Show Way, Jacqueline Woodson

Show Way is written by Jacqueline Woodson, which is who I am doing my author study on.  This is a great book in the historical fiction genre.  It is told by Woodson's point of view and it comes full circle.  The book is written like she is being told a bed time story about her ancestors, how they were sold into slavery and many generations later their family was freed.  The title of the book is Show Way and a Show Way is a quilt that the slaves made with maps on them that showed them the way to freedom.  I think this book is fabulous.

The illustrations in the book Show Way are really cool, each page is colored in what looks like quilt squares.  After doing a read aloud of the book I will give each student a blank piece of white paper and have them color it however they want based off of the book.  Then on a blank piece of poster paper we will put all of the papers together and make our own class Show Way.