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    This children's literature evaluation form reviews the book "I am Martin Luther King" by Brand Meltzer. The book is a biography about Martin Luther King Jr. told in a cartoon style. It chronicles key events in King's life and work fighting for civil rights for African Americans from 1953 to 1968 in the United States. The evaluator gives the book a high recommendation for teaching children about King's message of equality and nonviolent protest.

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    This children's literature evaluation form reviews the book "I am Martin Luther King" by Brand Meltzer. The book is a biography about Martin Luther King Jr. told in a cartoon style. It chronicles key events in King's life and work fighting for civil rights for African Americans from 1953 to 1968 in the United States. The evaluator gives the book a high recommendation for teaching children about King's message of equality and nonviolent protest.

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    This children's literature evaluation form reviews the book "I am Martin Luther King" by Brand Meltzer. The book is a biography about Martin Luther King Jr. told in a cartoon style. It chronicles key events in King's life and work fighting for civil rights for African Americans from 1953 to 1968 in the United States. The evaluator gives the book a high recommendation for teaching children about King's message of equality and nonviolent protest.

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    Children’s Literature Evaluation Form

    Your Name: Joselin Guillen


    Book Title: I am Martin Luther King
    Author: Brand Meltzer
    Genre: Biography
    Illustrator: Christopher Eliopoulos
    Publisher/Year: penguin young readers Group, 2016
    Evaluate the Book for the following elements
    Style and Language: Using examples for the book, explain the following: Word
    choices, dialogue, rhythm, rhyme and sentence length. Share unexpected insights or
    interesting information the reader learns from this story. (5 points)
    The language of the book is clear, the author use simple words and examples to
    explain what was going on in the time of Martin Luther king, such as the protest, the
    speech “I have a dream”. I like how the author use bubbles dialogue to express what
    Martin feel and says.

    Character: With examples from the book, provide the following- (5 points)
    Who is the main character?
    How can the reader relate to the character?
    Who are the supporting characters?
    Who is the main character? Matin Luther King
    How can the reader relate to the character? Matin Luther King is an historical person
    who fought for the rights of the African Americans, so I think that people of color can
    relate to him because thanks to him Africans Americans have the same rights as
    whites
    Who are the supporting characters? Parents, wife, daughter, teacher
    Plot: Summarize the major events of the story (6 points)
    This book talks about the life of Matin Luther king, and how him being with a dark
    color of skin was treat different, he talks about how black people was treating
    without respect and how they have different rights.
    Setting: Explain the place and time of this book. (2 points)
    Theme: What is the main message of this book? (2 points)
    Place: United states
    Time 1953- 1968
    Illustration: Analyze the book you selected with the following categories
    Style (realism, surrealism, expressionism, impressionism, naïve, cartoon art)? (2
    points)

    Cartoon art
    Media Choice (paints, oils watercolors, pencils, pen, charcoal, crayons, acrylic, chalk):
    (2 points)

    Acrylic
    Give examples of describe how the following visual elements are used in the
    illustrations: (3)
    Line: buses, television, stairs.
    Shapes: circles, triangles, lines, squares
    Color: bright
    Texture: soft
    Page design (placement of the illustrations, use of borders, white and dark space and
    all pages the same or different). (3)
    Every page has different things, I like that this author use a cartoon art so every page
    is different and kind of like a comic

    Child Development Theory: Choose either Piaget, Erickson or Social Emotional to


    describe the connection to the book Chose 1 only (5 points)
    Piaget:
    Name the stage Formal operation and the age: 12
    Explain the cognitive development from this stage and provide an example from the
    book to support your choice:

    Understand world through hypothetical thinking and scientific reason

    Erickson:
    Name the stage_____________________ and the age_______________________
    Explain the cognitive development from this stage and provide an example from the
    book to support your choice:
    Emotional Development:
    Identify the age: _________________________
    Explain the social development for this age and how the book relates
    to the emotional level you chose:

    1 would not recommend 2 average 3 highly recommended

    Your rating of the book: 3

    Why?

    I think this book is friendly to kids to understand how people was treat different just
    because the color of their skin.

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