Gail Petri, Education Resource Specialist [email protected]Book Backdrops: Inquiry Learning with Literature and Library of Congress Primary Sources (Part 2) Gail Petri, Primary Source Consultant [email protected]Book Backdrops: Empower Learning With Literature and Primary Sources Part 2
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The Civil War….Summary: Say Curtis describes his meeting with Pinkus Aylee, a black soldier, during the Civil War, and their capture by Southern troops. Based on a true story about the author's great-great-grandfather.
Setting: Civil War period, Georgia A Sampling of LOC Resources: Civil War Themed Resource Page Selected Civil War Photographs Collection
Civil War Treasures Collection Andersonville Prison (1864 map) Civil War Stories (America’s Library)
Polacco, Patricia. Pink and Say. NY: Philomel Books, 1994.
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Frontier life….Summary: When their father invites a mail-order bride to come live with them in their prairie home, Caleb and Anna are captivated by their new mother and hope that she will stay. Setting: Midwestern state, prairie, late 1800sA Sampling of LOC Resources: Northern Great Plains Collection Prairie Settlement Collection Women Pioneers: Westward Patricia MacLachlan Cybercast Journeys West Lesson Plan
MacLachlan, Patricia. Sarah, Plain and Tall. NY: Harper and Row, 1985
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Summary: Zoe and her family find strength in each other as they make a new home in the Nebraska territory.Setting: Illinois to Nebraska, 1800sA sampling of LOC Resources:Explore the States: Nebraska (America’s Library)Colton’s Kansas and Nebraska (1855 map)Kate Dunlap’s Diary (1865 diary)Millions of Acres. Iowa and Nebraska (1872 broadside)
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Bunting, Eve. Dandelions. San Diego: Harcourt Brace, 1995.
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Immigration to America….Summary: A thirteen-year-old Jewish orphan reluctantly leaves her grandmother and immigrates to New York City, where she works for three years sewing lace and earning money to bring Grandmother to the United States, too.Setting: Eastern Europe, shipboard across ocean, Ellis Island, New York City, 1890s-early 1900sA Sampling of LOC Resources:Immigration Themed ResourcesTeacher Page Immigration Presentation
Ellis Island ImagesStatue of Liberty ImagesEmigrants Landing at Ellis Island (film)
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Immigration….Summary: Sixteen-year-old Margaret Rose Nolan, newly arrived from Ireland, finds work at New York City's Triangle Shirtwaist Factory shortly before the 1911 fire in which 146 employees died.Setting: New York City, 1911A Sampling of LOC Resources:Immigration (Themed Resources)Immigration (Presentation)Ellis Island Images (P and P)Statue of Liberty Images (P and P) Hester Street (panoramic picture)Flower making (Louis Hine photograph)Triangle Waist Co. fire (P and P)Life of a City (early films of NY)
Auch, Mary Jane. Ashes of Roses. NY: H. Holt, 2002.
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Teaching Strategy: Compare books written on the same topic.
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1893 Chicago World’s Fair….Summary: Thirteen-year-old Rosie and members of her family travel from their Illinois farm to Chicago to attend the World's Columbian Exposition. Setting: Chicago, 1893A Sampling of LOC Resources: World’s Fair, 1893 (panoramic photo)Birds Eye View (1893map)Opening Day (1893 photograph)The Ferris Wheel (1893article)Helen Keller Letter (1893 letter)To-day’s Events (1893 broadside)Annie Oakley (Edison movie) Buffalo Bill (1890s poster)
Peck, Richard. Fair Weather: A Novel. New York: Dial Books, 2001
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Teaching Strategy: Pair historical fiction titles with non-fiction books on the same topic – and provide books on different reading levels for various abilities.
Larson, Erik. The Devil in the White City. NY: Crown, 2003
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Women’s Suffrage….Summary: On Election Day 1880, the women's rights activist Elizabeth Cady Stanton teaches her young neighbor a lesson.Setting: New Jersey, 1880A sampling of LOC Resources:Elizabeth Cady Stanton (America’s Library)1895 Draft of Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s The Women’s BibleOne Hundred Years Toward Suffrage (timeline)The Seneca Falls ConventionVoices for Votes: Suffrage Strategies (lesson plan)
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McCully, Emily Arnnold. The Ballot Box Battle
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A murder that lives on….Summary: Sixteen-year-old Mattie, determined to attend college and be a writer, takes a job at a summer inn where she discovers the truth about the death of a guest. Based on a true story. Setting: Adirondack Mountains, NY; 1906A Sampling of LOC Resources:The Glenmore, Big Moose, NY (photograph)New York Central and Hudson River RR (map)Portrait of Theodore Dreiser (photograph)Beyond LOC:An Adirondack Murder (North Country Radio)
Murder Trial of Chester Gillette (NY Courts)Craig Brandon (author Web site)Reader’s Guide to A Northern Light
Donnelly, Jennifer. A Northern Light. San Diego: Harcourt, 2003.
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World War I….Summary: After his older brother Casey goes off to fight in World War I, Aubrey and his family are so worried that Aubrey writes a letter to Uncle Sam asking him to send Casey home.Setting: Brooklyn, NY and Broussey, France A Sampling of LOC Resources: I Want You for the Army (poster) Over There (recording) On the Homefront (Learning Page activity)Stars and Stripes (Newspaper Collection) WWI Diary (Veteran’s History Project)
Rabin, Staton. Illustrated by Greg Shed. Casey Over There. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1994.
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World War II….Summary: After his plane is shot down by Hitler’s Luftwaffe, nineteen-year-old Henry Forester strives to walk across France, with the help of the French resistance, in hopes of rejoining his unit. Setting: World War II, 1944, FranceA Sampling of LOC Resources:World War II Military Situation MapsVeterans History Project D-Day the 6th of June: Normany 1944 (map)After the Day of Infamy and also: Laura Elliott Web site
Elliott, L.M. Under a War-Torn Sky. NY: Hyperion, 2001.
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Summary: When seven-year-old Laura and her family visit Grandfather's grave at the Manzanar War Relocation Center, the Japanese American child leaves behind a special symbol.Setting: Site of Manzanar Relocation Camp, 1972 A Sampling of LOC Resources: Suffering Under a Great Injustice (Ansel Adams Collection)American Memory Timeline
Bunting, Eve. Illustrated by Chris K. Soentpiet. So Far From the Sea. NY: Clarion Books, 1998.
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Civil Rights….Summary: Grandma tells the story about her first trip alone into town during the days when segregation still existed in Mississippi.Setting: Mississippi, 1950sA sampling of LOC Resources:Civil Rights (Themed Resources)With an Even Hand: Brown v. Board at Fifty (Exhibition)Voices of Civil Rights (Exhibition)Photographs of Signs Enforcing Racial Discrimination (P and P)
Coleman, Evelyn. White Socks Only. Morton Grove, IL: A. Whitman, 1996.
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Summary: The story of Philippe Petit's 1974 tightrope walk between the World Trade Center towers.Setting: New York City, August 7, 1974 A Sampling of LOC Resources: September 11, 2001 Documentary Project
Witness and Response Exhibition
Gerstein, Mordecai. The Man Who Walked Between the Towers. Brookfield, CT: Roaring Brook Press, 2003.
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