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Watch video- Introducing Addy and the author ( Connie Porter)
Title: Meet Addy
Author: Connie Porter
Grade Level: 3 and up
Paperback: 88 pages
Publisher: Pleasant Company; First Edition 1993
This is one of my favorite books, its a easy read and the illustrations have texture and it captures each charterers emotion.
This book is historical fiction.
American Girl’s character books captivate readers with stories of heart, hope, and history and celebrate what it means to be a girl—past and present. Gentle life lessons throughout the stories remind girls of such lasting values as the importance of family and friends, compassion, responsibility, and forgiveness. Full of wisdom and encouragement, the stories show girls how to meet their own challenges with strength and courage. The American Girls' have a series of books that captures a specific era in history. For example
Meet Samantha: An American Girl
(Samantha Parkington is a bright Victorian beauty being raised by her wealthy grandmother in 1904. Samantha's stories describe her life during this important period of change). I like the book series because its speaks about courage and bravery and what it means to be a girl. The books are a easy read and I think that my students will enjoy reading this book and other in the series.
Addy walker a courageous girl determined to be free in the midst of the Civil War. In the story, it talks about Addy's brother Sam and her father "poppa" who gets sold, the family is ripped apart. During slavery, that happens frequently, which is a good way to explain to student how helpless blacks were. Many lived in fear never knowing what would happen next. The book also has little pictures for example " When she came to the fields, she saw a wagon. Sam was in it, bound and gagged shackled hands and foot" (Porter, 1993). There was a little picture of same feet being in shackled, its important that student see imagines of what it was like to be a slaves. The book Meet Addy, is a good book to implement what is was like to be a child during that time. At the end of book it leads into the next book which is Addy Learns a Lesson. There is a portion at the end of the book A look back in America in 1864. plenty of picture and influential African American (i.e. Phillis Wheatley, Benjamin Banneker, Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass) and primarily what people went through. From the selling of slaves to abolitionists (people who were against slavery and helped slaves gain freedom.
I would use this book in lesson,
CCSS:RI3:1 Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding
of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the
answers.
CCSS:RI3:3 Describe the relationship between a series of historical
events, scientific ideas or concepts, or steps in technical
procedures in a text, using language that pertains to time,
sequence, and cause/effect.
CCSS:SS3:1Compare places and regions around the world using geographic characteristic
Student understand the reason for Civil War, and what it meant for African Americans. Student will understand why African Americans moved towards the North. I enjoy history so i would really enjoy teaching this lesson to get student excited about history. I would recommend that my colleagues get The American Girl books series.
Bloom's Taxonomy questions How is Meet Addy similar to another American Girl book?
How would you feel you were separated from you parent or parents?
The story Meet Addyby Connie Porter and illustrated by Dahl Taylor and Melodye Rosales was a very well written story. It was about a little girl named Addy who is a slave on a plantation with her mother, father, brother and baby sister. The brother and the father were sold to another owner in the story. In the beginning, the mother and the father were planning on running away with their family. So because the father and the brother were sold, the mother and Addy left by themselves. Additionally, the baby sister, Esther, had to stay behind with their friends Auntie Lula and Uncle Solomon. While Addy and the mother were out running to their freedom, the author gives edge of your seat mental illustrations and keeps you wondering if they’re going to make it to their destination. They were working to get to Philadelphia. Before they could get there, they had to find a white house with a woman there who would help them. They found the house, the woman helped them, and the story ends happily. The illustrations in the story are well drawn and help the reader see what the characters in the story look like. The story is also an easy read, just like Philadelphia. Before they could get there, they had to find a white house with a woman there who would help them. They found the house, the woman helped them, and the story ends happily. The illustrations in the story are well drawn and help the reader see what the characters in the story look like. The story is also an easy read, just like the story The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleishman.
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This series chapter book is intended for girls who are 9-12 years old. This book is the first book in the Addy American Girl series and introduces the subjects of slavery, the underground railroad, and the Civil War. Addy, a nine-year-old girl and slave on a North Carolina plantation hears her parents who are also slaves talking about possibly running away in order to gain freedom. That possibility becomes reality after Addy's father and older brother are sold to another master. It is then that Addy and her mother begin their journey to a “safe house” and from there are transported to a ship that takes them to Philadelphia and to freedom. This book also taught great morals about loving the people who seem to hate you. Her mother told her that she never wanted Addy’s heart to be full of hate because that is how you end up being mean like their owner.
DeleteThis book is a realistic, engaging, and emotional book about slavery, the underground railroad, and the Civil War. Many young girls will be able to relate and empathizes with the strong characters and personalities throughout this book. This book is heart-wrenching as many of the characters are treated like animals and some are even forced to leave behind family in search of freedom. The illustrations, which are done in watercolor and the accompanying captions add to the book, as does the family tree and looking into the past sections of the book. In my classroom, I may use this as a read aloud book and one of many resources when teaching about slavery and the Civil War.