Picture Book #24 When It's Six O' Clock in San Fransico

Author: Cynthia Jaynes Omololu
Title:  When It's Six o' Clock in San Fransico

Illustrator:  Randy DuBurke

Readability:5.3

Genre: Picture Book


Subgenre: Informational; Diversity

Theme:  We (as children) can really be doing the same things a differnet times.

Primary and Secondary Characters: Jared,Genevieve, MAria, Elena, Oliver, Nkosi,Rashida,Min- You, Alkira,Keilana

Award(s) date of publication: 2009

Publishing Company: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN number: 978-0-618-76827-1

Summary:

When It's Six Clock somewhere is a story that goes into detail what children are doing around the world when it is six clock in San Fransico. The story tells what children are doing Montreal, Santiago, London, Cape Town, Lahore, Bejing, Sydney, Honolulu, and New York. Allowing students to understand that when we are getting ready for bed people there same age is just waking up. The story also shows how differnet countries does things just a little bit different then us.

Use in the classroom:

I would post a world map and have students help me drive the time lines across the map. Then I would have students pick to places and have students write about what they would be doing at both places at a specific time.