Author: Walter Dean Myers
Illustrator: Christopher Myers
Holiday House, 2003
This book takes the reader through the history and importance of the blues, addressing topics such as slavery, lynching, and poverty. The illustrations add to the theme and help give the history. It is historically accurate, and both the text and illustrations provide authenticity. Due to the nature of the topics, it would be most appropriate for middle school students and older. It could be used in a thematic unit on the blues or African American history. Depending on the age of the students, it could be read together as a class or used for small group discussions.
GREAT,GREAT,GREAT book. this book would be a great book to teach slavery and poverty, in maybe a humanities class with the way the words were spoken in the text a lesson in poetry, or a history class. In the History class they could discuss more indepth the pictures of the story and how discrimination took place and about racism. Two important concepts people need to understand for older students. The Illustrations could also be used to send a message to young adults as well, and could be used as a writing tool.
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