2004-2005: Freedom

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.

2004-2005: Freedom

—Grades K-3—

The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses — Paul Goble

Related Lesson Plans

• Life on the Great Plains
• Helpful Animals and Compassionate Humans in Folklore
• Traditions and Languages of Three Native Cultures: Tlingit, Lakota, & Cherokee (Lakota activity)

Related Websites

• National Museum of the American Indian
• Native American History
• Native Web
• Trail Tribes

Watch the Stars Come Out — Riki Levinson

Related Lesson Plans

• Esperanza Rising: Learning Not to Be Afraid to Start Over
• What is History? Timelines and Oral Histories
• Pearl S. Buck: “On Discovering America”

Related Websites

• The New Americans
• History Now
• Emigration and Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930

Paul Revere's Ride — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Related Lesson Plans

• Why Do We Remember Revere? Paul: Revere’s Ride in History and Literature
• Not Only Paul Revere: Other Riders of the American Revolution
• Writing Poetry Like Pros
• The American War for Independence
  • The War in the North, 1775-1778

Related Websites

• Liberty!
• Academy of American Poets

The Tale of Peter Rabbit — Beatrix Potter

Related Lesson Plans

• Beatrix Potter’s Naughty Animal Tales

Related Websites

• International Children's Digital Library
• Internet Public Library
  • World of Peter Rabbit website
  • Beatrix Potter

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—Grades 4-6—

The House of Dies Drear — Virginia Hamilton

Related Lesson Plans

• Tales of the Supernatural
• Families in Bondage
• Perspectives on the Slave Narrative
• Slave Narratives: Constructing U.S. History Through Analyzing Primary Sources
• Family and Friendship in Quilts

Related Websites

• National Parks Service: Links to the Past
  • Aboard the Underground Railroad
• Africans in America
• Freedmen and Southern Society Project
• In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience

Ben and Me — Robert Lawson

Related Lesson Plans

• Jefferson vs. Franklin: Renaissance Men
• Jefferson vs. Franklin: Revolutionary Philosophers

Related Features

• 300 Years of Benjamin Franklin

Related Websites

• Benjamin Franklin Tercentenary Library

Chronicles of Narnia — C.S. Lewis

Related Lesson Plans

• Childhood Through the Looking-Glass
• Exploring Arthurian Legend
• Helpful Animals and Compassionate Humans in Folklore
• Symmetry in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
• Tales of King Arthur
• Tales of the Supernatural
• Unicorns, Dragons, and Other Magical Creatures

Related Websites

• International Children's Digital Library

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—Grades 7-8—

Fahrenheit 451 — Ray Bradbury

Related Lesson Plans

• Dramatizing History in Arthur Miller's The Crucible
• More than a Metaphor: Allegory and the Art of Persuasion
• Argument in an Athenian Jail: Socrates and the Law
• Certain Crimes Against the United States: The Sedition Act
• The First Amendment: What's Fair in a Free Country?

Related Websites

• The Online Library of Liberty
• The Online Books Page, Banned Books

Across Five Aprils — Irene Hunt

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”
• Reading, Writing and 'Rithmetic in the One-Room Schoolhouse
• Pioneer Values in Willa Cather's My Antonia
• The Gettysburg Address (1863)—Defining the American Union
• People and Places in the North and South
• Life Before the Civil War

Related Websites

• At Home in the Heartland Online
• The Lincoln Institute: Studies of President Abraham Lincoln
• Lincoln/Net

To Be a Slave — Julius Lester

Related Lesson Plans

• Perspectives on the Slave Narrative
• Slave Narratives: Constructing U.S. History using Primary Documents
• Families in Bondage

Related Websites

• Africans in America
• Documenting the American South
• The Antislavery Literature Project

The Witch of Blackbird Pond — Elizabeth George Speare

Related Lesson Plans

• Dramatizing History in Arthur Miller's The Crucible
• Understanding the Salem Witch Trials

Related Websites

• Connecticut History Online
• Hawthorne in Salem
• Witchcraft in a Salem Village

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—Grades 9-12—

My Antonia — Willa Cather

Related Lesson Plans

• Pioneer Values in Willa Cather’s My Antonia
• Life on the Great Plains
• Sodbusters!

Related Websites

• At Home in the Heartland Online
• New Perspectives on the West
• Wessels Living History Farm

1984 and Animal Farm — George Orwell

Related Lesson Plans

• More than a Metaphor: Allegory and the Art of Persuasion
• “Shooting An Elephant”: George Orwell's Essay on his Life in Burma
• Argument in an Athenian Jail: Socrates and the Law
• Certain Crimes Against the United States: The Sedition Act
• The First Amendment: What's Fair in a Free Country?

Related Websites

• The Online Library of Liberty
• The Online Books Page, Banned Books

Miracle at Philadelphia — Catherine Drinker Bowen

Related Lesson Plans

• James Madison: From Father of the Constitution to President
• The Constitutional Convention of 1787

Related Websites

• Constitution Day
• The Constitution: A Bicentennial Chronicle
• The National Constitution Center
• The Online Library of Liberty

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich — Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Related Lesson Plans

• The Origins of the Cold War, 1945-1949
• Argument in an Athenian Jail: Socrates and the Law
• Common Sense: The Rhetoric of Popular Democracy
• Anne Frank: One of Hundreds of Thousands
• Holocaust and Resistance

  Related Websites

• Bucknell Russian Studies Department
• The Cold War Files (George Washington University)
• The Online Library of Liberty

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