Calico Girl Themes Spider Map Storyboard
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Calico Girl by Jerdine Nolen
By Lauren Ayube
Callie Wilcomb is a 12 year old enslaved girl who lives in Virginia in the 1860s. With the Civil War going on all around them, Callie and her family make a risky yet life-changing decision to go after their freedom. Based on true accounts and real locations of the Civil War, Calico Girl is a poignant, hopeful, and sometimes heartbreaking story of one family’s journey to be free.
Storyboard Description
Illustrate different themes in Calico Girl by Jerdine Nolen
Storyboard Text
- EDUCATION
- What is a scholar?
- I would love for you to be one of my scholars!
- FREEDOM
- Please be careful, Hampton.
- COURAGE
- Callie is a very bright girl who wants to learn. When she is able to go to school at Fort Monroe, she does all that she can to help and be with her teacher, Mrs. Peake.
- Set in the 1860s when slavery still existed, freedom is the central theme of this novel. Hampton is a freedman, and he wants his family to be free as well.
- I will be back soon. This could be our chance for freedom.
- Hampton shows a great deal of courage when he saves a Union soldier from drowning, even though he knew it was risky.
- Calico Girl Themes
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