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Students finishing 7th grade may choose to read March over the summer.
Students finishing 7th grade may choose to read March over the summer.
Those graduating from 8th grade will read March by Andrew Aydin and John Lewis over the summer for the Common Read.
Those graduating from 8th grade will read March by Andrew Aydin and John Lewis over the summer for the Common Read.
*Starred Review* Congressman Lewis, with Michael D'Orso's assistance, told his story most impressively in Walking with the Wind (1998). Fortunately, it's such a good story-a sharecropper's son rises to eminence by prosecuting the cause of his people-that it bears retelling, especially in this graphic novel by Lewis, his aide Aydin, and Powell, one of the finest American comics artists going. After a kicker set on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, on March 7, 1965 (the civil rights movement's Bloody Sunday), the story makes January 20, 2009 (President Obama's inauguration) a base of operations as it samples Lewis' past via his reminiscences for two schoolboys and their mother, who've shown up early at his office on that milestone day for African Americans. This first of three volumes of Lewis' story brings him from boyhood on the farm, where he doted over the chickens and dreamed of being a preacher, through high school to college, when he met nonviolent activists who showed him a means of undermining segregation-to begin with, at the department-store lunch counters of Nashville. Powell is at his dazzling best throughout, changing angle-of-regard from panel to panel while lighting each with appropriate drama. The kineticism of his art rivals that of the most exuberant DC and Marvel adventure comics-and in black-and-white only, yet! Copyright 2013 Booklist Reviews.
Learning Opportunities
Learning Opportunities
Inter-Generational Discussions
Inter-Generational Discussions
Join us at CVU Library for an inter-generational discussion about March: Book One.
June 19th, 6pm
September 4th, 6pm
Reflection Activity
Reflection Activity
The reflection activity included in your welcome packets may be dropped off before September 3. Collection boxes will be available during the summer months at CVU Library and the district libraries.
Book Poster Social (HCS Students Only)
Book Poster Social (HCS Students Only)
August 26th , 4:00-4:30 (While students visit classrooms, prior to ice cream social).
4th, 6th and 8th graders can drop by the Hinesburg Community School library to add thoughts and drawings about the Common Read book they read to a large poster. Talk with other students and/or Ms. Stanley, the librarian, about the book you read. An opportunity to share about each of the Common Read titles.
Interactive Social Justice Walk
Interactive Social Justice Walk
Related Resources
Related Resources
The Horn Book
The Washington Post
March: Book One Flipgrid
March: Book One Flipgrid
Share your questions, reactions, and thoughts about the book on this Flipgrid.
Identify an injustice happening today. What do you wonder?
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Related Reads
Related Reads
March: Book 2
written by John Lewis & Andrew Aydin ; art by Nate Powell.
A first-hand graphic novel account of the author's lifelong struggle for civil and human rights continues to cover his involvement in Freedom Rides and the 1963 March on Washington.
March: Book 3
written by John Lewis & Andrew Aydin ; art by Nate Powell.
Congressman John Lewis, one of the key figures of the civil rights movement, returns with co-writer Andrew Aydin and artist Nate Powell in an effort to bring the lessons of history to vivid life for a new generation, urgently relevant for today's world.
The Silence of Our Friends
written by Mark Long and Jim Demonakos; art by Nate Powell
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAs the civil rights struggle heats up in Texas, two families-one white, one black-find common ground. This semi-autobiographical tale is set in 1967 Texas, against the backdrop of the fight for civil rights. A white family from a notoriously racist neighborhood in the suburbs and a black family from its poorest ward cross Houston's color line, overcoming humiliation, degradation, and violence to win the freedom of five black college students unjustly charged with the murder of a policeman.
The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963
written by Christopher Paul Curtis
Enter the hilarious world of ten-year-old Kenny and his family, the Weird Watsons of Flint, Michigan. There's Momma, Dad, little sister Joetta, and brother Byron, who's thirteen and an "official juvenile delinquent." When Byron gets to be too much trouble, they head South to Birmingham to visit Grandma, the one person who can shape him up. And they happen to be in Birmingham when Grandma's church is blown up.
Compiled by more than 60 State and National Teachers of the Year and Finalists, this list offers additional titles to explore and is organized into sections according to interest level.
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