The Watsons Go to Birmingham: 1963

Spoiler alert! Some questions include important elements of the plot. If you do not want to know what will happen, do not read it.

Some kids of the Kenny School teased him because he was smarter than most people because of "lazy" eyes. Then they chose Rufus for his clothes and his southern accent. How does the teasing influence the two boys? How can I get made to tease? How are you getting along with others?

Byron often looks like a sneaky child, and sometimes he behaves like hate Kenny. How do you know that he has deeper and better feelings than those people? Why do you think Byron is concealing his love and gentle feelings?

If you have brothers and sisters, do you have a fight? What are you discussing about? Do you think that you do not have time to not fight?

Topics are very serious, but this book has a lot of humor. Find the scene in the book you think is the most interesting and read it aloud

How did the bombing of Birmingham Church change members of the Watson family, especially Kenny? Discuss the feelings when you read about bombs you were injured or killed and about children. Have you read or heard about similar events that have recently occurred? Why is this happening? Do you think there is something they can stop doing?

Oh, collect resources from civil rights movement including freedom! The children discussed Casey King and Linda Barret Osborne and civil rights movement, Rosa Park preface, Joe Brooks, New York portrait. Knopf, c 1997. Share books and discuss content related to the readers or related to Birmingham bombs. Please see Spike Lee's documentary "Four Little Girls" and compare movies and books.

You pretend to be traveling by a long distance bus. Please bring the food you want most. Maybe I like Watsons sandwiches and your favorite sandwiches. Part of this discussion guide is from the Bantam Doubleday Dell teacher's guide and Shireen Dodson 's 100 Girls Growth Books.

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Watsons went to Birmingham - a historical novel by Christopher Paul Curtis in 1963. In this novel "Going to Birmingham in Watson - 1963", families consisting of Kenny, Byron, Mama, Dad and Joey are drawn. The story was about a problematic child named Byron that was finally overheated and sent during the civil rights movement to live with Sands' grandmother in Birmingham, Alabama when apartheid remained south is. It is a big thing. Through ups and downs

Introduction Christopher Paul Curtis wrote Watsons in Birmingham from 1995 to 1963. The novel talks about Watsons, a black family in Flint, Michigan, who lived during the civil rights era. In the historical background, the common point between 1963 and the early 1990s far exceeded expectations. In 1964 after the church was bombed in Birmingham, the civil rights bill was passed, but even in modern society racial discrimination is still a passive racial discrimination issue. - Parenting style is important for influencing children's behavior and style forms a context in which child's behavior can occur (Fox, paragraph 2). There are four types of child rearing methods. These styles developed by Child Psychologist Diana Baumrind provide most of the information on the book "Understanding Children and Youth", including authority, tolerance, dictatorship and negligence / non-participation (Forsyth 376).