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Moving to a new country isn't easy, as Shirley Temple Wong learns in In The Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson by Bette Bao Lord. A series of language arts activities carry readers through the novel, addressing the story's themes, characters, vocabulary, sentence structure, and historical context.
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Instructional Ideas
- Use as warm-up activities during a novel unit
- Assign the book during Black History Month or when focusing on immigration in social studies
- Have learners write about their own immigration backgrounds, including how many generations ago their families came to America
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- Requires copies of the book
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- Provides answer keys for all worksheets
- Connects applicable language arts skills (vocabulary, grammar, reading comprehension, literary analysis)
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