"Some of our most inattentive students were very much into it…A couple of our most squirmish boys followed the story quite nicely and compared the way the black players were treated with the way Mr. Booth treated Joe Joe."
Bette K. Harmon, BA, MS
Teacher (retired)
Detroit Public Schools
"Thanks again for the great stories and characters in the "Joe Joe in the City" series. They are now a staple in every class I teach."
Nichelle Boyd, Ph.D.
Asst. Professor of Curriculum & Instruction
University of Mississppi
Lessons that Examine Family and Community Life within Who’s Jim Hines?— Language Arts Activities by Jean Ford Fuqua, BS, MEd
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These language arts activities were crafted by a twenty-five year veteran of the Detroit Public Schools, elementary school teacher Jean Ford Fuqua, who was also an educator-director of teacher interns for the Wayne State University College of Education (currently retired from both positions). The lessons provide educators with the means to create language arts activities via an examination of the portrayal of family and community life in the middle grade novel Who’s Jim Hines?
“The Joe Joe Series: A Culturally Responsive Resource” by Nichelle C. Boyd and Kantaylieniere Hill-Clarke, Social Studies and the Young Learner 17 (2), pp. 23-27 (Copyright 2004 National Council for the Social Studies). To find this article in a library near you, visit ERIC (Education Resources Information Center) at www.eric.ed.gov and search article #EJ720480. For members of the National Council for the Social Studies, read the article at http://members.ncss.org/yl/1702/170223.pdf . This article offers educators a means with which to use children’s literature—through an examination of the “Joe Joe in the City” series—to great advantage in the social studies curriculum.
Sponsored by the Verizon Foundation, Thinkfinity offers a wealth of free educational resources for teachers, librarians/media specialists, students, and parents. See the link to the Thinkfinity Literacy Network.
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The website for The National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) offers a wide range of reading and literacy resources not only for educators but for parents and students as well.
http://www.ncte.org
This link on the website for The National Council of Teachers of English offers a wealth of classroom-tested lesson plans for grades elementary through high school. http://www.ncte.org/lessons
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