Daring. Highly Determined. A Woman's Right.
Individual. Role Model.
"Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be but a challenge to others." -Amelia Earheart
From Booklist
*Starred Review* Although this first woman of flight has been the subject of many juvenile biographies, Taylor and Towle have combined their talents for research, narrative, and image to offer a fresh view of one particular chapter of her life. In June 1928, Earhart became the first woman to fly across the Atlantic—not as the pilot but as a passenger. The bulk of the story takes place in a small Newfoundland village, the takeoff point for the historic flight, and is told from the point of view of a young girl. The unromanticized depiction portrays the drunkard pilot and reveals the often-harsh preconceptions that both the locals and reporters had of this unconventional woman. As Earhart invested in her own dreams, in the end so too does the young girl she inspires. Endnotes authenticate the underlying historical significance and accuracy of some images, including those of her last, apparently failed, flight, 10 years later. Towle’s black-and-white cartooning, washed with aqua blue, nicely suits the period and displays the excellent work of James Sturm’s Center for Cartoon Studies, through which this book was developed. This is a true sequential art narrative, requiring the reader to attend to the visual as well as the verbal components; but it is also a well-told story of an episode in Earhart’s life that has particular appeal to readers looking for insight on how celebrity is both made and misunderstood, and how it matures. Grades 4-7. --Francisca Goldsmith
Sarah Stewart Taylor and Ben Towle's Amelia Earhart: This Broad Ocean is an illustrative graphic novel that depicts to students a heartfelt lesson that one should never stop believing in their dreams or aspirations. According to this story, Amelia Earhart learns that she will never let a single man destroy her dream to fly across the Atlantic. Set during the late 1920s in Trepassey, Newfoundland, a young-driven reporter from the Trepassey Herald, Gracie learns of Amelia Earhart, a social worker from Boston, whose dream is to fly across the Atlantic Ocean. With high fascination, Gracie does all she can to learn more about Amelia and her dream of flying.
Story Structure - This link helps readers break down the structure of the story into three acts. It also gives explanations of the images so that students who are struggling will be able to comprehend and connect to the story. Great for students during reading.
Teacher's Guide to Amelia Earhart: This Broad Ocean - This link is a wonderful teaching guide to this story. It provides teachers a variety of discussion questions, book reviews, cross-curricular projects, and Q&A with the authors. Great for teachers to use during and after reading.
Women Who Changed the World - This link is an interactive website where students and teachers could meet other women who changed the world. The source includes fun activities, biographies, teaching resources, and news about these women. Great for during and after reading so that students are able to make text-to-world connections.
Video Biography - This link provides a video biography of Amelia Earhart. It also includes content of her early and personal life, photographs, her flying career, and many more. Great for students to view before they read, a way to engage and interest students.
Student Writing Activity: Pretend that students are Amelia Earhart and that they are on the plane that is bringing her over the Transatlantic. Have students create a diary entry of what Amelia Earhart is feeling at the moment during this voyage. Have students also possibly write down what islands or landmarks that she passed while crossing. Students may also create a drawing depicting her emotions while flying over. Great way to assess if students fully understand Amelia Earhart's dream of flying and her ambition to never give up.
Individual. Role Model.
Amelia Earhart: This Broad Ocean
Written by Sarah Stewart Taylor.
Illustrated by Ben Towle.
Illustrated by Ben Towle.
Published by Disney/Hyperion Books, 2010.
"Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be but a challenge to others." -Amelia Earheart
From Booklist
*Starred Review* Although this first woman of flight has been the subject of many juvenile biographies, Taylor and Towle have combined their talents for research, narrative, and image to offer a fresh view of one particular chapter of her life. In June 1928, Earhart became the first woman to fly across the Atlantic—not as the pilot but as a passenger. The bulk of the story takes place in a small Newfoundland village, the takeoff point for the historic flight, and is told from the point of view of a young girl. The unromanticized depiction portrays the drunkard pilot and reveals the often-harsh preconceptions that both the locals and reporters had of this unconventional woman. As Earhart invested in her own dreams, in the end so too does the young girl she inspires. Endnotes authenticate the underlying historical significance and accuracy of some images, including those of her last, apparently failed, flight, 10 years later. Towle’s black-and-white cartooning, washed with aqua blue, nicely suits the period and displays the excellent work of James Sturm’s Center for Cartoon Studies, through which this book was developed. This is a true sequential art narrative, requiring the reader to attend to the visual as well as the verbal components; but it is also a well-told story of an episode in Earhart’s life that has particular appeal to readers looking for insight on how celebrity is both made and misunderstood, and how it matures. Grades 4-7. --Francisca Goldsmith
Sarah Stewart Taylor and Ben Towle's Amelia Earhart: This Broad Ocean is an illustrative graphic novel that depicts to students a heartfelt lesson that one should never stop believing in their dreams or aspirations. According to this story, Amelia Earhart learns that she will never let a single man destroy her dream to fly across the Atlantic. Set during the late 1920s in Trepassey, Newfoundland, a young-driven reporter from the Trepassey Herald, Gracie learns of Amelia Earhart, a social worker from Boston, whose dream is to fly across the Atlantic Ocean. With high fascination, Gracie does all she can to learn more about Amelia and her dream of flying.
Extras: Few pages in the book, there is a short introduction written by Eileen Collins, that teachers could have students read independently or small group read. The introduction briefly discusses about Amelia Earhart's journey of flying and how Earhart's words has inspired Collins to take on her dreams and to never let go. Towards the end of the book, included are panel discussions that provide factual notes describing the illustration or person on the given page. There are also suggested readings and a bibliography which allow students to further engage or to research more about Amelia Earhart, and to show that this book gathers information from other sources. Moreover, authors are given credit for their hard work and if one would like to become a cartoonist or like to make comics, please click here for more information.
Literary Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction, Graphic Novel, Biography, Social Issues
Reading Level: Lexile Framework GN1080L, Grade 5
Suggested Delivery: Independent Read or Small Group Read
ISBN-13: 978-1423113379
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Teachers... Here are some resources to help
you teach Amelia Earhart: This Broad Ocean?
Electronic Resources:
Sarah Stewart Taylor Homepage - This link is the official homepage of Sarah Stewart Taylor. One is able to view the author's biography, her mailing list, her novels that she wrote, why she became a writer, latest news about her, the ability to schedule her for a book signing or reading, and more. Great for teachers to view before having students read the novel.
Ben Towle: Cartoonist - This link provides a biography of the cartoonist, his portfolio, and many more. Great way for teachers and students to learn about the cartoonist's drawing style.
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| Taylor, 2010. |
Ben Towle: Cartoonist - This link provides a biography of the cartoonist, his portfolio, and many more. Great way for teachers and students to learn about the cartoonist's drawing style.
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| Taylor, 2010. |
Teacher's Guide to Amelia Earhart: This Broad Ocean - This link is a wonderful teaching guide to this story. It provides teachers a variety of discussion questions, book reviews, cross-curricular projects, and Q&A with the authors. Great for teachers to use during and after reading.
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| Taylor, 2010. |
Video Biography - This link provides a video biography of Amelia Earhart. It also includes content of her early and personal life, photographs, her flying career, and many more. Great for students to view before they read, a way to engage and interest students.
Key Vocabulary: herald, spare, newsreels, navigator, brolly, plagued, confirmed, telegram, dandy, petrol, easterly, exclusive, fiance, airborne, Newfies, kraut, ambition, shipwrecks, humble, obstacle, promoter, aviation
Teaching Suggestions:
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| "She'll be the first woman to make the Atlantic Crossing by Air... If she does it soon" (Taylor, 2010). |
- Use this text in Geography to pinpoint her destinations on a map of where she was flying to and from across the Atlantic.
- Use this text in History to make text-to-world connections about other powerful women who made a difference in the world.
- Use this text to compare and contrast aviation production or technology during Amelia Earhart's time to now.
- Use this text in Science to practice finding and applying longitude and latitude coordinates of the Amelia Earhart's flying destinations across the Atlantic.
- Use this text in Reading and Language Arts to create Poems for Two Voices or poems about people who they like to aspire or who inspire them.
Comprehension Strategies:
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- Before Reading:
- Have students complete an Anticipation Guide about the story of Amelia Earhart as a strategy to activate student's prior knowledge and interest and to make predictions about the book. Be sure to describe the setting or time period of the book so that students will understand the context and to develop schema. Also describe what graphic novels so that students are familiar with the genre they are reading.
- Have a guest speaker come into the classroom to talk about Amelia Earhart and her goal to fly across the Atlantic. Have students have a set of questions ready to ask the presenter. This is a great to engage and interest readers and a way to set a purpose for reading.
- During Reading:
- Display this statement to students on the chalk or white board: It was challenging for women to participate in certain occupations or activities during the 1920s. Have students discuss if they agree or disagree with the statement and explain their reasoning with support from the book and their own personal reasons. How would Amelia Earhart or Gracie view this statement? What would they say? Would they agree or disagree?
- After Reading:
- Have students participate in a Popcorn Review by discussing these questions in small groups. OR have students complete an Exit Slip that has the same questions that they must complete before they go to lunch, special, or recess, depends on one's classroom schedule. Great way to assess if students fully understand the reading: to measure student's literal and inferential comprehension.
- Sample Questions for Popcorn Review or Exit Slip:
- Why does Grace seem interested in Amelia Earhart?
- Why does Amelia Earhart seem interested in Grace?
- Why does the people in the town not believe in Amelia Earhart's goal of flying across the Atlantic?
- How did Amelia Earhart become interested in flying?
- What were some of the conflicts that delayed Amelia Earhart's flight?
- Who were the other two characters that competed against Earhart? What were their roles in the story and Earhart's flight across the Atlantic?
- What was Grace's aspiration?
- Did Amelia Earhart accomplish her goal? How?
- What is the major theme in this story?
- What did Gracie learn from Earhart?
- Name/identify the setting of the story.
- Who believed in Amelia Earhart? Why?
- What happened to Amelia Earhart at the end of the story?
- How do you think the town felt when Amelia Earhart accomplished her goal?
- If you were Amelia Earhart, describe your life in a few words/phrases. Explain.
Student Writing Activity: Pretend that students are Amelia Earhart and that they are on the plane that is bringing her over the Transatlantic. Have students create a diary entry of what Amelia Earhart is feeling at the moment during this voyage. Have students also possibly write down what islands or landmarks that she passed while crossing. Students may also create a drawing depicting her emotions while flying over. Great way to assess if students fully understand Amelia Earhart's dream of flying and her ambition to never give up.
Taylor, S. S., & Towle, B. (2010). Amelia Earhart: this broad ocean. New York: Disney/Hyperion Books.
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