Exploring Our Country's History
Linking Fiction to Nonfiction
1st Edition
Published on 15. August 1998
150 pages
978-0-313-07970-2 (ISBN)
Description
Simulate integrated units of study on U.S. history with this guide. Perry provides recommended fiction and nonfiction books that help you illuminate different eras in U.S. history along with discussion starters, multidisciplinary activity suggestions, and topics for further investigation. Projects for individuals and groups help students develop skills in research, oral and written language, science, math, geography, and the arts. Additional resources are listed with each section. Grades K-5.
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Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
Interest Age: From 7 to 17 years
ISBN-13
978-0-313-07970-2 (9780313079702)
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Person
Dr. Phyllis J. Perry is an award-winning author of more than forty books. Recipient of the Governor's Award for Excellence in Education, she is an active Colorado writer and educator.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- About the Series
- Introduction
- Part I: The 1600s
- BOOKWEB
- FICTION
- Across the Wide Dark Sea: The Mayflower Journey
- Beyond the Burning Time
- The Mayflower
- Oh, What a Thanksgiving!
- The Seekers
- The Serpent Never Sleeps
- The Story of Squanto, First Friend to the Pilgrims
- This New Land
- Three Young Pilgrims
- Two Chimneys
- When the Great Canoes Came
- BRIDGES AND POETRY
- A Journey to the New World: The Diary of Remember Patience Whipple
- Pilgrim Voices: Our First Year in the New World
- A New England Scrapbook: A Journey Through Poetry, Prose and Pictures
- NONFICTION CONNECTIONS
- Colonial American Craftspeople
- Colonial American Medicine
- Eating the Plates
- Growing Up in Colonial America
- Indians of the Northeast Woodlands
- Making Thirteen Colonies
- The Mayflower People: Triumphs and Tragedies
- Old Silver Leg Takes Over! A Story of Peter Stuyvesant
- Stranded at Plimoth Plantation, 1626
- Tapenum's Day: A Wampanoag Indian Boy in Pilgrim Times
- Thunder from the Clear Sky
- Part II: The 1700s
- BOOKWEB
- FICTION
- The Boston Coffee Party
- Changes for Felicity
- An Enemy Among Them
- George Washington's Socks
- Guns for General Washington: A Story of the American Revolution
- The Hessian's Secret Diary
- Katie's Trunk
- A Ride into Morning
- Samuel's Choice
- A Spy in the King's Colony
- Time Enough for Drums
- BRIDGES AND POETRY
- Doodle Dandy! The Complete Book of Independence Day Words
- The Winter of Red Snow
- Year-Round Programs for Young Players
- NONFICTION CONNECTIONS
- The American Revolution: How We Fought the War of Independence
- The Ben Franklin Book of Easy and Incredible Experiments
- Book of the New American Nation
- The Boston Tea Party
- The Fall of Quebec and the French and Indian War
- If You Were There in 1776
- A Multicultural Portrait of the American Revolution
- Paul Revere
- A Picture Book of George Washington
- The Revolutionary War: A Sourcebook on Colonial America
- A Young Patriot: The American Revolution As Experienced by One Boy
- Part III: The 1800s
- BOOKWEB
- FICTION
- An American Army of Two
- The Blue and the Gray
- The Gentleman Outlaw and Me-Eli: A Story of the Old West
- If You Please, President Lincoln
- Mountain Valor
- Mr. Lincoln's Whiskers
- Pink and Say
- Reluctant Hero: A Snowy Road to Salem in 1802
- Wagons West!
- Washington City Is Burning
- Which Way Freedom?
- BRIDGES AND POETRY
- Dear Levi: Letters from the Overland Trail
- For Home and Country: A Civil War Scrapbook
- Barbara Frietchie
- NONFICTION CONNECTIONS
- Addy's Cook Book
- Children of the Westward Trail
- Civil War
- Explorers, Trappers, and Guides
- A House Divided: The Lives of Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee
- Jesse James
- John C. Fremont: Soldier and Pathfinder
- Lewis and Clark: Explorers of the American West
- Matthew Brady: His Life and Photographs
- The Mountain Men
- The Story of Clara Barton
- Part IV: The 1900s
- BOOKWEB
- FICTION
- Alex, Who Won His War
- The Bracelet
- Don't You Know There's a War On?
- Dust for Dinner
- Goodbye, Billy Radish
- Hard Times: A Story of the Great Depression
- Love You, Soldier
- Nothing to Fear
- Tough Choices: A Story of the Vietnam War
- The Unbreakable Code
- The Wall
- BRIDGES AND POETRY
- I Am an American: A True Story of Japanese Internment
- Who Shot the President? The Death of John F. Kennedy
- Long Ago in Oregon
- NONFICTION CONNECTIONS
- Apollo 11: First Moon Landing
- The Dust Bowl: Disaster on the Plains
- Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Photo-Illustrated Biography
- The Great Depression in American History
- Korean War
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
- The Tuskegee Airmen: Black Heroes of World War II
- The Vietnam War: "What Are We Fighting For?"
- World War I: "The War to End Wars"
- World War II in Europe: "America Goes to War"
- World War II in the Pacific: "Remember Pearl Harbor"
- Part V: Additional Resources
- Fiction
- Nonfiction
- Media
- Author, Title, Illustrator Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- Y
- Z
- About the Author
