Grade 5
- Authenticity:
Use a research model to analyze the authenticity of events in
historical fiction literature.
GT EDUCATION INDICATORS
Reading: Judge the accuracy of information using the
critical stance.
Language Arts: Use primary and secondary source material
to verify the accuracy of the elements of a historical novel.
Social Studies: Use a research model to determine the
authenticity of a historical time period in a novel.
Technology: Access the Internet to locate primary source
materials.
Research Tools and References: Learn More About Historical
Time Period
Why
and How I Teach with Historical Fiction...teacher perspective
and bibliography
Archiving Early America...Non-Importation
Agreement, Articles of Confederation, etc.
Eighteenth
Century Resources - American History...links to online resources
Cycles
of US History - Revolutionary Cycle (1701-1791 Timeline)
The
Work of the Continental Congress and Constitutional Convention
Currency...examples
of colonial money
an illustrated directory to uniforms and clothing of the era
Fiction
Illuminating the Past -a teacher perspective and other useful
links
Eighteenth
Century Resources in History...scroll down to General Resources
and American History-many good sources including information
on the slave trade
American Revolutionary
War...great background information on the causes, conflicts
and impact of the war
Links to information about characters and events in the
book:
Jump Ship to Freedom
by Christopher Collier and James Lincoln Collier
Jack
Arabus...information about the trial Ivers vs. Arabus
Profiles
in Black History...excellent links to resources about Connecticut
and U.S. Black History
Fraunce's
Tavern...picture of the tavern
William
Samuel Johnson...scroll down for biographical information
Documents
from the Continental Congress and Constitutional Convention
The
Work of the Continental Congress and Constitutional Convention
Links to information about characters and events in the
book:
War Comes to Willy Freeman by Christopher Collier and James Lincoln
Collier
The
Age of Revolutions - Two Kinds of Freedom...escaped slaves
join British Army
Loyalist and
British Songs & Poetry of the American Revolution...illustrate
the loyalist point of view
New London,
Connecticut...newspaper account of battle, Freeman and Ledyard
listed among dead
Links to information about characters and events in the
book:
Who is Carrie? by Christopher Collier and James Lincoln
Collier
George...portrait
of George Washington
History of the
United States Postal Service...Samuel Osgood, owner Washington's
NY residence
(1789)...Click on George Washington and then Washington's First Inaugural address
- Independent Investigation:
Based on area of interest using descriptive, experimental, or
correlational research
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