Getting Acquainted with Young Adult Lit

This blog has been created for Merton Williams'staff members, in Hilton, New York, to share their thoughts about Young Adult Literature.

Wednesday, December 13, 2006

How do you think Blue can be aligned to the curriculum?

Jennifer said...: If the teachers have the time, I would read this whole book with the class while teaching WWII. I know it's a big commitment, but I feel a lot would be lost if just excerpts were used.; 7:31 AM
Sally C said...: This book would hold the interest of the students. It's written from the point of view of a child living at the time--WWII.
The idea of polio clinics and the polio epidemic seems so unbelievable to students and even to us that this book lends substance to it. (My good friend's mother died of polio when she was 2 and I have always had a hard time understanding how this could happen. This book made it real.)
Besides a Literacy read aloud or a Lit. Circle book, this could be a whole class novel in English to parallel the FDR presidency in social studies. It could really support and embellish much of what was going on. Sally C; 9:44 AM
KirstenM said...: Thinking from the point of a science teacher, I wish we did a unit on diseases or immunology because it would really give a realistic picture of the Polio virus and its affects on the world. We don't necesarily spend enough time on those topics, but I could see it as a great enrichment book for gifted students or a way to team up with health classes and do some interdisciplinary work.; 2:19 PM