Teaching With Dear America Books A Ready-to-Go Teaching Guide for Using This Popular Historical Fiction Series to Build Important Social Studies and Language Arts Skills?and Help Kids Read Their Way Into History

by Sanderson, Jeannette

• ISBN13: 9780439105477
• ISBN10: 0439105471
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-09-01
• Publisher: Teaching Resources

Summary

Enhance your students' exploration of Colonial America, the Revolutionary War, Westward Expansion, the Civil War, and Immigration with dozens of activities tailored to books from the Dear America series. This teaching guide contains thought-provoking discussion questions and activity ideas, as well as story summaries, time lines, glossaries, and engaging, reproducible reading comprehension pages that will all help you pique your students' interest in American history. For use with Grades 4-8.

Table of Contents

Introduction	5	(2)
Colonial America Time Line	7	(12)
A Journey to the New World: The Diary of Remember Patience Whipple
Summary/Prior Knowledge	8	(1)
Glossary	8	(2)
Discussion Questions	10	(1)
Activities	11	(1)
Mem's Journey Reproducible	12	(1)
Standing in the Light: The Captive Diary of Catharine Carey Logan
Summary/Prior Knowledge	13	(1)
Glossary	13	(1)
Discussion Questions	14	(2)
Activities	16	(1)
Attached to the Earth Reproducible	17	(1)
Tying It All Together	18	(1)
Revolutionary War Time Line	19	(13)
The Journal of William Thomas Emerson: A Revolutionary War Patriot
Summary/Prior Knowledge	20	(1)
Glossary	20	(2)
Discussion Questions	22	(1)
Activities	23	(1)
Get to the Point Reproducible	24	(1)
The Winter of Red Snow: The Revolutionary War Diary of Abigail Jane Stewart
Summary/Prior Knowledge	25	(1)
Glossary	25	(2)
Discussion Questions	27	(2)
Activities	29	(1)
Speaking of the Revolution Reproducible	30	(1)
Tying It All Together	31	(1)
Westward Expansion Time Line	32	(18)
Across the Wide and Lonesome Prairie: The Oregon Trail Diary of Hattie Campbell
Summary/Prior Knowledge	33	(1)
Glossary	33	(2)
Discussion Questions	35	(1)
Activities	36	(1)
Milestones Along the Oregon Trail Reproducible	37	(1)
The Girl Who Chased Away Sorrow: The Diary of Sarah Nita, a Navajo Girl
Summary/Prior Knowledge	38	(1)
Glossary	38	(1)
Discussion Questions	39	(2)
Activities	41	(1)
Super Similes Reproducible	42	(1)
The Journal of Sean Sullivan: A Transcontinental Railroad Worker
Summary/Prior Knowledge	43	(1)
Glossary	43	(2)
Discussion Questions	45	(2)
Activities	47	(1)
Transcontinental Railroad Reproducible	48	(1)
Tying It All Together	49	(1)
Civil War Time Line	50	(17)
The Journal of James Edmond Pease: A Civil War Union Soldier
Summary/Prior Knowledge	51	(1)
Glossary	51	(1)
Discussion Questions	52	(2)
Activities	54	(1)
Gettysburg Address Reproducible	55	(1)
When Will This Cruel War Be Over? The Civil War Diary of Emma Simpson
Summary/Prior Knowledge	56	(1)
Glossary	56	(2)
Discussion Questions	58	(1)
Activities	59	(1)
Civil War Landmarks Reproducible	60	(1)
I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly: The Diary of Patsy, a Freed Girl
Summary/Prior Knowledge	61	(1)
Glossary	61	(2)
Discussion Questions	63	(1)
Activities	64	(1)
Slave Population Reproducible	65	(1)
Tying It All Together	66	(1)
Immigration Time Line	67	(13)
So Far From Home: The Diary of Mary Driscoll, and Irish Mill Girl
Summary/Prior Knowledge	68	(1)
Glossary	68	(1)
Discussion Questions	69	(2)
Activities	71	(1)
Immigrants by Country Reproducible	72	(1)
Dreams in the Golden Country: The Diary of Zipporah Feldman, a Jewish Immigrant Girl
Summary/Prior Knowledge	73	(1)
Glossary	73	(2)
Discussion Questions	75	(2)
Activities	77	(1)
Attached to the Earth Reproducible	78	(1)
Tying It All Together	79	(1)
Additional Resources	80