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Teenage Superheroes?! Experiences in our young lives can make a difference to many others in the world. Booktalk presented by Jennifer Whitley Tanglewood School Librarian. Charleston, SC Pre-Civil War First Person. 1830s Historical Fiction Hetty Handful Grimke Sarah Grimke.
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Teenage Superheroes?! Experiences in our young lives can make a difference to many others inthe world. Booktalk presented by Jennifer Whitley Tanglewood School Librarian
Charleston, SC Pre-Civil WarFirst Person 1830s Historical Fiction Hetty Handful Grimke Sarah Grimke
Berlin, Germany World War TwoExcerpt 1940s Historical Fiction LieselMemminger Narrated by Death
Britain & France World War TwoDescription 1940s Historical Fiction Maddie & Queenie
Cambodia Vietnam ConflictDescription 1970s Memoir ArnChorn-Pond
Uganda Kony’s LRAExcerpt 2000s Historical Fiction Ugandan Boys
Pakistan Taliban’s Impact on GirlsFirst Person 2010s Biography MalalaYousafzai
If You Like What You Heard, Try . . . The Power of One by Bruce Courtenay, Ballantine, 1996 Dear Miss Breed by Joann Oppenheim, Scholastic Non-Fiction, 2006 Courageous Teen Resisters by Ann Byers, Enslow Publishing, 2010 Battle Dress by Amy Efauw, Speak, 2010 Bomb: The Race to Build--and Steal— the World’s Most Dangerous Weapon by Steve Sheinkin, FlashPoint, 2012 Watch Turn on AMC, Sundays at 9pm Office of the UN Special Envoy for Global Education www.educationenvoy.org More on the Cambodian Genocide http://worldwithoutgenocide.org/genocides-and-conflicts/cambodian-genocide Slavery Refresher? Try John Green’s Crash Course: US History #13 Slavery https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ajn9g5Gsv98R Taliban vs. Women? Try Third World Traveler’s Newsletter http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Life_Death_ThirdWorld/Taliban_WarWomen.html
Feel free to make comments on the back of the survey! • Booktalk Styles: • Excerpt (a portion of the text is read aloud): The Book Thief and Never Fall Down • Description (personal explanation of the story): Code Name Verity and The War Brothers: The Graphic Novel • First Person (character voiced rendition of the story): The Invention of Wings and I Am Malala
Teenage Superheroes? No doubt about it—that’s you! Thanks for listening and participating.