SideStreets Teacher’s Resource Guide
Outlines, activities and ideas to help teachers guide students reading SideStreets books in the classroom.
The Lorimer SideStreets guide provides teachers with (a) an outline for helping students
to choose novels in the SideStreets series as well as (b) a choice of response activities
that offer students opportunities to make sense of what they have read in a variety of
modes.
About the Author
Larry Swartz
LARRY SWARTZ is an instructor in literacy as well as dramatic arts at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto. He has been an educator for over thirty-six years and is well known for his use of childrens literature to help young people grow as readers, writers, and citizens of the world. As a classroom teacher, consultant, author, and speaker, Larry has shared his enthusiasm and expertise with teachers, administrators, teacher-librarians, and parents throughout Canada, the United States, and Asia. He is the author of several teacher resource publications.
(more)LARRY SWARTZ is an instructor in literacy as well as dramatic arts at the Ontario
Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto. He has been an educator for
over thirty-six years and is well known for his use of childrens literature to help young
people grow as readers, writers, and citizens of the world. As a classroom teacher,
consultant, author, and speaker, Larry has shared his enthusiasm and expertise with
teachers, administrators, teacher-librarians, and parents throughout Canada, the United
States, and Asia. He is the author of several teacher resource publications.
Subjects (BISAC)
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Resource Guides
All Travis wants is a slice of life
(more)Bullied at school and ignored at home, Travis has a secret: cutting himself with a razor blade is the only thing that lets him control the pain in his life and find some peace. When he becomes friends with Chyvonne, a new girl at school, he doesn't know how to get close to her without revealing his secret and making himself even more vulnerable. Spending time with Chyvonne spurs Travis to try to discover why his mother can't seem to face his very existence. It's only when he learns about the art form of paper cutting that he realizes there might be other ways to make himself feel adrenalin-fueled and in control.
Although self-harm through cutting is a problem usually associated with teenage girls, many young men are involved in different sorts of self-injury. This story explores a teenager's motivations for cutting and the options for overcoming the need to self-injure.
Kanika, a 15-year-old Black girl from a small town, is lured into the sex trade when she falls for an older teenage boy. Based on true-events, this book recounts the physical and emotional abuse experienced by young victims of sex trafficking, and how one girl survives and escapes.
(more)When 15-year-old Kanika falls for Danny, an older guy she has always had a crush on, she becomes his "ride or die chick". Soon after establishing that she will do anything for him, Danny sells her into the sex trade. Kanika is drugged and taken to Toronto where she finds her friend has also been a victim of the sex trafficking plot. With the help of an older sex worker, Kanika manages to survive and escape the people abusing her.
Based on true events, Ride or Die tells the story of how a young Black girl from a small town is lured into the sex trade by an older boy.
