{"id":6613,"date":"2019-12-19T16:11:19","date_gmt":"2019-12-19T16:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/?p=6613"},"modified":"2019-12-19T16:12:35","modified_gmt":"2019-12-19T16:12:35","slug":"a-child-escaping-war-presentation-modifiable-for-any-grade-level","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/a-child-escaping-war-presentation-modifiable-for-any-grade-level\/","title":{"rendered":"A child escaping war: presentation modifiable for any grade level"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"728\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/TooYoungToEscape_RGB_1000px.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"5656\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/TooYoungToEscape_RGB_1000px.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/too-young-to-escape\/tooyoungtoescape_rgb_1000px\/\" class=\"wp-image-5656\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/TooYoungToEscape_RGB_1000px.jpg 728w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/TooYoungToEscape_RGB_1000px-109x150.jpg 109w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/TooYoungToEscape_RGB_1000px-218x300.jpg 218w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">Yellow Cedar nominee<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"864\" src=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/AdriftAtSea_website.jpg\" alt=\"AdriftAtSea_website\" data-id=\"3716\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/AdriftAtSea_website.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/so-thrilled-to-reveal-this-cover-adrift-at-sea\/adriftatsea_website\/\" class=\"wp-image-3716\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/AdriftAtSea_website.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/AdriftAtSea_website-150x130.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/AdriftAtSea_website-300x259.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">Golden Oak winner<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Students need tools to develop empathy for those among us who have fled war, terror and prejudice. Marsha&#8217;s two non-fiction books from the perspective of a real child escaping after war are a perfect tool to step into the shoes of a young person in the midst of this terrible circumstance.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Young people are engaged by these true stories. Interviewing the real people behind these books had a profound effect on Marsha herself. Using her books <strong><em>Adrift at Sea<\/em><\/strong> and <strong><em>Too Young to Escape<\/em><\/strong>, Marsha can speak to students in an age appropriate way about this urgent issue. Sample grade ranges that work well for these presentations:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>grades 1 &#8211; 2,&nbsp; grades 3 &#8211; 4,&nbsp; grades 6 &#8211; 8. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Marsha has also spoken to high school, adult groups and professional groups on this topic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students need tools to develop empathy for those among us who have fled war, terror and prejudice. Marsha&#8217;s two non-fiction books from the perspective of a real child escaping after war are a perfect tool to step into the shoes of a young person in the midst of this terrible circumstance.&nbsp; Young people are engaged &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/a-child-escaping-war-presentation-modifiable-for-any-grade-level\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A child escaping war: presentation modifiable for any grade level&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[262],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6613"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6616,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6613\/revisions\/6616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}