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Rosa Parks
On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested when she refused to give up her seat on a bus so a white man could sit. Almost overnight, she became an icon of the rapidly growing civil rights movement.
On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested when she refused to give up her seat on a bus so a white man could sit. Almost overnight, she became an icon of the rapidly growing civil rights movement. Readers (Grades 3-5) will find out how Parks continued to fight for African American civil rights after her famous arrest. They will also learn more about the racism and segregation that Parks and other African Americans have been subjected to throughout U.S. history.
On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested when she refused to give up her seat on a bus so a white man could sit. Almost overnight, she became an icon of the rapidly growing civil rights movement. Readers (Grades 3-5) will find out how Parks continued to fight for African American civil rights after her famous arrest. They will also learn more about the racism and segregation that Parks and other African Americans have been subjected to throughout U.S. history.
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48 pages, Library Binding
First published February 1, 2015
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June 19, 2017Twin Text:
Reynolds, A., & Cooper, F. (2010). Back of the bus. New York, NY: Philomel Books.
Rationale:
Back of the Bus (Reynolds, 2010) shows the view point of the story that students might be a little bit more familiar with. It retells the story of Rosa Parks being arrested on the bus from the viewpoint of a child sitting at the back of the bus. It doesn't go into great detail about what led to the event happening. This helps remind students of the situation and what they may know or think they may know before learning more specific facts about Rosa Parks, her background, and others that were involved in the bus boycott. Rosa Parks (Taylor-Butler, 2015) goes much more in depth into Parks's life and her involvement in civil rights before her arrest.
Text Structure & Text Features:
This story is written in chronological order. Within this order, there are also clear cause and effect explanations due to the events surrounding the bus boycott. It features a table of contents, pictures, captions, headings, bold vocabulary words and a glossary, sidebars, a timeline, and an index.
Strategy Application:
Rosa Parks is a historical figure that many people know a little bit about, but it's not always the entire story. This would be a good text set to use a K-W-L chart (Camp, 2010). Students would start with listing what they think they know about Rosa Parks and the bus boycott. Then students would add questions that they want to learn from the stories. Together they would read Back of the Bus, see if they learned anything new from the story, and add it to their chart. Any additional questions would be added to the want to know column before reading Rosa Parks. As students read through Rosa Parks, they will add details they learn to the learned column to create a more complete picture of the story. Then they add any other questions they might have following the discussion and do any additional research required to find their answers.
Resource:
Camp, D. (2010, February). It takes two: Teaching with twin texts of fact and fiction. The Reading Teacher, 53(5), 400-408.
Reynolds, A., & Cooper, F. (2010). Back of the bus. New York, NY: Philomel Books.
Rationale:
Back of the Bus (Reynolds, 2010) shows the view point of the story that students might be a little bit more familiar with. It retells the story of Rosa Parks being arrested on the bus from the viewpoint of a child sitting at the back of the bus. It doesn't go into great detail about what led to the event happening. This helps remind students of the situation and what they may know or think they may know before learning more specific facts about Rosa Parks, her background, and others that were involved in the bus boycott. Rosa Parks (Taylor-Butler, 2015) goes much more in depth into Parks's life and her involvement in civil rights before her arrest.
Text Structure & Text Features:
This story is written in chronological order. Within this order, there are also clear cause and effect explanations due to the events surrounding the bus boycott. It features a table of contents, pictures, captions, headings, bold vocabulary words and a glossary, sidebars, a timeline, and an index.
Strategy Application:
Rosa Parks is a historical figure that many people know a little bit about, but it's not always the entire story. This would be a good text set to use a K-W-L chart (Camp, 2010). Students would start with listing what they think they know about Rosa Parks and the bus boycott. Then students would add questions that they want to learn from the stories. Together they would read Back of the Bus, see if they learned anything new from the story, and add it to their chart. Any additional questions would be added to the want to know column before reading Rosa Parks. As students read through Rosa Parks, they will add details they learn to the learned column to create a more complete picture of the story. Then they add any other questions they might have following the discussion and do any additional research required to find their answers.
Resource:
Camp, D. (2010, February). It takes two: Teaching with twin texts of fact and fiction. The Reading Teacher, 53(5), 400-408.
December 31, 2020
On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested when she refused to give up her seat on a bus so a white man could sit. Almost overnight, she became an icon of the rapidly growing civil rights movement.
On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested when she refused to give up her seat on a bus so a white man could sit. Almost overnight, she became an icon of the rapidly growing civil rights movement. Readers (Grades 3-5) will find out how Parks continued to fight for African American civil rights after her famous arrest. They will also learn more about the racism and segregation that Parks and other African Americans have been subjected to throughout U.S. history.
On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested when she refused to give up her seat on a bus so a white man could sit. Almost overnight, she became an icon of the rapidly growing civil rights movement. Readers (Grades 3-5) will find out how Parks continued to fight for African American civil rights after her famous arrest. They will also learn more about the racism and segregation that Parks and other African Americans have been subjected to throughout U.S. history.
November 26, 2024
Biography, Grade Level: 3rd-5th
I LOVED this book. The facts were presented in a lovely way. The book had large print for beginning readers and a true or false section in the front to keep readers on the hunt as they read. This was a beautiful story of a very brave woman who led the way for equal treatment of all people. I loved reading this with my daughter. She was super impressed that this woman fought for what was right, even though she was put in jail. I will definitely have this book in my future classroom!
I LOVED this book. The facts were presented in a lovely way. The book had large print for beginning readers and a true or false section in the front to keep readers on the hunt as they read. This was a beautiful story of a very brave woman who led the way for equal treatment of all people. I loved reading this with my daughter. She was super impressed that this woman fought for what was right, even though she was put in jail. I will definitely have this book in my future classroom!
May 16, 2015
This is a re-issue of Taylor-Butler’s 2015 text of the same title. Still, the story of Rosa Parks’ refusal to give up her seat on a bus so a white man could sit, continues to rivet the attention of students of history, just as Ms. Parks’ actions influenced events through the present day. Almost overnight, Rosa Parks became the symbol of the nascent Civil Rights movement. Readers will discover how Parks continued to advocate for civil rights after her arrest, as well as the racism and segregation that continue to concern many people even today. A lot of information, and many historical photographs, are packed into this slender volume.
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June 6, 2016This book would be good for middle elementary students when talking about the Civil Rights movement and MLK Jr. Also this book would be good to have in the classroom during Black History Month. There are real life pictures from 1913-2005 following the life of Rosa Parks and what all she did throughout her life.
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