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Re: Lesson plan idea for book"A Child Called It'
Posted by Pennie on 4/16/08

    On 10/24/07, Sherri wrote:
    > On 7/22/07, Jennifer wrote:
    >> On 7/02/07, Pennie Dahl wrote:
    >>> I'm looking for teaching guides and lesson plans to go
    >>> along with Dave Pelzers book "A Child Called It". I will
    >>> teaching 11th and 12th graders English/Lit. for a summer
    >>> school program. I'm having a hrad time finding anything as
    >>> of yet. Any ideas please feel free to email me
    >>> pdahl12@aol.com
    >>
    >> I have never heard of this book being used to teach with.
    >> Are you sure your students can stomach this powerful, yet
    >> gut-wrenching book about child abuse? I don't want to come
    >> across as critical of your choice, but as an adult, I
    >> actually got sick. I had never heard of such crime in my
    >> life. Did you know that there is a sequeal to this book? I
    >> bet you will have to come up with your own teaching units
    >> about this book.

    I never did find anything on "A Child Called It" I created the
    lessons myself. I did vocabulary from the book and created some
    comprehension questions from each chapter. My classes consisted
    of 10th grade through 12th grade students. They really loved
    reading it and stayed involved in it throughout the whole book.
    We took time after each chapter to discuss what it must have been
    like and what the motivation was for the mother, why didn't the
    dad speak up and defend his child, why didn't David go to the
    cops, etc. Very thought provoking. In fact many of the kids
    continued reading the 2nd and 3rd book on their own after we
    finished the first. Time didn't allow for us to read the trilogy.
    I read the other two and gave a synopsis for them to try to
    answer many of the questions that remained after reading the
    first book. This summer for our program I am thinking of reading
    another book of the same genre- I think it's called "Blackbird"
    by Jennnifer Lauck. She has a follow up book of her next part of
    her life. Very touching and one of those books that you read
    because you can't believe that this was someone's actual
    childhood.

     
     

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