Adler, D. A., Raff, A. (2013). Things That Float and Things That Don’t. New York: Holiday House.
This book is a fun illustrated book that allows children to explore what types of things can float and what types of things can sink. This book allows the reader to use everyday objects in the home and test them to determine their buoyancy. It then explains why that certain object can or cannot float. This book will be read to the students during the first week on Wednesday. This book relates to the Boat Buoyancy Bananza activity. Before we build our own boats, the children will have an idea of why things can float, and why things cannot because of this book.
Allen, P. (1996). Who Sank the Boat? New York: Putnam & Grosset Group.
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Annie is 15 years old when she and her two brothers leave Ireland to reunite with their parents in America. The book recounts the realities of immigrating to the United States during the time period, with incredibly difficult sea trips. Luckily, their struggles are met with greatness, as she ends up being the first immigrant entered into Ellis Island. This book works well with the unit because it focuses on the ways people travel to the United States. This book would work well as a read-aloud during circle time with the students. The book would also connect well with the ancestor inquiry activity relating to the ways their families travelled in and to the United States.
DiVito, A., McGovern, A. (1991). If you Sailed on the Mayflower in 1620. New York: Scholastic Inc.
This book gives children the opportunity to go back in time and set foot on the distinguished Mayflower. Through this book they will learn about the type of ship and the size of the Mayflower, who sailed on the Mayflower, and the harsh conditions one must face when traveling by boat in 1620. This book answers all the questions one might have about the Mayflower. This book is an informational book. This book will be helpful when students participate in the research aspects of this unit.
McCurdy, M. (1998). The Sailor’s Alphabet. NY: Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Jeunesse, G., Broutin, C. (1992). Boats. New York, NY: Scholastic
“Promises that you make to yourself are often like the Japanese plum tree- they bear no fruit,” said Francis Marion. The youngest son of six children from Gabriel and Esther Marion was born in 1732 at the family plantation in Berkeley County, South Carolina, whose name was soon to be Francis Marion. The Marion family moved to a plantation in St. George when Francis was only a toddler so that the children could receive an education in Georgetown, SC. When Francis turned fifteen, he decided to take a job as a sailor and register as the sixth crewman on a schooner, which is a type of sailing vessel with several masts. After a voyage to the West Indies, on the trip back the ship was reported to be hit by whale and sunken. After a week in a small boat under the blazing sun, two men have died due to exposure and dehydration, while the Marion and the rest have survived and made it back to shore. Soon to come throughout Francis Marion’s life more adventurous scenarios will been seen and greatly affect America’s history which will show how Francis Marion receives the nickname the ,”Swap Fox.”
Nathaniel Philbrick tells the story of the Pilgrims, beginning with them breaking away from the Church of England, emigrating to Holland, and eventually to America on the Mayflower. He talks about the relationship they had with the "Strangers" or nonbelievers that accompanied them on their adventure. He tells stories about disease, death, deception, and depression. I had never thought about it, but you know some of those people had to be suffering from depression. He tells of joys but mostly of hardships and as he describes some of the first meetings with the Native Americans. His description of the first Thanksgiving is not the same as the pictures I have seen all of my life.
*Murray, Judith Sargent. Bonnie Hurd Smith, ed.From Gloucester to Philadelphia in 1790: Observations, Anecdotes, and Thoughts from the 18th-Century Letters of Judith Sargent Murray. Cambridge, Mass.: Judith Sargent Murray Society and Curious Traveller Press, 1998.
At the start of Lewis and Clark’s expedition the United States of America had announced statehood for seventeen states. Just thirty years prior, at the end of the revolutionary war, had the United States gained independence from Great Britain. To this point, few people in the United States had even seen a map of their country. For this reason, the Lewis and Clark expedition was invaluable to the United States of America. In Erin H. Turners book It Happened on the Lewis and Clark Expedition, she reveals the facts and fiction of the epic voyage of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark. In her book, Turner encompasses the reader in everything that is Lewis and Clark, from their intoxicating nights on the banks of the Missouri River to their discovery of the Pacific.
Of Plymouth Plantation by William Bradford gives us an insight into the endurance of the early settlers and the kind of pain they went through in order build the foundation of our great nation. They embarked on the new world and developed a colony from the ground up. However, there troubles started long before they even stepped foot on the land. With a strong hold on their religious beliefs, they continued their voyage to the new world even though there were questions about the safety of the vessel. They managed to work hard on the ship and make it to the new world, tired and hungry, only to learn that there was no rest to be found, but even more work.
Both of their parents came here wanting a better life for them but unfortunately they weren't able to get out poverty and so now they want their children to do better than.but this book has made me realize that things aren't always as easy as they seem. Francie has to deal with an alcoholic father and her mother is constantly working to make ends meet. These chapters made me realize that imagination plays a role in creating some kind of dream. For example francies dream was to read all the books in the world and her great imagination helped her get through some really rough times. These chapters have also made me realize that some of the ethnic groups are still divided and don't exactly like each other.franice is both austrian and irish because her parents and grandparents are from ireland and austria. So francie might feel like she doesn't fit in because of the 2 ethnic group she's part of . these chapters made me realize that many people like francie have financial and family
This paper is aimed at researching the lives of William and Ellen Craft after their published work, Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom, in 1860. The research will first glance at the important events following the end of the narrative. Secondly, this paper will address some issues that William and/or Ellen voiced participation in while their time in England, along with their return to the United States. Finally, the paper will conclude with an insight to the reaction of the public of their narrative.
...n the trying time of the Great Migration. Students in particular can study this story and employ its principles to their other courses. Traditional character analysis would prove ineffective with this non-fiction because the people in this book are real; they are our ancestors. Isabel Wilkerson utilized varied scopes and extensive amounts of research to communicate a sense of reality that lifted the characters off the page. While she concentrated on three specifically, each of them served as an example of someone who left the south during different decades and with different inspirations. This unintentional mass migration has drastically changed and significantly improved society, our mindset, and our economics. This profound and influential book reveals history in addition to propelling the reader into a world that was once very different than the one we know today.
The new settlers coming to the new world expects a simple quest of riches, however the odds are against them with the area they have chosen. The 14 of May 1607, the settlers have just disembark at a small clear area,
Marten, James. Children in Colonial America. New York and London: New York University Press, 2007.
Her parents meet at a social gathering in town and where married shortly thereafter. Marie’s name was chosen by her grandmother and mother, “because they loved to read the list was quite long with much debate over each name.” If she was a boy her name would have been Francis, so she is very happy to have born a girl. Marie’s great uncle was a physician and delivered her in the local hospital. Her mother, was a housewife, as was the norm in those days and her father ran his own business. Her mother was very close with her parents, two brothers, and two sisters. When her grandmother was diagnosed with asthma the family had to move. In those days a warm and dry climate was recommended, Arizona was the chosen state. Because her grandma could never quite leave home, KY, the family made many trips between the states. These trips back and forth dominated Marie’s childhood with her uncles and aunts being her childhood playmates.
This passage defines the character of the narrators’ father as an intelligent man who wants a better life for his children, as well as establishes the narrators’ mothers’ stubbornness and strong opposition to change as key elements of the plot.
Zuckerman, Michael “Pilgrims in the Wilderness: Community, Modernity, and the Maypole at Merry Mount”, The New England Quarterly, Vol. 50, No. 2 (Jun., 1977), pp. 255-277. The New England Quarterly, Inc.
"Diving Apparatus." Leonardo Da Vinci. The British Library Board, n.d. Web. 28 Apr. 2014. .
Women in the nineteenth century, for the most part, had to follow the common role presented to them by society. This role can be summed up by what historians call the “cult of domesticity”. The McGuffey Readers does a successful job at illustrating the women’s role in society. Women that took part in the overland trail as described in “Women’s Diaries of the Westward Journey” had to try to follow these roles while facing many challenges that made it very difficult to do so.