Resource File

Social Studies

Mrs. Sandwisch

• Books

Hitler Youth

Chains

Day of Tears

Missing In Action

The Firefly Letters

The Help

Climbing Lincoln’s

Steps

Same Kind of

Different As Me

• Websites

Short Stories

Hitler ‘s Lessons

World War II

American

Revolutionary

Roanoke Island

American Indians

• Pictures

Slave Family

Runaway Slaves

American

Soldiers

Join, or Die

Jamestown, VA

• Bulletin Boards

Stamp On the

World

Young

Americans

I Have A Dream

FaceBook

Timeline

Amendments

• Games

You Are the Slave

Government Jeopardy Game

Freedom

Indians of North America Jeopardy

The Underground Railroad

Hitler Youth is a group of German children with pure Aryan descent. At first the children volunteered to join the group, but over the years Hitler made the group

mandatory for every boy who was eligible. The girls had their own group, Bund Deutscher Mädel

(BDM). Both groups were taught to follow Hitler with no

hesitation. Some children left Hitler Youth because they did not want to be following orders any longer and wanted to think on

their own.

Hitler Youth: Growing Up In Hitler’s Shadow

Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Isabel and her sister, Ruth, are slaves. With Isabel’s help the

rebels are able to foil the loyalists’ plans to kill George Washington. After helping, Isabel thought the colonel would follow through with

his promise to help free them but instead, he

followed the law that kept Isabel and Ruth in New

York. Isabel soon gave up on the independence fight for

the colonies and focused on her and Ruth’s fight.

Chains

Laurie Halse Anderson

Emma, age twelve, is a house slave. The biggest sale of slaves going on right now. Emma and

her parents are not worried because her parents grew up

with their master and he promised to not sell them. On

the final day of the sales, Emma is accompanying her master and his two daughters to the auction

house. Through unforeseen circumstances, the right price,

Emma is sold. She moves to Kentucky with her new mistress. Once in Kentucky she runs away with three other slaves to Ohio.

Day of Tears

Julius Lester

After the navy declares Jay’s father Missing in

Action, Jay and his mother move to her hometown in Utah

near a prison camp for Japanese Americans. Jay struggles with his own prejudicial views even as he is teased

for his ¼ Navajo heritage.

Missing In Action

Dean Hughes

Swedish writer Fredrika Bremer travels to Cuba where an

enslaved woman serves as her translator. A young, rich Cuban

girl envies their freedom of movement and experience, joins

them, and begins her own journey of liberation.

The Firefly Letters

Margarita Engle

Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after

graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi, and

her mother will not be happy till Skeeter has a ring on her

finger. Skeeter would normally find solace with her

beloved maid Constantine, the woman who raised her,

but Constantine has disappeared and no one will tell Skeeter where she has

gone.

The Help

Kathryn Stockett

The author uses the marble steps of the Lincoln Memorial as a metaphor for the many steps that African Americans have taken towards equality

and justice. She describes the historic events on those

steps, from Marian Anderson’s performance to

Martin Luther King Jr.’s speech, and finally to a visit by the first African American

president and his family

Climbing Lincoln’s Steps

Suzanne Slade

A dangerous, homeless drifter who grew up

picking cotton in virtual slavery. An upscale art dealer accustomed to the

world of Armani and Chanel. A gutsy woman with a stubborn dream. A story so incredible no

novelist would dare dream it.

Same Kind of Different As Me

Ron Hall and Denver Moore

You Are the Slave is an online stimulate that allows the students to

make choices that runaway slaves had to make on the fly.

http://education.nationalgeographic.com/education/multimedia/intera

ctive/the-underground-railroad/?ar_a=1

This is a review game about the fifth grade government.

Freedom is a card-driven, cooperative game for one to four players in which the group is working for the

abolitionist movement to help bring an end to slavery in the United States. The players use a

combination of cards, which feature figures and events spanning from Early Independence until the Civil War, along with action tokens and the benefits

of their role to impact the game.

This is a review game about the fifth grade Indians of North America.

This is an online activity that walks the students through a slaves struggle to escape to freedom. At the end of the activity the students

can write their own story and share with the rest of the class.

http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/bhistory/underground_railroad/

http://www.helium.com/static/beyondprose.html

On this website, there are short stories, memories, poetry and many other written work. A teacher can use this site to find primary sources to help students and/or use the short stories to read out loud to his/her classroom or they can print the

stories out and have the students read the stories together. These short stories give

different perspectives on events that have changed our past as a country

This website contains five lessons about why and how Hitler came to power. The lessons give information about what was happening in

Germany and it also gives suggestions to help the students understand.

http://www.schoolhistory.co.uk/lessons/riseofhitler/

This website contains games, puzzles and videos about World War II. The games vary

based on grade level and encourage the students to think about the information.

http://www.neok12.com/World-War-II.htm

Test your knowledge about the American Revolution, and see if you can navigate your way to independence. Every correct answer

gets you closer to liberty!

http://www.pbs.org/ktca/liberty/road.html

Hi gang! You're just in time to help us explore one of the greatest mysteries in American history--the fate of The Lost

Colony of Roanoke Island, North Carolina

http://library.thinkquest.org/J002559/

This following games that can be played in the classroom or on the playground. The challenge to each student is to research and play more

American Indian games, particularly ones played by the American Indians of North

Dakota!

http://www.ndstudies.org/resources/activites/aind/AI-games.html

A family of four look to the North Star for guidance. Harriet

Tubman told others to follow the North Star to freedom. Students

will be asked what they see when they look at this image.

What emotions are on the family’s face? Is

the trip easy?

This is a picture of white families helping runaway slaves get to freedom. Students will be asked to interrupt the picture. Why would these people put their lives at risk for slaves?

These are American soldiers

during the Revolutionary War. What do you read

in their faces? What does the

background show you? Who is the

leader? Are these men fighters?

What historical even is this icon from? What is the meaning of the saying?

Why would people die?

Jamestown, Virginia Could you survive here?

This bulletin board shows students the effect one

person can make on the world.

Students can do the research and help create the

board.

This is a bulletin board that the students can help develop to feel

part of history.

This bulletin board focuses on the I Have A Dream Speech. Students can

participate in this creating this board.

This bulletin board is creative and the students are able to connect to the social

media aspect of the board.

This is a bulletin board that will start small and as the school year goes we will add to the timeline.

This is a bulletin board about the amendments of the U.S. Constitution

that the students complete and proudly show.