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    | Secondary LessonsSome ideas for teachers on how to Use Literature in the Secondary English Language Classroom.
Use this power point presentation and handout. Examples included in this presentation use the following Ishmael Beah story for examples. This lesson is for a reading from A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah Ishmael Beah was born in Sierra Leone, when he was eleven a brutal civil war broke out. After his parents and two brothers were killed, Ishmael was recruited to fight as a child soldier. He was only thirteen when he began to fight and it continued for almost three years before he was removed from the army by UNICEF and placed in a rehabilitation home. In 1998, Ishmael came to live with an American family in New York City. He completed high school and later was accepted to attend Oberlin College. Soon after his graduation, he published his memoir of his youth in Sierra Leone. Read more about Ishmael Beah in the Child Soldiers Newsletter, Issue 1, September 2001 and pick up his book at your local bookstore. www.tdh.de/content/materialien/download/download_wrapper.php?id=102 Lawn Boy by Gary Paulsen Wendy Lamb Books, Random House Children’s Books 2007.
Background: On his twelfth birthday, Arnold’s grandmother gave him his grandfather’s old riding lawnmower. Since it was summer time and school was out, Arnold thought that he could make a little extra pocket money by mowing lawns. First, one neighbor asked him to mow his lawn and when Arnold finished, he gave him $20 for the job. Other neighbors asked Arnold to mow their lawns too. Soon he was mowing more lawns than he could realistically do in a week. Then he met Pasqual who helped him expand his lawn mowing business. Read Chapter 7 to find out what happens next. A lesson for Chapter 7. Available in your local book store. Check out Gary Paulsen's website too! http://www.randomhouse.com/features/garypaulsen/ The House on Mango Street, "A Smart Cookie" by Sandra Cisneros
Originally published by Publico Press, Houston, TX, January, 1, 1988 Check out your library or local bookstore to read it.
"A Smart Cookie" is one vignette from Sandra Cisneros’ award winning book, The House on Mango Street. The daughter, Esperanza, describes a scene and conversation that she had with her mother. Because her mother is an opera singer, she makes reference to a favorite opera called Madame Butterfly. In an opera is all parts of the drama are sung rather than spoken.
A lesson for a "Smart Cookie."
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