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Sixth Grade Historical Fiction Additional Resources
Chasing Secrets
San Francisco Chronicle article about the plague in SF
NIH: Plague in San Francisco 1900Number the Stars
Mass Escape of Jews from Denmark in WWII
Dogtag Summer
Article from San Francisco Chronicle on adopted children from Vietnam
Cracker/Wednesday Wars
BBC Short History of Vietnam War protests
Esperanza Rising/Bud, Not Buddy/Stella By Starlight
Smithsonian article about migrant farm workers during the depression
BrainPop about Jim Crow laws/ Segregation
Fever 1793/Blood on the River/Ghost Hawk
Yellow Fever article from Philly magazine
History of Jamestowne websiteSecret of the Terra Cotta Soldier
Terracotta SoldiersThe Cultural Revolution in China
Kira - Kira
The real reasons the U.S. became less racist toward Asian Americans - Washington Post
Listen to the Moon
Smithsonian Article about Lusitania Propaganda
A Night Divided/Cloud and Wallfish
Smithsonian article about tunneling under the Berlin Wall
Upside Down in the Middle of Nowhere
National Geographic Hurricane Katrina timeline
War that Saved My Life
Evacuees in World War II
London Evacuees
Lions of Little Rock
Lost Year from the National Park Service
Watsons Go to Birmingham/One Crazy Summer
16th Street Bombing
Hattie Big Sky
Montana and the Great War
War that Saved My Life/Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips
Evacuees article from the BBC
Evacuees story from NPR
90 Miles to Havana A look back at Operation Pedro Pan from NPR
Pedro Pan: A Children's Exodus from Cuba (Smithsonian)
Stereotypes in the Media
- Critical Media Project - USC/Annenberg School
- New York Times - Search “New York Times Media Stereotypes”
- ABC News - Anti-drug ads study
- American Academy of Pediatrics - Children, Adolescents, Substance Abuse and the Media
- Teaching Tolerance
- The Guardian
- Well-known news videos -
Resistance /Oppression Research Guide
Writing a Newspaper ProfileHistorical Fiction
- Lewis and Clark - National Geographic
- Lewis and Clark - PBS
- Lewis and Clark - National Park Service
- Buxton, Canada - Museum
- Underground Railroad, Canadian Settlements - PBS
- Underground Railroad (Interactive) - Scholastic
- Civil War - National Park Service
- Time of the Lincolns - PBS American Experience (inc. slave quarters and medical field tent tour)
- Civil War - PBS
- Civil War Medicine Slide Show - CBS News
- Yellow Fever in Philadelphia- Harvard
- Yellow Fever - PBS, Africans in America
- Yellow Fever - PBS American Experience
- Philadelphia: The Great Experiment
- Colonial America: Library of Congress
- Colonial House: PBS (really fun site)
- Evolution of Virgina Colony - Library of Congress
- Historic Jamestowne - Official Site
- American Revolution - Library of Congress
- British Prison Ships - History.com
- Liberty! The American Revolution - PBS
- Our American Revolution - From Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
- Revolutionary Period - Library of Congress
- Slavery in America - Revolts - PBS
- How Slavery Ended in America - NY Times Magazine
- Slavery and the Making of America - PBS
- Salem Witch Trials - National Geographic Interactive
- Salem Witch Trials - University of Missouri Famous Trials
- Salem Witch Trials - Documents from University of Virginia
- Salem Witch Trials - PBS Interactive
- War Death Statistics - All Wars from the Department of Veteran's Affairs
Radio News Stories- LISTEN: Teenage Refugees in Germany - Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson
- LISTEN: Latest Hunger Games and more movies filmed in Berlin - Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson
- LISTEN: American students head to Germany for college - Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson
- LISTEN: Anxiety in Kabul - Philip Reeves
- LISTEN: French plan would end homework - Eleanor Beardsley
- READ TRANSCRIPT: Refugee children in Munich schools - Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson
- READ TRANSCRIPT: Hostage in Afghanistan becomes teacher to locals - Philip Reeves
- READ TRANSCRIPT: Malala Up Close - Renee Montagne
- READ TRANSCRIPT: Malala to speak at United Nations - Michele Kelemen
- READ TRANSCRIPT: 15-year-old refugee sees little hope - Jason Beaubien
Afghanistan PhotosCurrent World Issues - Maggie's Class- NEW! KQED story about redesigning cities to withstand a long-term drought
- Government Corruption: Top 10 Corrupt Countries from CheatSheet
- Government Coruption: Transparency.org - ranks countries by level of corruption
- Conservation: World Wildlife Foundation
- Poaching: African Wildlife Foundation
- Poaching: NPR story
- International Trade: World Trade Organization
- International Trade: New York Times topics
- Safe Drinking Water: Water.org
- Safe Drinking Water: Natural Resources Defense Council
- Human Rights: Amnesty International
- Human Rights: Human Rights Watch
- Child Soldiers: Child Soldiers International
- Child Soldiers: Amnesty International
- Poverty: Census.gov
- Poverty: World Bank
Biographies- Biography.com
- Time Magazine 100 Most Influential People of 2011
- Multimedia Biographies from Harcourt - includes presidents, environmentalists, etc.
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