Inquiry Project

Books and Lessons:

• African Animals, Caroline Arnold
  • Report Writing
• When Africa was Home, Karen Lynn Williams
  • Constructed Response lesson plan
• Elizabeti’s Doll, by Stephanie Stuve-Bodeen
  • Read Aloud Lesson Plan
• Mama Elizabeti, by Stephanie Stuve-Bodeen
  • Constructed Response lesson plan
• Elizabeti’s School, by Stephanie Stuve-Bodeen
  • Compare/Contrast Response to Literature
  • Use of Words Come Alive activity to better understand character
  • Response and deeper understanding of feeling vocabulary
• Trouble, by Jane Kurtz
  • Various read aloud activities listed
• I Lost My Tooth in Africa, by Penda Diakite
  • Narrative
• Fire on the Mountain, by Jane Kurtz
  • Response to Literature – character traits

Additional Books:

• Water Hole Waiting, by Jane Kurtz
• Brothers in Hope: The Story of the Lost Boys of Sudan, by Mary Williams
• The Color of Home, by Mary Hoffman
• In the Small, Small Night, by Jane Kurtz

Other Links:

• Contemporary Immigrant Expereinces in Children’s Books Bibliography – http://www.lita.org/ala/emiert/usefullinks/contempimmigrant.pdf