2003-2004 Courage

We the People Bookshelf Themes:

• 2009-2010: Picturing America
• 2008-2009: Created Equal
• 2007-2008: Pursuit of Happiness
• 2006-2007: Becoming American
• 2005-2006: Freedom
• 2004-2005 Courage

The We the People Bookshelf at EDSITEment

Introduction

EDSITEment and the National Endowment for the Humanities offers yearly selections of books for K-12 on the We the People theme. Following are the year-by-year selections and the year's theme.

2003-2004 Courage

—Grades K-3—

The Cabin Faced West — Jean Fritz

Related Lesson Plans

• American Colonial Life in the Late 1700s: Distant Cousins
• Then and Now: Life in Early America, 1740 - 1840

  Related Websites

• Ohio Memory
• At Home in the Heartland Online
• Explore PA History
  • Crossing the Alleghenies

Anansi the Spider — Gerald McDermott

• Aesop and Ananse: Animal Fables and Trickster Tales

  Related Websites

• African Studies WWW
• Art and Life in Africa Online
  • Afro.com
    • Anansi tries to steal the wisdom of the world

Sylvester and the Magic Pebble — William Steig

Related Lesson Plans

• Aesop and Ananse: Animal Fables and Trickster Tales
• Fables and Trickster Tales Around the World
• Fairy Tales Around the World
• Hans Christian Andersen’s Fairy Tales
• Morality “Tails” East and West: European Fables and Buddhist Jataka Tales

  Related Websites

• International Children's Digital Library

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—Grades 4-6—

The Matchlock Gun — Walter D. Edmonds

Related Lesson Plans

• American Colonial Life in the Late 1700s: Distant Cousins
• Then and Now: Life in Early America, 1740 - 1840
• What They Left Behind: Early Multi-National Influences in the United States

  Related Websites

• Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
  • Matchlock Musket

My Side of the Mountain — Jean Craighead George

Related Lesson Plans

• Knowledge or Instinct? Jack London’s “To Build a Fire”
• Helpful Animals and Compassionate Humans in Folklore
• Folktales and Ecology: Animals and Humans in Cooperation and Conflict

The Dream Keeper and Other Poems — Langston Hughes

Related Lesson Plans

• The Poet's Voice: Langston Hughes and You
• Walt Whitman to Langston Hughes: Poems for a Democracy
• Introducing Metaphors Through Poetry

  Related Websites

• Harlem 1900-1940: An African-American Community
• Academy of American Poets

Little House on the Prairie — Laura Ingalls Wilder

Related Lesson Plans

• Sodbusters!
• Pioneer Values in Willa Cather's My Antonia
• Reading, Writing and 'Rithmetic in the One-Room Schoolhouse

  Related Websites

• At Home in the Heartland Online

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—Grades 7-8—

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass — Frederick Douglass

Related Lesson Plans

• From Courage to Freedom: Frederick Douglass’s 1845 Biography
• Slavery's Opponents and Defenders
• African-American Communities in the North Before the Civil War
• The Emancipation Proclamation: Freedom's First Steps
• Who Was Cinque?
• Abraham Lincoln, the 1860 Election, and the Future of the American Union and Slavery

  Related Websites

• Frederick Douglass Papers Project
• Freedmen and Southern Society Project
• The Lincoln Institute: Studies of President Abraham Lincoln
• Lincoln/Net
• The Antislavery Literature Project

Johnny Tremain — Esther Forbes

Related Lesson Plans

• Why Do We Remember Revere? Paul Revere's Ride in History and Literature
• The Boston Tea Party: Costume Optional?
• Colonial Broadsides and the American Revolution
• The War in the North, 1775-1778
• American Colonial Life in the Late 1700s: Distant Cousins

  Related Websites

• PBS Liberty! The American Revolution

The Hobbit — J.R.R. Tolkien

Related Lesson Plans

• Exploring Arthurian Legend
• Symmetry in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
• Tales of King Arthur
• Tales of the Supernatural

Related Websites

• International Children's Digital Library

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—Grades 9-12—

The Red Badge of Courage — Stephen Crane

Related Lesson Plans

• The Red Badge of Courage: A New Kind of Courage
• The Red Badge of Courage: A New Kind of Realism
• The American Civil War: A “Terrible Swift Sword”
• Crane, London, and Literary Naturalism
• Stephen Crane’s “The Open Boat”

Invisible Man — Ralph Ellison

Related Lesson Plans

• Competing Voices of the Civil Rights Movement
• Introducing Metaphors Through Poetry
• Learning the Blues
• Quest for the American Dream in A Raisin in the Sun
• More than a Metaphor: Allegory and the Art of Persuasion

Related Websites

• Documenting the American South
• The History of Jim Crow
• Harlem 1900-1940: An African-American Community
• The Booker T. Washington Papers
• Jazz: A Ken Burns Film
• Perseus.org
  • Homer's Odyssey

Profiles in Courage — John F. Kennedy

Related Lesson Plans

• “The Missiles of October”: The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962
• The Election Is in the House: The Presidential Election of 1824 (John Q. Adams)
• Profiles in Courage: Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird
• Profiles in Courage: To Kill A Mockingbird and the Scottsboro Boys Trial
• United States Entry into World War I: Two Diametrically Opposed Views (George Norris)
• The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854: Popular Sovereignty and the Political Polarization over Slavery (Sam Houston, Daniel Webster)

Related Websites

• American President
• The Presidential Timeline of the Twentieth Century
• Great War Primary Documents Archive
• The Portal to Texas History
• Texas Tides (Sam Houston)

To Kill a Mockingbird — Harper Lee

Related Lesson Plans

• Profiles in Courage: Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird
• Profiles in Courage: To Kill A Mockingbird and the Scottsboro Boys Trial
• Flannery O'Connor's “A Good Man is Hard to Find”: Who's the Real Misfit?
• William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury: Narrating the Compson Family Decline and the Changing South

  Related Websites

• Documenting the American South
• The History of Jim Crow

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn — Mark Twain

Related Lesson Plans

• Critical Ways of Seeing The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in Context
• Perspectives on the Slave Narrative
• Families in Bondage
• Mark Twain and American Humor

  Related Websites

• Documenting the American South
• Mark Twain in His Times

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