For my children’s biography read aloud, I am going to read Sequoyah: The Cherokee Man Who Gave His People Writing, by James Rumford. In Sequoyah: The Cherokee Man Who Gave His People Writing, Rumford goes through the turbulent life of Sequoyah, a crippled Cherokee man, who wanted nothing more than to capture his people’s voices in writing (Rumford 8). So Sequoyah invented a writing system for the Cherokee language, so that his people’s voices would not “disappear in the white man’s world” (Rumford 6).
The Element of Craft I Will Highlight in My Read Aloud
The main element of craft that I will highlight in my read aloud is the setting, which is the time and place the story is set in, and the main character. In the beginning, the story takes place in the California redwood forest in 1958. A young boy is recalling a story his father told him long ago about a man named Sequoyah. The story his father is telling him begins in the 1760s in eastern Tennessee, when Sequoyah is born. During this time, Sequoyah develops his dream to capture his people’s voices in writing.
Later on (in 1810), when Sequoyah is around fifty years old, he decides to invent writing for his people. However, his people think that his strange writing…show more content… Why do you think reading and writing is so important?” Then I am going to tell them to keep this question in mind as I continue reading. Then, on the last page, I am going to ask each one of them to give me a reason why reading and writing is so important. Then I am going to ask them, “Why was Sequoyah so important to the Cherokee?” Then we will have a little discussion, and I will pass out the assignment I
