![]() The story's emotional impact-and environmental message-are movingly reinforced by Himler's delicate paintings, which deftly portray the robust oak's pathetic deterioration into a rickety skeleton of a tree. Finally, when its branches are bare, Alice plants acorns she had once gathered from the then-healthy tree, telling her dog that if even one of them grows, another tree will sprout up ``someday.'' While filling her cogent tale with poignant details (neighbors bring food and get-well cards one knits a scarf to tie around the trunk of the ailing oak), Bunting ( The Valentine Bears ) never allows it to become sentimental or didactic. It can be used for whole group, small group, and independent instruction which makes these resources a smart choice for literacy centers or Reader’s Workshop. Alice and her parents, as well as their neighbors, try desperately but vainly to save the poisoned tree. This set of lesson plans, resources, and activities is for use with How Many Days to America by Eve Bunting. When the grass around the tree begins to turn yellow, and the branches begin to drop leaves in springtime, a tree doctor surmises that someone has dumped chemicals by its roots. ![]() Her mother reminisces about the first picnic she and Alice's father shared underneath it, and about Alice's christening on the very same spot. A sprawling oak tree grows in the field next to Alice's house, and it holds many memories for her family. ![]() Nostalgia and timeliness merge seamlessly in this uncommonly evocative picture book. ![]()
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