The Lost Treasure of Lemon Brown

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The Lost Treasure of Lemon Brown

• By
• Shaari King
• Kimberly Thomas
• Andre McClellan
• Curtis White

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Research of Walter Dean Myers

• writer of children and young adult literature
• born in west Virginia in 1937
• life was spent in Harlem
• He was raised by foster parent
• quit school and joined the army
• wrote short stories and periodicals

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Continued!

• Won a contest ran by the Council of Interracial
• Wrote books such as now is your time
• He was famous for nonfiction

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Lets Think A Little Bit

• Everybody put your thinking caps on.
• We are about to put it on you.

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Discussion Director

• If you were Greg Ridley would you had risk your
  life to save someone else?
• Why do you think Lemon Brown is going to East St.
  Louis?
• How would you react if Lemon Brown showed you his
  treasure?
• Do you think everyone has a treasure?
• Do you think Lemon Brown treasure was really a
  good thing to treasure?

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Passage Picker
Passage Picker
Page Paragraph Why I liked it
233 3 Real life situations
236 7 Memories
239 7 Irony
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Continued
Page Paragraph Why I liked it
240 last Good Ending
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Connector

• The book Stephanie
• The movie Duce
• When I was in fourth grade

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Continued!

• Stephanie left school and went to a homeless
  persons house and they became friends
• He found out his daddy was in jail left school
  and started dealing with this dope dealer his
  daddy got out of jail eventually
• This boy would always ran home from school and
  then he became involved with drugs and never
  started school again

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Setting

• on the streets of Harlem
• thundering and lightning
• kind of windy and clouding

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Theme

• some things in life are priceless
• you may value something that someone else might
  think is stupid
• someone else might value something that you think
  is stupid
• Lemmon Brown consider his momentums as treasure
• They were the only things in his possession

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Thank You

• We want to thank everyone for being considerate
  and patient.