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Media Center's Shonto Begay, children's book author and illustrator.
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Related Pages:
Native American Authors
Authors & Illustrators of Books for Children &
Young Adults
[Biography]
[Unit & Lesson Plans]
[Bibliography]
Biography
Shonto W. Begay,
Artist, Author & Educator
His home page.
Shonto
Begay. Author Visit Kit
From Scholastic
IPL
Ask the Author
Interview with the Navajo artist from the Internet Public
Library
Shonto
Begay
Brief biography from Virginia Hamilton Conference
Anasazi
Diaspora -- Navajo myth, Shonto Begay
Quotations and illustrations from Navajo Visions and
Voices Across
the Mesa, plus some biography; from Native American Indian
Resources
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Unit & Lesson
Plans
Navajo
Poetry
By Jamie Rettke. Grades 3-6. Navajo: Visions and Voices
Across the Mesa
What
Picture Books Do You Recommend for Use in the English Language Arts
Classroom?
pdf file; Article, bibliography from NCTE; Navajo:
Visions and Voices Across the Mesa
Painting with
Words
From unit, Our Mental Images
Find Their Way Onto Paper!;
poetry as word pictures; uses Navajo: Visions and Voices
Across
the Mesa
Making
Intercultural Connections through Literature
Ma'ii and Cousin Horned Toad content and technology
lesson plans from Montgomery County Public Schools.
Kid review
of the
book at KidView
Early Native
Americans
Third grade; see Lesson 3.Native Americans in the
Southwest.
Ma'ii and Cousin Horned Toad. Folktale lesson plans
by the Navajo artist and illustrator of children's books.
Interview
the Author. Virginia English Standards of Learning - Grade 8
Archaeology
Unit. Site Robbers: What's Your View?
From grade 8 technology unit, Unlocking
the Past; Language
arts lessons, includes folklore; from Appalachian Rural
Teacher Technology Alliance; Ma'ii and Cousin Horned Toad
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Bibliography
Shonto W. Begay, Navajo
Artist & Illustrator of Children's Books -
Bibliography Page at ISLMC.
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