Teaching Genre Journals and Diaries

ISBN 0590493027 - This review is for this specific title, all by itself. As an individual book, I fail to find it much use at all but it is possible that, in conjunction with other materials, it serves a purpose. The problem is that nowhere on the book does it point you to that material - which clearly does exist, since it's part of a series.

Portions of the journals of Christopher Columbus, Laura Ingalls Wilder and Anne Frank make up the entire book. While their stories are interesting, the snippets don't add up to enough to make them worth reading in place of the full book. As a homeschool or classroom tool, this is bound to be useful - it's just doesn't stand alone well. (Copyright, AnnaLovesBooks, 2008) ( )