Re: TARGET: Intro/overview of the Blues for grades 3-5

[GraceAnne Andreassi DeCandido <ladyhawk@WELL.COM>]

Do I have just the book for you!
Walter Dean Myers and Christopher Myers have just written a
wonderful book called BLUES JOURNEY that does just what you
need. It's published by Holiday House, and it is just out.

There's also a terrific book called _i see the rhythm_ by Toyomi
Igus (illus by Michele Wood, 1998) that encompasses the whole of
African American music in a gorgeous picture book form.

And Julius Lester's BLUES SINGERS: TEN WHO ROCKED THE
WORLD (2001)

GraceAnne DeCandido

Shelley Paul <sbpaul@mindspring.com> scripsit 2 Feb 2003

> Hi, everyone.
> I will be leading some writing workshops with grades 3-5 in
> the coming weeks, and one of our exercises will be to write
> "blues" poems modeled after a Langston Hughes poem. By way
> of introducing the lesson, I would like to provide students
> with a brief (3-5 minutes) but honorable overview of the
> origins of Blues music, leading up to "the blues" also being
> synonymous with feeling sad. I want to do justice to this
> amazingly rich part of African-American/American musical
> history, and the oppression it arose from, so am turning to
> you all for help.
>
> Thank you,
> Shelley Paul
> _____________________________
> Shelley Paul
> Poet, Teacher & Performer
> Atlanta, GA
> http://sbpaul.home.mindspring.com
> sbpaul@mindspring.com

GraceAnne A. DeCandido, MLS
Blue Roses Consulting ~ Writing ~ Editorial ~ Web Content
New York City ~ ladyhawk@well.com
http://www.well.com/user/ladyhawk/gadhome.html

A few good Italian American books, and 2002 favorites for children
http://www.well.com/user/ladyhawk/books.html

The world is indeed full of peril, and there are many dark places;
    but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands
    love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.
 ~JRR Tolkien

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