Additional Resources

Online resources related to the texts used in Mr. Bernhart's classroom:

The Watsons Go to Birmingham-1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis

• Random House Teacher's Guide
  http://www.randomhouse.com/teachers/guides/wats.html
• ALAN Review, Winter 1999
  http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/ALAN/winter99/curtis.html
• Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site: review and resources related to novel
  http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/ALAN/winter99/curtis.html
• WebQuest from Florida State University Education
  http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/ALAN/winter99/curtis.html
• The KidReach Online Reading Center: Novel anticipation guide
  http://www.westga.edu/~kidreach/watsons.html
• Internet School Library Media Center: Christopher Paul Curtis Teacher Resource Page
  http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/curtis.htm
• Book Club Online: conversation with Christopher Paul Curtis
  http://www.planetbookclub.com/kids/archive/curtis/curtisintro.html
• Planet Book Club.com: Additional teacher resources related to novel
  http://www.planetbookclub.com/teachers/watsons.html

Forged by Fire by Sharon Mills Draper
Tears of a Tiger by Sharon Mills Draper

• Official Sharon Draper Homepage: resources, author biography, novel study guides
  http://www.sharondraper.com/
• 1997 National Teacher of the Year, Sharon Draper
  http://www.ccsso.org/ntoy97.html
• NCTE Discussion Thread: Forged by Fire
  http://www.ncte.org/lists/ncte-talk/jul99/msg02070.html
• NCTE Discussion Thread: Tears of a Tiger
  http://www.ncte.org/lists/ncte- middle/archives/
  mar2001/msg00445.html
• Online Guide to African American Books: brief novel synopses
  http://aabooks.com/young.htm

The Skin I'm In by Sharon Flake

• ReadingMatters.co.uk: Book review
  http://www.readingmatters.co.uk/books/skin-im-in.htm
• Olathe Public Library: Teen Reviews
  http://olathe.lib.ks.us/adultref/teenreviews.htm
• On Becoming a Writer: Article about Sharon Flake
  http://www.discover.pitt.edu/media/pcc010625/flake.html

Julie of the Wolves by Julie Craighead George

• Review and Links
  http://www.carolhurst.com/titles/julieofthewolves.html
• Julie Craighead George Homepage
  http://www.jeancraigheadgeorge.com/

Heaven by Angela Johnson

• Biography, listing of books, and brief synopses from the African American Literature Book Club
  http://aalbc.com/authors/angela.htm
• Necessary Roughness by Marie G. Lee
• Article from ALAN Review, "How I Grew"
  http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/ALAN/winter95/Lee.html
• About the Author
  http://www.uni-giessen.de/~ga52/seminarP/mcyal98/sg/author.html
• Teen Hoopla: teen book review
  http://www.ala.org/teenhoopla/reviews/review99/n99.htm

Letters From a Slave Girl: The Story of Harriet Jacobs by Mary E. Lyons

• Author biography, student activities
  http://www.lyonsdenbooks.com/html/jacobs.htm
• Resources related to Harriet Jacobs' life and times
  http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/JACOBS/hj-resrc.htm
• Online texts and resources for Harriet Jacobs
  http://www.drizzle.com/~tmercer/Jacobs/onlineds.shtml
• Learning about Mary E. Lyons
  http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/~kvander/lyons.html
• Online diary of Harriet Jacobs
  http://afroamhistory.about.com/library/bljacobs_contents.htm

Somewhere in the Darkness by Walter Dean Meyers

• About the author
  http://www.randomhouse.com/teachers/authors/myer.html
  http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/~kvander/myers.html
• Synopsis from the KidReach Online Reading Center
  http://www.westga.edu/~kidreach/somewherebkrvw.html

Additional resources related to the tenets of this lesson:

• Conversations in Literature Web site
• Literature Circles
• Middle Web's Language Arts Resources
  http://www.middleweb.com/CurrLangArt.html
• National Council of Teachers of English
  www.ncte.org
• Center on English Learning and Achievement: Envisionment building articles and related research
  http://www.albany.edu/cela/publication/envisionment.htm
  Also see "Discussion as exploration: Literature and the Horizon of Possibilities", Report 6.3, by Langer, Judith at http://www.albany.edu/cela/discussion/index.html
• Young Adult Literature: Online booklists and resources
  http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/yalit.htm
  http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/biochildhome.htm
  http://library.webster.edu/childlit.html
• LibraryPlanet.com: Young Adult Literature Page
  http://www.libraryplanet.com/yalit/
• Assembly on Literature for Adolescents
  http://humanities.byu.edu/English/Alan/default.html
• Internet Public Library: Youth Division
  http://www.ipl.org/youth/
• Young Adult Literature Library from the University of Iowa
  http://www.uiowa.edu/~english/profpage/blandon/tlucht/lit-yalib.html
• University of Tennessee's Center for Children's & Young Adult Literature
  http://www.lib.utk.edu/refs/ccyal/
• Young Adult Library Services Association
  http://www.ala.org/yalsa/
• The Literary Link for Researching Children's/Young Adult Literature
  http://www.theliterarylink.com/
• Book Raps: Online book discussions
  http://rite.ed.qut.edu.au/oz-teachernet/projects/book-rap/index.html
• ALAN Review: Dedicated to teaching and discussing young adult literature
  http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/ALAN/alan-review.html

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