Browning+Review+3

=** Citation: ** Beard, J. A. (2011). //In zanesville//. New York, NY: Little, Brown. ISBN 978-0-316-08447-5= =** Award: ** Alex Award, 2012= =** Summary: ** This is the story of a fourteen year old girl trying to survive her teenage years in a small Illinois town in the 1970s. She struggles with a drunken father, fitting in, and all the mixed emotions that come with the teenage years.= =** Why I liked it.. **.= =I liked this book because I could relate to a lot of her feelings during that time in my life. Being unsure of herself, beginning to like boys, trying to fit in, finding her place in the world, and peer pressure all took me back to my middle school years. The only negative for me was some of the language in the book, including the occasional f-bomb.= =** Kentucky Common Core Curriculum **= =Grade 9-10:CC.9-10.R.L.3 Analyze how complex characters (e.g., those with multiple or conflicting motivations) develop over the course of a text, interact with other characters, and advance the plot or develop the theme.= =** Genre: ** Young Adult Fiction= =** Classroom Activity using Developing Content Area Literacy **= =Strategy 18 Connect To It. Before reading the teacher models the important types of connections that the students make while reading. The teacher should provide students with an introduction and engage them in a discussion that focuses on an overview of the chapter. The major themes of this book are friendship, emotions, and relationships with peers. The teacher should describe three ways readers can connect to the information they are reading; text-to-self, text-to-text, text-to-world. The teacher should continue to model each type of connection. During reading, the pupils should write in journals and be making connections with the text. After reading, time should be provided for class discussions and sharing.=