Connecting Children with Children, Past and Present: Motivating Students for Inquiry and Action

by Eula T. Fresch

Nine months before Rosa Parks took a stand against segregation, fifteen-year old Claudette Colvin was arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat. Nine-year-old Johnny Clem joined the Union army as a drummer and by age eleven became a lance corporal; eventually he became a major general. Iqbal Masih of Pakistan was a debt-bonded laborer at age four; freed at age 10, he began a crusade against child labor. Through making connections like these, students...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0325005915
• ISBN13: 9780325005911
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
• Length: 172 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 7.4" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 9 to 13 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 8