In our third week of March is Reading Month, Congress students are learning about and reading biographies. This week we read Roberto Clemente, Pride of the Pittsburgh Pirates , by Jonah Winter, a picture book biography with illustrations by Raúl Colón.
This is the story of of a great Puerto Rican, baseball Athlete who charmed the United States and also shared or introduced his Latino culture to many. The book covers, in a beautiful verse and prose style, his early life in Puerto Rico, where he fell in love with baseball, to his life as one of the best Major League Right Fielders baseball players and the world have ever seen.
Students enjoyed this book immensely and had a lot of questions. We could also connect the text to place, to Grand Rapids, because we have a Roberto Clemente Park right here in Grand Rapids!
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