The Little Rock Nine Stand Up for Their Rights
1st Edition
Published on 1. January 2011
48 pages
978-0-7613-7259-2 (ISBN)
Description
Until 1957, two worlds existed in Little Rock, Arkansas: one for white Americans and another for African Americans. Whites and blacks went to separate schools, ate at separate restaurants, and even used separate drinking fountains. That year, the U.S. Supreme Court decided to end the laws that kept people apart. Nine black students agreed to attend Little Rock's all-white Central High School. But could they face angry mobs, threats, and violence? Would they have the courage to stay at Central High? In the back of this book, you'll find a script and instructions for putting on a reader's theater performance of this adventure. At our companion website-www.lerneresource.com-you can download additional copies of the script plus sound effects, background images, and more ideas that will help make your reader's theater performance a success.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Brookfield
United States
Publishing group
Lerner Publishing Group
Target group
Children/juvenile
Primary & secondary/elementary & high school
US School Grade: From Second Grade to Fourth Grade, Reading Age: From 8 to 9 years, Interest Age: From 7 to 10 years
Illustrations
Glossary; Bibliography; Illustrations, color
ISBN-13
978-0-7613-7259-2 (9780761372592)
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Eileen Lucas
The Little Rock Nine Stand Up for Their Rights
Book
01/2011
Millbrook Press
€45.75
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Persons
Eileen (O'Donnell) Lucas grew up in Chicago, spent a semester in college in Ireland, and graduated from Western Illinois University. She lived near Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, for over 20 years, where her sons Travis and Brendan were born. She worked as a freelance writer and an elementary and middle school teacher during these years. She now lives in Florida, where she loves to go to the beach and listen to Jimmy Buffett music. She also loves to visit her trailer in the woods in central Wisconsin, where she takes care of her garden and hikes in the pines. Besides nonfiction children's books, she writes for an educational software publishing company in Wisconsin.
Content
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- The Little Rock Nine Stand Up For Their Rights
- Author's Note
- Performing Reader's Theater
- Cast Of Characters
- The Script
- Pronunciation Guide/Glossary
- Selected Bibliography/Further Reading And Websites
- A Note for Teachers and Librarians
- Back Cover
