Baseball Books as Mentor Texts: BARBED WIRE BASEBALL by Marissa Moss
By Marissa Moss
Illustrated by Yuko Shimizu
Abrams, 2013
Kenichi Zenimura loved to play baseball. He play baseball for years. Until World War II, when he and other Japanese families lived their lives in internment camps. But inside that bleak camp, Zeni made a baseball field. He spent a lot of time constructing and making the best baseball field he could. Then he organized teams and games, giving a little bit of hope to himself and the people living there. This would be an excellent text to also incorporate into a WWII unit.
Writing Skills
* Figurative Language
* Similes
* Descriptive Language
* Sensory Words
* Vivid Verbs
