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Book Synopsis U.S. History Through Children's Literature by : Wanda Miller
Download or read book U.S. History Through Children's Literature written by Wanda Miller and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1997-03-15 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Allow students to step back in time to experience the thoughts, feelings, dilemmas, and actions of people from history. For each history topic, Miller suggests two titles-one for use with the entire class and one for use with small reading groups. Summaries of the books, author information, activities, and topics for discussion are supplemented with vocabulary lists and ideas for research topics and further reading. This integrated approach makes history meaningful to students and helps them retain historical details and facts.
Book Synopsis Understanding American History Through Children's Literature by : Maria Perez-Stable
Download or read book Understanding American History Through Children's Literature written by Maria Perez-Stable and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1994 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book's purpose is to integrate children's literature and American history through biography, fiction, nonfiction, folk tales, and legends. Each chronological period includes annotated bibliographies and a variety of activities. All levels.
Book Synopsis Multicultural American History by : Kay Chick
Download or read book Multicultural American History written by Kay Chick and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2003-09-08 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Book Synopsis American Children's Literature and the Construction of Childhood by : Gail Schmunk Murray
Download or read book American Children's Literature and the Construction of Childhood written by Gail Schmunk Murray and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 1998 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of the many ways cultures have to socialize the young, western cultures have relied heavily on books to transmit certain social values and to cast aspersions on others. In her new study, American Children's Literature and the Construction of Childhood, author Gail S. Murray argues that the meaning of childhood is socially constructed and that its meaning has changed over time. Of course, "society" has never spoken with one voice but in almost every era, a dominant culture has prevailed. Books written for children reveal this dominant culture, reflect its behavioral standard, and reinforce its expectations. Covering the entire history of American children's literature, from The New England Primer to the works of authors like Dr. Seuss and Maurice Sendak, Murray explores the messages behind the stories, and what these messages reveal about the society that conveyed them.
Book Synopsis The Children's Book of America by : William J. Bennett
Download or read book The Children's Book of America written by William J. Bennett and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1998-11-02 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents stories of significant events and people in American history, patriotic songs, and American folk tales and poems.
Book Synopsis Teaching U.S. History Through Children's Literature by : Wanda Miller
Download or read book Teaching U.S. History Through Children's Literature written by Wanda Miller and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1998-11-15 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Similar to U.S. History Through Children's Literature: From the Colonial Period to World War II in format and approach, historical fiction and nonfiction are integrated into modern U.S. History. For each of these topics, Miller suggests two or more titles-one for use with the entire class and one for use with small reading groups. Summaries of the books, author information, activities, and topics for discussion are supplemented with vocabulary lists and ideas for research topics and further reading. This integrated approach makes history more meaningful to students and helps them retain historical details and facts by immersing them in stories surrounding historical events. A well-researched and thorough resource.
Book Synopsis American Pioneers and Patriots by : Caroline Emerson
Download or read book American Pioneers and Patriots written by Caroline Emerson and published by Christian Liberty Press. This book was released on 2005-09-28 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Pioneers & Patriots will allow your 3rd and 4th grade students to explore America's past through the fictional accounts of typical pioneer families. Young patriots of today will gain an appreciation of the courage it took to build this great nation of ours!
Book Synopsis Beyond the Boundaries of Childhood by : Crystal Lynn Webster
Download or read book Beyond the Boundaries of Childhood written by Crystal Lynn Webster and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2021-04-27 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For all that is known about the depth and breadth of African American history, we still understand surprisingly little about the lives of African American children, particularly those affected by northern emancipation. But hidden in institutional records, school primers and penmanship books, biographical sketches, and unpublished documents is a rich archive that reveals the social and affective worlds of northern Black children. Drawing evidence from the urban centers of Boston, New York, and Philadelphia, Crystal Webster's innovative research yields a powerful new history of African American childhood before the Civil War. Webster argues that young African Americans were frequently left outside the nineteenth century's emerging constructions of both race and childhood. They were marginalized in the development of schooling, ignored in debates over child labor, and presumed to lack the inherent innocence ascribed to white children. But Webster shows that Black children nevertheless carved out physical and social space for play, for learning, and for their own aspirations. Reading her sources against the grain, Webster reveals a complex reality for antebellum Black children. Lacking societal status, they nevertheless found meaningful agency as historical actors, making the most of the limited freedoms and possibilities they enjoyed.
Book Synopsis Telling America's Story by : Tom McGowan
Download or read book Telling America's Story written by Tom McGowan and published by Jenson Publications, Incorporated. This book was released on 1989-06-01 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Children's Encyclopedia of American History by : David C. King
Download or read book Children's Encyclopedia of American History written by David C. King and published by DK Children. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Full-color maps, photographs, and paintings illustrate a comprehensive reference guide to American history.
Download or read book The Great Stain written by Noel Rae and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2018-02-20 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Eyewitness testimonies to the culture and commerce of slavery . . . coupled with smart commentary” from an acclaimed historian. “Essential.”(Kirkus Reviews) In this important book, Noel Rae integrates firsthand accounts into a narrative history that brings the reader face to face with slavery’s everyday reality. From the travel journals of sixteenth-century Spanish settlers who offered religious instruction and “protection” in exchange for farm labor, to the diaries of Reverend Cotton Mather, to Central Park designer Frederick Law Olmsted’s travelogue about the “cotton states,” to an 1880 speech given by Frederick Douglass, Rae provides a comprehensive portrait of the antebellum history of the nation. Most significant are the testimonies from former slaves themselves, ranging from the famous Solomon Northup to the virtually unknown Mary Reynolds, who was sold away from her mother as child. Drawing on thousands of original sources, The Great Stain tells of a society based on the exploitation of labor and fallacies of racial superiority. Meticulously researched, this is a work of history that is profoundly relevant to our world today. “Noel Rae expertly assembles the most consequential accounts from the era of the American slave trade. . . . A vivid and comprehensive picture.” —Ibram X. Kendi, National Book Award-winning author of Stamped From the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America “Uniquely immediate, multivoiced, specific, arresting, and illuminating.” —Booklist “Many histories have been written of slavery in America, but far too few have let the participants, and particularly the victims, speak so directly for themselves. Rae has helped to fill that historical vacuum in this important work, and the voices are intense, eloquent, and haunting.” —National Book Review
Book Synopsis Pages of the Past by : Diane Findlay
Download or read book Pages of the Past written by Diane Findlay and published by Demco (Highsmith). This book was released on 2002 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pages of the Past is a tool to help educators find and use quality literature to engage students and enrich the study of U.S. history. The eight chapters cover key events and periods in American history that share proximity in time, as well as common themes and issues. Annotated bibliographies list children's literature titles that reflect the themes and issues of each chapter and period. The books were chosen for their potential to engage the imagination, elicit emotional responses, challenge students to think from new perspectives, stimulate an interest in further reading and learning and create opportunities for students to relate events from the past to the issues of today. Each chapter includes discussion starters and well-designed activities for further exploration. Challenging reproducible worksheets reinforce the concepts through crossword puzzles, word searches, research projects, take-home exercises and more. Most activities can be completed with a minimum of time and expense. Pages of the Past is designed to offer students exposure to compelling characters that help them imagine what it might have been like to share in the experiences that shaped -- and continue to shape -- our nation.
Book Synopsis Seventeenth Summer by : Maureen Daly
Download or read book Seventeenth Summer written by Maureen Daly and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-04-27 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seventeen-year-old Angie, who lives with her family in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, finds herself in love for the first time the summer after high school graduation.
Book Synopsis Children at Play by : Howard P. Chudacoff
Download or read book Children at Play written by Howard P. Chudacoff and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2008-09 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the history of play in the U.S. from the point of view of children between six and twelve.
Book Synopsis Making Americans by : Gary D. Schmidt
Download or read book Making Americans written by Gary D. Schmidt and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2013-12-01 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American children need books that draw on their own history and circumstances, not just the classic European fairy tales. They need books that enlist them in the great democratic experiment that is the United States. These were the beliefs of many of the authors, illustrators, editors, librarians, and teachers who expanded and transformed children’s book publishing between the 1930s and the 1960s. Although some later critics have argued that the books published in this era offered a vision of a safe, secure, simple world without injustice or unhappy endings, Gary D. Schmidt shows that the progressive political agenda shared by many Americans who wrote, illustrated, published, and taught children’s books had a powerful effect. Authors like James Daugherty, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Lois Lenski, Ingri and Edgar Parin D’Aulaire, Virginia Lee Burton, Robert McCloskey, and many others addressed directly and indirectly the major social issues of a turbulent time: racism, immigration and assimilation, sexism, poverty, the Great Depression, World War II, the atomic bomb, and the threat of a global cold war. The central concern that many children’s book authors and illustrators wrestled with was the meaning of America and democracy itself, especially the tension between individual freedoms and community ties. That process produced a flood of books focused on the American experience and intent on defining it in terms of progress toward inclusivity and social justice. Again and again, children’s books addressed racial discrimination and segregation, gender roles, class differences, the fate of Native Americans, immigration and assimilation, war, and the role of the United States in the world. Fiction and nonfiction for children urged them to see these issues as theirs to understand, and in some ways, theirs to resolve. Making Americans is a study of a time when the authors and illustrators of children’s books consciously set their eyes on national and international sights, with the hope of bringing the next generation into a sense of full citizenship.
Book Synopsis The Children's Civil War by : James Marten
Download or read book The Children's Civil War written by James Marten and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2000-11-15 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Children--white and black, northern and southern--endured a vast and varied range of experiences during the Civil War. Children celebrated victories and mourned defeats, tightened their belts and widened their responsibilities, took part in patriotic displays and suffered shortages and hardships, fled their homes to escape enemy invaders and snatched opportunities to run toward the promise of freedom. Offering a fascinating look at how children were affected by our nation's greatest crisis, James Marten examines their toys and games, their literature and schoolbooks, the letters they exchanged with absent fathers and brothers, and the hardships they endured. He also explores children's politicization, their contributions to their homelands' war efforts, and the lessons they took away from the war. Drawing on the childhoods of such diverse Americans as Jane Addams, Booker T. Washington, and Theodore Roosevelt, and on sources that range from diaries and memoirs to children's "amateur newspapers," Marten examines the myriad ways in which the Civil War shaped the lives of a generation of American children. "An original-minded, skillfully and suggestively presented history, haunting in its detailed unfolding of a war that put so many already vulnerable youngsters in danger, but elicited from some of them, as well, impressively sensitive, responsive thoughts, gestures, and deeds in what became, as this extraordinary book's title insists, their civil war.--Journal of American History "James Marten's thoroughly researched and engagingly written study . . . stands as one of the most exciting studies to emerge in the last dozen years. . . . Marten has taken a topic ignored by both Civil War historians and historians of childhood and crafted an engaging, masterful, nuanced, and readable study that will not quickly leave the reader's mind or heart.--American Studies "The first comprehensive account of Civil War children. . . . Thoroughly researched and nicely illustrated, The Children's Civil War will be a touchstone for historians and generalists who seek to gain a fuller understanding of life on the home front between 1861 and 1865.--Civil War History The Children's Civil War is a poignant and fascinating look at childhood during our nation's greatest crisis. Using sources that include diaries, memoirs, and letters, James Marten examines the wartime experiences of young people--boys and girls, black and white, northern and southern--and traces the ways in which the Civil War shaped the lives of a generation of American children. -->
Book Synopsis Growing Up with America by : Emily A. Murphy
Download or read book Growing Up with America written by Emily A. Murphy and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When D. H. Lawrence wrote his classic study of American literature, he claimed that youth was the “true myth” of America. Beginning from this assertion, Emily A. Murphy traces the ways that youth began to embody national hopes and fears at a time when the United States was transitioning to a new position of world power. In the aftermath of World War II, persistent calls for the nation to “grow up” and move beyond innocence became common, and the child that had long served as a symbol of the nation was suddenly discarded in favor of a rebellious adolescent. This era marked the beginning of a crisis of identity, where literary critics and writers both sought to redefine U.S. national identity in light of the nation’s new global position. The figure of the adolescent is central to an understanding of U.S. national identity, both past and present, and of the cultural forms (e.g., literature) that participate in the ongoing process of representing the diverse experiences of Americans. In tracing the evolution of this youthful figure, Murphy revisits classics of American literature, including J. D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye and Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita, alongside contemporary bestsellers. The influence of the adolescent on some of America’s greatest writers demonstrates the endurance of the myth that Lawrence first identified in 1923 and signals a powerful link between youth and one of the most persistent questions for the nation: What does it mean to be an American?
