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Educators
Read and Discuss
—Experience the
POWER OF STORY
to engage your students in studying
history!—
Request a
“Stories from Civil Rights History,
Then and Now”
classroom visit:
Email Susan.
“Accomplishes the difficult
feat of making history come
alive through fiction.”
—Dr.
Clayborne Carson,
Martin Luther King Jr. Research
and Education Institute
“A rich and vividly written
narrative which transports the
reader through American
history.”
—Dr.
Todd Beach, 2010
Minnesota Social Studies Teacher
of the Year
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Teaching
The
FOG MACHINE in Concurrent Enrollment Programs
St. James High School
reads
The
FOG MACHINE
in English 151, a “College Now” course
offered through Southwest Minnesota
State University, and meets with the
author to discuss.
Find
ideas for teaching
The
FOG MACHINE.
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Choosing
The
FOG MACHINE as a Resource for Teaching Civil Rights History
Literacy Daily
features
The
FOG MACHINE with National
Book Award winner and Longlist authors
Woodson, Sheinkin, and Wiles in “Putting
Books to Work: New Takes on the Civil
Rights Movement.”
Teaching for Change carries
The
FOG MACHINE
in its
bookstore
and includes it in Teaching Resources
on its
Civil Rights Teaching
site.
Teaching Tolerance includes an excerpt
in
Perspectives for
a Diverse America,
a literacy-based curriculum that
marries anti-bias social justice
content with the rigor of the Common
Core State Standards.
MN ISD #196 selects
The
FOG MACHINE
for its Secondary Social Studies
Teachers Fall 2015 Book Study Group. |
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Including
The
FOG MACHINE in Your School’s Collection
The
FOG MACHINE
is available for purchase from your
preferred library sources.
English Language Arts and Gifted and
Talented Teacher Theresa Back
purchases signed copies of
The
FOG MACHINE
for the 8th-grade English
Department at Scott Highlands Middle
School’s collection of novels on
prejudice and bias while attending a
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Kicking off Post-publication Classroom
Visits
Classroom visits began in Mississippi,
during the June 2014 book launch, at
the Meridian Freedom Project, a
college pathway program in the spirit
of the 1964 freedom schools.
Morning meeting at the Meridian
Freedom Project concludes with freedom
songs. From here, I was off to visit
with 6th, 7th,
and 8th-grade rhetoric
classes, where students and teachers
brainstormed in response to the
targeted prompt:
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“I have a dream that one day...”
We then compared their dreams to those
of actual 1964 Meridian Freedom School
students and fictional students in The
FOG MACHINE. |
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Navigating
Pre-Publication with a Little Help
from My Friends
Thank you to the many educators and
students who have graciously read
pre-publication versions of
The
FOG MACHINE.
Your feedback and support have been
instrumental.
Students from Mississippi’s McComb
High and Washington’s The
Overlake School await the video
conference to discuss their
pilot read
of Advance Review Copies. Their
teachers sought a shared language to
allow students to talk about civil
rights history and race when Overlake
visited McComb in April 2014. Copies
of
The
FOG MACHINE
rode the bus with students as they
toured historic civil rights sights.
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