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GOCHA Guiding Our Children Home Alliance Home
School Support Group |
Rising Words, Rising Images
WHEN:
Second Wednesday of each month
TIME:
11:00 am – 1 pm
WHERE: Sherwood Hall Library Community
Room
2501 Sherwood Hall Ln.
Alexandria, VA 22306-2799
COST: FREE
For ages
9-12
Scheduled Topics
July 2009
Geographical Focus: Asia,
Africa, Europe and Mexico
The Cow of No Color by Nina Jaffe and Steve Zeitlin
August 2009
Historical Focus: American Baseball History
The
Journal of Biddy Owens: The Negro Leagues, Birmingham, Alabama, 1948 by Walter
Dean Myers
September 2009
Curriculum Focus: Free
Enterprise/Business Administration
The
Toothpaste Millionaire
by Jean Merrill
October 2009
Geographical Focus: Dominican Republic
The
Color of My Words by
Lynn Joseph
November 2009
Cultural Focus: Native
American Heritage Month
Anpao by Jamake Highwater
December 2009
Cultural Focus:
Kwanzaa
Many
Thousand Gone by
Virginia Hamilton
Winter/Spring 2010
January 2010
Geographical Focus: England
AT HER MAJESTY'S REQUEST: An African Princess in
Victorian England By Walter Dean Myers
February 2010
Cultural Focus: African American History Month
House of Dies Drear by Virginia
Hamilton
March 2010
Geographical Focus: Egypt
Cleopatra VII: Daughter of the Nile, Egypt,
57 B.C. by Kristiana
Gregory
April 2010
Cultural Focus: National Poetry Month
Carver: A Life in Poems by Marilyn Nelson
May 2010
Geographical Focus: Alaska
Cultural Focus: Native American Studies-Chuckchi
Julie and the Wolves by Jean
Craighead
Hope to see you
there!
© GOCHA &
Lorraine Hitchcock, 2009
Last Update: 25
June 2009