Author: Avi
Title: Silent Movie
Illustrator: C. B. Mordan
Readability: 2.4
Genre: Picture Book
Subgenre: Historical Fiction
Theme: Have faith and destiny will always follow through
Character: Papa, Mama, Gustave, A Thief, A friend from
the Old Country, Bartholomew Bunting
Award(s) date of publication: 2003
Publisher: An Anne Schwartz Book
ISBN: 0-689-84145-0
Summary:
Silent Movie is a story about a family fleeing Sweden to
go to the “Promise Land” of America. The
first person to go over to the The Promise Land was papa in 1909. Later Mama
and Gustave came to join Papa, once they had made the journey and arrived they
looked for Papa around the dock but could not find them and Papa the same. Mama
and Gustave ponder on was coming to America really a good idea. After three
days they were out of money and had to depend on begging to have money and to
eat. During this time there were thieves who took from the poor to make himself
rich. An old friend found Mama and Gustave and took them to shelter. Mama began
working getting paid a dollar a week. Around the same time movies were being
made and it only took five days. A man
by the name of Bartholomew Bunting was a famous movie director and was looking
for a child actor for his action movie. One day when Bunting sees Gustave he
says that he was the perfect kid for the movie. He offered Gustave a dollar a
day to be in his movie. The movie was a hit and was offered to be in the next movie
for a hundred dollars a week. Papa sees Gustave in the movie and runs down to
the studio were the movie were recorded and was reunited with his son and his
wife. They became the new American Family.
How to use in the classroom:
Silent Movie can be a very fun book to use across the
curriculum in the classroom. Students could use this book in English and
Reading by creating their own stories with only pictures then on the back of
the pictures right the words to the story. With older grades teachers can have
students use technology to record and tell a story.
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