Author/Illustrator: Jeanne DuPrauPlot Summary: This book concludes the four part series about the city of Ember, an underground city built to perpetuate the human race after the rest of the world is destroyed.
Comments: A gratifying conclusion following the most well-known installation of this series, The City of Ember." The series is appropriate for sophisticated third graders on up but would appeal to the widest variety of upper elementary or middle school students.
Extensions:
1. There are a variety of ideas in different subject areas on the Random House website. Ideas could be tailored to a variety of grade levels.
2. Project ideas and guided reading questions can be found here. This was published for The City of Ember but could be expanded to include the rest of the books.
3. Online questions and writing lesson ideas for The City of Ember can be found here. These could be expanded to include the rest of the books.
Themes/keywords: fantasy, good and evil, messengers, Apocalypse
Age/Reading Level: 3 - 8; ATOS - 5.2; Follett - 5.3; Lexile - 790
Standards:
Standards include related standards from additional grade levels. This book can be used to support a variety of standards.
S4CS1. Students will be aware of the importance of curiosity, honesty, openness, and skepticism in science and will exhibit these traits in their own efforts to understand how the world works.
S4CS6. Students will question scientific claims and arguments effectively.
ELA4R1 The student demonstrates comprehension and shows evidence of a
warranted and responsible explanation of a variety of literary and informational
texts.
ELA4R2 The student consistently reads at least twenty-five books or book equivalents (approximately 1,000,000 words) each year. The materials should include traditional and contemporary literature (both fiction and non-fiction) as well as magazines, newspapers, textbooks, and electronic material. Such reading should represent a diverse collection of material from at least three different literary forms and from at least five different writers.
ELA4W1 The student produces writing that establishes an appropriate organizational structure, sets a context and engages the reader, maintains a coherent focus throughout, and signals a satisfying closure.
ELA4W2 The student demonstrates competence in a variety of genres.
Publisher's Info: Random House, New York. 2008
ISBN-13: 978-0-375-85572-6
ISBN-10: 0-375-85572-6
Awards/Review Sources:
Wilson's Children 07/01/09 | School Library Journal 11/01/08 |
| Horn Book 04/01/09 | Kirkus Review 07/01/08 |
Genre/Dewey: Fiction; Science fiction
Websites:
Website with lesson ideas are listed above.
Movie site for The City of Ember(please read the book first.)
Publisher's site for the books
Author's website
Notes for Booktalk: This was not a series in that the books were not released in chronological order.
They were released in the followed order: The City of Ember, The People of Sparks, The Prophet of Yonwood, The Diamond of Darkhold
Their sequence chronologically is as follows although The Prophet of Yonwood is only loosely related:
The Prophet of Yonwood, City of Ember, People of Sparks, Diamond of Darkhold
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