Just got Marvelous Mattie : how Margaret E. Knight became an inventor
Emily Arnold McCully. It is a great book about the women who was way
before her time and is best known for her invention of the machine
that makes paper bags with square bottoms. It is a picture book...
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Barb Engvall
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Teacher-Librarian
John Campbell Elem
Selah, WA
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On Apr 25, 2006, at 12:04 PM, Lori Feldstein wrote:
> Hi! I guess I somehow missed the original question, but I have
> several great biographies of women to recommend.
>
> Mighty Jackie: The Strike Out Queen by Marissa Moss
> This is about Jackie Mitchell, the last woman in our country's
> history to be allowed to play professional baseball. She struck
> out both Babe Ruth and Lou Gherig in an exhibition game and, thus,
> women are not allowed to play professional baseball anymore.
>
> Girls Think of Everything by Catherine Thimmesh
> This is a collective biography about interesting things that were
> invented by women. For instance, did you know that the chocolate
> chip cookie, the paper bag, and windshield wipers were invented by
> women?
>
> Girl Wonder: A Baseball Story in Nine Innings by Deborah Hopkinson
> This is a picture book based on the biography of Alta Weiss, one of
> the first women to play professional baseball. It is told in nine
> innings.
>
> Best Wishes by Cynthia Rylant
> This is the autobiography of children's and YA book author Cynthia
> Rylant.
>
> These are the first ones that come to my mind. I always recommend
> these to my girls (I work in a K-3 girls school). I especially
> recommend Mighty Jackie. I was reading it to a class one day and
> the teacher, who was in the classroom, heard me reading it and came
> running out to see what would happen. Everyone's response to this
> book (adults) is I DIDN'T KNOW THAT! Kids just find it exciting.
> If you read it out loud to a class, you must read or explain the
> information found in the Afterward, or else the whole story just
> seems sweet and they don't realize what the implications are for
> the current state of things with women in sports.
>
> Okay, that's my 25 cents.
>
> Lori Feldstein-Gardner
> School Library Teacher
> The Hewitt School
> New York, NY
> lfeldstein@hewittschool.org
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> I don't have any suggestions as I do not know your curriculum or
> students. I
> like to suggest reformers such as Sojourner Truth or Harriet Tubman
> but they
> may know these names.
>
> We usually do not let them do any sports or musical performers but
> ask the
> students to stick with someone of more rigor. Perhaps, Barbara Jordan,
> Barbara Bush, Janet Reno, Maya Angelou, Louisa May Alcott -- folks
> such as
> these. Being a Roman Catholic school, we do many bios of Saints as
> well.
>
> Recently some students did Emily Dickinson, Mary Todd Lincoln,
> Mary, Queen
> of Scots, Anne rank, Hilary Clinton, Oprah Winfrey, Rosie
> O'Donnell, Susan
> B. Anthony.
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> Allan
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> From: "Dawn VanLerberghe" <dlvl_02@HOTMAIL.COM>
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>> I have students who are starting their biography/autobiography
>> unit. The
>> girls usually come to me for suggestions on who to recommend.
>> They are
>> often interested in doing a biography on a woman and often one
>> that they
>> have never heard of. I like that they are interested in learning
>> about
>> someone new, but I don't want to keep suggesting the same ones
>> year after
>> year. I have often suggested Victoria Woodhull jus to name one.
>>
>> Will you please share some suggestions? I will post a hit.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Dawn VanLerberghe
>> Baraga Area Schools
>> Baraga, MI 49908
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