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Competition between the two men for the Baptistry Doors certainly changed pre-Renaissance Italian Art from a focus on Painting and Sculpture to Architecture.

That this "sparked" the Renaissance is still being debated.

(f the Woodcutter "prank" is true, readers may lose interest in F. Brunelleschi as a moral person,
but rather, a cruel jerk. As well, his trips back and forth and back and forth to cities made for very boring interludes.)

Descriptions of the Doors and Dome are totally enthralling!

Yet, where are all the photographs???

Firsthand accounts and photographs of 1957 Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, make this book essential for those teaching about the civil rights movement

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I would use this book as a read aloud for a fourth grade class room and an independent read for fifth graders. I would plan on reading this book during Black History Month to further educate my students about the struggles that many African Americans faced. I would have the students create their own version of a journal on how they believe these brave students might have felt when when they first arrived at the school where they previously were not allowed entrance. I believe that this writing assignment will open many of my students eyes as to how difficult it must have been for these students to be thrown into this hostile environment. While they are creating these journals, I will continue to read to them articles and other stories that depict African Americans breaking down barriers to further illustrate the powerful emotions they must have been facing. For fifth graders, I would have them read this story independently because I believe it is at their reading level. They will be able to creating a timeline that shows the accomplishments that Civil Rights Movements were able to accomplish and explain why these actions were important and what their effects where in that time period and in our own society today.

You could use this book as a read aloud in a 5th grade classroom. As you're reading the book, students will write down ideas that they could use in their poems that they will be writing about the events. The students will demonstrate their knowledge of the events by expressing it in a poetic way. The poems will show how they have reacted to their knowledge of events while improving their writing skills. You could also use this in a 4th grade classroom as a read aloud. You could have read the story of Ruby Bridges before you read this book. Then as you are reading this book, students will be making comparisons between the two events and discussing them at the end of each chapter. This will build the students understanding of this time while enhancing their comparison skills.

I would use this text as an interactive read aloud for students in the fifth grade. This is a great informational text for fifth grade students to read to understand the Civil Rights Movement and how it began, because they are beginning to learn about it in their history classes. This would be a great text to teach students what most children their age went through just to go to a good school. This would be great for that because the pictures add meaning to the text and it shows what happened on this day. It is important for them to understand what it was like during this time period, so I would have them discuss in groups similarities and differences between what schools were like in the book and what schools are like now. They would also chart these similarities and differences and we would then discuss them out loud in class.

This book is a history of the the first decades of the Quattrocento in Florence. The most prominent Florentine artists during this period were Filippo Brunelleschi, who designed and built the dome of the Duomo, and Lorenzo Ghiberti, who created two of the three bronze doors for the Baptistery. Brunelleschi and Ghiberti were among the vanguard of the Renaissance art world, and their work influenced later generations of artists. Brunelleschi also shaped the landscape of Florence with his famous dome as well as other architectural projects.

The author's note and source notes provide evidence of extensive research. However, the author is not an art historian. The book is filled with speculation about the authors' motives, feelings, and interpersonal relationships. No illustrations are included, so readers who aren't already familiar with the buildings, sculptures, and paintings discussed in the book will need to look for images elsewhere. This is at best an introduction to the art world of early Renaissance Florence. The lack of illustrations limits its usefulness for this purpose.

This book takes you on adventures all over the world and creates the question are they real, or just folk lore? Children will be off on their own magical fantasy with these little folk tales and inspired to explore what else to people believe, or where is that place. The illustration are great in all different styles of art and a great way of children to be inspired.

Nine boisterous Tall Tales are included in Paul Robert Walker's Big Men, Big Country, which features the legendary adventures of many well-known figures, as well as those of a few more obscure characters. Here is Davy Crockett, that "ring-tailed roarer" who - in Davy Crockett Teaches the Steamboat a Leetle Patriotism - confronts a steamboat captain who won't allow his friend, Death Hug the Bear, on board his boat. Here too is Old Stormalong, the greatest sailor of them all; Big Mose, the tallest, strongest fireman in nineteenth-century New York City; that massive North Woods lumberjack Paul Bunyan, and his giant blue ox, Babe; and John Henry, the fastest steel-driving man ever. Less famous characters, like John Darling of the Catskills, Ol' Gabe of Yellowstone, and Gib Morgan, the oil-driller, also make an appearance. Finally, Pecos Bill and his wife, Slue-Foot Sue, round out the collection.

Told in true Tall Tale style, with embroidered words and an informal, colloquial tone, these tales are full of humor and fun. As the name of the collection would suggest, they are also heavy on the masculine side of adventure, and those looking for a more contemporary take, which gives more attention to female heroes, will be disappointed. Walker addresses this in his brief introduction, where he (rightly) notes the dominance of men in this type of tale. I don't really have a problem with his approach, especially since his book can be paired with Mary Pope Osborne's American Tall Tales, which does include more women, or Robert D. San Souci's Cut from the Same Cloth: American Women of Myth, Legend, and Tall Tale. Not every folk collection has to focus on women, or even give them equal "air time," as long as a diversity of collections are available. In addition to presenting nine engaging stories, Walker also provides detailed source notes for each of the selections in Big Men, Big Country, something I particularly appreciated. All in all, an excellent addition to any library with a shelf devoted to Tall Tales.

Remember Little Rock offers a new perspective on this pivotal civil rights event--on that will challenge you to think about how you would have acted if you had been a student at Central High in 1957.

Hoop Dreams is about two boys in the ghetto of Chicago trying to fullfill their dreams of playing in the NBA. There are many issues and challenges along the way for these two middle school graduates. This is one of the top sports books I've read so far.
--Dillon

These stories were well told in a manner that was great for the young reader. Using dialogue and research from historical sources, Walker tells these stories in a word of mouth fashion that is inviting and comfortable. The stories are exaggerated, yet often explain naturally occurring phenomena and show light on past cultural belief systems.

Read my review on my blog: http://abbylibrarian.blogspot.com/2009/07/book-review-remember-little-rock.html

Details the struggles of the "Little Rock NIne" and the failure of the nonviolent integration of Little Rock Central High School in Arkansas during the year 1957.

Hoop Dreams
Paul Robert Walker

Arthur Agee and William Gates 2 young black boys who love basketball & have big dreams

Setting: During their teenage & high school years where Arthur and William's only escape from the grim streets of Chicago’s ghetto is onto the neighborhood courts, where they and their friends dream of playing for the NBA.They also play for thier respective high schools & eventually colleges.

Theme:It is the dream of authur & william ,who for almost five years struggle to turn playground skills into an all american that could earn them college scholarships,and maybe even a place in the pros.

Plotline: The plan is to make it out of the hood, but authur & william both have to get threw the strugles of a hard life from thier neighborhood to basketball to school to coaches to scholarships to potenitally making it to the nba.

Conflict: Authur goes threw some crisis at home with almost being homeless from being flat broke & transferring schools . but his junior year he gets on the ball & on the track to where he wanted to be.

William didnt have many problems like authur did expect for the fact that it took him a while to get his grades up because he had low level of reading skills. but he adjusted to the "smart school"lifestyle & got on track as well.

American Bookseller Pick of the Lists, American Folklore Society AESOP Accolade List, California Collection, 1997 and 2000, for Giants!

Brunelleschi, Filippo, 1377-1446/Ghiberti, Lorenzo, 1378-1455/Art > Competitions > Italy > Florence >/History > 15th century/Artists > Italy > Florence > Biography/Santa Maria del Fiore (Cathedral : Florence,/Italy)/Art, Renaissance > Italy > Florence

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