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Novel Summary:

A coming of age tale for young adults set in the trenches of the Vietnam War in the late 1960s, Fallen Angels is the story of Perry, a Harlem teenager who volunteers for the service when his dream of attending college falls through. Sent to the front lines, Perry and his platoon come face-to-face with the Vietcong and the real horror of warfare. But violence and death aren't the only hardships. As Perry struggles to find virtue in himself and his comrades, he questions why black troops are given the most dangerous assignments, and why the U.S. is there at all. Fallen Angels won the 1989 Coretta Scott King Award. (© Amazon.com)

Booknotes:

• SparkNotes
  Summary, Characters, Context, Essay Topics, Study Questions
  http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/fallenangels/ (SparkNotes.com)
  
  

Websites about Fallen Angels

• Fallen Angels
  a review and sample chapter from Scholastic, Canada
  http://www.scholastic.ca/titles/fallenangels.htm
  
  
• Fallen Angles
  a review by Tammy L. Currier
  http://www.teenreads.com/reviews/0590409433.asp
  
  
• Fallen Angels
  http://www.teenink.com/Past/2000/June/Books/FallenAngels.html
  review of book by middle school student
  
  

Curriculum Resources

• Fallen Angels Teaching Guide
  This site offers theme openers, crosscurricular activities, research assignments, and suggestions for related reading
  http://www.classzone.com/novelguides/litcons/fallen/guide.cfm
  
  
• Fallen Angels: Multimedia Project on the Vietnam War
  Students use a combination of music, images, carefully chosen quotations from the novel Fallen Angels and excerpts from research to make readers care about the Vietnam War from a particular perspective.
  http://www.galileo.org/schools/strathmore/english/english_33
  
  
• Instructional Activities for Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers
  http://www.education.eku.edu/Faculty_Staff/resorc/FallenAngels.htm
  
  
• Web English Teacher: Walter Dean Myers
  http://www.webenglishteacher.com/myers.html
  
  
• Fallen Angels: Student-created powerpoint book report
  http://www.ncsu.edu/midlink/bkfair/derby/CHRIS/
  
  

Author Biography:

• Author Profile
  http://www.teenreads.com/authors/au-myers-walterdean.asp
  
  
• Learning about Walter Dean Myers
  http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/~kvander/myers.html