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Linking YA Literature and Non-FictionShannon Hitchcock: The Ballad of Jessie Pearl
Linking YA Literature and Non-FictionShannon Hitchcock: The Ballad of Jessie Pearl
• Who is the main character? • What does the main character want?
Are there times when a person has to set her dreams aside for a time for the betterment of others?
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Linking YA Literature and Non-FictionShannon Hitchcock: The Ballad of Jessie Pearl
Even in times of duress and trouble, is it good to keep dreaming for a better day?
Is it good to think of the needs of others rather than insist upon your own being met?
Do you think “learning” is limited to the occurrences that happen within the walls of the classroom?
Linking YA Literature and Non-FictionShannon Hitchcock: The Ballad of Jessie Pearl
Are there times when a person has to set her dreams aside for a time for the betterment of others?
Linking YA Literature and Non-FictionShannon Hitchcock: The Ballad of Jessie Pearl
• Take sides—discuss• Those in middle may not speak• Eventually, those in middle must
choose a side and explain why• Immediate follow-up:• Talking• Writing• Researching
• Circle variation
Linking YA Literature and Non-FictionShannon Hitchcock: The Ballad of Jessie Pearl
The Grid
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Linking YA Literature and Non-FictionShannon Hitchcock: The Ballad of Jessie Pearl
Jessie wants to drive
Liza wants to drive
Jessie applies to teacher college
Linking YA Literature and Non-FictionShannon Hitchcock: The Ballad of Jessie Pearl
Linking YA Literature and Non-FictionShannon Hitchcock: The Ballad of Jessie Pearl
Follow-up:• Writing (argument)• Writing (narrative)• Research (history)• Research (evidence from text)
Reading → Discussion → Investigation
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Linking YA Literature and Non-FictionJacqueline Woodson: Brown Girl Dreaming
Linking YA Literature and Non-FictionJacqueline Woodson: Brown Girl Dreaming
Technical Aspects
Free verse
Haiku
Narrative
Emulation (“Learning from Langston”)
Wednesday night is laundry night—the clothesblowing clean on the line abovemy grandfather’s garden. When no one is looking,we run through the sheets,breathe in all the wonderful smells the air
adds to them.
from “how i learn the days of the week”
Linking YA Literature and Non-FictionJacqueline Woodson: Brown Girl Dreaming
Linking YA Literature and Non-FictionJacqueline Woodson: Brown Girl Dreaming
Content
Historical context
Issues of identity—race, faith, geography
Adolescence
Linking YA Literature and Non-FictionJacqueline Woodson: Brown Girl Dreaming
“Write what you know.”
How can students harness what they
know?
Linking YA Literature and Non-FictionJacqueline Woodson: Brown Girl Dreaming
Linking YA Literature and Non-FictionJacqueline Woodson: Brown Girl Dreaming
Linking YA Literature and Non-FictionJacqueline Woodson: Brown Girl Dreaming
Some days in this new placethere is only a box of pancake mixan egg, and faucet water, the hiss of those togetheragainst a black cast-iron pan,the pancakes sticking to it…
from “saturday morning”
Linking YA Literature and Non-FictionJacqueline Woodson: Brown Girl Dreaming
So Barbara runs into her room and I start to follow her then I’m like NO, and I go throw open the front door and run down the street to the ice cream man and I’m running after him like “WAIT!!” And then he waits, and we get Spongebob popsicles. It was pretty grand. But then, just when I thought the experience was pretty stupendous, I was so intent on my popsicle that I tripped and sprained my ankle. I couldn’t run track for two weeks, my coach got mad, and it was all Spongebob’s fault (and the ice cream guy). So the lesson is: it’s okay to run, but sometimes you have to be careful how you walk.
Linking YA Literature and Non-FictionJacqueline Woodson: Brown Girl Dreaming
Read and emulate
Visualize Write and rewrite
(and share)
Return to reading
Linking YA Literature and Non-FictionJacqueline Woodson: Brown Girl Dreaming
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