Multicultural American History
Through Children's Literature
1st Edition
Published on 8. September 2003
160 pages
978-0-313-07802-6 (ISBN)
Description
This integrated teacher resource provides lesson ideas for the instruction of social studies and history concepts within the context of quality multicultural children's books and picture books. Each chapter focuses on three picture books related to various multicultural themes in American history. Chapters are organized chronologically, and by theme, and include book summaries, materials lists, student-centered activities, related books and poetry, and links to national history standards. Multicultural themes include: Old West American Revolution Slavery Civil War World War II and the Holocaust Vietnam Native Americans
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Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Interest Age: From 7 to 17 years
ISBN-13
978-0-313-07802-6 (9780313078026)
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Persons
KAY A. CHICK is an Assistant Professor of Curriculum and Instruction at Penn State Altoona, where she teaches courses in educational psychology and educational theory and policy.
Dr. DEBORAH ELLERMEYER is an Assistant Professor at Clarion University of Pennsylvania where she currently teaches courses in language arts methodology and reading problems. Other teacher resource books that she has recently published include Perfect Poems for Teaching Phonics and Teaching Math with Favorite Picture Books.
Dr. DEBORAH ELLERMEYER is an Assistant Professor at Clarion University of Pennsylvania where she currently teaches courses in language arts methodology and reading problems. Other teacher resource books that she has recently published include Perfect Poems for Teaching Phonics and Teaching Math with Favorite Picture Books.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Introduction
- Purpose
- Rationale
- Benefits for Teachers
- Tips on Using the Book with Students
- References
- Chapter 1: Coming to America
- Building a New Land: African-Americans in Colonial America
- Nickommoh! A Thanksgiving Celebration
- The First Thanksgiving
- Chapter 2: The Old West
- I Have Heard of a Land
- Black Cowboy, Wild Horses
- Voices of the Alamo
- Chapter 3: The American Revolution
- Sybil's Night Ride
- The American Revolution
- Come All You Brave Soldiers: Blacks in the Revolutionary War
- Chapter 4: Slavery
- Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt
- If You Traveled on the Underground Railroad
- Ebony Sea
- Chapter 5: Freedom Fighters
- The Story of Ruby Bridges
- A Picture Book of Rosa Parks
- If You Lived at the Time of Martin Luther King
- Chapter 6: The Civil War
- Pink and Say
- Black, Blue, and Gray: African Americans in the Civil War
- Harriet Beecher Stowe: Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin
- Chapter 7: Immigration
- Bound for America: The Forced Migration of Africans to the New World
- Coming to America: The Story of Immigration
- Journey to Ellis Island
- Chapter 8: World War II and the Holocaust
- So Far from the Sea
- Faithful Elephants: A True Story of Animals, People, and War
- A Picture Book of Anne Frank
- Chapter 9: Vietnam
- The Wall
- The Vietnam Women's Memorial
- The Vietnam War
- Chapter 10: Women in History
- All by Herself: 14 Girls Who Made a Difference
- A Picture Book of Sojourner Truth
- Maya Angelou: Greeting the Morning
- Chapter 11: Men in History
- Duke Ellington
- More Than Anything Else
- A Picture Book of George Washington Carver
- Chapter 12: Native Americans
- Tallchief: America's Prima Ballerina
- A Picture Book of Sacagawea
- The Legend of the Indian Paintbrush
- Appendix: National Standards for History
- Books/Standards Matrix
- Title Index
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- Subject Index
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- About the Authors
