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Prince Henry the Navigator door Leonard Everett Fisher
Although I am familiar with his work, William Tell is the first of Fisher's books that I have picked up. I was prompted to do so by my recent reading of Margaret Early's William Tell, which offers another picture-book retelling of the legend, as I wanted to compare that book to other versions. On the whole, I prefer Early's version, which draws in far more of the history - the Rütlischwur, and the foundation of the Old Swiss Confederacy - and feels more authentic to me. I do appreciate Fisher's telling however, and his somewhat dark-toned, but beautiful illustrations. I particularly liked his use of color here, and found his human faces expressive, if a little bit odd at times. Although not my favorite, this is still a solid retelling of the legend, and is one I would recommend to young folklore lovers, and to anyone looking for stories about William Tell for the picture-book set.
Use: This would be a fun way to learn the alphabet while elaborating on each picture to learn the context of each picture.
This book starts before the Anasazi made a settlement and ends with the complete disappearance of the culture, roughly 500-1300. A timeline was included as an access feature and this was effective at allowing me to think about how long a period of time this covered. He went into detail about the different periods and how they evolved from the previous groups. They built non permanent structures, pueblos, and then, most famously, buildings carved into mountains. The artifacts that were distinct in the Anasazi culture were found in Native populations in the surrounding regions. They abandoned their settlements and integrated into other Native groups.
Anasazi meant "ancient ones" or "ancient enemies" in Native languages. We aren't even sure how they were viewed in their own time. Even without a primary source, the story of this civilization has been assembled through deduction and archaeology. This book did a good job of letting me see a culture and understand how information is interpreted through time.
Alexander like his family had an interest in speech mechanics and compassion for those born with speech disabilities which led him to work with the deaf-mute. Although he had a talent for music, he was unimpressed by school. Bell studied and experimented with vibrating piano tuning forks, batteries,electrical current and telegraph wires trying to make electricity produce vowel sounds. After further experimentation he submitted a patent for the telephone. After a lengthy battle in the courts, it was decided that he invented the telephone. He also invented other great inventions such as the metal detector and the iron lung.
Reaction: I wasn't aware of all the other inventions that he made and that really contributed to the world of science. This book had more information than I thought it would.
Extension:
1.Look at what a telephone is and compare telephones then and now.
2.Look at other inventions from Alexander Graham Bell.
I would share this book with a middle school or high school World History class or even a Civics class. Students would be able to learn how effective non-violence civil disobedience is. They would also be able to understand the significance of civil disobedience in regards to political or social issues.
The question I do have walking away from this book is about Gandhi's parents. The book states that Gandhi's family "scraped together all their money in the hope that Mohandas, as a British-educated lawyer, would bring them position and wealth." Although Gandhi accomplished many great things, the book leads one to believe that he lived a humble life, thus not accomplishing the position and wealth that his family had originally hoped for. I question if his family that had close ties to the British was pleased with work of Gandhi? He tried to work with the British for so long and backed them only to be treated so poorly that he finally turned his back on the crown. Did his mother, father and siblings support his great movement?
This chronicles the life of Marie Curie, the Nobel Prize winning physicist who discovered radium. She was born Marya Sklodowska in 1867 in Poland. Her mother and older sister died before she was 11 years old. She was the brightest student in grade school. She worked as a governess until she had just enough money to go to a distinguished school of physics in Paris. She was the first and only woman at Sorbonne. She lived in extreme poverty while in school, but her tenacity kept her going. She was hired to do a study on the magnetic properties of steel, and was introduced to Pierre Curie, whose lab she would use for her study. Pierre was a noted scientist, but he refused any money or honor that could have come from his work for the sake of what he believed was pure research. It was this reason that Marie fell in love with him, and they were married a year later. In 1896, a French physicist saw a glow in a lump of uranium ore. He convinced the Curies to study it. Pierre was busy, so Marie made it the subject of her doctoral degree. During her study on the uranium, she had her first daughter, but went right back to work. She discovered that the element was radioactive, and introduced those terms to the language of science. By the end of the year, she had discovered the elements polonium and radium. The existence of radium challenged the ideas of the nature of matter, so in the next 4 years, Marie sought to prove its existence by producing a small amount of pure radium. In 1903, she was awarded her doctoral degree, as well as being awarded the Nobel Prize in physics alongside her husband. The next year she had her second daughter. She became laboratory assistant to her husband at the Sorbonne after he was awarded a full teaching position. In 1906, Pierre was killed in an accident, and Marie replaced him as professor, but was only given an assistant professor position. She was still the first woman to teach at the Sorbonne. In 1908 she was promoted to full professor, and was the first woman to reach such high rank in the field of science. In 1911 she was rejected for membership in the French Academy of Science because she was a woman. Later that year, she won another Nobel Prize, the first time anyone has won the award twice. Her only wish was that her discoveries about radium could be used to help people, such as by curing cancer. In 1914, World War I broke out, and she and her older daughter went to the battlefields to help with medical treatments. They saved many lives, and her daughter was decorated by the French government. Marie was not, because there was a rumor of her involvment in a love affair that offended powerful people. In 1922, she was elected to the French Academy of Medicine. She went on the visit the U.S. and start the Radium Institute of Warsaw, her hometown. She passed away in 1934 of radiation poisoning.
Personal Reaction: I liked reading about a woman who contributed so much to the field of science. Often women's accomplishments throughout history are overlooked or attributed to men's success instead, so I think this is a great book for girls to read. Girls are not always encouraged to succeed in scientific fields either, so it's especially a plus that Marie Curie was a physicist.
Classroom Extension Ideas:
1. Discover other women who have contributed to science throughout history
2. Ask students to describe something they'd like to discover in order to help people the way radiation can help people.
Great book about the history of Ellis Island, who owned it when and what they used it for and how they gave it or sold it to others.
Talked of the immigration and how other countries had failed at their crops and wanted to try in the US, along with political and religious migrations.
Interesting to learn of all the diseases they were turned away from the US and also if you could not provide work for yourself. you were also sent back to your country.
I received this book from National Library Service for my BARD (Braille Audio Reading Device).
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