Revolutionary War book selections!

         

In Language Arts, students chose to read either Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson, or My Brother Sam is Dead James by Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier. Both books provide students with different perspectives on the war, including loyalists, patriots and slaves. Students are reading the books in groups, with different literature circle roles on discussion days to help them prepare for and lead the discussion. Each student will rotate through each role 1 time before the books are finished before the winter break. Students are discussion directors who lead the group and ask questions, super summarizers, creative connectors, passage masters, word wizards who find new vocabulary, or artful artists who illustrate a scene from the book. Each student has a schedule of the reading with their different roles and the due dates, to help them plan their homework.

Ask your student what book they are reading. How does this help them understand the Revolutionary War? How does this connect to what they are learning in social studies?

Happy reading!