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Books Backdrops: Bringing Historical Fiction to Life with Primary Sources

Books Backdrops: Bringing Historical Fiction to Life with Primary Sources. Library of Congress - Summer Institute 2007 Adapted from Gail Petri - Education Resource Specialist - gpet@loc.gov.

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Books Backdrops: Bringing Historical Fiction to Life with Primary Sources

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  1. Books Backdrops:Bringing Historical Fiction to Life with Primary Sources Library of Congress - Summer Institute 2007 Adapted from Gail Petri - Education Resource Specialist - gpet@loc.gov

  2. Why teach with primary sources?Eighth-graders whose teachers reported using primary sources (such as letters, diaries or essays written by historical figures) on a weekly basis had higher average scores than those whose teachers reported doing so monthly or less frequently.Nation’s Report Card 2001, p.93

  3. Why teach with history through literature? One of the great lessons of history is that perspective matters. So before I start kids searching out details of battlesor other events in the past, I want to play with perspective a bit,using picture books to get my point acrossthat there's more than one way to look at a thing. -- Carol Otis Hurst, Carol Hurst’s children’s literature site

  4. Now . . . on to ideas with books …

  5. Dig for your own treasures… … or use these titles as starters…

  6. Summary: Written in journal format by a twelve-year-old ship’s boy, the entries describe Columbus' first voyage of discovery.Setting: Canary Islands, Atlantic Ocean, 1492 .A Sampling of LOC Resources:1492: An Ongoing VoyageImages of Christopher ColumbusToday in History (October 12)Columbus’ Coat of ArmsChristopher Columbus Saw LandA Letter of Christopher Columbus Travel with Columbus…. Schlein, Miriam. Illustrated by Tom Newsom. I sailed with Columbus. Illustrated by Tom Newsom. NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 1991.

  7. Columbus Coat of Arms Book of Privileges

  8. Teaching Idea: Have students compare and contrast illustrations created by various artists.

  9. Explore a picture book from the another viewpoint… Learn facts from a non-fiction title… Yolen, Jane. Encounter. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1992. Sis, Peter. Follow the Dream. NY: Knopf, 1991.

  10. Summary: Colonel Henry Knox and his younger brother Will, both of the Continental Army, become frustrated with the British blockade of Boston and decide to attempt to move 183 cannons from Fort Ticonderoga, over 300 miles of mountainous wilderness, to defend the besieged city. .Setting: Boston, Fort Ticonderoga, 1775-1776 A Sampling of LOC Resources:The seat of war in New England (1775 map)A Map of Ticonderoga (1777 map)Timeline: American RevolutionPictorial Americana: The RevolutionMusic, Theater & Dance : Yankee Doodle Experience the Revolution…. Reit, Seymour. Guns for General Washington. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1990.

  11. Read Washington’s letter to Knox…

  12. Zoom into a Revolutionary War map…

  13. Listen to songs of the time…

  14. Learn more about American heroes from the Colonial Period……in a picture book A Sampling of LOC Resources: John Hancock (America’s Library) Paul Revere (America’s Library) George Washington (America’s Library) Ben Franklin (Exhibition) Thomas Jefferson (Kids.us) Smith, Lane. John, Paul, George and Ben. New York: Hyperion, 2006

  15. …or a non-fiction title McCullough, David. 1776. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2005. Strum, Richard. Henry Knox: Washington’s Artilleryman. Stockton, NJ: Ottn, 2006.

  16. Teaching Idea: Create a treasure chest full of primary source documents related to a theme.

  17. Summary: This novel in verse highlights letters and thoughts of Jefferson, the Corps of Discovery, Sacagawea and Lewis’s Newfoundland dog Seaman as they travel on their expedition to seek a water route to the Pacific.Setting: North America, 1803 – 1819A Sampling of LOC Resources:Lewis and Clark Community CenterFill Up the Canvas (Activity)Rivers, Edens, Empires (Exhibition)The Thomas Jefferson PapersMap Collections: Discovery and Exploration Lewis and Clark… Wolf, Allan. New Found Land: A Novel. Cambridge, MA: Candlewick, 2004.

  18. Follow their trail … 1805 map Jefferson’s letter to Congress Jefferson’s cipher

  19. View the online exhibition…

  20. Teaching Idea: Use selections to create Readers Theater scripts. Cruzatte:Captain Lewis, this is the grand chief, Un-ton-gar Sar-bar, which means Buffle Noir. Drouillard:In English, Black Buffalo. Cruzatte:And this chief calls himself Tor-to-hon-gar. Drouillard:The Partisan. I think it wise to use French between the two of us, Pierre, while together we attempt to translate from Sioux to English. Cruzatte:I agree, my friend. With your knowledge of hand signs and my small knowledge of Sioux, we will act as one voice. (p.191 - Meeting with the Teton Sioux)

  21. 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, GeorgiaA Sampling of LOC Resources: Civil War Community Center Selected Civil War Photographs CollectionCivil War Treasures CollectionAndersonville Prison (1864 map)Civil War Stories (America’s Library) The Civil War…. Polacco, Patricia. Pink and Say. NY: Philomel Books, 1994.

  22. “This is the hand that has touched the hand, that has touched the hand, that shook the hand of Abraham Lincoln.” Patricia Polacco

  23. 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.

  24. Connect with a biography… Kerley, Barbara. Walt Whitman: Words for America. NY: Scholastic, 2004.

  25. Teaching Idea: Use a passage from a prose source to create found poetry.

  26. More Civil War connections…

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