Mary Cordier, Maria Perez-Stable

Understanding American History through Children's Literature

Instructional Units and Activities for Grades K-8

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Students connect with Americans of the past through quality works of fiction, nonfiction, biography, folktale, and legend. American history ceases to be remote and unfamiliar and becomes the story of real individuals--colonists, pioneers, Native Americans, immigrants--with diverse cultural and ethnic backgrounds. This book is an excellent support for a literature-based history or social studies curriculum. This book closely integrates American history and children's literature by combining the best features of an annotated bibliography of children's historical literature with the best features of a teaching guide.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Greenwood
• Seitenzahl: 330
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 480g
• ISBN-13: 9780897747950
• ISBN-10: 089774795X
• Artikelnr.: 21522946

Autorenporträt

MARIA A. PEREZ-STABLE is associate professor, University Libraries, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo. She has a M.A. in history from Western Michigan University and an M.S.L.S. from Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio. MARY H. CORDIER is associate professor emerita and adjunct associate professor of Elementary Education, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo. She is a researcher, author, lecturer, and workshop leader in women's history, and in the integration of children's literature into the K-8 curricula. She received her Ed.S. in curriculum development.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments vii Introduction ix Part 1: Primary Grades: Kindergarten
through Grade 3 1 The People of America 3 Introduction to Units 1, 2, and 3
3 Unit 1: Locating the United States and the Children's Community and State
5 Unit 2: Comparing Families of the Past and Present 9 Unit 3: Folk Tales
and Songs of America 25 The New Nation 41 Introduction to Units 4, 5, and 6
41 Unit 4: Exploring the New World 43 Unit 5: New Villages in America 48
Unit 6: Revolution and the New Nation 55 The Westward Movement, Slavery,
and Civil War 64 Introduction to Units 7 and 8 64 Unit 7: The Nation Grows:
The Westward Movement and Immigration 65 Unit 8: Slavery and the Civil War
82 The Twentieth Century: The Nation Changes 90 Introduction to Units 9,
10, 11, and 12 90 Unit 9: Inventions and Technology 92 Unit 10: Conflicts
and Cooperation among Nations 96 Unit 11: Human Rights 104 Unit 12:
Everyday Life in the United States 109 Part 2: Intermediate and Middle
School: Grades 4 through 8 199 Looking at America's History 121
Introduction to Unit 1 121 Unit 1: Researching the Past 122 From
Exploration to Young Nation 131 Introduction to Units 2, 3, and 4 131 Unit
2: Exploring and Settling the New World 132 Unit 3: Colonial Period 143
Unit 4: Revolution and the Constitutional Era 152 The New Republic 162
Introduction to Units 5 and 6 162 Unit 5: The New Republic 163 Unit 6:
American Symbols, Literature, and Folk Tales 174 Civil War and Westward
Expansion 183 Introduction to Units 7 and 8 183 Unit 7: Slavery, the Civil
War, and Its Aftermath 185 Unit 8: Multicultural Growth: The Nation Looks
Westward and Immigration Increases 200 America in the Late Nineteenth and
Early Twentieth Centuries 229 Introduction to Units 9 and 10 229 Unit 9:
America in the Late Nineteenth Century Through the Great War 230 Unit 10:
Technology, the Twentieth-Century Industrial Revolution, and the Rise of
Unions 241 America in the Twentieth Century 247 Introduction to Units 11,
12, and 13 247 Unit 11: The Roaring Twenties and the Great Depression 249
Unit 12: World War II and the Holocaust 256 Unit 13: The Middle Decades of
the Twentieth Century 269 Select Bibliography 285 Index 291