I selected the West African Anansi story and use traditional storytelling techniques such as songs, rhythm and repetition to teach Grace and her friends a bit of folk wisdom." Notes Limited Streaming Rights Available Contact our customer service department for more information. Do you have a copy of the picture book Amazing Grace by Mary Hoffman If so, I have some fun activities for you to do with your students Without further ado, let’s get started Amazing Grace Book Summary Grace loves stories Grace likes to pantomime characters from stories told in books, movies, and the stories her grandmother shares with her. In the end, Grace shows us that she can indeed do anything she sets her mind to. Grace is told by two of her classmates that she can't be Peter Pan in the school play because she is a girl and because she is black. Her grandmother, Nana, believes that Grace can be whatever she wants to be. Grace's mother is very practical and hopes that Grace will become a doctor, a lawyer or a professional person given the opportunities she herself didn't have. She's a pirate with a peg leg and a parrot, an explorer, and a theater director of a production of 'Cinderella' in which she casts a boy in the title role. In her imagination, she becomes the characters: Anansi the Spider, Joan of Arc, Mowgli, Hiawatha. When Grace is in her playworld everything to her is real. She also makes up her own stories, acting out the most exciting parts. Youngblood, "Amazing Grace is about a little girl who loves acting out stories, those told and read to her by her grandmother as well as ones she reads on her own.
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