The Girl Who Chased Away Sorrow is about Sara Nita, a 12 year old Navajo Indian, who lived during the removal of the Indians from their land by the United States government in 1864. Sara Nita’s granddaughter, who is also named Sara Nita is writing down her grandmother’s story in her diary because her grandmother wanted her to hear and write down her story to remember what her people went through. This book gives you an excellent sense of what the Native Americans of all ages had to deal with during the Indian removal with a 400 mile walk in the middle of winter in harsh terrain to Fort Sumner in New Mexico. During this journey, Sara and her sister lose her parents when they are kidnapped from there home and throughout the story, you are seeing how much they want to find there parents. But do they ever find them when they get to the fort? You will have to read this excellent book to find out!
I think this book would be wonderful for fifth or sixth grade students. The standards met from this book were:
6.1.spi5 identify difference between various cultural groups (i.e., European, Eurasian, India, Southeast Asian, Middle Eastern, African, Native American).
5.1.01 Understand the diversity of human cultures.
a. Explain how some immigrants preserved their traditional culture and created a new American culture.
b. Explain governmental efforts to restrict Immigrants entering into the United States.
5.0.03 Recognize the contributions of individuals and people of various ethnic,racial, religious, and socioeconomic groups of the development of civilizations.
b. Describe how language, stories, folktales, music, and artistic creations service as expressions of culture and influence behavior of people living in a particular culture.
I enjoyed listening to every one's book talk because it showed me how you can use chapter books to incorporate Social Studies into the classroom.
On the other hand, everyone have a HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!
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