Support students to use their voice to mirror the rhythm of the poem. Give students options to read with a partner, in a small group, or in front of the whole class. Have students select their favorite poems from Rebound to read aloud. Discuss with students his message to get the “words of the page onto the stage”. Watch Kwame Alexander at a school visit reading from Rebound. Unveil student writing in a publishing celebration that has audience members guess the original story the prequel or sequel was inspired by.įrom the Page to the Stage. Offer students various story mapping tools such as timelines or story maps before beginning the writing process to help them visualize the events they want to describe. What events could take place prior to the original story and what events could take place after? Support students to consider whose perspective each story should be in by noticing the ways that Rebound and The Crossover are told from father and son perspectives, respectively. Support students to play with time and setting by writing their own prequel/sequel stories to a book they have already read. Readers of The Crossover will better understand how the events in Rebound fit into the sequence of events of the original story. Alexander plays with the prequel/sequel time continuum in Rebound by setting the majority of the book in 1988 but ending the book with a series of poems set thirty years later in 2018. Students may know the way the Star Wars franchise included an original trilogy, a prequel trilogy, and a sequel trilogy. Teaching Ideas / Invitations for Your Classroom: Ideal as a class read aloud that can invite student voices, Rebound will delight fans of Alexander’s work and is sure to inspire readers new to his work to find a deeper appreciation for the power of poetry. Dawud Anyabwile’s illustrations complement Alexander’s poems and give readers a visual connection to Charlie’s inner thoughts while paying homage to his love of comics. References to Michael Jordan, roller rinks, and Slick Rick add authenticity to the late 1980s setting. After he is sent to his grandparents’ home, Charlie begins to heal, in large part, thanks to his Grandma’s fried chicken, his cousin Roxie’s steadfast belief in his basketball skills, and his Granddaddy’s motto: “hustle and grind, peace of mind”. He skips school, shirks chores and school work in favor of reading comic books, and finds himself mixed up with friends who steal from an elderly neighbor. Before he was Chuck “Da Man” Bell, Charlie is a boy on the verge of adolescence struggling to know who he is or what to do after the death of his father. In this much-anticipated prequel to his Newbery-winning novel The Crossover, Kwame Alexander draws from similar themes and the rhythm of basketball to transport readers back in time to 1988 with another novel-in-verse narrated by Josh and Jordan’s father (of The Crossover ) as a young man. Published in 2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Written by Kwame Alexander and Illustrated by Dawud Anyabwile
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