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By Audrey

I also use "The Story of Ruby Bridges" when teaching civil rights. There is a video of the same story, but I am not sure the name is the same. We read the book, then watched the movie. Last year I read the book and compared
Ruby to Rosa Parks using a Venn Diagram for my evaluation. I cried at the end and had to have a student finish the story.... my prinicpal said she loved the way I was so into my reading!!!
The movie was really good at showing the people and the time period. The only fault was that they used the N word. We had a talk about that afterward. It really went into detail about the family

and the psycologist that saw her during the time period.
Oprah had a show many moons ago that talked about this book. The book was used in Ireland to help students there understand that other children had suffered and had made it through. Some towns in Ireland had students going to school (either Catholic or Protestent) and the opposite group attacked them everyday going to school. I try to add that information to the lesson so that my students know that there are still places where people are treated horribly because of a difference they have.
Hope this helped.