An Acquaintance with Darkness

An knowledge with Darkness by Ann Rinaldi Ann Rinaldi has written a book that weaves memorial and parable into a wonderful book, and this is why I throw off chosen this book. It covers round important parts of annals and the reader beguiles it by means of the eyes of a thirteen old girl. The book is dark with intrigue and gross medical exam stuff, so students should love it. While the assignation and arrest of Mary Surratt is the study historical event nearly which the book is written, it is more active the prescribe up of medical science in the US at the end of the struggle and how it was impacted by the war.For instance, Rinaldis authors none starts out focused on the history of medical dissections in the united states, and then goes on to describe its history in Europe. She then describes the history of hospitals, medical schools and medicine in the US. She doesnt bust towards the conspiracy to kill Lincoln till later. Emilys best friend is Annie Surratt, the mis s of Mary Surratt who was hung for her part in the conspiracy to murder Lincoln. Students pull up stakes draw this part of history through a contrasting point of view, not just discipline about it through their textbook.I also look at students lead cite with Emily, because she wants to see the good in boththing. She wants to believe the world is a good place. She judges her Uncle for something she believes is horrible and doesnt understand because of her young, innocent age. and so the reader sees her grow as into a young lady, where she isnt so innocent anymore. Emily realizes the world isnt perfect and she shouldnt cod judged her Uncle, because he was snatching dead bodies to help medical science and save more lives during a horrible season of war. At the end of Ann Rinaldis book, she has questions for teachers to discuss with their students.This get out make it easy to have literature circles with students. This book extend tos to my content field of operations beca use it is a historical fiction book. Ann Rinaldi has taken many facts from history and put them in a wonderful fiction book. If I was a teacher of History, I could relate this to our unit on the accomplished War around the end of it when Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. This book takes a look at the Surratt Family and how they were tough with John Wilkes Booth. This is usually a glimpse of history many students wear upont know about. I dont remember realizeing this when I was in school.I say kids ar provoke in anything link up to death, and this book is full of it. They will convey about Lincolns assassination, the hanging of Mary Surratt, and how doctors snatched dead bodies to benefit medical science. This book ties a lot of factual information to the Civil War, and it is interesting to read. I hypothesize this is a way to supplement the main textbook, to course kids a different perspective of the war. Many of our discussions in class have centered on supplementing the main text. I call in by adding interesting books about what they be studying will make them want to learn more about that era.So by picking this book that tells about a girl in the time of the Civil war, they will see certain aspects of that time current in a different way. They will be able to relate to it more because this girl is around their age. They will be seeing it through her eyes. I think this is so important when teaching, because I want kids to be excited to learn about history. I think to do that you have to find some way to relate it to them. Having kids around that age, I have found that they dont care about it if it doesnt relate to them, or they cant understand it, or its boring. I know a lot in school will be boring to them.That is why its important to find certain things to winding up the lesson. After reading this book, I found myself wanting to learn if doctors in that time really had to snatch bodies to study on. I think this book will be a way to get them interested in studying certain parts of the Civil War. I think they will want to learn more after reading this book. The two main activities that I could use in my classroom that relate to the book, are Literature Circles and List-Group-Label. I will introduce the book with the List-Group-Label activity to see what prior knowledge the students have.By doing this activity first it gets them thinking about the Civil War Era and discussing it. I hope for some students they will learn things they might not have know before the discussion. Then during the time that we are reading the book, I will have them split into groups every Friday and do literature circles. I will have discussion sheets that they will have to fill out as a group. This will give them a chance to learn from eachother and give them a since of responsibility. I think these activities will work well together in creating a recreation unit.