Description
Grades 2-6 | Hardcover | ISBN: 9798886340822 | Fiction | Lexile Score: 830 | English
Juneteenth Freedom
Highlights
- Enables students to recognize and analyze the dynamics of historical continuity
- Introduces the role of turning points as an important dynamic in historical change
- Helps readers build literacy, problem-solving, and critical-thinking skills
- Teaches life skills such as leadership, initiative, and perseverance
- Presents primary sources to help students relate to history in a personal way
Key Features:
- Helps readers build literacy, problem-solving, and critical-thinking skills
- Teaches life skills such as leadership, initiative, and perseverance
- Presents primary sources to help students relate to history in a personal way
About the Author
Cheryl is a popular award-winning journalist, veteran anchor, and senior reporter for Spectrum News Network’s New York 1 News, which she joined during its launch in 1992. She currently hosts the talk show In Focus with Cheryl Wills. In 2018, she won an Emmy Award. Cheryl is also the author of Die Free: A Heroic Family Tale, an acclaimed biography about her great-great-great grandfather, Sandy Wills, which is the story of his extraordinary transformation from a Tennessee slave into a courageous Civil War soldier. Her second book is an illustrated children’s version of this biography called The Emancipation of Grandpa Sandy Wills. She also wrote a memoir for young adults: Emancipated, My Family’s Fight for Freedom, in which she tells the tragic and inspiring story of her family’s 150-year-old fight for freedom. Most recently, Cheryl released the book Emma which tells the inspiring story of her great-great-great grandmother Emma Wills.
Among many other awards, Cheryl was honored with the prestigious Commander’s Medal from the U.S. Department of the Army. In 2017, City & State magazine honored Cheryl as one of New York’s most remarkable women. She also received awards from The New York Press Club and the Associated Press. Cheryl was the first journalist invited to address the General Assembly of the United Nations about the impact of slavery on her family as part of the UN’s International Remembrance of Victims of the Transatlantic Slave Trade. Visit www.cherylwills.com.