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While an interesting story discussing the use of quilts in Woodson‘s family to tell their history, I wanted more stories. #AuthorAMonth

Amazing! This beautiful picture book tells the story of Soonie and her family freedom riders and quilt makers while highlighting the oral storytelling tradition through generations. I listened to the audio read by Woodson herself and her voice is both lyrical and simple, utterly perfect! #authoramonth #JacquelineWoodson @Soubhiville

Beautiful book tracing Woodson‘s family line back to slave times💗📚👏🏻 The women were taught as children to stitch quilt squares, that “showed the way” to freedom

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#BookspinBingo for May! April was a bit of a bust, just too busy with my first large work conference in 14 months. It happens next week and then I plan to take some time off to read, read, read. @TheAromaofBooks

Show Way is a HF picture book about Soonie‘s family that creates Show Ways, quilts with secret meanings. This books go into details about her family showing great bravery and courage. This book is best enjoyed as RA. This is a resource that helps students organize information while reading text https://www.scholastic.com/teachers/lesson-plans/17-18/show-way-quilts-black-his...

Show Way is a John Newbery Medal Honor (HF) book by Jacqueline Woodson and illustrated by Hudson Talbott. The story is about seven generations of African- American women. The book tells the story of seven generations which began with slavery and ended with freedom. Because of the story complexity and transitions, it would be great for Literature Circles (LC). #UCFLAE3414SP21

Show Way by Jacqueline Woodson illustrated by Hudson Talbott is a PB, NF great for RA and IR. This beautiful book tells the story of the Jacquline Woodson‘s family. Her family was able to pass down through generation by putting together a beautiful quilt that traces their history of slavery, strength, achievements, and freedom. They sew beautiful pictures that only her family understood.
Award: John Newbery Medal

“There‘s a road, girl, my mama said, There's a road”

I would read this to my class. I think it would spark good conversation and the children would be shocked to read at age seven children were taken away from their families.

Show Way by Jacqueline Woodson, 2005. This is a story about ancestry. The author tells a story about her ancestors to her daughter. I think this book is very personal and I liked how she told her own story instead of someone else writing about it. It talks about slavery to freedom and the freedom marches.
Show Way has been passed down by the women in Jacqueline Woodson's family to remember the past and celebrate the possibilities of the future.

“And when the day was finally over, wasn't hard to find a thing or two to smile about.“

I would consider using this book in my classroom because of the history of the book and how easily it was to understand the point of the story but it was put together in an interesting way, using repetition.

Show Way written by Jacqueline Woodson. Tells the story of the authors long line of family history, dating back to her great great grandmother, Sophie, and how much things have evolved and changed since her time. The story is accurate considering it came from the author and the storyline is very intriguing.

“There‘s a road, girl, my mama said, There's a road”

I would read this book in my classroom for sure. It‘s important for students to see how different some people lived throughout history. This book also shows the struggles African American experienced, but more personalized.

This book was incredible. It follows the family line of Jacqueline Woodson all the way from Her grand grandmothers, great grandmother. It shows the history African American had to experience as well as making it personal to just this family. There is a form of repetition with each child saying “when she turned seven” marking the age some of the children got sold and when some children had to walk in protests.

“‘There‘s a road, girl‘ my mama said. ‘There‘s a road‘.”

This book was good, but also kind of confusing. It as hard to keep all the characters straight and it had a lot going on. Even with that being said, I would still like to use this in my classroom someday if I have older students to help teach them about Slavery.

Show Way by Jacqueline Woodson is a piece of historical fiction. It was published in 2005. This story tells us of a great lineage. It talks about the struggles of slavery and things they would do to get by like make quilts. The great great grandma would call them show ways because they were maps to the free north. It tells of the lineage all the way up to today in which stories from back then are still shared today.

“At night, she sewed stars and moons and roads...Slaves whispered what no one was allowed to say:The Mathis know how to make a Show Way“

This historical fiction book is meant bring it's own interesting plot to a prominent time in history. The history is accurately displayed and even tiny minor details are shown to be well researched. I find this to be respectable in the way it was made and I enjoyed seeing the visible viewpoints and values of back then!

This book is important for learning about the lives touched by enslavement. Not only will it be exciting and intriguing to the reader, but they will be moved by the touching story. They will see the conflicts, joys, and disparities they had to go through before us. Being exposed to something of the past like this allows these children to have a larger takeaway and appreciate the ones before us working to make a change!

This was a multi-generational story of women from the days of slavery in the US through today. Story telling was a verbal art in the beginning, and although this was a storybook I felt that aura in this telling. Fantastic illustrations as well!
#NewberyHonor

Had to take a break from my longer book now that I‘m in the second half of #DeweysReadathon

Matriarchal line as only Jacqueline Woodson would trace it. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

I ❤️Jacqueline Woodson. I got this one for a Newbery Challenge my school's headmaster gave my upcoming sixth graders.