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 Book Review Show Way by Jacqueline Woodson 

Introduction: · Title: Show Way · Author: Jacqueline Woodson · Illustrator: Hudson Talbott · Publisher: The Penguin Group · Copyright Date: 2005

 The author begins with a little unnamed girl sold away from her family at a young age. This young girl learns how to sew quilts that map out the road to freedom, called Show Ways. When the young girl grows up and has a daughter of her own, the daughter is sold away and also learns to sew quilts. The nine generations of daughters continue to learn how to sew quilts and sell them to make a living. A few of the daughters learn how to read, become teachers and participate in the Civil Rights Movement. Eventually, the author is born and she grows up and learns to sew quilts. She becomes a writer and has her own daughter that she tells all the family stories too.
 * What is it about? **

 The areas that can be found in the book are related to history. Slavery, freedom, Civil Rights era, African American culture and protesting are a few themes that can go along with this storybook. The reading and language art themes that might be half-rhyme texts, repitition, and literacy itself. Plantation, muslin, freedom, slave, trail, and segregation are a few of the vocabulary words out of this book.
 * What are the related subject areas, content conceptions or vocabulary found in the book? **

· PA Standard 8.3.5.C: Differentiate how continuity and change in U.S. history are formed and operate. · PA Standard 8.3.5.D: Examine patterns of conflict and cooperation among groups and organizations that impacted the history and development of the United States. · PA Standard 8.4.5.B: Illustrate concepts and knowledge of historical documents, artifacts, and sites, which are critical to World history. <span style="color: #238cfb; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">· PA Standard 8.4.3.C: Compare and contrast selected world cultures.
 * <span style="color: #238cfb; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">What NCSS themes and Pennsylvania social studies standards does it cover? **

<span style="color: #238cfb; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">· The NCSS themes in this book are (1) culture, (2) time, continuity, and change, (3) people, places, and environment, (4) power, authority, and governance.

<span style="color: #0ed60a; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> This book is recommended for grades 3-5. It is highly recommended that this book is read with an adult at least for the first time because of the difficult inferences that children may not understand completely.
 * <span style="color: #0ed60a; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Which grade level is it appropriate for? **

<span style="color: #eb0594; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> I would have the students make their own class quilt that had a show way theme. We could each make our own squares and make a show way of the school or an area that every student is familiar with.
 * <span style="color: #eb0594; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">What is your suggested method to use this book in the classroom? **