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	<description>A blog about immigration, loss and legacy by author Fern Schumer Chapman</description>
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		<title>A great day at OLHMS</title>
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FSC and Kathleen Spedale



Great to meet students and staff at Oak Lawn- Hometown Middle School.  Thanks to Library Media Specialist Kathleen Spedale and the District 123 Educational Foundation for organizing and sponsoring the presentations.
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		<link>http://fernschumerchapman.com/blog/2012/02/21/a-great-day-at-olhms/</link>
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		<title>35 seconds about new app for &#8216;Night or Day&#8217;</title>
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20Axf6&#215;5Zt8&#38;amp;feature=youtu.be
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		<link>http://fernschumerchapman.com/blog/2012/02/17/30-seconds-about-new-app-for-night-or-day/</link>
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		<title>iPad app for &#8216;Night or Day&#8217; in iTunes store</title>
		<description><![CDATA[







Night or Day?
By Literactivity LP

View In iTunes
Through historic videos, compelling visuals of the story, comments from  the author and protagonist, delightful interactivities, and case studies  that explore bullying, this app reinvents the award-winning historical  novel, Is It Night or Day?. Through a totally immersive experience, this  app follows 12-year-old Edith&#8217;s journey [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fernschumerchapman.com/blog/2012/02/15/ipad-app-for-night-or-day-in-itunes-store/</link>
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		<title>A young Ohio reader&#8217;s reaction to &#8216;Night or Day&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[1-24-11
Dear Fern Schumer Chapman,
When I started reading Is it Night or Day?, I really didn’t care about World War II. After about a quarter into the book, I felt as if I was living with Edith and the things that happened to her. I can relate to Edith in many ways.
Edith had many outstanding qualities [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fernschumerchapman.com/blog/2012/01/27/a-young-ohio-readers-reaction-to-night-or-day/</link>
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		<title>Happy New Year from a Florida teacher and student</title>
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Dear Fern,
 
Happy New Year! I hope this finds you well.
 
I wanted to share with you a short essay one of my 8th graders, a  boy named Michael, wrote on his mid-year exam.  The students were asked to  write a paragraph about their favorite book we&#8217;ve read so far this  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fernschumerchapman.com/blog/2012/01/03/happy-new-year-from-a-florida-teacher/</link>
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		<title>Memorializing and denying the Holocaust</title>
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In 2008, when I visited  the glass-box memorial on the tracks at the  train station in Darmstadt, Germany, I found it to be moving, with the shards of  green glass aptly portraying how lives fragmented at this location. This was where my grandparents were deported in the late 1930s.
For me, the most stunning aspect [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fernschumerchapman.com/blog/2011/11/20/memorializing-and-denying-the-holocaust/</link>
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		<title>FSC speaks at Highland Middle School</title>
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For more information, please visit:
http://highlandlcblog.blogspot.com/2011/11/fern-schumer-chapman-visits-highland.html
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		<link>http://fernschumerchapman.com/blog/2011/11/18/fsc-speaks-at-highland-middle-school/</link>
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		<title>Featured speaker for community wide reads</title>
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Tea and Talk with
Author Fern Schumer Chapman
Saturday, November 5 • 2 p.m.-4 p.m. • Aspen Drive
Enjoy tea, cakes and conversation with Fern Schumer Chapman,
the author of our Everyone Has a Story, What’s Yours? communityread
titles! 
Listen to Fern speak and answer questions about Motherland
and Is It Night or Day? as well as tell her latest heartwarming [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fernschumerchapman.com/blog/2011/10/26/featured-speaker-for-all-community-reads/</link>
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		<title>FSC visits classrooms on SKYPE</title>
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To schedule a classroom SKYPE visit, please email Fern Schumer Chapman at  fernschumer@aim.com
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		<link>http://fernschumerchapman.com/blog/2011/09/24/fsc-visits-classrooms-on-skype/</link>
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		<title>Booking author visits now</title>
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Currently, I am booking author visits  for the 2011-2012 school year.
Please go to my AIVS website for details:
http://www.authorsillustrators.com/schumer_chapman/schumer_chapman.htm
Download the new Teacher&#8217;s Guide for Is It Night or Day? here: 
FinalTeacher&#8217;sGuide

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		<link>http://fernschumerchapman.com/blog/2011/09/16/booking-author-visits-now/</link>
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