Author: Walter Dean Myers
Illustrator: Christopher Myers
Readability Score: ?
Genre: Diversity
Sub Genre: Historical/Information
Theme: How we came to be
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ISBN: 978-0-06-052309-1
Publisher:Collins
Publication Date: 2011
Summary: This book is very illustrated with pictures of different "types" of people that have lived and made America what it is today. It starts with the Indians and tells about how it was before the "ships came". It tells a short passage about how it was in those days- "sons raced the winds, Comanche and Iroquois, sitting in a circle in the village". The book reflects this same pattern but with different people through out the book. The book highlights Pioneers, Slaves, people in Hawaii, African Americans in the Congo, Bostonians... Then it shows what they did- they raised up factories, and farms. Then the book highlights historically events from our Presidents words, The Constitution of the US, The Tea Party, and then the words from Abraham Lincoln in the time of slavery. The book shows veterans- the wounded- the dead. Then we see the coming together of Germans, Italians, Africans, Chinese, and so on... WE are America. The book is great just with the texts- but the pictures in this book are amazing!
How would use: This is an amazing way to show just how America came to be- how some people got here and how far they have came since then. WE all are America. I would have the students write a short paragraph about what they feel it means to be AMERICA. Then I will read them the passage at the end of this book- about what being America is.
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