March: Book One
by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, & Nate Powell
Length: 121 pages
Format: Paperback
Price: $6.99
Price: $6.99
Basic Premise: This graphic novel follows John Lewis through the early stages of his life and fight for equality as one of the key players in the Civil Rights Movement in Tennessee.
In this post, I mentioned this book as one I was really excited to read. My principal interest in it is its subject matter - the Civil Rights Movement. We are looking at new resources for next year and this looked like it might be a good addition to our unit. It arrived from Amazon today and, I'll be honest - I was bummed when I opened this book and realized it was a graphic novel. I HATE COMIC BOOKS. But, as my students love them, they are becoming increasingly more popular, and I had already forked over the money for this one, I settled in to read anyway. About 35 minutes later, I finished. It took me awhile to hit a "groove," but once I did, the pictures weren't nearly as distracting as they were in the beginning. The story is familiar, of course, but the format and viewpoint made this seem like it was new. It references several things our students study, including the murder of Emmett Till and the Montgomery Bus Boycott, and presented good vocabulary. I actually really liked it, and I think students would, too. It's the first installment of what will be a trilogy.
On a teacher note, I wrote to the publishers because I couldn't find a lexile level on this book. They wrote back saying they don't have that info :( but they do have a free 11-page guide to teaching the novel, which can be downloaded here.
On a teacher note, I wrote to the publishers because I couldn't find a lexile level on this book. They wrote back saying they don't have that info :( but they do have a free 11-page guide to teaching the novel, which can be downloaded here.
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