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But family bonds are strong as Delphine learns in this story.

The year is 1969 and 12½ year old Delphine and her two younger sisters are learning a lot of family history as they get to know Ma Charles and Miss Trotter: two feisty, feuding sisters who are the matriarchs of the family. A once a week meeting with the other students reading the same book to discuss the book and review the assignments keeps students energized and on track.ĪWARDS/RECOGNITIONS: Coretta Scott King Award ALA Notable Book Amazon Best Book of the Year starred reviews in ALA Booklist, Kirkus Reviews, School Library Journal Publishers Weekly CCBC Choice NY Public Library 100 Titles for Reading & Sharing.Īnother special summer for the Gaither girls…this time in Alabama with Big Ma and handsome cousin, JimmyTrotter.

Typically, students are responsible for completing one reading assignment with the accompanying questions each week. The student booklet is designed for independent work so that students may be working on this in class while the teacher is meeting with another group. In addition there are four culminating activities at the end of the booklet. Each assignment includes questions and tasks to go with the reading. The student pages divide the text into six reading assignments of approximately 40 pages each. Reading and writing skills in the student booklet support CCSS and include determining theme, setting, inferring, explaining, comprehension, summarizing, finding historical clues, recognizing point-of-view, expanding vocabulary, figurative language (simile, metaphor, idiom, hyperbole, personification, onomatopoeia), practicing map skills, and using context clues. The student pages are designed to reinforce essential reading and writing skills. Included are 31 student pages, an answer key, a vocabulary bookmark, lists of vocabulary words, and a listing of CCSS supported in the packet.

This is a ready-to-use, Common Core aligned, no-prep PDF/Easel digital novel study for students in grades 5-8 reading the award-winning, historical fiction (featuring life in the 1960&70's) novel Gone Crazy in Alabama by Rita Williams-Garcia.