An Acquaintance with Darkness

An Acquaintance with Darkness by Ann Rinaldi Ann Rinaldi has written a intelligence that weaves business relationship and fiction into a wonderful book, and this is why I study chosen this book. It covers some important parts of annals and the reader sees it through the eye of a thirteen old lady friend. The book is dark with intrigue and earn medical stuff, so students should love it. While the assignation and arrest of bloody shame Surratt is the major historical event around which the book is written, it is to a greater extent close to the state of medical science in the US at the difference of the war and how it was impacted by the war.For instance, Rinaldis authors note starts out focused on the history of medical dissections in the united states, and then goes on to mark its history in Europe. She then describes the history of hospitals, medical schools and medicine in the US. She doesnt turn towards the conspiracy to kill capital of Nebraska till later. Emilys best su pporter is Annie Surratt, the daughter of Mary Surratt who was hung for her part in the conspiracy to murder Lincoln. Students go away see this part of history through a different grade of view, not just learning rough it through their textbook.I also signify students allow for doctor with Emily, because she call fors to see the good in everything. She wants to believe the earth is a good place. She judges her Uncle for something she believes is horrible and doesnt understand because of her young, bare age. and then the reader sees her grow as into a young lady, where she isnt so innocent anyto a greater extent. Emily realizes the world isnt perfect and she shouldnt have judged her Uncle, because he was snatching dead bodies to help medical science and save more lives during a horrible fourth dimension of war. At the end of Ann Rinaldis book, she has questions for teachers to address with their students.This forget make it easy to have literature circles with students. This book relates to my fill area because it is a historical fiction book. Ann Rinaldi has taken many a(prenominal) 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 Civil state of war around the end of it when Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. This book takes a look at the Surratt Family and how they were involved with John Wilkes Booth. This is usually a glimpse of history many students dont know close. I dont opine learning this when I was in school.I think kids are interested in anything related to death, and this book is full of it. They lead learn 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 think this is a way to supplement the main textbook, to give kids a different perspective of the war. Many of our reciprocations i n class have focus on on supplementing the main text. I think by adding interesting books about what they are 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 real aspects of that time period in a different way. They will be capable to relate to it more because this girl is around their age. They will be see 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 jazz up the lesson. After translation this book, I found myself lacking to learn if doctors in that time really had to snatch bodies to study on. I thi nk this book will be a way to stimulate 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 exertion 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 staccato 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 fun unit.