Challenge students to describe a place where they find safety and comfort today.

While reading the story: Cassie Logan finds comfort and safety in the forest.

Answers can be recorded in a science notebook or journal. Would you sell the land to get more money today or save the land to support your family in the future? Remind students to use details from their personal experiences to support their choice.

Before reading the story: Ask students to imagine they need money to support their family, but the only valuable thing they own is a beautiful piece of land that has been a part of their family for generations.

Teachers can use this book to support Common Core Anchor Standards for Reading, specifically Grade 6, Craft and Structure: Assess how point of view or purpose shapes the content and style of a text.

Even though the Logans need money, something tells Cassie that the living trees are worth something too…Ī part of what makes this story so vivid and powerful is that readers clearly experience the events though the innocent eyes of Cassie herself. Anderson wants to cut down all the Logan family trees, and he pays good money for them, too. This 80-page short novel tracks the tough choices of the Logan family, as they make decisions about the things they own and care about, in the face of the Great Depression.ĭad is away working on the railroad, sending money home when he can. Song of the Trees is the first book in a series that detail the Logan Family saga. Your name is Cassie Logan, and you are 8 years old. You have three brothers– one older and two younger– and you remember a time when trees could sing.

The people are black and white, but the issues that surround them are not.

Song of trees mildred taylor