Historical Fiction: One Crazy Summer
Author/illustrator: Rita Williams-Garcia
Publication Date: December 27, 2011
Number of Pages: 218
Artistic Medium: Drawing: pencil, pen and ink, crayon, chalk
Artistic Style: Realism/ Cartoon
Age Range: Grade: 3-8
Plot Summary:
During the summer of 1968, three sisters (Delphine, Vonetta, and Fern), go on a trip to visit their absent mother, Cecile, in Oakland. Delphine is resentful of her mother due to the abandonment. Cecile left to become a Black Panther, and now works from home creating and printing poems in her kitchen. Cecile sends the girls to a "people's shelter" during the day, run by members of the black panther group. Here the girls learn more about the black panther movement. One day, Cecile gets arrested for publishing her poems. With an upcoming rally just around the corner, the girls decide to participate. The read one of Cecile's poems. On the day of the rally, the girls read the poem and Cecile is released from jail just in time to witness it. After the summer is over, before the girls return to New York, Delphine and Cecile decide to keep in touch.
14 ) Analyze the modern Civil Rights Movement to determine the social, political, and economic impact
- First I will begin by reading the back cover of the book, I will ask my students to predict the ending. What do you think will happen?
- After we have read the book. The students will have a glimpse into what happened during the civil rights movement and a group called "the black panthers".
- We will then create a timeline of events from the civil rights movement, then connect events from the story to where they would happen on the timeline.
- Watch this book trailer to get a glimpse inside the book!
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