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US History Through Picture Books:
A Year-Long Curriculum for Students in Grades 4 - 8
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Native Americans
Knots on a Counting Rope by Bill Martin, Jr. (Bookpals Storyline: http://www.storylineonline.net/)
The Legend of Sleeping Bear by Kathy Wargin
In this retelling of an Ojibwe Indian tale, a mother bear loses sight of her two cubs as they all attempt to escape a forest fire by swimming across Lake Michigan.
George Washington (1789-1797)
George Washington’s Teeth by Deborah Chandra
We the Kids by David Catrow
John, Paul, George, and Ben by Lane Smith(Reader’s Theater)
Slavery (1502-1863)
Show Way by Jacqueline Woodson(see my lesson plan in School Library Media Activities Monthly)
Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom by Carole Weatherford, illustrated by Kadir Nelson
Follow the Drinking Goud by Jeanette Winter(Reading Rainbow video is wonderful)
Henry’s Freedom Box by Ellen Levine, illustrated by Kadir Nelson
George Washington Carver movie on Brainpop
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
Abe Lincoln Remembers by Ann Turner
The Gettysburg Address illustrated by Michael McCurdy(dramatic reading)
Abraham Lincoln movie on Brainpop
The Presidents
So You Want to Be President, by Jean Fritz (great timing to show around President’s Day)
Civil War
Pink and Say by Patricia Polacco (Spoken Arts video narrated by the author)
Suffragists (1848-1920)
Thank You, Sarah (timing with Thanksgiving Day) (Spoken Arts “special appearance” video-author discusses book in video) by Laurie Halse Anderson
Ballot Box Battle by Emily McCully
Immigrantion
Miss Bridie Chose a Shovel by Leslie Connor
The Keeping Quilt (Patricia Polacco author video available)
Grandfather’s Journey by Allen Say
Western Movement
The Great Divid by Michael Bedard (1997)
Readings from Little House on the Prairie books
John Audubon (1785-1851)
The Boy Who Drew Birds (Readers Theater available)
Early Transportation
Alice Ramsey’s Grand Adventure (1909) by Don Brown
Theodore Roosevelt (1901-1909 presidency)
Theodore by Frank Keating (the illustrations by Mike Wimmer are stunning)
Mount Rushmore video on UnitedStreaming)
African American history
Dear Mr. Rosenwald by Carole Weatherford
A Picture Book of Jackie Robinson by David Adler
WW1
Poem study: In Flander’s Field
Great Depression
The Babe and I by David Adler
WW2
Boxes for Katje BY Candace Flemming
Mercedes and the Chocolate Pilot by Margot Raven
Baseball Saved Us by Ken Mochizuki
Civil Rights
Rosa by Nikki Giovanni
The School is Not White! By Doreen Rappaport
1950s
When I Was young in the Mountains by Cynthia Rylant
Latino Americans
Roberto Clemente by Jonah Winter
Vietnam War
The Wall by Eve Bunting(Reading Rainbow video)
The Cold War
The Butter Battle Book by Dr. Seuss
July 20, 1969
Reaching for the Moon by Buzz Aldrin
September 11, 2001
The Man Who Walked Between the Towers by Mordicai Gerstein
Today
My Senator and Me by Ted Kennedy
Barn by Debbie Atwell
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