Olive Senior
Autor/a de Summer Lightning and Other Stories
Sobre l'autor
Olive Senior is one of Canada's most internationally recognized and acclaimed writers. Among her many awards and honours she has won the Commonwealth Writers Prize and F.G. Bressani Literary Prize, was nominated for a Governor-General's Literary Award, and was runner up for the Casa de Las Americas mostra'n més Prize and the Pat Lowther Award. In 2003 she received the Norman Washington Manley Foundation Award for Excellence (preservation of cultural heritage - Jamaica). Her body of published work includes four books of poetry, three collections of short stories and several award-winning non-fiction works on Caribbean culture. mostra'n menys
Obres de Olive Senior
Obres associades
Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Words and Writings by Women of African Descent from the Ancient… (1992) — Col·laborador — 159 exemplars
The Oxford Book of Caribbean Short Stories: Reissue (Oxford Books of Prose) (1999) — Col·laborador — 93 exemplars
Whispers from the Cotton Tree Root: Caribbean Fabulist Fiction (2000) — Col·laborador — 80 exemplars
Her True-True Name : an anthology of women's writing from the Caribbean (1989) — Col·laborador — 43 exemplars
Mending the World: Stories of Family by Contemporary Black Writers (2003) — Col·laborador — 33 exemplars
So Much Things to Say: 100 Poets from the First Ten Years of the Calabash International Literary Festival (2010) — Col·laborador — 24 exemplars
Another English: Anglophone Poems from Around the World (Poets in the World) (2014) — Col·laborador — 10 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Nom oficial
- Senior, Olive Marjorie
- Data de naixement
- 1941-12-23
- Gènere
- female
- Nacionalitat
- Jamaica (birth)
Canada - Lloc de naixement
- Trelawny, Jamaica
- Llocs de residència
- Portugal
Cardiff, Wales, UK - Educació
- Carleton University
- Premis i honors
- Musgrave Gold Medal (2005)
Membres
Ressenyes
Anna Carries Water de Olive Senior
A lively, colorful story set in Jamaica about the youngest member of a family who wants to overcome her fear of cows and carry as much water on her head as her older siblings are able to do.
I will be using this book to teach summarizes to third grade. It is an easy read and the pictures are beautiful!
"Anna Carries Water" is a story about a young girl who dreams of being able to carry water in a bucket on her head. Her family comes from a village where they don't have access to tap water. All of Anna's neighborhood friends are very good at carrying the water they have retrieved on their heads but Anna continually struggles. One day they go to get water and Anna tries to hold her can of water on her head but fails miserably. That night Anna's mother tells her that one day she will simply have acquired the skill and it will come naturally. The next time her siblings headed out Anna went with them. On the way back she was scared by the neighbors cows and ran with the can of water on her head, no problem. In the end her mother rejoices in Anna's success that came naturally and Anna rejoices by doing a cartwheel.… (més)
Summary:
Annas job everyday was to go to fetch water from the spring. All her older brothers and sisters use a pail and carry the water on her head. She gets discouraged when she can not be like all the other kids and carry water on her head. She trys over and over and finally gets it.
Personal Experience:
I realate with her because when I want to do something even if i cant I keep trying untill I can get it.
Classroom Extension:
1. I would get a pale and put something with a little weight in it and have the students try to carry the pale on their heads.
2. Have the students talk about something that the wish that they could learn how to do and set a goal to learn to do it.… (més)
Annas job everyday was to go to fetch water from the spring. All her older brothers and sisters use a pail and carry the water on her head. She gets discouraged when she can not be like all the other kids and carry water on her head. She trys over and over and finally gets it.
Personal Experience:
I realate with her because when I want to do something even if i cant I keep trying untill I can get it.
Classroom Extension:
1. I would get a pale and put something with a little weight in it and have the students try to carry the pale on their heads.
2. Have the students talk about something that the wish that they could learn how to do and set a goal to learn to do it.… (més)
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Estadístiques
- Obres
- 23
- També de
- 14
- Membres
- 354
- Popularitat
- #67,648
- Valoració
- 3.7
- Ressenyes
- 9
- ISBN
- 52
- Llengües
- 3
- Preferit
- 1