{"id":6313,"date":"2014-09-08T01:32:03","date_gmt":"2014-09-08T06:32:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asuen.wordpress.com\/?p=6313"},"modified":"2014-09-08T01:32:03","modified_gmt":"2014-09-08T06:32:03","slug":"with-books-and-bricks-how-booker-t-washington-built-a-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/08\/with-books-and-bricks-how-booker-t-washington-built-a-school\/","title":{"rendered":"With Books and Bricks: How Booker T. Washington Built a School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51Tv0k61k5L._SL250_.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0807508977\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0807508977&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=kidswrite-20&amp;linkId=TZHLUYXO6PT6OMLK\">With Books and Bricks: How Booker T. Washington Built a School<\/a><br \/>\nby Suzanne Slade (Author) and Nicole Tadgell (Illustrator)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Booktalk:<\/strong> When Booker T. Washington arrived in Tuskegee, Alabama to teach, he found many eager students but no school. So, Booker and his students decided to build their own school&#8211;brick by brick.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Snippet:<\/strong> Booker searched the town until he found a old shed he could use. The building had no windows or doors and huge holes in the roof, but it was all he had.<\/p>\n<p>Soon the whole town of Tuskegee was talking about Booker&#8217;s school. Dozens of students lined up on the first day. They squished and squeezed inside the tiny shed. Each week the school became more crowded.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.asuen.com\/images\/nonfiction.monday.jpg\" alt=\"Nonfiction Monday\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">It&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/nonfictionmonday.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nonfiction Monday!<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><!-- Copyright (c)2006 Site Meter -->Copyright \u00a9 2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/asuen.com\" target=\"_blank\">Anastasia Suen<\/a> All Rights Reserved.<br \/>\n<!-- Site Meter --><a href=\"http:\/\/s31.sitemeter.com\/stats.asp?site=s31asuen\" target=\"_top\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/s31.sitemeter.com\/meter.asp?site=s31asuen\" alt=\"Site Meter\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Books and Bricks: How Booker T. Washington Built a School by Suzanne Slade (Author) and Nicole Tadgell (Illustrator) Booktalk: When Booker T. Washington arrived in Tuskegee, Alabama to teach, he found many eager students but no school. So, Booker and his students decided to build their own school&#8211;brick by brick. Snippet: Booker searched the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/08\/with-books-and-bricks-how-booker-t-washington-built-a-school\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">With Books and Bricks: How Booker T. Washington Built a School<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,20,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-booktalks","category-nonfiction-monday","category-picture-book-of-the-day"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}