Part 2 of Book Backdrops..... This is a shell of a presentation I just gave At University of Southern Illinois in Edwardsville, ILL. E-mail me at gpetri@gmail.com if you would like a booksist and other handouts.

1. Gail Petri, Education Resource Specialist
gpet@loc.gov
Book Backdrops: Inquiry Learning with
Literature and Library of Congress
Primary Sources (Part 2)
Book Backdrops: Inquiry Learning with
Literature and Library of Congress
Primary Sources (Part 2)
Gail Petri, Primary Source Consultant gail.petri@gmail.com
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Literature and Primary Sources
Part 2
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Literature and Primary Sources
Part 2

2. Back
to
more
books…
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3. The Civil War….
Summary: Say Curtis describes his
meeting with Pinkus Aylee, a black soldier,
during the Civil War, and their capture by
Southern troops. Based on a true story
about the author's great-great-grandfather.
Setting: Civil War period, Georgia
A Sampling of LOC Resources:
Civil War Themed Resource Page
Selected Civil War Photographs Collection
Civil War Treasures Collection
Andersonville Prison (1864 map)
Civil War Stories (America’s Library)
Polacco, Patricia. Pink and Say. NY: Philomel Books, 1994.
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7. “This is the hand
that has touched
the hand, that
has touched the
hand, that shook
the hand of
Abraham
Lincoln.”
Patricia Polacco
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8. Sheldon Russell
Curtis was released
from Andersonville
after several months
and recoverd to tell
his story. Pinkus
Aylee was hanged
soon after he was
imprisoned.
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9. Teaching
Strategy:
Use a primary source
to connect with a book -
and a moment
in history.
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10. Students can read the book and locate “
evidence” that supports the story.
Winnick, Karen. Mr. Lincoln’s Whiskers. Honesdale, PA: Boyds Mills Press, 1996.
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12. Check out more books about Lincoln!
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13. Explore the Lincoln Bicentennial Exhibition
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14. Find even more connections at the
Abraham Lincoln Themed Resources Page
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15. Read a biography about another person living
during the same time period…
Kerley, Barbara. Walt Whitman: Words for America. NY: Scholastic, 2004.
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16. Teaching Strategy: Use a passage from a prose source to
create found poetry.
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17. Success with found poetry!
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18. You’ll find many more Civil War books?
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19. A new Civil War story based on a true event…
Shenandoah Valley from Maryland Heights (1864 drawing by Alfred R. Waud)
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20. Learn more about
James Swanson
at the
NBF Kids and Teachers Page
…
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21. Frontier life….
Summary: When their father invites
a mail-order bride to come live with
them in their prairie home, Caleb
and Anna are captivated by their
new mother and hope that she will
stay.
Setting: Midwestern state, prairie,
late 1800s
A Sampling of LOC Resources:
Northern Great Plains Collection
Prairie Settlement Collection
Women Pioneers: Westward
Patricia MacLachlan Cybercast
Journeys West Lesson Plan
MacLachlan, Patricia. Sarah, Plain and Tall. NY: Harper and Row, 1985
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22. Lesson plans offer teaching ideas…
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25. A picture can be worth a thousand words
when describing a “mail-order wife”.
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26. Teaching
Strategy: Learn
more about
historical eras
through letters
written during
the time period.
Letter from Uriah W. Oblinger to Mattie V. Oblinger and Ella
Oblinger, November 3-5, 1872
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27. More moving West connections….
Summary: Zoe and her family find
strength in each other as they make a
new home in the Nebraska territory.
Setting: Illinois to Nebraska, 1800s
A sampling of LOC Resources:
Explore the States: Nebraska (America’s
Library)
Colton’s Kansas and Nebraska (1855
map)
Kate Dunlap’s Diary (1865 diary)
Millions of Acres. Iowa and Nebraska
(1872 broadside)
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Bunting, Eve. Dandelions. San Diego: Harcourt Brace, 1995.
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28. Teaching Strategy: Start locally with primary sources.
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30. Teaching Strategy: Analyze a map with your students.
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31. 1584 map
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32. Teaching Strategy: Compare/contrast
how a place has changed over time.
1900
1839
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33. Immigration to America….
Summary: A thirteen-year-old Jewish
orphan reluctantly leaves her
grandmother and immigrates to New
York City, where she works for three
years sewing lace and earning money
to bring Grandmother to the United
States, too.
Setting: Eastern Europe, shipboard
across ocean, Ellis Island, New York
City, 1890s-early 1900s
A Sampling of LOC Resources:
Immigration Themed Resources
Teacher Page Immigration Presentation
Ellis Island Images
Statue of Liberty Images
Emigrants Landing at Ellis Island (film)
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34. Immigration….
Summary: Sixteen-year-old Margaret
Rose Nolan, newly arrived from Ireland,
finds work at New York City's Triangle
Shirtwaist Factory shortly before the
1911 fire in which 146 employees died.
Setting: New York City, 1911
A Sampling of LOC Resources:
Immigration (Themed Resources)
Immigration (Presentation)
Ellis Island Images (P and P)
Statue of Liberty Images (P and P)
Hester Street (panoramic picture)
Flower making (Louis Hine photograph)
Triangle Waist Co. fire (P and P)
Life of a City (early films of NY)
Auch, Mary Jane. Ashes of Roses. NY: H. Holt, 2002.
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35. Traveling on the ship…
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36. First view of the Statue of Liberty…
Teaching Strategy: Use an image as a story
starter or a prompt for writing dialogue.
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37. Arrival at Ellis Island…
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38. Look closely at a
Lewis Hine photograph…
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39. Observe the details in a
panoramic photograph…
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40. View a film
from the time period…
Teaching Strategy: Have students write a
narrative to accompany a period film.
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41. Read a newspaper
account… account…
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42. Teaching Strategy: Compare books
written on the same topic.
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43. 1893 Chicago World’s Fair….
Summary: Thirteen-year-old Rosie
and members of her family travel
from their Illinois farm to Chicago to
attend the World's Columbian
Exposition.
Setting: Chicago, 1893
A Sampling of LOC Resources:
World’s Fair, 1893 (panoramic
photo)
Birds Eye View (1893map)
Opening Day (1893 photograph)
The Ferris Wheel (1893article)
Helen Keller Letter (1893 letter)
To-day’s Events (1893 broadside)
Annie Oakley (Edison movie)
Buffalo Bill (1890s poster)
Peck, Richard. Fair Weather: A Novel. New York: Dial Books, 2001
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46. Teaching Strategy:
Pair historical fiction
titles with non-fiction
books on the same
topic – and provide
books on different
reading levels for
various abilities.
Larson, Erik. The Devil in the White City. NY: Crown, 2003
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47. Women’s Suffrage….
Summary: On Election Day 1880, the
women's rights activist Elizabeth Cady
Stanton teaches her young neighbor a
lesson.
Setting: New Jersey, 1880
A sampling of LOC Resources:
Elizabeth Cady Stanton (America’s
Library)
1895 Draft of Elizabeth Cady Stanton’
s The Women’s Bible
One Hundred Years Toward Suffrage
(timeline)
The Seneca Falls Convention
Voices for Votes: Suffrage Strategies
(lesson plan)
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Hook
McCully, Emily Arnnold. The Ballot Box Battle
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48. A murder that lives on….Summary: Sixteen-year-old Mattie,
determined to attend college and be a writer,
takes a job at a summer inn where she
discovers the truth about the death of a guest.
Based on a true story.
Setting: Adirondack Mountains, NY; 1906
A Sampling of LOC Resources:
The Glenmore, Big Moose, NY (photograph)
New York Central and Hudson River RR (map)
Portrait of Theodore Dreiser (photograph)
Beyond LOC:
An Adirondack Murder (North Country Radio)
Murder Trial of Chester Gillette (NY Courts)
Craig Brandon (author Web site)
Reader’s Guide to A Northern Light
Donnelly, Jennifer. A Northern Light. San Diego: Harcourt, 2003.
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49. Grace Brown died here 100 years
ago.
Her story lives on in fact and fiction today.
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50. World War I….
Summary: After his older brother
Casey goes off to fight in World War I,
Aubrey and his family are so worried
that Aubrey writes a letter to Uncle
Sam asking him to send Casey home.
Setting: Brooklyn, NY and Broussey,
France
A Sampling of LOC Resources:
I Want You for the Army (poster)
Over There (recording)
On the Homefront (Learning Page
activity)
Stars and Stripes (Newspaper
Collection)
WWI Diary (Veteran’s History Project)
Rabin, Staton. Illustrated by Greg Shed. Casey Over There. San Diego:
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1994.
Book
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54. Teaching Strategy:
Read diaries and
memoirs to learn more
about historical eras.
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55. www.loc.gov/teachers/
World War II….
Summary: After his plane is shot down by
Hitler’s Luftwaffe, nineteen-year-old Henry
Forester strives to walk across France,
with the help of the French resistance, in
hopes of rejoining his unit.
Setting: World War II, 1944, France
A Sampling of LOC Resources:
World War II Military Situation Maps
Veterans History Project
D-Day the 6th of June: Normany 1944
(map)
After the Day of Infamy
and also:
Laura Elliott Web site
Elliott, L.M. Under a War-Torn Sky. NY: Hyperion, 2001.
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56. www.loc.gov/teachers/
Teaching Strategy: Locate the settings of the
story on a map of the period.
Teaching Strategy:
Search the Veterans
History database for
World War II stories.
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57. Japanese Internment….
Summary: When seven-year-old
Laura and her family visit
Grandfather's grave at the
Manzanar War Relocation Center,
the Japanese American child
leaves behind a special symbol.
Setting: Site of Manzanar
Relocation Camp, 1972
A Sampling of LOC Resources:
Suffering Under a Great Injustice
(Ansel Adams Collection)
American Memory Timeline
Bunting, Eve. Illustrated by Chris K. Soentpiet. So Far From the Sea. NY: Clarion Books, 1998.
Book
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59. Teaching Strategy: Use collection
subject guides as search tools and
vocabulary development resources.
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60. Civil Rights….
Summary: Grandma tells the
story about her first trip alone into
town during the days when
segregation still existed in
Mississippi.
Setting: Mississippi, 1950s
A sampling of LOC Resources:
Civil Rights (Themed Resources)
With an Even Hand: Brown v. Board at
(Exhibition)
Voices of Civil Rights (Exhibition)
Photographs of Signs Enforcing Racial
(P and P)
Coleman, Evelyn. White Socks Only. Morton Grove, IL: A. Whitman, 1996.
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61. As a way of remembering 911….
Summary: The story of Philippe Petit's
1974 tightrope walk between the World
Trade Center towers.
Setting: New York City, August 7, 1974
A Sampling of LOC Resources:
September 11, 2001 Documentary Project
Witness and Response Exhibition
Gerstein, Mordecai. The Man Who Walked Between the Towers. Brookfield, CT:
Roaring Brook Press, 2003.
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65. Keep your eyes open for new titles….
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67. If your students…
Read quality literature
AND
Explore primary sources
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68. They will …
make connections
AND
enjoy learning
about the past!
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69. Have fun
making history
“come alive”
with your own
Book Hooks
to
primary
sources!
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70. Book
Hooks
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71. Teaching Strategy: Check out the
bi-monthly column – The LOC
Connection!
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72. Stay connected
as you sow the
seeds of
learning with
primary
sources…share
your treasures
with colleagues!
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73. Questions/Ideas/Feedback??
Gail Petri gail.petri@gmail.com
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