Below you’ll find some picture books and links to presentations about the assigned “classic” books that relate to themes we will be discussing. If the link to the presentation is not yet active, please check if it is under the post submissions.
Picture Books
Related Presentations
Links here go to your classmate’s presentation and/or more information about a particular book. Note: If a link is inactive, the presentation may not have yet been shared or there is not currently additional material to share.
Black Beauty, Anna Sewell, 1877
The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame, 1908
The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgeson Burnett (1911)
The Boxcar Children, Gertrude Chandler Warner (1924)
Mary Poppins, P.L. Travers (1934)
Mr. Popper’s Penguins, Richard and Florence Atwater (1939)
The Island of the Blue Dolphins, Scott O’Dell (1960)
Harriet the Spy, Louise Fitzhugh (1964)
The Trumpet of the Swan, E.B. White (1964)
Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing, Judy Blume (1972)
M.C. Higgins the Great, Virginia Hamilton (1974)
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, Mildred Taylor (1976)
Ramona and her Father, Beverly Cleary (1977)
Scorpion, Walter Dean Myer (1989)
What motifs and themes have you noticed in the two books in this module? How do they relate to some of the presentations you have been watching from your classmates?
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