{"id":16316,"date":"2016-05-12T21:20:54","date_gmt":"2016-05-12T21:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testv45.demowebsitelinks.com\/ColleenKeane\/?p=16316"},"modified":"2023-09-18T21:28:08","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T21:28:08","slug":"books-he-has-inspired-them-beacuse-hes-raising-the-bar-for-them-and-the-kids-are-going-for-it-says-hausman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testv45.demowebsitelinks.com\/ColleenKeane\/2016\/05\/12\/books-he-has-inspired-them-beacuse-hes-raising-the-bar-for-them-and-the-kids-are-going-for-it-says-hausman\/","title":{"rendered":"BOOKS: \u2018He has inspired them beacuse he\u2019s raising the bar for them and the kids are going for it,\u2019 says Hausman"},"content":{"rendered":"

Budinger\u2019s class has already read this year are \u201cGhost Walk,\u201d \u201cTurtle Dreams\u201d and \u201cCoyote Bead.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMy kids just loved the books,\u201d he said adding that the stories are deeply embedded in locations the students are familiar with, like Canyon de Chelly, the Lukachukai Mountains and Canyon del Muerta.<\/p>\n

In Coyote Bead, the young readers are taken back to the mid 1860s giving them a glimpse of what life was like when elders passed along traditional teachings, families lived off the land and conflicts with Utes were common. The story goes on to tell about the Long Walk and little known stories on how some families managed to evade U.S. soldiers who were ravaging their lands.<\/p>\n

\u201c(Hausman) crosses that boundary eloquently between good writing and telling a traditional story,\u201d said Budinger.<\/p>\n

To further engage the students in reading, Budinger arranged a field trip to the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center on April 25 to meet Hausman and to get their own personal copy of Coyote Bead to take home.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s their first time meeting an author,\u201d said Budinger. Thinking about it for a moment, he added, \u201cMine too.\u201d<\/p>\n

As Hausman autographed the students\u2019 copies of Coyote Bead, he asked them about their favorite passages. They were ready to tell him, because they had slipped a piece of paper into the book marking where they were at.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think the stories are really great. There\u2019s so much drama added to them. It makes you want to know what\u2019s going to come up and how it\u2019s going to get resolved,\u201d said Courtney Williams, who added she was always surprised at the turn of events.<\/p>\n

As she pointed to her favorite passage, Melanie Nelson said, \u201cI liked the part where he found his grandfather on the mesa.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s a really good teacher. He has inspired them, because he\u2019s raising the bar for them and the kids are going for it. I thought Coyote Bead was above (4th\/5th grade) level,\u201d said Hausman.<\/p>\n

The story of Coyote Bead that brings unexpected happenings, keeping both the teacher and the students on the edge of their seats, also comes with a good resolution.<\/p>\n

It ends with, \u201cOne day, we will have all the bounty that Hozhoni provides.\u201d<\/p>\n

At the end of the night, the students closed their books for now and headed back home.<\/p>\n

But, that\u2019s not the end of the story. Budinger said that his class will continue reading Hausman\u2019s books.<\/p>\n

That was just fine with Armida Murphey, who exclaimed, \u201cI want to read more!\u201d<\/p>\n

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NAVAJO TIMES | COLLEEN KEAN<\/p>\n

From left to right, fourth grade Din\u00e9 students Mandy Martinez, Danna Pinto, Jaylne Yesslith and Ashley Selina hold up their copies of Coyote Bead during a field trip to the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Budinger\u2019s class has already read this year are \u201cGhost Walk,\u201d \u201cTurtle Dreams\u201d and \u201cCoyote Bead.\u201d \u201cMy kids just loved the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16299,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testv45.demowebsitelinks.com\/ColleenKeane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testv45.demowebsitelinks.com\/ColleenKeane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testv45.demowebsitelinks.com\/ColleenKeane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testv45.demowebsitelinks.com\/ColleenKeane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testv45.demowebsitelinks.com\/ColleenKeane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16316"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/testv45.demowebsitelinks.com\/ColleenKeane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16319,"href":"https:\/\/testv45.demowebsitelinks.com\/ColleenKeane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16316\/revisions\/16319"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testv45.demowebsitelinks.com\/ColleenKeane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testv45.demowebsitelinks.com\/ColleenKeane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testv45.demowebsitelinks.com\/ColleenKeane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testv45.demowebsitelinks.com\/ColleenKeane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}