Sep. 11, 2007

Goin' Someplace Special

This week’s theme was an introduction to the library. I wanted them to be familiar with our library and how to use it - since they will be doing all kinds of research this year. The book I picked for our study was Goin’ Someplace Special by P. McKissak. Using this book also gave us an opportunity to discuss civil rights.

Bible:

Monday: Genesis 4:3 – Genesis 27:34-41: Anger: Made a comic book showing ways to deal with anger that pleases God and ways that do not please God.

Tuesday: Genesis 4:21, 22a: Jubal and Tubal-Cain

Bible Notebook

Goin’ Someplace Special

by Patricia Mckissack

I took our lessons for this book from www.homeshoolshare.com.

Editorial Reviews

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Confronted with the indignities and humiliations of segregated Nashville in the 1950s, young 'Tricia Ann holds her head high and remembers that she is "somebody, a human being--no better, no worse than anybody else in this world." For the first time, 'Tricia Ann has been allowed to venture outside her community all by herself. Her grandmother has prepared her well, fortifying her "with enough love, respect, and pride to overcome any situation." 'Tricia Ann, though frustrated by the Jim Crow laws that forbid her, as an African American, to enter certain restaurants and hotels, or even to sit on park benches marked "For Whites Only," rises above her pain and makes her way to one of the only places in the city that welcomes her with open arms: the public library.

Character Building & Bible Study: Joy

Tricia Ann is reminded-- "don't let those signs steal yo' happiness!"

Verses we looked at that reinforced finding joy in all circumstances:

Philippians 4:4
I Peter 4:13
Galatians 5:22
Philippians 4:11-12

My favorite line in this book is,

“You are somebody, a human being – no better, no worse than anybody else in this world. Getting’ someplace special is not an easy route. But don’t study on quittin’, just keep walking straight ahead – and you’ll make it.”

Geography: Tennessee

History: Segregation, Jim Crow Laws, Sit in, Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Civil Rights.

We also covered the history of libraries. We talked about how during the middle ages the books were chained to the shelves and why, “books” during ancient Egyptian times, and the smallest published book in the world. I read them the story Tomas and the Library Lady by Pat Mora. This is a story about how Tomas developed his love of books. Later Tomas had an elementary school, library, and a book award named after him. On Friday we went to the library to do a Scavenger hunt.

Language arts: Character development: dialogue, word choice, and quality adjectives. Vocabulary words: Caucasian, Civil rights, and segregation.

Readers for this work were:

Martin’s Big Words: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King by D. Rappaport

If a Bus Could Talk: The story of Rosa Parks by Faith Ringgold

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