Pre-service teachers used blogs to discuss award-winning Newbery books using reading roles creativiely adapted from Harvey Daniel's 'Literature Circles: Voice and Choice in the Student-centered Classroom'. Contact Anne Davis at adavis@gsu.edu if you have questions.
These blogs were moved from Manila blogs to TypePad blogs. The author shows up on each post as Anne Davis as a result of the transfer. The original posts were made by students and the instructors Lynne Jordan & Anne Davis. The initials on the post title signify who did the actual blogging of the post.
This makes me want to know more about the author. Can you recommend a good site to read more?
Posted by: Anne Davis | August 26, 2003 at 08:47 PM
Try www.randomhouse.com/teachers/authors/ and do a search for Christopher Paul Curtis. I have other resources about this author and will get back to you on those.
Posted by: Lynne Jordan | September 01, 2003 at 09:26 PM
The Depression was when this story was written. In real life, there are many great American heros who came from this time in history. It is imortant to know that in time of struggle a real man's strength is tested. An appropriate project follow up would be to read an actual biography of someone from this time period.
Posted by: Mary Beth Raterman | September 16, 2003 at 09:23 AM