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Remembering the Big Quake
6-pack
ISBN: 9780478124125
Copyright Date: 2000
Grade Level:
5
Reading Level:
T
Strategy/Skill:
Information skills, Making connections, Making predictions
Genre:
Memoir, Procedure
Theme/Topic:
Earth Science, Interviews, Natural Disasters
Classification:
Nonfiction
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Book Summary
The 1964 Alaskan earthquake killed 115 people and caused enormous damage to the coasts of the United States and Canada. Anne Donaghy, a survivor of the quake, shares her memories of that day with the author who presents her account as an oral history.
Features of the Book
- Interview format
- Expository and procedural text
- Historic and family photographs
- Maps
- Fact files
- Specialized vocabulary – aftershocks, debris, tsunami
- Labeled diagrams and photographs
- The use of emotive and descriptive language
Purpose
Remembering the Big Quake can be used to introduce and reinforce the following skills:
- relating events in a story to students’ own experiences
- making predictions from text and photographs
- investigating the language of an interview
- discussing open and closed questions
- planning and conducting an oral history interview
- retrieving and reformatting information
- researching a topic using different sources
For more information please see our Lesson Plan
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