K-5 English Language Arts Curriculum

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QUARTER ONE - THE FIVE SENSES

Core Texts

Picture Books (Informational)

• My Five Senses, Aliki

• My Five Senses, Margaret Miller

• Rap a Tap Tap, Leo and Diane Dillon

Picture Books (Literary)

• Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, Bill Martin Jr. and John Archambault; Illustrations, Lois Ehlert

• Last Stop on Market Street, Matt de la Peña; Illustrations, Christian Robinson

Supplementary Texts

Articles

• Great Depression, Children’s Encyclopedia

• The Harlem Renaissance, Britannica Kids

Paintings

• Flower Day,  Diego Rivera

• Le Gourmet, Pablo Picasso

Videos

• Bojangles Step Dance

• Chicka Chicka Boom Boom

• Eight-Year-Old Tap Prodigy Little Luke

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QUARTER TWO - ONCE UPON A FARM

Core Texts

Picture Books (Informational)

• Farm Animals, Wade Cooper

• The Year at Maple Hill Farm, Alice and Martin Provensen

Picture Books (Literary)

• The Little Red Hen, Jerry Pinkney

• The Three Billy Goats Gruff, Paul Galdone

• Three Little Pigs, Adaptation, Raina Moore; Illustrations, Thea Kliros

Supplementary Texts

Paintings

• American Gothic, Grant Wood

• The Cornell Farm, Edward Hicks

Poem

• Morning Is Come

Song

• Old MacDonald Had a Farm

Videos

• Making Bread

• Seasons Song

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QUARTER THREE - AMERICA, THEN & NOW

Core Texts

Picture Books (Informational)

• Communication Then and Now, Robin Nelson

• Home Then and Now, Robin Nelson

• Now & Ben: The Modern Inventions of Benjamin Franklin, Gene Barretta

• School Then and Now, Robin Nelson

• Transportation Then and Now, Robin Nelson

• When I Was Young in the Mountains, Cynthia Rylant

Picture Books (Literary)

• The Little House, Virginia Lee Burton
  
  

Supplementary Texts

Painting

• Washington Crossing the Delaware, Emanuel Leutze (1851)

Photographs

• Betsy Ross and the American Flag: Flag Picture Gallery, Independence Hall Association

• Old Hand Water Pump, Judson McCranie

• Then & Now: The Stunning Speed of Urban Development, S.A. Rogers

Poem

• Now We Are Six, A.A. Milne

Songs

• Engine on the Track, Gayle’s Preschool Rainbow

• This Land Is Your Land, Woody Guthrie

• You’re a Grand Old Flag, George M. Cohan

Video

• Sounds of a Glass Armonica, Toronto Star

Website

• About Cynthia Rylant, Cynthia Rylant

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QUARTER FOUR - THE CONTINENTS

Core Texts

Picture Books (Informational)

• Africa, Rebecca Hirsch

• Antarctica, Rebecca Hirsch

• Asia, Rebecca Hirsch

• Australia, Rebecca Hirsch

• Europe, Rebecca Hirsch

• Introducing North America, Chris Oxlade

• South America, Rebecca Hirsch

• World Atlas, Nick Crane; Illustrations, David Dean

Picture Books (Literary)

• Moon Rope, Lois Ehlert

• The Story of Ferdinand, Munro Leaf; Illustrations, Robert Lawson

• Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People’s Ears: A West African Tale, Verna Aardema; Illustrations, Leo and Diane Dillon

Supplementary Texts

Article

• 5 Reasons Why Animal Moms Are Awesome, April Capochino Myers

Painting

• Carta Marina Olaus Magnus

• Cornell Farm, Edward Hicks

• Washington Crossing the Delaware, Emanuel Leutze

Photographs

• Earth from Space, Stöckli, Reto, et al

• Grand Canyon Scenic Splendor, National Park Service

• “atterns of Chinchero, Descendants of the Incas

Picture Books (Informational)

• When I Was Young in the Mountains, Cynthia Rylant; Illustrations, Diane Goode

Poem

• Lions Roar, CanTeach

Quotation

• What is life?  Crowfoot

Songs

• Penguin Song, Preschool Education

• In the World is Carmen Sandiego? from Smithsonian Folkways, Smithsonian Folkways

Videos

• Antarctic Sights and Sounds, James Napoli

• Burkina Faso: Music, Our Africa

• Explore Views of the Burj Khalifa with Google Maps, Google Maps

• The Seven Continents Song, Silly School Songs

• Storm-Proofing the World’s Biggest Mud Building, BBC Earth

• Traditional Chinese Dance—‘Flowers Contend in Beauty’ by Li Qian, Lin Chen…

Web Pages

• Americas—Fact Files, Go Wild

• Moles, DK Find Out!

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QUARTER ONE - A WORLD OF BOOKS

Core Texts

Picture Books, Literary

• Tomás and the Library Lady, Pat Mora and Raul Colón

• Waiting for the Biblioburro, Monica Brown and John Parra

• That Book Woman, Heather Henson and David Small

• Green Eggs and Ham, Dr. Seuss

Picture Books, Informational

• Museum ABC, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

• My Librarian Is a Camel, Margriet Ruurs

Supplementary Texts

Almanac

• The Old Farmer's Almanac

Videos

• CNN Heroes: Luis Soriano, CNN

• Pack Horse Librarians, SLIS Storytelling

Websites

• ASL Sign for: yes, American Sign Language Dictionary

• ASL Sign for: no,  American Sign Language Dictionary

• ASL Sign for: same, American Sign Language Dictionary

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QUARTER TWO - CREATURE FEATURES

Core Texts

• Picture Books, Literary

• Seven Blind Mice, Ed Young

• Picture Books, Informational

• Me…Jane, Patrick McDonnell

• Never Smile at a Monkey, Steve Jenkins

• Sea Horse: The Shyest Fish in the Sea, Chris Butterworth, John Lawrence

• What Do You Do With a Tail Like This?, Steve Jenkins, Robin Page

Supplementary Texts

Fables

• The Hare & the Tortoise, Aesop’s Fables

• The Ants & the Grasshopper, Aesop’s Fables

Video

• Pygmy Sea Horses: Masters of Camouflage, Deep Look (2014)

Visual Art

• Young Hare, Albrecht Dürer (1502)

• The Snail, Henri Matisse (1953)

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QUARTER THREE - POWERFUL FORCES

Core Texts

Picture Books, Literary

• Brave Irene, William Steig

• Owl at Home, The Guest, Arnold Lobel

• Gilberto and the Wind, Marie Hall Ets

Picture Books, Informational

• The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer

• Feel the Wind, Arthur Dorros

• Feelings, Aliki

Supplementary Texts

Poetry

• The Wind, James Reeves

• It Fell in the City, Eve Merriam

• This Windmill, Amy Ludwig VanDerwater

Video

• William and the Windmill, Toronto Star

Audio

• Soaring Bird MVI 0902, SanfordAr

• Hummingbird Wing Sounds, MyBackyardBirding

Painting

• The Red Mill, Piet Mondrian (1911)

• Oostzijdse Mill with Extended Blue, Yellow and Purple Sky, Piet Mondrian (1907)

• Windmill in the Gein, Piet Mondrian (1906–07)

Article, Informational

• Wind at Work, Amy Tao

• What Makes the Wind? Amy Tao

Short Story Excerpt, Literary

• Owl and the Moon, Arnold Lobel

Websites

• American Sign Language Website

• Hurricanes, DK Find Out!

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QUARTER FOUR - CINDERELLA STORIES

Core Texts

Picture Books, Literary

• Adelita, Tomie dePaola

• Bigfoot Cinderrrrrella, Tony Johnston; Illustrations, James Warhola

• Cendrillon: A Caribbean Cinderella, Robert D. San Souci; Illustrations, Brian Pinkney

• Cinderella, Marcia Brown

• Glass Slipper, Gold Sandal: A Worldwide Cinderella, Paul Fleischman; Illustrations, Julie Paschkis

• The Korean Cinderella, Shirley Climo; Illustrations, Ruth Heller

• The Rough-Face Girl, Rafe Martin; Illustrations, David Shannon

Visual Art

• First Steps, Jean-François Millet

• First Steps, Pablo Picasso

• First Steps, after Millet, Vincent van Gogh

Supplementary Texts

Article, Informational

• 900 Cinderellas, Marcia Amidon Lusted and Judith C. Greenfield

Videos

• Kudhinda Screen Printing

• The Process of Making Batik–Artisans at Work

• Wycinanka/Paper Cutout

Websites

• Around the World, TIME for Kids
• Talking Textiles, The Children’s University of Manchester
• ASL Sign for: yes, American Sign Language Dictionary
• ASL Sign for: no, American Sign Language Dictionary
• ASL Sign for: same, American Sign Language Dictionary
• 815: To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, on or about Friday, 25 October 1889
• Vincent van Gogh Quote

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QUARTER ONE - A SEASON OF CHANGE

Core Texts

Poetry

• Weather, Eve Merriam

Picture Book (Informational)

• How Do You Know It’s Fall?, Lisa M. Herrington

• Why Do Leaves Change Color?, Betsy Maestro

• Sky Tree, Thomas Locker

Picture Book (Literary)

• The Little Yellow Leaf, Carin Berger

• A Color of His Own, Leo Lionni

Supplementary Texts

Paintings

• Autumn Landscape, Maurice de Vlaminck

• Bathers at Asnières, Georges Seurat

• Hunters in the Snow, Pieter Bruegel the Elder

• Paris Street, Rainy Day, Gustave Caillebotte

Websites

• ASL Sign for: stop, American Sign Language Dictionary

• ASL Sign for: linked, American Sign Language Dictionary

• ASL Sign for: same, American Sign Language Dictionary

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QUARTER TWO - THE AMERICAN WEST

Core Texts

Picture Book (Informational)

• The Buffalo Are Back, Jean Craighead George

• Journey of a Pioneer, Patricia J. Murphy

• Plains Indians, Andrew Santella

 Picture Book (Literary)

• Johnny Appleseed, Steven Kellogg

• John Henry: An American Legend, Ezra Jack Keats

• John Henry, Julius Lester

• The Legend of the Bluebonnet, Tomie dePaola

• The Story of Johnny Appleseed, Aliki

Supplementary Texts

Images

• American Indians and the Alaskan Natives in the United States, United States Census Bureau

• Oregon Trail Map, Legends of America

• USA Territorial Growth, Wikimedia Commons

Websites

• Who was Johnny Appleseed?, Scholastic News

• John Henry and the Coming of the Railroad, NPS

• Legend, Encyclopedia Britannica

Videos

• American History to 1920 - Children's Video Project

• The Donner Party, History Channel

• Comanche Warrior - Documentary Excerpt, Part 1

• Buffalo Dusk, YouTube

Painting

• Among the Sierra Nevada, California, Albert Bierstadt

Poetry

• Buffalo Dusk, Carl Sandburg

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QUARTER THREE - CIVIL RIGHTS HEROES

Core Texts

Picture Books (Informational)

• I Have A Dream, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.; paintings, Kadir Nelson

• Martin Luther King, Jr. and the March on Washington, Frances E. Ruffin; illustrations, Stephen Marchesi

• Ruby Bridges Goes to School: My True Story, Ruby Bridges

• The Story of Ruby Bridges, Robert Coles; illustrations, George Ford

• Separate is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and Her Family’s Fight for Desegregation, Duncan Tonatiuh

• I Could Do That! Esther Morris Gets Women the Vote, Linda White

Supplementary Texts

Photography

• Selma to Montgomery March, Alabama, 1965, James Karales

• U.S. Marshals Escorting Ruby Bridges, Associated Press

• Civil rights march on Wash[ington], D.C., Library of Congress

• Woman with camera and crowd at the March on Washington, 1963, Library of Congress

• Ruby Bridges and the Civil Rights Movement Slide Show, Scholastic 

Poetry

• Words like Freedom, Langston Hughes

• Dreams, Langston Hughes

Videos

• Civil Rights - Ruby Bridges

• A Man Who Changed America

• Ruby Bridges Interview

• Sylvia Mendez and Sandra Mendez Duran

Music

• Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around, Stephen Griffith

• Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around, The Freedom Singers

• This Little Light of Mine, Stephen Griffith

• America (My Country Tis of Thee), Stephen Griffith

Articles

• Different Voices, Anna Gratz Cockerille

• When Peace Met Power, Laura Helweg

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QUARTER FOUR - GOOD EATING

Core Texts

Picture Book (Informational)

• The Digestive System, Christine Taylor-Butler

• The Digestive System, Jennifer Prior

• Good Enough to Eat: A Kid’s Guide to Food and Nutrition, Lizzy Rockwell

• The Vegetables We Eat, Gail Gibbons

Picture Book (Literary)

• Bone Button Borscht, Aubry Davis

• Stone Soup, Marcia Brown

Supplementary Texts

Videos

• Food and Family, Nadine Burke

• My Food Journey, Nadine Burke

• Try Something New, Jamie Oliver

• Planting Seeds: The White House Garden and a Brooklyn School Farm

• Fruit Veggie Swag

Visual Art

• The Beaneater, Annibale Carracci

• Cakes, Wayne Thiebaud

• Two Cheeseburgers, with Everything (Dual Hamburgers), Claes Oldenberg

Articles

• Can Milk Make You Happy?, Faith Hickman Byrnie

• Debate! Should Sugary Drinks Be Taxed?, TIME for Kids

• Eating Your A,B,C’s, Kids Discover

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QUARTER ONE - THE SEA

Core Texts

Art

• Under the Wave off Kanagawa, Katsushika Hokusai

• The Boating Party, Mary Cassatt

• The Gulf Stream, Winslow Homer

Picture Book (Informational)

• Ocean Sunlight: How Tiny Plants Feed the Seas, Molly Bang and Penny Chisholm

• The Fantastic Undersea Life of Jacques Cousteau, Dan Yaccarino

• Giant Squid: Searching for a Sea Monster, Mary M. Cerullo and Clyde F. E. Roper

• Shark Attack!, Cathy East Dubowski

Picture Book (Literary)

• Amos & Boris, William Steig

Supplementary Texts

Films

• Cousteau’s Silent World: Shipwreck Excerpt

• Quest for the Giant Squid

• Sperm Whale Encounter

• Why the Ocean Matters

Poetry

• The Sea Wind, Sara Teasdale

Stories

• The Lion and the Mouse, The Full Text of Aesop’s Fables

Websites

• William Steig: About the Author Section

• National Aquarium in Baltimore, MD Virtual Tour National Aquarium

• White Ibis - Excellence in Exhibition Label Writing Competition 2011

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QUARTER TWO - OUTER SPACE

Core Texts

Picture Book (Informational)

• Moonshot, Brian Floca

• One Giant Leap, Robert Burleigh

• Starry Messenger, Peter Sís

Picture Book (Literary)

• Zathura, Chris Van Allsburg

Supplementary Texts

Journalism

• Galileo’s Starry Night, Kelly Terwilliger

• Greek Myths, American Museum of Natural History

• Apollo 11: The Eagle Has Landed, Leigh Anderson (Handout 18A)

Mixed Media

• Starfield, Vija Celmins

Multimedia

• One Small Step, National Aeronautics and Space Administration

• Stars, Mary Howe

Sculpture

• Space Object Box: Little Bear, etc. motif, Joseph Cornell

Stories

• Pegasus and Perseus, Anonymous

• Pegasus and Bellerophon, Anonymous

• Callisto and Her Son, Anonymous

 Videos

• Artist Julie Niskanen on the Process of Making a Mezzotint, North Carolina Museum of Art

• Cronkite Anchors First Moon Walk, CBS

• We Choose the Moon, from a speech by President John F. Kennedy (Handout 23A)

• Moon 101, National Geographic

• Katherine Johnson: The Girl Who Loved to Count, NASA

• Public Service Broadcasting—Go!

• TateShots: ARTIST ROOMS, Vija Celmins, Tate

• Great Minds: Margaret Hamilton, NASA

• Tour of the International Space Station, NASA

• The Space Race, History.com

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QUARTER THREE - A NEW HOME

Core Texts

Picture Book (Informational)

• Coming to America: The Story of Immigration, Betsy Maestro

Picture Book (Literary)

• Grandfather’s Journey, Allen Say

• Tea with Milk, Allen Say

• Family Pictures, Carmen Lomas Garza

• The Keeping Quilt, Patricia Polacco

Photography

• The Steerage, Alfred Stieglitz 

• Untitled photograph of evacuees seeing the Statue of Liberty, History Extra 

Architecture

• Liberty Enlightening the World, Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi 

• Gateway Arch, Eero Saarinen, Encyclopaedia Britannica Online, Kelly Mooney 

• Visiting the Washington Monument, Robert Mills

Supplementary Texts

Journalism

• Kimono Show Introduces Occasions and Styles of Japanese Traditional Clothing, Susan Miyagi Hamaker 

Historical Accounts

• William Remembers the Storm, Ellis Island Oral History Collection, National Park Service 

• Oral History Library, The Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation, Inc. 

Multimedia

• Japanese Immigrant’s Trunk, Smithsonian Museum 

• Immigration: Who and Why?, PBS Kids Go 

• The Statue’s Shackles and Feet, National Park Service, United States Department of the Interior 

• The Torch of the Statue of Liberty, National Park Service, United States Department of the Interior 

• Visitors in the Statue of Liberty’s Crown, Getty Images 

Stories

• Two Places to Call Home, Jody Kapp 

Video

• The New Colossus, Emma Lazarus 

• Ann K. Nakamura: Image of Americans, Japanese American National Museum 

• Grandfather’s Journey by Allen Say, Katherine Detrick 

• The Keeping Quilt, Reba Heath 

• Día de los Muertos Festival 2015, Artist Talk by Carmen Lopez Garza 1, Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian

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QUARTER FOUR - ARTISTS MAKE ART

Core Texts

Picture Books (Informational)

• Alvin Ailey, Andrea Davis Pinkney

• A River of Words: The Story of William Carlos Williams, Jen Bryant

• Action Jackson, Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan

• When Marian Sang, Pam Muñoz Ryan

• Picture Book (Literary)

• Emma’s Rug, Allen Say

• Paintings

• I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold, Charles Demuth

• My Egypt, Charles Demuth

• Number 1, 1950 (Lavender Mist), Jackson Pollock

• Number 11, 1952 (Blue Poles), Jackson Pollock

Supplementary Texts

Poem

• Willow Poem, William Carlos Williams

Articles

• Brian Pinkney, National Center for Children’s Literature

• A Signature Work, Muse Magazine

Transcript

• Excerpt of Scholastic transcript of interview with Andrea Davis Pinkney

Painting

• Mural, Jackson Pollock

• Starfield, Vija Celmins

• Under the Wave off Kanagawa, Katsushika Hokusai

• The Statue of Liberty Enlightening the World, Frederic Bartholdi

Photography

• M45: The Pleiades Star Cluster, Antonio Fernandez-Sanchez

• Photograph of Marian Anderson singing in front of Lincoln Memorial

Multimedia

• Excerpts of Revelations, Alvin Ailey

• The Great Figure, William Carlos Williams

• Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child, Marian Anderson

Websites

• William Carlos Williams, University of Pennsylvania

• Christopher Columbus, All About Explorers 

• Jackson Pollock, The Art Story

• Pollock, Jackson, Scholastic 

• Introducing Kids to Great Artists: Jackson Pollock, Piikea Street 

Videos

• Excerpt from 1988 interview with Alvin Ailey

• Excerpt of 2013 National Book Festival

• Celebrating Revelations at 50 Film, Alvin Ailey

• Video of William Carlos Williams, Optic Nerve

• Video of Christine Dixon discussing Blue Poles 

• Jackson Pollock, Hans Namuth

• Newsreel footage of Marian Anderson’s first Lincoln Memorial performance

 

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QUARTER ONE - A GREAT HEART

Core Texts

Novel (Literary)

• Love That Dog, Sharon Creech

Scientific Text (Informational)

• The Circulatory Story, Mary K. Corcoran; Illustrations, Jef Czekaj

Supplementary Texts

Painting

• Portrait of Dr. Samuel D. Gross (The Gross Clinic), Thomas Eakins

• Image

• Image of a subway map system

Poems

• The Red Wheelbarrow, William Carlos Williams

• Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, Robert Frost

• The Pasture, Robert Frost

• Love That Boy, Walter Dean Myers

• Dog, Valerie Worth

• Heart to Heart, Rita Dove

• The Tiger, William Blake

• Street Music, Arnold Adoff

Videos

• Exploring the Heart - The Circulatory System!

• Grand Central Terminal, NYC

• Gallery Walk

Biographies

• Biography of Anne Frank

• Biography of Clara Barton

• Biography of Helen Keller

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QUARTER TWO - EXTREME SETTINGS

Core Texts

Novel (Literary)

• Hatchet, Gary Paulsen

Short Story (Literary)

• All Summer in a Day, Ray Bradbury

Scientific Text (Informational)

• Mountains, Seymour Simon

• SAS Survival Handbook: The Ultimate Guide to Surviving Anywhere, John Lofty Wiseman

• Note: We use excerpts specified within lessons.

Poems

• Dust of Snow, Robert Frost

• Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, Robert Frost

Supplementary Texts

Art

• Fallingwater, Frank Lloyd Wright

Video

• All Summer in a Day

• Tidal Wave

• Explode a Moment with Barry Lane

• Planet Venus: The Deadliest Planet, Venus Surface & Atmosphere

• Costa Rica - Rainforest Heavy Rain

• 4 Hours of Heavy Pouring Rain and Thunder

• Barry Lane writes about ‘His Favorite Day’

• Planet Earth - Mountains

• What Is a Mountain?

Websites

• Fallingwater 

• National Geographic Lost Cities Photos

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QUARTER THREE - THE REDCOATS ARE COMING

Core Texts

Picture Book (Literary)

• The Scarlet Stockings Spy, Trinka Hakes Noble

One or more of the following during a literature circle:

• Can't You Make Them Behave, King George?, Jean Fritz
• I Survived the American Revolution, Lauren Tarshis
• Samuel's Choice, Richard Berleth
• Susanna's Midnight Ride, Libby McNamee

Poetry

• Colonial Voices: Hear Them Speak, Kay Winters

Historical Account (Informational)

• George vs. George: The American Revolution as Seen from Both Sides, Rosalyn Schanzer

• Note: We use excerpts specified within lessons.

• Excerpts from the Declaration of Independence

Supplementary Texts

Articles (Informational)

• Massacre in King Street, Mark Clemens

• Detested Tea, Andrew Matthews

Art

• The Boston Massacre, Paul Revere 

• Washington Crossing the Delaware, Emanuel Leutze 

• Raising the Flag at Ground Zero, Thomas Franklin 

Video

• Paul Revere - Mini Biography 

• Fred Woods Trail - Driftwood, Pennsylvania 

• The Culper Spy Ring: Path through History 

• REBUILD - From The Ashes, The World Trade Center Rises Again 

Websites

• EDSITEment: Emanuel Leutze’s Symbolic Scene of Washington Crossing the Delaware

• The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History

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QUARTER FOUR - MYTH MAKING

Core Texts 

Drama (Literary)

• Pushing Up the Sky: Native American Plays for Children, Joseph Bruchac

Historical Account (Informational)

• Understanding Greek Myths, Natalie Hyde

Myth (Literary)

• Gifts from the Gods: Ancient Words & Wisdom from Greek & Roman Mythology, Lise Lunge-Larsen

Novel (Literary)

• The Invention of Hugo Cabret, Brian Selznick

Supplementary Texts

Art

• Pandora, Dante Gabriel Rossetti

• Pandora, Odilon Redon

• Parthenon

• The Raven Steals the Light, Bill Reid and Robert Bringhurst

• Winged Victory of Samothrace

Myths (Literary)

• When Raven Soared, Leigh Anderson

• The Sun, Moon, and Stars, retold by Donna Henes

• Legend of the Moccasin Flower, retold by Mary Morton Cowan

Poetry

• The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

• The Little Horse is Newly, E.E. Cummings

Videos

• Aerial Acropolis focusing on Parthenon house of goddess Athena/Acropolis, Athens, Greece

• Secrets of the Parthenon, PBS Nova

• The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls

• Samothrace Reconstruction: Hieron to Nike

Website

• American Excavations Samothrace, Emory University

• A Closer Look at Winged Victory of Samothrace, Louvre photos

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QUARTER ONE - CULTURES IN CONFLICT

Core Texts

Novel (Literary)

• Thunder Rolling in the Mountains, Scott O’Dell and Elizabeth Hall

Speech

• Lincoln Hall Speech, Washington D.C., January 14, 1879, Chief Joseph, Nez Perce

Supplementary Texts

Film Clip

• A Landscape of History - Video Featuring the Nez Perce National Historic Trail

Historical Account (Informational)

• Teaching with Documents: The Lewis and Clark Expedition, National Archives

• Map of the United States Expansion

• Map of Native American Tribes

• Lewis & Clark and the Indian Country: The Indian Country, 1800: A Brilliant Plan for Living, Newberry Library

• Lewis & Clark and the Indian Country: A New Nation Comes to the Indian Country, Newberry Library

• Nimiipuu Homeland, Nez Perce National Historic Park Museum Collections

• Legend Times, Nez Perce National Historic Park Museum Collections

• Food and Drink, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Nez Perce National Historic Trail

• Clothing, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Nez Perce National Historic Trail

• Shelter - The Tipi, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Nez Perce National Historic Trail

• Getting Around, U. S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Nez Perce Museum Collections

• Transport and Trade, U. S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Nez Perce Museum Collections

• Spirituality, U. S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Nez Perce Museum Collections

• Children's Play, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Nez Perce National Historic Trail

Paintings

• Chief Joseph, Nez Perce Chief, Head-and-shoulders Portrait, Facing Forward, E. A. Burbank 

• The White Cloud, Head Chief of the Iowas, George Catlin

• Portrait of George Washington, Gilbert Stuart 

Photography

• Chief Joseph and his Family c.1880, F.M. Sargent 

• Image of family eating meal

• Image of 4th of July

• Image of FIFA 

Stories

• Coyote and the Monster Story Part 1 , Part 2, and Part 3 , as told by J. R. Spencer

• How Beaver Stole Fire from the Pines

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QUARTER TWO - WORD PLAY

Core Texts

Novel (Literary) 

• The Phantom Tollbooth, Norton Juster

Supplementary Texts

Comedy Routine

• Who’s on First?, Bud Abbott and Lou Costello

Video

• Who’s on First?

Paintings

• The Persistence of Memory, Salvador Dalí

• Time Transfixed, René Magritte

• Reading at a Table, Pablo Picasso

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QUARTER THREE - A WAR BETWEEN US

Core Texts

Historical Account (Informational)

• The Boys’ War, Jim Murphy

Novel (Literary)

• The River Between Us, Richard Peck

Supplementary Texts

Articles

• Excerpt from Civil War Medicine, National Park Service

• Hospitals and Medical Knowledge, Civil War Preservation Trust

Film

• The Civil War, Episode 1: The Cause, Ken Burns

Maps

• Compare Two Worlds: North vs. South 1861, Scholastic, Inc.

• Grand Tower, Illinois, Google Earth

Multimedia

• Slavery slideshow, Scholastic, Inc.

Photography

• Abraham Lincoln, three-quarter length portrait, seated and holding his spectacles and a pencil, Alexander Gardner

• President Abraham Lincoln, Major General John A. McClernand, And E. J. Allen, Chief of the Secret Service of the United States, at Secret Service Department, Headquarters Army of the Potomac, near Antietam, Maryland, Alexander Gardner

• President Lincoln, United States Headquarters, Army of the Potomac, near Antietam, Alexander Gardner

• The President and General McClellan on the battlefield of Antietam, Alexander Gardner

• President Lincoln on the battlefield of Antietam, October, 1862, Alexander Gardner

• The Floating Palace, 1888, Smithsonian Museum of American History

Poetry

• The Women Who Went to the Field, Clara Barton

Website

• Civil War Casualties, Civil War Trust

Video

• America Divided, History.com

• Ford Historic Model T, Ford Model T - 100 Years Later, CarDataVideo

• What Caused the Civil War, Virginia Historical Society

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QUARTER FOUR - BREAKING BARRIERS

Core Texts 

Cutout

• The Fall of Icarus (1943), Henri Matisse

Literary Nonfiction (Informational)

• We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball, Kadir Nelson

 Sculpture

• Image 1: Joie de Vivre, Mark di Suvero, Getty Images

• Image 2: Joie de Vivre, Mark di Suvero, Wikimedia

• Image 3: Joie de Vivre, Mark di Suvero, Getty Images

• Image 4: Joie de Vivre, Mark di Suvero

Supplementary Texts

Articles

• About the Paralympics: Paralympic History, PBS Medal Quest 

• Afghan Sprinter Tahmina Kohistani Shows What’s Possible for Muslim Women, Mike Wise

• Cool Papa Bell, National Baseball Hall of Fame

• History in Detail: Dr. Ludwig Guttmann, British Paralympic Association 

• Finding Common Ground on the Soccer Field, Todd Tuell 

• Guardians of the Game, Todd Tuell 

• Helping Refugee Kids Find Their Footing in the U.S., Laura Klairmont

• Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs, Museum of Modern Art

• Jackie Robinson, National Baseball Hall of Fame

• Josh Gibson, National Baseball Hall of Fame

• Refugees Find Hope, Film Deal on Soccer Field, Kathy Lohr

• Street Soccer, Connie Colón

Maps

• Afghanistan, Scholastic, Inc.

• Latin America, University of Texas

• Zuccotti Park, Google Maps

Short Story

• Raymond’s Run, Toni Cade Bambara

Photograph

• Photograph of Broadway Mall, HarlemGal

Videos

• A Boston Marathon First: Bobby Gibb on Her History-Making Run, CBS Boston

• Always #LikeAGirl, Always

• Annual ARETE Honors for Courage in Sports: Fugees, 2008, Fugees Family

• Meet CNN Hero Luma Mufleh, CNN.com

• CNN Hero Luma Mufleh: From Refugee to Fugees, CNN.com

• ESPY Awards - Nelson Mandela documentary, Scott Duncan

• Jackie Robinson Breaks Barriers, History.com

• Nelson Mandela Speech that changed the world

• The Mandeville Legacy - Paralympics Documentary, Cliff Productions

• The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow, California Newsreel

Website

• Fugees Family

• Negro Leagues Baseball Museum Historical Timeline