New Shoes is set in Alabama after the Jim Crow segregation laws had been past. The main character, Ella Mae, goes with her mother to buy some new shoes and questions why the white child gets help before her even though she was there first. When it was finally her turn to get to pick out her shoes she isn't even allowed to try them on. They end up being too small. Ella Mae and one of her friends decide to work some small jobs to save up money so they can buy some shoes to sell. She wanted everyone to be able to try on shoes before they bought them. With vividly realistic drawings the illustrations, capture the feelings of the story.
I would read this book in a fourth grade social studies class to discuss the Jim Crow Laws and how they impacted African Americans. By using this book students would not only learn about what the law did and how it impacted people, but how it felt like being segregated.
Book title: NewShoes
Author: Susan Lynn Meyer
Illustrator: Eric Velasquez
Genre: Historical Fiction
Number of pages: 32
Copyright year: 2015
Publisher: Holiday House
Standard Used: 10) Analyze social and educational changes during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries for their impact on Alabama. *Explain the Jim Crow Laws (Fourth Grade Social Studies)
Genre: Historical Fiction
Standard Used: 10) Analyze social and educational changes during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries for their impact on Alabama. *Explain the Jim Crow Laws (Fourth Grade Social Studies)
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