{"id":2002,"date":"2009-11-17T09:43:33","date_gmt":"2009-11-17T14:43:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/archives\/2002"},"modified":"2009-11-17T09:43:33","modified_gmt":"2009-11-17T14:43:33","slug":"teaching-civics-with-childrens-literature-as-good-as-anybody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/2009\/11\/17\/teaching-civics-with-childrens-literature-as-good-as-anybody\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching Civics With Children&#8217;s Literature: As Good As Anybody"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/files\/2009\/11\/images3.jpg\" title=\"images3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/files\/2009\/11\/images3.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"images3.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Martin Luther King Jr. played a significant role in United States history.\u00a0 In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/As-Good-Anybody-Abraham-Heschels\/dp\/0375833358\">As Good As Anybody: Martin Luther King Jr. and Abraham Joshua Heschel&#8217;s Amazing March Towards Freedom<\/a>, written by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rmichelson.com\/RMichelson_Galleries.html\">Richard Michelson<\/a>, young readers will learn about his battles to change our history and Abraham Joshua Heschel&#8217;s reasons join in that fight.<\/p>\n<p>This child friendly book does a superb job presenting complicated events.\u00a0 Students will learn how Martin Luther King Jr. and Abraham Joshua Heschel became leaders in the Civil Rights Movement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The time has come for action,&#8221; Martin told his congregation.\u00a0 &#8220;Don&#8217;t ride the buses until we can sit wherever we please.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Curriculum Connections<\/strong><br \/>\nUse this book to discuss the Civil Rights movement, the Holocaust, civics, biographies, and diversity.\u00a0 Themes in this book correlate with Virginia SOLs 2.11, 3.11, VS.9c, USII.7, USII.8d and USII.9a.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Additional Resources<\/strong> .<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Make a Martin Luther King Jr. printable book with your students.\u00a0 This is the printable version for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.enchantedlearning.com\/history\/us\/MLK\/beginningbook\/\">beginning readers<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Activity: <a href=\"http:\/\/printables.familyeducation.com\/skill-builder\/reading-and-language-arts\/51500.html?detoured=1\">What makes a hero?<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Here is background information on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thekingcenter.org\/DrMLKingJr\/\">Martin Luther King Jr.<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.encyclopedia.com\/topic\/Abraham_Joshua_Heschel.aspx\">Abraham Joshua Heschel<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Link to videos on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thekingcenter.org\/PhotoVideo\/Default.aspx\">The King Center<\/a> site.<\/li>\n<li>Here&#8217;s a link to Reading is Fundamental&#8217;s site on the illustrator, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rif.org\/art\/illustrators\/colon.mspx\">Raul Colon<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Book: <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/As-Good-Anybody-Abraham-Heschels\/dp\/0375833358\">As Good As Anybody: Martin Luther King Jr. and Abraham Joshua Heschel&#8217;s Amazing March Towards Freedom<\/a><strong><br \/>\nAuthor:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rmichelson.com\/RMichelson_Galleries.html\">Richard Michelson <\/a><strong><br \/>\nPublisher:<\/strong> Alfred A. Knopf<br \/>\n<strong>Publication Date:<\/strong> 2008<br \/>\n<strong>Pages: <\/strong>40 pages<br \/>\n<strong>Grade Range: <\/strong>K-5<br \/>\n<strong>ISBN:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 0375933352<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Martin Luther King Jr. played a significant role in United States history.\u00a0 In As Good As Anybody: Martin Luther King Jr. and Abraham Joshua Heschel&#8217;s Amazing March Towards Freedom, written by Richard Michelson, young readers will learn about his battles &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/2009\/11\/17\/teaching-civics-with-childrens-literature-as-good-as-anybody\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4424,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,80,848,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-african-american","category-biography","category-civics","category-diversity"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4424"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}