tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5176417304197413976.post2243488659334873204..comments2024-02-11T03:33:43.238-05:00Comments on CarolSimonLevin -- Program Palooza: School Age Storytime: Martin Luther King DayCarol Simon Levinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06011967636995998634noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5176417304197413976.post-13528179135623173882019-02-06T11:26:46.117-05:002019-02-06T11:26:46.117-05:00Bedminster 2/2019 Opened by talking about slavery,...Bedminster 2/2019 Opened by talking about slavery, a very mean and sad part of our history... and how some people were very brave and worked to change things...<br />Harriet Tubman (Little People, Big Dreams) -- Ma Isabel Sanchez Vegara<br />Song: Harriet Tubman<br />booktalked: Follow the Drinking Gourd -- Jeannette Winter & Henry's Freedom Box -- Ellen Levine<br />mentioned & left lyrics for song: Follow the Drinking Gourd (lyrics for this and other songs here)<br />Nobody Owns the Sky -- Reeve Lindbergh (<--Lindbergh's youngest daughter, Brave Bessie Coleman went all the way to France in order to learn to be a pilot after no American aviation school would teach a black person)<br />Song: Black and White <br />Sister Anne's Hands -- Marybeth Lorbiecki (a black teacher comes to an all-white school in the South)<br />booktalked: Freedom Summer -- Deborah Wiles<br />These Hands -- Margaret H Mason (told abridged version -- a grandfather tells how his hands could tie knots, play piano, do fancy card tricks and hit a baseball but weren't allowed to touch the bread dough at the Wonderbread factory -- and how, by marching, etc, blacks got their rights.) <br />booktalked We March -- Shane W. Evans and I have a Dream -- Martin Luther King (Kadir Nelson's magnificent illustrations) <br />Singable book: He's Got the Whole World in His Hands -- Kadir Nelson<br />Back of the Bus -- Aaron Reynolds (told abridged version -- wonderful child-centered account of Rosa's resistance) I am Rosa Parks by Brad Meltzer didn't arrive in time, may use next year <br />Show Way -- Jacqueline Woodson (seven generations in a family -- some classes) or <br />Giant Steps to Change the World -- Spike & Tonya Lewis Lee<br />Closed with singable book: This Little Light of Mine -- E. B. LewisCarol Simon Levinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06011967636995998634noreply@blogger.com