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Grade 5 - Mass. Frameworks
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A look at Boston:
her history and culture
1. Early America and the Americans (Beginnings to 1650)
a. The setting: geography and resources of the western hemisphere through (poems), songs, fiction and non-fiction
- America, the Beautiful by Katherine Lee Bates (poem)[activity]
- I Hear America Singing by Walt Whitman (poem)
- A study of the USA through regional songs
- A study of the USA through poetry
- Hand in Hand: An American History Through Poetry - Lee Bennett Hopkins
- The Diane Goode Book of American Folk Tales and Songs
- From Sea to Shining Sea - Amy Cohn
- Archaeologists Dig for Clues by Duke
- Overall geography-related concepts
- How We Learned the Earth Is Round by Patricia Lauber (J5245La Turner)
- Keeping Time by Franklyn Branley (J529BR Turner)
- Exploring Time by Gillian Chapman and Pam Robson (J529CH Turner)
b. Native Americans: differing economics and politics; peace and war
- Ice Age, Tar pits, Beringia (c. 40,000 - 10,000 B.C./B.C.E.)
- Ancient cultures and peoples [Natives in the Americas]
- Clovis people (15,000 - 7,000 B.C./B.C.E.) - Paleo-Indian hunters spread throughout the North American grasslands into the American Southwest. They manufacture unique projectile points knows as Clovis, Folsom, and Sandia, named after respective archeological sites in New Mexico.
- Clovis people - big game hunters
Resources for Ancient American Cultures - - Mound Builders: (c. 1000 B.C./B.C.E. - A.D./C.E. 1000)
- Tombs of the Ancient Americas by Bendick
- Mounds of Earth and Shell by Shemie
- Science of the Early Americas by Woods
- Myths and the Mound Builders: The Mound Builders - A Reconstruction of the Life of a Prehistoric American Race (Prehistoric America) (video) (OCLN)
- Talking Bones by Steele [Adena/Hopewell/Indian Knoll/Harmon's Creek](BPL)
The Adena Culture (1000 B.C. in Ohio Valley)
Mound Builders of southeastern USA area (c. 1000 B.C./B.C.E. - A.D./C.E. 1000)
- In what is now the United States, mound building characterizes the Eastern and Midwestern native cultures. In the Southwest, Hohokam and Anasazi people build irrigation canals, agricultural villages, roads and complex ceremonial centers. On the Plains, people hunt buffalo on foot and live in fortified, semi-sedentary villages.
Anasazi Culture of the southwestern USA area
Mississippian Culture
c. Major European societies, rivalries: 15th and 16th century explorations
d. African geography, societies, politics; backgrounds of the slave trade [Africans in the Americas ]
- * African Beginnings by Haskins [Nubia-Egypt-Kush-Ghana]
- Bound for America by Haskins
- Red, White, and Black by Gary Nash
- African Kingdoms by Basil Davidson
- A Guide to African History by Basil Davidson
- Illustrated Atlas of the World in the Age of Discovery
- From Africa to America by William Piersen
- The Origins of American Slavery by Betty Wood
e. First encounters between Americans and Europeans; the consequences (encounters)
- Exploration
- Cyrus, the Unsinkable Sea Serpent by Bill Peet [Turner][book/cassette]
- The Mezcla Man by Frank Dobie (story) ["From Sea to Shining Sea" by Amy Cohn]
- Overall Mexican Cultures
- Olmecs, Teotihuacan, Mayans, Toltecs, Aztecs of Mexico
- Aztecs
- Aztec Creation Story (See: 398.25)
- Aztec - culture
- Cholula Pyramid - Aztec culture of Mexico
- Aztec Resources:
- The Aztecs by Rees
- The Sad Night by Mathews
- The Flame of Peace by Lattimore
- A Quetzalcoatl Tale of the Ball Game by Parke
- How Music Came to the World by Ober
- Story of an Aztec Victory and a Spanish Loss
- How Would You Survive As An Aztec" by MacDonald
- The Aztec New by Steel
- The Aztec (New True Book) by McKissack
- Life-giving Rain: Lord of the Rains (An Aztec Tale) in the Sacred Skies
Woodland Period in North America
- Prehistoric periods of Southern New England
- Southern New England - prehistoric periods - Boylston Street fish weir
- Native American Resources
f. Early English settlements and daily life in Massachusetts (the colonies)
NEW PUBLICATION AVAILABLE - From Caravels to the Constitution by Marjorie Duby.
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Content: Blackline masters - Using word searches, hidden messages, analogies, anagrams, and creative puzzles, students will learn about history while they apply critical-thinking skills. This resource provides students with opportunities to organize and analyze information and to draw conclusions. Extension activities promote practical, informative, narrative, and expository writing skills to help meet the standards. 112 pages [LW405 - From Caravels to the Constitution - $13.99]
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