The Littlest Matryoshka by Corinne Demas Bliss

To do this, we shut off all the lights and shined a flashlight on only what we wanted to 'spotlight. We discussed why I was 'cooking' in front of the students and decided that when we read, we don't have room for every piece of information to stick in our brains (the strainer) therefore, we need to keep all the important information (the spaghetti) and get ride of all the unimportant information (the water).Īfter we were finished with that experiment, we read a piece from our text, A Way to Help Planet Earth and discussed which information was the most important for us to keep in our brains to help us remember the passage. The Story of Ruby Bridges by Robert Coles. The Littlest Matryoshka by Corinne Demas Bliss. (Feb.Did you know you can compare the act of reading to draining spaghetti and water into a strainer? It's true.we found that out today! To introduce determining importance, right in front of all the students, I poured a pot full of spaghetti and water through a strainer and into another pot. Here are a few more synthesizing mentor texts: Thunder Underground by Jane Yolen (poems) Ruby’s Wish by Shirin Yim. ) meshes the real and abstract, and the drama is heightened by his juxtaposition of lifelike characters in somber costumes against backgrounds that feature graphic patterns in wild colors. One of the runaway girls says she plans to work and earn 'buckets of coins.' Hallie, who has just announced she's buying red ribbon with her butter money, asks, 'What you fixin' on buyin'?' 'Mama,' replies the girl. In her first picture book, Morrow creates an insightful narrative with many trenchant moments. But thou has a conscience, child.' How she follows that conscience makes for a thoroughly satisfying denouement. 1 1999 by Corinne Bliss (Author), Kathryn Brown (Illustrator) 431 ratings Hardcover 17.81 38 Used from 8.39 19 New from 17. He responds that while he doesn't like slavery, those who help runaways break the law, exposing themselves to stiff fines as well as harassment: 'We're not meddlin'.' Hallie then visits Levi Coffin, who says, 'It is right to listen to thy father. Corinne Demas The Littlest Matryoshka Hardcover Picture Book, Sept. As the startled child races home, slave catchers on horseback tell her to give her father a notice offering a reward for the return of the 'Negro girls.' Confused, she asks Pa about the situation in general terms. There Hallie encounters two girls who can only be runaway slaves-the first she has ever seen. Loosely based on events that occurred in 1839 Indiana, this gripping tale opens as Hallie, who sells butter to neighbors, leaves a delivery in the cellar of the house owned by Quakers Catharine and Levi Coffin (who is considered by many to be president of the Underground Railroad, as stated in an author's note).