I read
OX-CART MAN by Donald Hall. This book received The Caldecott Medal in 1980. When I first saw and even flipped through this book, I thought it was going to be a pretty bland story with not much content. However, after reading the book I really enjoyed it. The book talks about the Ox-Cart Man and what he's loading up in his ox-cart to take to the market to sell. When he gets to the market he sells everything, all the way down to his actual ox. Then, the Ox-Cart Man goes back to his family, and they all start making the pieces they contributed to sell for next year. I think it's a sweet story, and it does a great job of showing this time in history. There is also lots of good vocabulary used in this book. I like this book, and would use it in my classroom incorporated with history. I think the appropriate grade level for this book would be first to fourth grade. A way I would use this book in my future classroom would be to do an activity where the students imagine they were back in the Ox-Cart Man's time, and come up with their own list of things they could make/grow and sell every year just like the Ox-Cart Man. This would allow students to be creative, but also be logical because there are only certain types of things you can actually make/grow.
I read OX-CART MAN by Donald Hall. This book received The Caldecott Medal in 1980. When I first saw and even flipped through this book, I thought it was going to be a pretty bland story with not much content. However, after reading the book I really enjoyed it. The book talks about the Ox-Cart Man and what he's loading up in his ox-cart to take to the market to sell. When he gets to the market he sells everything, all the way down to his actual ox. Then, the Ox-Cart Man goes back to his family, and they all start making the pieces they contributed to sell for next year. I think it's a sweet story, and it does a great job of showing this time in history. There is also lots of good vocabulary used in this book. I like this book, and would use it in my classroom incorporated with history. I think the appropriate grade level for this book would be first to fourth grade. A way I would use this book in my future classroom would be to do an activity where the students imagine they were back in the Ox-Cart Man's time, and come up with their own list of things they could make/grow and sell every year just like the Ox-Cart Man. This would allow students to be creative, but also be logical because there are only certain types of things you can actually make/grow.
This is also a great illustration for folk art.
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