Stranded at Plimoth Plantation, 1626


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Christopher Sears, a thirteen-year-old orphan stranded at Plimouth Plantation, describes daily life in the colony




Daily Life in the Pilgrim Colony 1636


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The View from Saturday


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From the Newbery Medal–winning author of the beloved classic From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler comes four jewel-like short stories—one for each of the team members of an Academic Bowl team—that ask questions and demonstrate surprising answers. How had Mrs. Olinski chosen her sixth-grade Academic Bowl team? She had a number of answers. But were any of them true? How had she really chosen Noah and Nadia and Ethan and Julian? And why did they make such a good team? It was a surprise to a lot of people when Mrs. Olinski’s team won the sixth-grade Academic Bowl contest at Epiphany Middle School. It was an even bigger surprise when they beat the seventh grade and the eighth grade, too. And when they went on to even greater victories, everyone began to ask: How did it happen? It happened at least partly because Noah had been the best man (quite by accident) at the wedding of Ethan’s grandmother and Nadia’s grandfather. It happened because Nadia discovered that she could not let a lot of baby turtles die. It happened when Ethan could not let Julian face disaster alone. And it happened because Julian valued something important in himself and saw in the other three something he also valued. Mrs. Olinski, returning to teaching after having been injured in an automobile accident, found that her Academic Bowl team became her answer to finding confidence and success. What she did not know, at least at first, was that her team knew more than she did the answer to why they had been chosen.




Exploring Our Country's History


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Simulate integrated units of study on U.S. history with this guide. Perry provides recommended fiction and nonfiction books that help you illuminate different eras in U.S. history along with discussion starters, multidisciplinary activity suggestions, and topics for further investigation. Projects for individuals and groups help students develop skills in research, oral and written language, science, math, geography, and the arts. Additional resources are listed with each section. Grades K-5.




Plymouth


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In 1620, the members of the Leyden congregation of Separatists boarded an old wine vessel called the Mayflower and set sail across the Atlantic to make a new life for themselves in North America.




The Plymouth Colony


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Describes the reasons that the Pilgrims traveled to the New World, their voyage on the Mayflower, the hardships of their first winter in the Plymouth settlement, and the harvest celebration remembered as the first Thanksgiving.




Everyday Life in Early America


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"In this clearly written volume, Hawke provides enlightening and colorful descriptions of early Colonial Americans and debunks many widely held assumptions about 17th century settlers."--Publishers Weekly




Success with Reading


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All students love learning history with these exciting, easy-to-read plays. The plays are all written on a 3rd grade reading level, so even your most challenged readers will be successful. Topics covered include Columbus’s explorations, Jamestown, the Pilgrims, the Boston Tea Party, the Underground Railroad, the Civil War, Immigration, and more. Also includes creative activities, Web and literature links, background information, and vocabulary lists. For use with Grades 4-8.




The Mare's Nest


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In the Vermont countryside of 1846, a mystery looms when a wandering artist visits town after town where pets and livestock have disappeared. Full-color illustrations.




Bridges to Reading, 3-6


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Now you can use quality children's literature to teach traditional reading skills! Providing a balance between traditional and literature-based instruction, these books include stimulating and instructive lessons based on approximately 150 skills commonly found in basal readers. These lessons utilize a variety of strategies that can be applied to teaching myriad skills-from alphabet and alphabetization to word recognition skills. Each featured book includes a variety of activities and a list of related books. Semantic feature analysis, attribute charts, writing activities, problem-solving, genre analysis, wordplay, and phonetic analysis are just some of the strategies covered. Wonderful tools for enlivening reading instruction, these resources reconcile the need to teach basic skills with the desire to use children's literature.




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