show less, 17 Total Resources 3 Awards View Text Complexity Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. © Cooperative Children's Book Center, Univ. This Newbery Honor-winning story, complete with an epilogue read by the author, and an extensive author interview, conducted by a young "fan," will usher young listeners into the middle of the fourteenth century. This is an excellent middle grade book in the genre of historical fiction. She has no memory of a home or family or even of her real name. She warmed oil over the fire and rubbed her head and belly, as she had the cow’s. It was still raining and she was still a homeless failure. Beetle stood breathless for fear someone would snatch it back. In her early life, she could only focus on survival, but as she gains more autonomy- Alyce is forced to cope with complex feelings which until this point she has been able to suppress. As she matures Alyce, takes in a young boy, Edward and even helps him out- more evidence of her becoming a responsible adult. with Karen Cushman, 1996 Newbery Medal Acceptance Speech given by Karen Cushman, Lesson Plan She was small and pale, with the frightened air of an ill-used child, but her scrawny, underfed body did give off a hint of woman, so perhaps she was twelve or thirteen. “Jane Sharp! It is set up as a WORD document, so you can alter, delete, or add anything to the lesson idea bank. She could not stay here in the rain waiting to die, for she was too cold and hungry and uncomfortable and alive. Her search for identity soon becomes the central focus of the book as she begins to gain in confidence and self-esteem. I have come back. The protagonist appears in the first chapter in the most humble circumstances- she crawls out from a dung heap- she is unaware of her parentage, and does not even know her name or age… The author poignantly uses this characters journey through many adversities to highlight the essence of perseverance. chapter 4 … In any event, the dung heap probably smelled little worse than everything else in her life–the food scraps scavenged from kitchen yards, the stables and sties she slept in when she could, and her own unwashed, unnourished, unloved and unlovely body. ( Log Out /  The degree-level courses will be on offer at the universities of Greenwich, West London and Bedfordshire, as part of efforts to curb the decline in student midwives. by Jeannine Atkins and Venantius J. Pinto, by Jan Greenberg, Sandra Jordan, and Robert Andrew Parker, 800-596-0710Mon-Fri, 8am-7pm Central Time. chapter 1. chapter 2. chapter 3. chapter 4. chapter 5. chapter 6. chapter 7. chapter 8. chapter 9. chapter 10. chapter 11. chapter 15. chapter 16. chapter 17. chapter 12. chapter 13. chapter 14. audio chapters. A quick overview of orphans who feature in literature. For me, this was the highlight of the book- seeing Alyce overcome and be able to actually have time to FEEL,  was amazing. She lives by her wits, surviving hand to mouth, until she is taken in by Jane Sharp, the local midwife, to work in exchange for two meals a day and a bed on her cottage floor. In striving to enrich the lives of all readers, TeachingBooks supports the First Amendment and celebrates the right to read. Alyce’s life  is not comfortable and the author conveys a compelling atmosphere of medieval life in Britain-  it is a rainy and bleak landscape, dirty and grimy with many people living in poverty with inadequate provision of food and shelter. She has a successful business but her clients are not satisfied. How old she was was hard to say. And if you do not let me in, I will try again and again. Once she is freed from the daily struggle to survive, the girl begins to notice small details in the world around her, from the flowers blooming in spring to the mysterious techniques used by the midwife as she assists in the birth of a child. Katherine Cushman provides a detailed account of a poor young girl’s transformation from a vagrant, nameless child, to a woman with a name, who serves her community with valuable skills. Over time,  Alyce gains the reputation of being a competent midwife who is trustworthy and soothing. All such books will be tagged ", The Beekeeper’s Apprentice by Laurie King, Privacy and Disclosure Policy (on Line upon Line Learning blog).