Julius Lester
Teacher Resource File

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Biography
Julius Lester

From Scholastic. Biography, booklist and interview transcript
Julius Lester

Biography from Children's Literature
True Blue Julius Lester

Brief biography from The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books
Julius Lester

Biography from PenguinPutnam
Meet Julius Lester

From Houghton Mifflin
Amazon. "Interview with Julius Lester"
Julius Lester Biography

From Kay Vandergrift
Julius Lester Q&A

Lester talks about his Little Black Sambo

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Lesson Plans
Baltimore Curriculum Project. Kindergarten

African folktales; How Many Spots Does a Leopard Have? And

Other Tales. Space down for lesson plans
Civil War

Unit plan, Civil War; lesson plan Coming Across the Atlantic,

grades 4 to 6; trans-Atlantic passage; From Slave Ship to

Freedom Road; from Blackstone Valley Learning Network
Africans in Colonial North America, Colonial Virginia & Maryland

Grades 11 & 12; African American History, language arts; unit

plan; From Slave Ship to Freedom Road; Internet resources;

from The Africana Blackboard
Teaching Tolerance

Grades 5 to 9, language arts & social studies; micro lesson plans,

Internet resources on Tolerance, materials; From Slave Ship to

Freedom Road; from Tolerance unit plan, Introduction to Tolerance
Tall Tales

Lesson plans, grades 4 & 5; includes John Henry;

from Springfield Public Schools
John Henry: Web and Print Resources
McGraw-Hill. John Henry

Building Bridges. Transportation
Othello

Review of the novel; author study; classroom connections; related

books; web activities
African-American Folktales and their Use in an Integrated Curriculum

Grades 2 to 4; social studies, history, reading; by Joyce Patton,

from Yale New Haven Lesson Plans; Black Folktales
Crisis Times for African Americans

By Frances Pierce. Yale-New Haven Unit/Lesson Plans.

To Be a Slave Eighth grade
Black Folktales

By Gail Staggers. Yale-New Haven.. "Black Folktales"

Elementary level
Portrait of the African American Family

Grades 7-12; language arts, social studies, humanities.

By Lystra M. Richardson. From Yale New Haven. To Be a Slave
Pathways to The Imagination 'creative Writing 101'

Grades 9-12; by Gerene Freeman. "Falling Pieces of Broken Sky"

From Yale-New Haven Lesson Plans
To Be a Slave. SCORE Activity 1

Researching the life of a typical slave
To Be a Slave. SCORE Activity 2

How some slaves escaped slavery and those who helped them
To Be a Slave. SCORE Activity 3

Did, as some slaves believed, freedom meant opportunity
To Be a Slave. SCORE Activity 4

What was the African American experience fighting in the Civil War?
To Be a Slave. SCORE Activity 5

Study lyrics of songs related to slavery
To Be a Slave

SCORE Cyberguide
Crossroads: Middle School Curriculum. Unit Civil War

See Question 1. What was life like for slaves prior to the Civil War?

To Be a Slave
Using Film and Literature to Examine Uncle Remus: A Comparison and Analysis of the Film--Song of the South

Grades 2-5, Black History Month; Literature/English Grade 6.

By Felicia R. Mckinnon. From Yale-New Haven Lesson Plans

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ERIC Resources

For abstracts, please search AskEric directly.

"Aesthetic Patterning of Verbal Art and the Performance-Centered Text"

By Elizabeth C. Fine. ED200051
"The Price of Integration: A Review Essay"

By Charles Banner-Haley. Teaching History: A Journal of

Methods, Spr. 1996.
"Julius Lester. Newbery Runner-up"

School Library Journal, May 69
"Meet the Authors: 25 Writers of Upper Elementary and Middle School Books Talk about Their Work"

By Deborah Kovacs. ED395736
"Voices from a Dream Deferred: Making Sense of White Society"

By Jeffrey Schrank. Media Method, Sept. 69
"John Henry: Then and Now"

By W. Nikola-Lisa. African American Review, Spr 1998.
"Little Black Sambo" and the Legacy of Image in African American Literature for Children"

By Wande Knox Goncalves. ED410580
"Using Authors as Mentor"

By Aimee DiMuzio Buckner. Primary Voices, Apr 1999.

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