Re: LM_NET Digest - 7 Aug 1997 - Special issue

[Patricia Melville <3tunas@vgernet.net>]

Bonnie, This is what I do know:  In my very best Southern and dramatic
accent, Julius Lester's John Henry and Mary Pope Osbornes Sally
(whatever her name is) are jaw dropping read aloud hits.  two things:
If you also read them Steven Kellogs Sally book you can compare them
with a kids vote.  Mary Osborns wins hands down -  the kids are 1/2
asleep by the end of Kellogs. 2:  For lesson Ideas first find yourself
Julius Lester's acceptance speech for the Boston Globeor Newbery Award
for John Henry.  It was published in the Hornbook at the time.  It was
mesmerizing and I copied it for all my teachers.  It was about
teaching our children  about REAL heroes and how we have a shortage of
proper ones.   Clearly a hero lesson might be fun and in order. (
pleasew excuse all my spellihng)  Also I kind of recall a folksong
about John Henry.  I remember too trying to get my kids to make up
phrases that would be exagerations.  "His hair was as red as..."  She
was as tall as..."  They were very unfamiliar with this and enjoyed
thinking them up.  Good Luck, Patty.

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