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Re: Lesson plan idea for book"A Child Called It'
Posted by Andrea on 4/17/08

    Could you post some of your lesson plans?

    On 4/16/08, Pennie wrote:
    > 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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