR. New York City, NY: HarperAlley, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers. ISBN 9780062915610. B. PLOT SUMMARY A Jewish girl named Rachel Cohen lives in a children’s home in France. The home has its own school for the children. Rachel has not seen her parents for four months. Nazi Germany is now occupying France. There are internment camps for Jews. The Nazis are forcing the Jews to wear yellow stars to identify them. The Jews are taking on fake names to hide their Jewish heritage. For their protection, the teachers at the school force the Jewish students to take on new non-Jewish names. Rachel is a name of Hebrew origin, and it gives Rachel away as being Jewish. To protect herself, Rachel takes on the name Catherine. All the Jewish students at the children’s home receive forged papers with new non-Jew...
REVIEW OF POSSUM MAGIC A. BIBLIOGRAPHY Fox, Mem. POSSUM MAGIC. San Diego, CA: Gulliver Books, an imprint of Harcourt Brace & Company. ISBN 978-0-15-200572-2. B. PLOT SUMMARY Two possums live in the Australian bush, Grandma Poss and Hush. Grandma Poss makes bush magic. One day she makes Hush invisible to make him safe from snakes. This is fine for a while, but eventually Hush wants to be able to see herself. Grandma Poss determines that “people food” is needed to restore Hush’s visibility, so they begin a journey seeking “people food.” They end up eating a variety of traditional Australian “people food” in many of the larger Australian cities: Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, and Brisbane. Unfortunately none of the food samples returns Hush’s visibility. It wasn’t until they tried a Vegemite sandwich in the city of Darwin that Hush’s tail became visible. Later, after eating pavlova in Perth her legs and body appeared. Finally, they traveled across the sea f...
REVIEW OF THE SHADOWS OF GHADAMES A. BIBLIOGRAPHY Stolz, Joëlle. THE SHADOWS OF GHADAMES. New York, NY: Yearling, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books, a division of Random House, Inc. ISBN 978-0-440-41949-5. B. PLOT SUMMARY In the late 19th century, Malika lives in north Africa in an ancient town called Ghadames, in what is now Libya. Her town is surrounded by the Sahara desert. Her father is preparing to leave on a journey through the desert to a town far away to do business. One night, after her father is gone on his journey, she and her father’s second wife hear noise coming from outside. They discover it is an injured man. They bring him inside to care for him. While this action borders on being an indecent one in their community, due to strict rules against casual contact between the sexes, they feel that they need to care for the injured man. Later, they find out that the man had been injured while fleeing from local townsmen who disagreed with his religious ...
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Universal Design for Learning The idea of a Universal Design for Learning (UDL) comes from the belief that every aspect of society needs to fit the needs of everyone, including people with disabilities or other differences from the norm. These accommodations include the areas of architecture, education, and every aspect of society. Universal Design for Learning has become part of official public policy in a number of areas. The first appearance of UDL in public policy occurred in the Higher Education Opportunity Act of 2008. UDL was defined and cited in numerous sections of this act. Since then, UDL has been included in other official public policies at the federal, state, and local levels. UDL incorporates three overarching principles: engagement, representation, and action and expression. The first principle of UDL, to provide multiple means of enga...
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