America's History Through Young Voices

America's History Through Young Voices
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Publisher : Allyn & Bacon
Total Pages : 196
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ISBN-10 : STANFORD:36105122148088
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Synopsis America's History Through Young Voices by : Richard M. Wyman

America's History through Young Voices contains primary sources written by young people from twelve periods of American history. The history presented here is of ordinary people, not that of empire-builders, kings, and presidents. The diaries, letters, and essays are narratives, thus engaging students in the story of history. Specific instructional strategies were developed for each of the primary sources based upon the five categories of historical thinking skills. Teachers thus have both the primary source (content) and instructional activities (skills) for use in the classroom. Chapter One presents a general introduction to historical sources. This book is intended for teachers and students in elementary, middle, or secondary social studies who wish to emphasize the teaching and learning of American history using primary sources.

Voices of a People's History of the United States

Voices of a People's History of the United States
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Publisher : Seven Stories Press
Total Pages : 667
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ISBN-10 : 9781583229477
ISBN-13 : 1583229477
Rating : 4/5 (77 Downloads)

Synopsis Voices of a People's History of the United States by : Howard Zinn

Here in their own words are Frederick Douglass, George Jackson, Chief Joseph, Martin Luther King Jr., Plough Jogger, Sacco and Vanzetti, Patti Smith, Bruce Springsteen, Mark Twain, and Malcolm X, to name just a few of the hundreds of voices that appear in Voices of a People's History of the United States, edited by Howard Zinn and Anthony Arnove. Paralleling the twenty-four chapters of Zinn's A People's History of the United States, Voices of a People’s History is the long-awaited companion volume to the national bestseller. For Voices, Zinn and Arnove have selected testimonies to living history—speeches, letters, poems, songs—left by the people who make history happen but who usually are left out of history books—women, workers, nonwhites. Zinn has written short introductions to the texts, which range in length from letters or poems of less than a page to entire speeches and essays that run several pages. Voices of a People’s History is a symphony of our nation’s original voices, rich in ideas and actions, the embodiment of the power of civil disobedience and dissent wherein lies our nation’s true spirit of defiance and resilience.

We Were There, Too!

We Were There, Too!
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Publisher : Macmillan
Total Pages : 282
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ISBN-10 : 9780374382520
ISBN-13 : 0374382522
Rating : 4/5 (20 Downloads)

Synopsis We Were There, Too! by : Phillip Hoose

THE STORY OF THE YOUNG PEOPLE PLAYED IN AMERICAN HISTORY.

Voice of America

Voice of America
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Publisher : Columbia University Press
Total Pages : 556
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ISBN-10 : 0231501625
ISBN-13 : 9780231501620
Rating : 4/5 (25 Downloads)

Synopsis Voice of America by : Alan L. Heil, Jr.

The Voice of America is the nation's largest publicly funded broadcasting network, reaching more than 90 million people worldwide in over forty languages. Since it first went on the air as a regional wartime enterprise in February 1942, VOA has undergo

No Voice Too Small

No Voice Too Small
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Publisher : Charlesbridge Publishing
Total Pages : 40
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ISBN-10 : 9781632898999
ISBN-13 : 1632898993
Rating : 4/5 (99 Downloads)

Synopsis No Voice Too Small by : Lindsay H. Metcalf

Fans of We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voices will love meeting fourteen young activists who have stepped up to make change in their community and the United States. Mari Copeny demanded clean water in Flint. Jazz Jennings insisted, as a transgirl, on playing soccer with the girls' team. From Viridiana Sanchez Santos's quinceañera demonstration against anti-immigrant policy to Zach Wahls's moving declaration that his two moms and he were a family like any other, No Voice Too Small celebrates the young people who know how to be the change they seek. Fourteen poems honor these young activists. Featuring poems by Lesléa Newman, Traci Sorell, and Nikki Grimes. Additional text goes into detail about each youth activist's life and how readers can get involved.

Dissent in America

Dissent in America
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 0321442970
ISBN-13 : 9780321442970
Rating : 4/5 (70 Downloads)

Synopsis Dissent in America by : Ralph F. Young

Immigrant Voices

Immigrant Voices
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Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Total Pages : 304
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ISBN-10 : 0252078721
ISBN-13 : 9780252078729
Rating : 4/5 (21 Downloads)

Synopsis Immigrant Voices by : Thomas Dublin

A classroom staple, Immigrant Voices: New Lives in America, 1773-2000 has been updated with writings that reflect trends in immigration to the United States through the turn of the twenty-first century. New chapters include a selection of letters from Irish immigrants fleeing the famine of the 1840s, writings from an immigrant who escaped the civil war in Liberia during the 1980s, and letters that crossed the U.S.-Mexico border during the late 1980s and early '90s. With each addition editor Thomas Dublin has kept to his original goals, which was to show the commonalities of the U.S. immigrant experience across lines of gender, nation of origin, race, and even time.

New Voices in American Studies

New Voices in American Studies
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Publisher : Purdue University Press
Total Pages : 180
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ISBN-10 : 0911198105
ISBN-13 : 9780911198102
Rating : 4/5 (05 Downloads)

Synopsis New Voices in American Studies by : Ray Broadus Browne

This collection of essays grew out of the first Mid-America Conference on Literature, History, Popular Culture, and Folklore held at Purdue University in 1965. The purpose of this book is to show that these disciplines are interrelated and necessary to one another. The first section, "Literature," contains an introduction by Hayman and papers by Leo Stoller, Louis Filler, David Sanders, Edwin H. Cady, and Russel B. Nye. Winkelman introduces the second section, "Popular Culture, Folklore, and Ethnomusicology," which contains articles by Browne, Tristram P. Coffin, Américo Paredes, Bruno Nettl, C. E. Nelson, and Winkelman.

Literacy and Learning in the Content Areas

Literacy and Learning in the Content Areas
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Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Total Pages : 417
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ISBN-10 : 9781351812672
ISBN-13 : 135181267X
Rating : 4/5 (72 Downloads)

Synopsis Literacy and Learning in the Content Areas by : Sharon Kane

The 3rd Edition of Literacy & Learning in the Content Areas helps readers build the knowledge, motivation, tools, and confidence they need as they integrate literacy into their middle and high school content area classrooms. Its unique approach to teaching content area literacy actively engages preservice and practicing teachers in reading and writing and the very activities that they will use to teach literacy to their own studentsin middle and high school classrooms . Rather than passively learning about strategies for incorporating content area literacy activities, readers get hands-on experience in such techniques as mapping/webbing, anticipation guides, booktalks, class websites, and journal writing and reflection. Readers also learn how to integrate children's and young adult literature, primary sources, biographies, essays, poetry, and online content, communities, and websites into their classrooms. Each chapter offers concrete teaching examples and practical suggestions to help make literacy relevant to students' content area learning. Author Sharon Kane demonstrates how relevant reading, writing, speaking, listening, and visual learning activities can improve learning in content area subjects and at the same time help readers meet national content knowledge standards and benchmarks.

Shaped by the West, Volume 2

Shaped by the West, Volume 2
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Publisher : Univ of California Press
Total Pages : 343
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ISBN-10 : 9780520965201
ISBN-13 : 0520965205
Rating : 4/5 (01 Downloads)

Synopsis Shaped by the West, Volume 2 by : William F. Deverell

Shaped by the West is a two-volume primary source reader that rewrites the history of the United States through a western lens. America’s expansion west was the driving force for issues of democracy, politics, race, freedom, and property. William Deverell and Anne F. Hyde provide a nuanced look at the past, balancing topics in society and politics and representing all kinds of westerners—black and white, native and immigrant, male and female, powerful and powerless—from more than twenty states across the West and the shifting frontier. The sources included reflect the important role of the West in national narratives of American history, beginning with the pre-Columbian era in Volume 1 and taking us to the twenty-first century in Volume 2. Together, these volumes cover first encounters, conquests and revolts, indigenous land removal, slavery and labor, race, ethnicity and gender, trade and diplomacy, industrialization, migration and immigration, and changing landscapes and environments. Key Features & Benefits: Expertly curated personal letters, government documents, editorials, photos, and never before published materials offer lively, vivid introductions to the tools of history. Annotations, captions, and brief essays provide accessible entry points to an extraordinarily wide range of themes—adding context and perspective from leaders in the field. Highlights connections between western and national histories to foster critical thinking about America’s diverse past and today’s challenging issues.