Their projects were/are worthwhile, possible to emulate, and inspiring. The writing is personal, emotional and so skillful that the young people cited here seem real and not too good to be true. I thought by the cover that these were all young adults but the chapter that moved me most was about a class of first and second graders in Sweden who bought a rain forest. So much of the news of young people in our society is sad that it was fun to read It's Our World Too. 176 pages.įind this book: Local Bookstore, Amazon, B&N It's Our World Too: Young People Who Are Making a Difference: How They Do It-How You Can, Too! by Phillip Hoose. How many of those books are about people whose rights were violated?

Create a timeline of books related to US history.

Has free speech been violated? Whose? The results are calamitous for both teacher and student. From then on things just grow bigger and more and more out of focus: a man running for school board grabs it as an election cause the story is picked up by the national press a talk show personality gets people even more roused there are telegrams and letters to all concerned. The truth, as I see it, is that a ninth grade student, annoyed by a teacher's perceived inflexibility, decides to annoy her in turn by humming the National Anthem when it is played over the loud speaker during opening exercises even though the rule states that students should 'stand at respectful silent attention.' The teacher, a sincere and dedicated woman, rises to the bait, and throws the kid out of her class. We follow the plot through a series of documents: memos, journal-entries, newspaper and talk show stories and written conversations as a simple incident grows.

Subtitled, 'A Documentary Novel,' this book is almost guaranteed to provoke discussion, certainly the incident around which it revolves did so. It shouldn't take more than one class period to read it aloud to fifth or sixth graders. To begin a discussion of the Bill of Rights you can use Avi's novel Nothing But the Truth.

Nothing but the truth book by avi