Skit-Scat Raggedy Cat
Skit-Scat Raggedy Cat by Roxanne Orgill; ill. by Sean Qualls
Genre: Biography
Ella Fitzgerald's story comes alive in this biography of the famous singer. This book chronicles Ella's early life with her family--her humble beginnings, her big dreams, and her love of singing and dancing. The book doesn't sugar-coat the difficulty of her life too much; her mother died when Ella was fourteen and she was forced to move away from her friends and the life she knew, into a loveless home. Her life suffered for it. She began skipping school and acting out, and was sent away to a school for orphans, where she then ran away. Her life changed when she took a chance and sang onstage at the Apollo Theatre--and nothing was ever the same.
Lesson plan: Have students learn to scat! Play some jazz for them, let them hear the style, and then have the students take turns improvising their own lines.
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Genre: Biography
Ella Fitzgerald's story comes alive in this biography of the famous singer. This book chronicles Ella's early life with her family--her humble beginnings, her big dreams, and her love of singing and dancing. The book doesn't sugar-coat the difficulty of her life too much; her mother died when Ella was fourteen and she was forced to move away from her friends and the life she knew, into a loveless home. Her life suffered for it. She began skipping school and acting out, and was sent away to a school for orphans, where she then ran away. Her life changed when she took a chance and sang onstage at the Apollo Theatre--and nothing was ever the same.
Lesson plan: Have students learn to scat! Play some jazz for them, let them hear the style, and then have the students take turns improvising their own lines.
Discover more about the author
Discover more about the illustrator
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