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Jacqueline Woodson

Jacqueline Woodson. Courtney Johnson, Taylor Miller, Caroline Snipes. About the Author… . She loved everything about writing and wasn’t a big fan of sitting still unless she was reading

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Jacqueline Woodson

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  1. Jacqueline Woodson Courtney Johnson, Taylor Miller, Caroline Snipes

  2. About the Author… • She loved everything about writing and wasn’t a big fan of sitting still unless she was reading • Wrote a poem in fourth grade about Martin Luther King Jr that was so good no one believed she had written it • Her major literary influences are James Baldwin, Virginia Hamilton, and Nikki Giovanni • She is known for the detailed physical landscapes she writes into each of her books. • Born on February 12, 1963 in Columbus, Ohio • Lived in Greenville, SC until age 7 then moved to Brooklyn, NY (where she still resides) • Attended Adelphi College and graduated with a B.A. in English and a minor in British Literature • As a child, she wrote on anything and everything. Wrote graffiti on a building wall, wrote on paper bags, her shoes and denim binders. She also chalked stories across sidewalks and penciled tiny tales in notebook margins

  3. Books Written This is The Rope • Coming On Home Soon • Caldecott Honor • ALA Notable 2005 • Booklist Editor’s Choice • Child Magazine Best of 2004 • Each Kindness • Coretta Scott King Honor Book • 2013 Jane Addams Peace Award • 2013 Charlotte ZolotowAward • Best Book of 2012 – School Library Journal • The Other Side • ALA Notable • Riverbank Review Children’s Book of Distinction • Texas Blue Bonnet List • School Library Journal Best Book • Booklist Editor’s Choice • New York Public Library’s 100 Titles for Reading and Sharing • 2001 Time of Wonder Award • IRA Teacher’s Choices 2002 • 2004 Louisiana Young Reader’s Choice Award (Honor) • 2003-2004 Pennsylvania Young Reader’s Choice Master List • California Young Reader Medal Nominee • 2003-2004 South Carolina Book Award Nominee Pecan Pie Baby

  4. Books Continued… Sweet, Sweet Memory • Visiting Day • 2003 Skipping Stones Honor Award • Show Way • Newberry Honor Medal Our Gracie Aunt Middle Grade Books:http://www.jacquelinewoodson.com/category/books-ive-written/middle-grade-titles/ Young Adult Books:http://www.jacquelinewoodson.com/category/books-ive-written/young-adult-titles/ We Had a Picnic This Sunday Past

  5. Trends • 1st person narrative • Dialect • Tough issues • loss, inequality, prejudice/discrimination, gender • African American families • Extended family and nontraditional household, blended families • Rural/urban setting • Writes across ages/genres • Historic and current content • She places boundaries everywhere—social, economic, physical, sexual, racial then has her characters break through physical and psychological boundaries to create a strong and emotional story

  6. Curriculum Connection • Using the book The Other Side • The students will... • Write a journal entry about a time you judged or excluded someone because they were different from you. Share an example of a time you felt judged or excluded. How did it make you feel? What can you do in the future to avoid these situations? • The students will… • Write a journal about what you think the fence symbolizes? Explain your reasoning. • The students will… • Describe how the main characters acted/thought at the beginning of the story. How do they change over the course of the story? • The students will… • Write a journal about why you think all the kids decided to play together at the end of the book? What do you think changed their mind?

  7. Fun Facts • Has a lot of her writing memorized so that she don’t have to carry her books everywhere • Once wrote a book in two weeks and it only needed a little revision…the next book took four years • She can only write with her notebook turned sideways. As a kid, she wrote with it turned upside down. • She doesn’t believe there is any such thing as “writer’s block”, it’s just your mind telling you what you’re writing isn’t the thing you really want to be writing • Has brothers named Hope and Roman and a sister named Odella • Has a son, Jackson-Leroi and a daughter Toshi • Has plays/movies/TV shows of her work: • Locomotion (play) • Show Way, The Musical (musical play) • Beneath A Meth Moon (upcoming movie) • Miracle’s Boys (mini-series) • There are many anthologies (at least 20) that include her work

  8. References http://www.jacquelinewoodson.com/

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