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Author's Craft - Imagery - Print - Literary Nonfiction
With just the first page, you'll be imagining you are in a rain forest: //"Green leaves, wet leaves. The air is hot and steamy. Everything is moist. The skies darken and it begins to rain. It pours on nature's green umbrella, the tropical rain forest."//
 * 3-5**
 * //Nature's Green Umbrella: Tropical Rain Forests// by Gail Gibbons, ISBN-10: 0688154115

//"It was March. Cold and slushy. Time for Mother Cat to have her kittens. Seeking shelter, she dragged herself into an old garage. 'Hissss!' snarled an old tomcat, shooing her away."// Read to learn about the true account of a cat and her kittens and how the mother cat became a hero by saving her kittens from a fire.
 * //Hero Cat// by Eileen Spinelli, ISBN-10: 0761452230

Sarah Breedlove Walker was the first freeborn child of Louisiana sharecroppers who overcame a world of poverty and discrimination to find success in life. She had a difficult life and by the time she was 20 she was beginning to go bald from years of poor nutrition and hard labor. She then experimented with natural ingredients and chemicals and created a formula to restore the health of both hair and scalp. She began to sell her treatment and by 1912 her company was "one of the biggest companies in America."
 * //Vision of Beauty: The Story of Sarah Breedlove Walker// by Kathryn Lasky, ISBN-10: 0763618349

This book helps readers visualize concepts of the moon such as how it moves in relation to the earth and the sun and why it seems to change shape.
 * //The Moon Book// by Gail Gibbons, ISBN-10: 0823413640

Johnny Adams is going on a secret journey with his father. They are leaving America to seek the help of the French. Stephen Krensky describes how the ship overcomes many obstacles to reach its destination.
 * //Dangerous Crossing: The Revolutionary Journey of John Quincy Adams// by Stephen Krensky, ISBN 0-525-46966-4


 * 6-8**

> ISBN: 978-0-8109-4386-5 This anthology of poems is inspired by art, the poet may tell a story inspired by the art, assume the voice of the subject described in the piece, or explore the technical aspect of the work. The poems are written in traditional forms, free verse, or patterns. //
 * //Heart to Heart: new poems inspired by twentieth century American Art,// // edited by Jan Greenberg, copyright 2001,

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 * //**Night**,// Elie Weisel. Memoir. Copyright 2008. ISBN-10: 0553272535, ISBN-13: 978-0553272536. This work contains symbolic images of Jewish ghettos, concentration camps, and the Holocaust, as well as the image the night of a person's soul.


 * //**I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings**//, Maya Angelou. Autobiography. Copyright ISBN-10: 0345514408, ISBN-13: 978-0345514400. The work employs examples of imagery including the title itself. It is an exploration of segregation and individuality as seen through nature.


 * //**In Cold Blood**//, Truman Capote. Literary journalism. Copyright 1994. ISBN-10: 0679745580, ISBN-13: 978-0679745587. Film segments could include [|"Infamous,"] [|"Capote,"] and [|"In Cold Blood."]


 * //**Working**//, Studs Terkel. Graphic work (to be published) and non-graphic work. ISBN-10: 1565843428, ISBN-13: 978-1565843424.


 * //[|"I, too, Sing America,"]//**//** Langston Hughes, as a companion piece to [|"I Hear America Singing,"]** Walt Whitman. Poems. [|This link]contains a lesson plan for the two poems and shows how both infuse imagery in their observations of America. For example, the comparison of the African-Americans shown as "the darker brother" and the inferior American citizen is found in the Langston Hughes poem.