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Shadow of a Bull by Maia Wojciechowska

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A Guide for Using Shadow of a Bull in the Classroom
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A complete lesson plan by Teacher Created Resources. For Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8. This lesson plan is sold separately and is not included with any subscription or study pack.


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Shadow of a Bull Information
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Shadow of a Bull is a novel by Maia Wojciechowska that was awarded the Newbery Medal for excellence in American children's literature in...


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The Boston Globe
Shadow of 1987 clouds this run of bull market
10/04/1995: 474 words, approx. 2 pages
NEW YORK -- Stock mutual funds piled up broad gains in the third quarter of 1995, closing in on what could be their best year so far in the 1990s. But wild-eyed optimists take warning: The last time the funds did so well...
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The Washington Post
Jackson's Uncertain Future Shadows Bulls
06/04/1997: 846 words, approx. 3 pages
When a team has Michael Jordan -- and for that matter, Scottie Pippen -- does it matter who's coaching? Apparently it does, especially because the Chicago Bulls have Michael Jordan. A coach won't last long without a strong relationship with his superstar....
 


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Critical Essay by I. V. Hansen
958 words, approx. 3 pages
Reviews of a number of the novels of Maia Wojciechowska contain phrases like 'a blatant failure', 'too blurred to be effective', 'succeeds only in tediously preaching', and 'the pretentiously allegorical parades of stereotypes'. These are hardly the sentiments to encourage readership and there is a sense in which Wojciechowska is her own worst enemy. It is not too fanciful to suggest that her personal life has been so exotic that she finds it very diff...
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Critical Essay by Newsweek
365 words, approx. 1 pages
["Shadow of a Bull"] is disarmingly simple; yet nuances of feeling continually break through, and their subtlety astonishes the adult reader who supposes that a book for children is necessarily … childish. "Shadow of a Bull" is the story of Manolo Olivar, age 9 when the tale opens, and 11 when it concludes. He is the son of the man who had been the greatest bullfighter in Spain. (p. 103)
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Critical Essay by Emily Maxwell
304 words, approx. 1 pages
["Shadow of a Bull"] is about a little Spanish town whose heart is the market place and whose soul is the bull ring. The hero—or anti-hero—is the ten-year-old son of a famous bull-fighter. In the main square is a huge statue of his father, and in the cemetery, marking his father's grave, is another. The boy was three when his father was killed in the ring, and doesn't even remember him. Because of his father, he is treated with more respect than other boys, he is ta...
 


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Shadow of a Bull by Maia Wojciechowska

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