WEBSITES,ACTIVITIES, ETC.- (to be discussed- not necessarily recommended)
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AtoZ Teacher Stuff: Dr. Seuss Book Activities
CIMC Integrated Units: Butter Battle Book
CNN Book Reviews: "Serious Seuss"
Dr. Seuss Went to War: a Catalogue of Political Cartoons
Featured Author: Dr. Seuss (Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Website)
Books to be discussed: Anita Lobel's Potatoes, Potatoes, Louise Fitzhugh and Sandra Scoppetone's Bang Bang, You're Dead, and Munro Leaf's Ferdinand
Anita Lobel home page
Children's
Book Council- Anita Lobel
Books
read on Kino's Storytime: the Story of Ferdinand
University
of Marlyland Alumni Page- Munro leaf
Purple Socks: A Louise
Fitzhugh Tribute Site
Harper
Children's- Louise Fitzhugh
January 17
Books to be discussed: Eve Bunting's So far From the Sea,
Ken Mochizuki's Baseball Saved Us, Milly Lee's Nim
and the War Effort andYukio Tsuchiya's The Faithful Elephants
Japanese
American Internment
Collection
of Newspaper articles at time of Japanese Internment Excellent
page on the subject done by high school students
Photographs of
Tule and Topaz internment camps
PBS: Conscience and
Constitution
Ansel Adams Photographs
of Manzanar
Eve
Bunting: Educational paperback Association Site
Eve
Bunting: Bookpage Interview
Meet
the Author: Ken Mochizuki
January 24
Books to be discussed: David Adler's One Yellow Daffodil,
Eve Bunting's Terrible Things, Dr. Seuss' The Sneetches,
Ken
Mochizuki's
Passage to Freedom: The Sugihara Story
Links
for David Adler found on the "Author! Author! section of this website
Links for all three other authors to be found in previous sections
of this page
Links
for Holocaust Sites to be found on the "April" page of this website
References- Fireflies in the Dark: The Story of Friedl Dicker-Brandeis,I
Never Saw Another Butterfly
Friedl Dicker-
Brandeis: Life in Art and Teaching
Jewish
Virtual Library "Rescuers" Page
January 31
Books to be discussed: Eve Bunting's The Wall, Aaron
Shepard's The Crystal Heart, Pegi Dietz Shea's The
Whispering Cloth, and Jewell Reinhart Coburn's Jouanah: A
Hmong Cinderella
(All National Park Sites, Including the one for the Vietnam War Memorial
Wall in Washington D.C., are currently not functioning and could therefore
not be included here.)
Aaron Shepard's
Homepage- Reader's Theater Script for Crystal Heart
Hmong Home Page
the Hmong
People in the U.S.
February 7
Books to be discussed: All by Patricia Polacco- The Butterfly, The Tree of the Dancing Goats, Mr. Lincoln's Way, Pink and Say. The Keeping Quilt
websites for Patricia Polacco are found on the Author!
Author! page of this website.
February 14
Books to be discussed: Louise Borden's The Little Ships,
Sara
Hunter's The Unbreakable Code and Rosemary Wells'
The
Language of Doves
Rosemary Wells
Home Page
Rosemary
Wells Radio Interview
Navajo
Code Talkers' Dictionary
Navajo Code
Talkers- History , Photographs, and Information on Current attempts to
Honor
CNN:
Navajo Code Talksers Honored after 56 Years
BBC
News Page: Dunkirk Remembered
Imperial War Museum- The National
Museum of War and Conflict
February 21
Books to be discussed: Alan Schroeder's Minty, Faith Ringgold's Aunt Harriet's Underground Railroad in the Sky, Pamela Duncan Edward's Barefoot, and Veronica Chambers' Amistad Rising
New York History
Net: The Harriet Tubman Home
Harriet Tubman:
The Most Remarkable Woman of this Age
Webquest
for Harriet Tubman
Excellent
site done by Second Graders
Menare Foundation's Site for the
Preservation of the Underground Railroad
Harriet
Tubman: PBS Site
Boston African American
Heritage Site (National Park Service)
National
Geographic Features the Underground Railroad
National
Archives: The Amistad Case
Exploring
Amistad at Mystic Seaport
Amistad
Trial Home Page
February 28
Books to be discussed: Andrew Clements' Double Trouble
in Walla Walla, Doreen Cronin's Click Clack Moo: Cows that
Type, Kate Lum's What! Cried Granny, and Diane Stanley's
Saving
Sweetness
Harper
Children's Page: Diane Stanley
Diane Stanley's Home
Page
Children's
Book Council: Diane Stanley
Meet
Diane Stanley
Meet
Andrew Clements
Educational
Paperback Association: Andrew Clements
Interview
with Andrew Clements
ReadIn
Page: Andrew Clements
Choosing
the Caldecott (Click Clack Moo)
Books to be discussed: Ruby Bridges' Through My Eyes,
Doreen Rappaport's Martin's Big Words and Faith Ringgold's
If
a Bus Could Talk
Sites for Martin Luther King, Jr. can be found on the January
page of this website
The site listed below is for discussion purposes only and is not
recommended
www.martinlutherking.org
Sites for Black History may be found on the February
page of this website
Thinkquest
Library of Entries: the Civil Rights Movement
PBS
On-line Newshour: A Conversation with Ruby Bridges Hall
The Ruby Bridges
Foundation -Official Website
Time2001:
the Year in Pictures;Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks and
the Montgomery Bus Boycott
Academy
of Achievement:Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks Library and
Museum
March 21
Books to be discussed; Edgar Parin D'Aulaire's Columbus
and
Jane Yolen's Encounter
Also selected articles from Bigelow,Bill Rethinking
Columbus
Links for Jane Yolen may be found on the Author!
Author! page of this website
Columbus links may be found on the October
page of this website
Books to be discussed: Susan Jeffers' Brother Eagle, Sister Sky ,the D'Aulaire's Pocahontas, and Mary Hoffman's Amazing Grace
Reference: Beverly Slapin's Through Indian Eyes
Oyate.org
Native
American Books
National
Museum of the American Indian
Native
American Resource Guide
Native American Artists
Native
Opinions on Pocahontas
Jamestown
Rediscovery: Pocahontas
The
Real Pocahontas
The Official Mary
Hoffman Website
Books to be discussed: Eve Bunting's Fly Away Home, Ann McGovern's The Lady in the Box, and Patricia Polacco's I Can hear the Sun
Carol
Hurst's Site- Fly Away Home
National Coalition
for the Homeless
Forget
Me Not 2001- Kid's Day on Capitol Hill- Educational Materials
54 Ways to Help the Homeless
The
World of Ann McGovern(compiled by Kay Vandergrift)
Booklist
Reviews
Books to be discussed: Robert. de San Souci's Kate
Shelley: Bound for Legend, Barbara Cooney's Eleanor,
Shana Corey'sYou Forgot Your Skirt, Amelia Bloomer,Pam
Nunoz Ryan's Amelia and Eleanor Go For a Ride
Links for issues regarding women may be found at
Special
Feature and on the March page
of this website, under Women's History.
April 25
Books to be discussed: Tomie De Paola's Now One Foot, Now the Other, Tony Johnston's Fishing Sunday, Patricia Polacco' Mrs. Katz and Tush, Karen Ackerman's Song and Dance Man
Websites for Tomie DePaola and Patricia Polacco may be found on the
Author!
Author! page of this website
Growing
Old is Not for Sissies (photos of senior athletes)
I Shall Wear
Purple
May 2
Books to be discussed: Bill Martin's Knots on a Counting
Rope, Patricia Polacco's Thank you, Mr. Falker, Nan
Gregory's How Smudge Came, Helen Lester's Hooway
for Wodney Wat
Learning Disabilities Association
of America
National Center for Learning Disabilities
Helen
Lester; Publisher Biography
Brief Biography
of Nan Gregory
Review
of "How Smudge Came"
Bill Martin,
Jr. Home Page
Books to be discussed: Barbara Younger's Purple Mountain Majesties, Woody Guthrie's This Land is Your Land, Steven Kroll's By the Dawn's Early Light
Information on Katharine Lee Bates may be found at Special
Feature
Woody Guthrie-American
Folk Life Collection of the Library of Congress
Woody Guthrie Foundation
and Archives
Songs
of Woody Guthrie
Rock
and Roll Hall of Fame- Woody Guthrie
Star
Spangled Banner- Smithsonian Site
American
Treasures of the Library of Congress: The Star Spangled Banner
Fort McHenry
May 16
