Annie and the Old One

This book is a historical fiction book about a indian girl named Annie. The art is all hand drawn sketches and it is mainly done in black and white with some color. The book is about an indian girl named Annie and her gradnmother. The reading level is fourth grade. The curricular connection is

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history because it is about Indian culture.

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Annie is a little navajo girl. She is struggling with the thought of loosing her grandmother. Annie starts being bad trying to slow down time thinking this will help to keep the grandmother around longer. Grandmother tells Annie that she cannot stop time. Grandmother's time will come and Annie will

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not be able to stop it. Annie understands her grandmother now and accepts her grandmother's departure.

I liked the book because it speaks of loved ones departing. This would be a great book for a child that has lost or will loose a loved one. I liked the pictures in the book. The pictures illustrate the old days where there was not many colors.

This is a very tough topic. I would like to introduce the children to Cino de Mayo, a Mexican cultural that celebrates the deceased. The moral of it is to help children understand that loved ones will leave us but will never be forgotten.

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A young Navajo girl, named Annie, loves her grandmother very much. She is given terrible news; her grandmother will go back to Mother Earth when the rug is taken down from the loom. Each family member chooses an item of hers that they would like to keep, Annie chooses her weaving stick. Annie tries

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to come up with schemes to keep her mother from weaving, so that her grandmother will not die, none work. Her grandmother explains to her that you cannot stop time, all things come from the earth and all things must return to the earth when it is their time. Annie helps her mother finish the rug with her grandmothers weaving stick.
I liked the book a lot, it explains that no matter how hard you try, things will end. I think that all children can relate to this book, not only those that have lost a loved one. Every child has tried to make time not come, for instance trying to hide a report card, only to learn their parents got a copy in the mail. The book was emotional, yet very easy to read. I believe children would enjoy this book.
1.) The class will have a show and tell of their family traditions. Each class member can bring in items to help, or simply describe something that their family does.
2.) Students will write a story describing a time that they tried to make time stand still. This story should include details of how the conflict was resolved.

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This 1972 Newbery honor was yet another Newbery that deals wisely, astutely and beautifully with a difficult subject.

Young, Navajo Indian child, Annie loves her grandmother with all her heart. When her grandmother tells her that she will pass away when the last thread is woven on a rug that Annie's

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mother is weaving, Annie results to extreme measures to ensure the rug is not finished.

Like so many of us, the inevitability of death is a difficult concept. Loss, grief, fear and pain are emotions we want to avoid. Which one of us wouldn't go to extreme measures if we could save someone we love?

In this heart felt tale Annie slowly learns that death is both another cycle.

Recommended.

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Summary:
Annie's grandmother tells the family that her time is up and that when the rug that is being made on the loom is finished she (the grandmother) will die. After this declaration, the family goes about their business as normal, much to Annie's dismay. So Annie takes matters into her own hands

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and begins to make trouble that takes time away from being able to use the loom and even undoes full days worth of work on the rug in attempt to prevent it's completion and her grandmother's death. Her grandmother finally catches on to what Annie is doing and explains to her that it's part of the cycle of life and no matter what Annie does, she cannot stop it or prevent it.

Personal Reflection:
I thought this was a poignant look at a young child's perception of death versus what an adult may know about it. The author did a wonderful job of telling the story from a child's point of view making it something a child would more easily relate too.

Classroom Extension:
- This book could be used in a unit covering different culture's approach to or traditions relating to death.
- It would be an excellent book to refer a child to who is struggling with the death or dying of a family member.

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A quiet and reflective book about a young girl coming to terms with her grandmother's approaching death. The illustrations are also quiet but very lovely. Annie rebels against nature and tries to prevent time from passing. This does not work as well as she hoped it would, and her grandmother

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intervenes. Very warm and loving and pretty realistic.

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Summary: Annie, a little Navajo girl, lives with her mother, father and grandmother. It is immediately clear that Annie loves her grandmother very much and spends much of her time with her. Annie's grandmother announces that when the rug on the loom is finished being woven, she will rejoin the

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Earth. Annie does not like this and does many things to stop the rug from being finished. Her grandmother takes her for a walk on the mesa and explains to Annie that a person cannot stop time and things that come from Earth must return to it. Annie goes home and begins weaving the rug.

Personal Reaction: My heart broke for Annie as she struggled with the knowledge that her grandmother would be passing soon. The author was able to illustrate how children often take sayings literally. As a reader, I sympathized with Annie when her plans to delay the weaving went wrong.

Classroom Extension Ideas:
1. Bring in a loom and woven rug to demonstrate the pieces that are referred to in the book and how a rug is woven.
2. Discuss plant life cycles that were mentioned in the book, like a cactus flower.

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This realistic fiction book tells the story of a young girl and her Navajo family. She has a grandma who tells them that when they finish weaving their next blanket, it will be her time to pass away. The girl, Annie, does not want to believe that her grandma will die soon, and tries to make her mom

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stop weaving so that she cannot finish the blanket. It doesn't work. Annie has to go to school, but she just wants to be home, so she steals her teacher's shoe and puts it in the trash can, hoping that her parents will be called and have to come pick her up. Then, her mom would not be able to work on the weaving. But, Annie did not get in trouble. Her grandma ends up passing, and they know it is okay.

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The genre of this book is realistic fiction. Annie, a young Navajo girl, is saddened by her grandmother's prediction that she will die when her mother finishes weaving the rug on her loom. In her small power, Annie tries everything to get her mother from weaving in order to preserve the life of her

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grandmother. She tries getting into trouble at school, setting their livestock loose, and even unraveling the weaving. At last, her grandmother tells her that she cannot stop the passage of time. Finally accepting the Old One's fate, Annie sits down to learn how to weave herself.

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Annie And The Old One is a realistic picture book tells a real story between Annie, her parents and grandmother. Annie is girl has a very close relationship with her grandmother. One day, her grandmother says that once the rug is completed by her daughter, she will return to Mother Nature, which

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means she will die soon. Annie is afraid and don’t want her grandmother to die, therefore, she misbehaves in school and distract her mother in order to slow down the speed of waving and let her grandmother stay with them.
Media: Pencil drawing
Use: Independent reading in second and third grade. They can learn some native American cultures. I will also let them think about the feeling of lost a loved person. Tell them this is natural things that everyone need to experience it.

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This picture book has great literary value because of how constructed the tension is. The reader feels the pain of Annie as she tries to slow the death of her Grandmother. The reader hopes that Annie succeeds because one may empathize with Annie. Tension keeps a story from being bland and allows

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the reader to become invested. The mood of the story also adds to the literary value of the book because it allows the readers to feel the created depressing atmosphere of the story. The mood and tension of the story complement one another to make the reader feel more connected to the plot and characters within the story. The dramatic question created by the plot is whether Annie will be able to save her grandmother from death if she keeps the rug from being weaved. Students will understand how Annie feels based off the conversations she has with her other family members.

The book could be utilized in a second-grade classroom because of how each page is written with exquisitely, not without too much challenging vocabulary. In most cases when there is a challenging word, the lines following the vocabulary word in question explain the word’s meaning. This book would be utilized when studying the relationships between family members in both a Native American tribe and in the students’ lives. There are many differences between how Annie’s family lives and how the students most likely live. This book is also an appropriate tool to utilize in a second-grade class because it is family based. Younger students tend to be closer to their families and care more about family relationships than some older students. Since the book is all about family relationships, the text is relatable to what second graders are interested in. The book is a great tool to use when teaching the students about the Native American’s life styles and everyone’s roles within a tribe or family. This book could be used as a group text where the teacher reads the book to the class and the students listen and ask questions since the book is somewhat long.

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Sweet story of a young girl learning to deal with the death of a loved one. Her attempts to prevent it are child-like, and remind me how child conceive the world. It was sweet and heart-breaking. An excellent book for young children, perhaps for those who are struggling to understand death.