Give specific examples from the book as well as any you know from history (time period is 1820-1920).

What changed over the course of Hitty's hundred years of life? (fashion, manners, transportation, photography, etc.). It is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children.ĥ. The Newbery Medal was named for 18th century British bookseller John Newbery. Tell students to put this information in the back of their brains as we will be reading a few more Newbery books and evaluating them as to whether or not they deserved this distinguished award. It involves the spelling, sounds, grammar, and pronunciated used by a particular group of people and distinguishes them from other people.Ĥ. Sometimes dialect is hard to read in your head, and you need to read it aloud.ĭialect is the language used by the people of a specific area or class. Some ob you, my breather, has done broke it already.' 'I is gwine to tell you one thing sure an' dat is if yo breaks de eight' commandment dat says: 'Thou shalt not steal,' you is gwine to be berry sorry.Who is represented in these examples below? Discuss the author's use of dialect* and how dialect makes the various characters believable/authentic. How do things change when people are simply trying to survive? What things in our culture do we think are extremely important but really aren't?ģ. Make a chart with two columns and list how she seems human on one side and how she is truly just a doll on the other.Ģ. It was fun for students to see a photo of her and to learn that she was only 6 inches tall.ġ. We looked at the Hitty Preble website and read together about the original Hitty.

This was kind of like a big kid Show and Tell time. I asked each student to bring in an antique item to discuss. Voting with the papers allows shy students to stay anonymous yet give their true opinions. Pass out small papers and let students write one of the following on the paper: love it, like it, hate it. Our fourth book for our Bibliovores Class was Hitty, Her First Hundred Years by Rachel Field.

Hitty doll book