Al Capone Does My Shirts is a Newbery Award book written and illustrated by Gennifer Choldenko.
The book contains 228 pages.
"A twelve-year-old boy named Moose moves to Alcatraz Island in 1935 when the prison guards' families were housed there. He has to deal with a strange new environment in addition to life with his autistic sister."
(--from Follett Library Resources: http://flr.follett.com)
Children will love this book because they can relate some of the story to events that actually occurred. Children will also love the suspense of the story.
Lesson connection : GPS: ELA5R1 The student demonstrates comprehension and shows evidence of a warranted and responsible explanation of a variety of literary and informational texts. Critical Component: For literary texts, the student identifies the characteristics of various genres and produces evidence of a reading that:a. Identifies and analyzes the elements of setting, characterization, and conflict in plot.d. Relates a literary work to information about its setting (historically or culturally).
Choldenko, Gennifer. (2004). Al Capone Does My Shirts. New York : G.P. Putnam’s Sons
The book contains 228 pages.
"A twelve-year-old boy named Moose moves to Alcatraz Island in 1935 when the prison guards' families were housed there. He has to deal with a strange new environment in addition to life with his autistic sister."
(--from Follett Library Resources: http://flr.follett.com)
Children will love this book because they can relate some of the story to events that actually occurred. Children will also love the suspense of the story.
Lesson connection : GPS: ELA5R1 The student demonstrates comprehension and shows evidence of a warranted and responsible explanation of a variety of literary and informational texts. Critical Component: For literary texts, the student identifies the characteristics of various genres and produces evidence of a reading that:a. Identifies and analyzes the elements of setting, characterization, and conflict in plot.d. Relates a literary work to information about its setting (historically or culturally).
Choldenko, Gennifer. (2004). Al Capone Does My Shirts. New York : G.P. Putnam’s Sons
Lexile Number: 600
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