Dear Readers, About this time last year, when Blue Thread was nearing publication and this blog was only a few months old, I made a commitment to donate a tenth of my writer’s income for 2012 to organizations that “help girls and women attain education, health, citizenship rights, housing, and the opportunity for a self-supporting [...]
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My Choice for 2012, Yours for 2013
Posted by Ruth on January 4, 2013
http://bluethreadbook.com/2013/01/04/my-choice-for-2012-yours-for-2013/
BT + Activities = Teaching Guide
With thanks to education students at Portland State University, I can now offer you a teaching guide to Blue Thread. The guide is wide-ranging and thorough, with activities that include curriculum-framing questions, writing prompts, lesson plans, bio-poem worksheets, and brainstorming charts. I expect I’ll use some of these activities myself in school visits. Yo, [...]
Posted by Ruth on July 27, 2012
http://bluethreadbook.com/2012/07/27/bt-activities-teaching-guide/
Suffragists Come Back to Life
The dead rose up at Portland’s Lone Fir Cemetery last Saturday. And they had a lot to say. Century of Action and other groups working with the staff of Portland’s oldest cemetery brought four local suffragists to life to celebrate the centennial of woman suffrage in Oregon. Standing before us in full 1912 regalia and [...]
Posted by Ruth on July 24, 2012
http://bluethreadbook.com/2012/07/24/suffragists-come-back-to-lif/
This Week, It’s the Daughters’ Turn!
Hi, it’s Michael again with a guest post. Every Jewish house of worship has a cabinet or Ark which contains one or more Torah scrolls. Each scroll is made of parchment, on which the entire Hebrew text of the Torah—the first five books of the Hebrew Bible (a.k.a. Old Testament)—Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy—is [...]
Posted by Ruth on July 12, 2012
http://bluethreadbook.com/2012/07/12/this-week-its-the-daughters-turn/
The Bread and Roses Strike, 1912
In Blue Thread, fictional Miriam Josefsohn and the Osborne sisters (Charity and Prudence) joined the real crowd who waited at the railroad station in Portland to meet suffragist leader Anna Howard Shaw on Saturday, September 29, 1912. During the rally, Miriam tells us: The people around us commenced to recite a poem and Charity joined [...]
Posted by Ruth on June 26, 2012
http://bluethreadbook.com/2012/06/26/the-bread-and-roses-strike-1912/
Micah House Answered the Challenge
As some of you know, Blue Thread is about a 16-year-old girl who discovers an ancient prayer shawl. Embroidered on this magical garment is a phrase from the Bible with the commandment to pursue justice. One of the organizations that pursues justice for women in the here and now is Micah House. I asked Ed [...]
Posted by Ruth on March 12, 2012
http://bluethreadbook.com/2012/03/12/micah-house-answered-the-challenge/
Goodbye to Hull House
Sad news today. Hull House, the settlement house that Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr started in Chicago in 1889 to help immigrants and poor families, has run out of money and is closing its doors. The original Hull House was modeled on a reform movement in England, in which rich and or middle-class settlement [...]
Posted by Ruth on January 28, 2012
http://bluethreadbook.com/2012/01/28/goodbye-to-hull-house/
New Year’s Resolutions and Girls Inc.
I’ve given up on New Year’s resolutions. I once resolved to lose ten pounds. That year, in the aftermath of food poisoning, I did lose a pound a week for more weeks than I had ever intended. No fun. But I do want to remind you of my agreement with you on the Pursuing Justice [...]
Posted by Ruth on January 9, 2012
http://bluethreadbook.com/2012/01/09/new-years-resolutions-and-girls-inc/
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My name is Ruth. I write books and articles for children and young adults. Blue Thread is my eleventh book, and the first one in which I have knowingly stretched the truth.Visit this blog to satisfy your curiosity about:
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