MODERN TIMES

LEVEL ONE

HISTORY ODYSSEY

AN ACTIVITYBASED

STUDY GUIDE COMBINING

HISTORYGEOGRAPHYREADING

WRITTEN BY

MARGARET SANDERS

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History Odyssey

Modern Times level one

Written by Margaret Sanders

Pandia Press

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Table of ContentsLetter to Parents and Teachers / How to Use Th is Guide..................................................................................................... 4

Lesson One—Africa, 1850-1900................................................................................................................................................ 11

Lesson Two—India and Afghanistan, 1850-1900.................................................................................................................. 13

Lesson Three—Victorian Era ................................................................................................................................. 17

Lesson Four—Asia, 1850-1900 ...................................................................................................................... 21

Lesson Five—Europe, 1850-1900 ........................................................................................................................... 23

Lesson Six—Around the World, 1850-1900 ................................................................................................................ 29

Lesson Seven—Civil War and Reconstruction ....................................................................................................... 32

Lesson Eight—America, 1865-1914 ................................................................................................................... 37

Lesson Nine—Inventions and Technology 1850-1900......................................................................................................... 41

Lesson Ten—Around the World Again, 1900-1914 .................................................................................................................. 45

Lesson Eleven—World War I ................................................................................................................................. 49

Lesson Twelve—Th e Rise of Fascism .................................................................................................................................... 54

Lesson Th irteen—Between the World Wars ..................................................................................................................... 59

Lesson Fourteen—World War II and the Holocaust ......................................................................................................... 65

Lesson Fifteen—Cold War and the Space Race ................................................................................................ 75

Lesson Sixteen—The Middle East, 1945-1985 ................................................................................................... 79

Lesson Seventeen—Africa and South America, 1945–Present ....................................................................................... 80

Lesson Eighteen —Asia and India, 1945-2000....................................................................................................................... 85

Lesson Nineteen—Vietnam War and Civil Rights ................................................................................................... 87

Lesson Twenty—Iran and Iraq ......................................................................................................................... 90

Lesson Twenty-One—Inventions and Technology, 1900-2001........................................................................................... 92

Lesson Twenty-Two—End of the Century............................................................................................................................... 95

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Letter to Parents and Teachers Th ank you for purchasing this History Odyssey study guide. If you are familiar with a classical approach to history, you know your child will be spending the next school year immersed in the wonderful story of modern times history. If this is your fi rst time using History Odyssey, take the time to read through these introductory pages, gather materials, and work out a schedule for history based on your child’s abilities. History Odyssey provides the structure and framework for using and organizing many of the best resources available for the study of mankind. Th is is not a textbook approach! History Odyssey’s unique approach for this age group is one that encompasses literature, writing, activities, and geography. As your child progresses through this guide, he or she will be learning about modern history through reading many of the best books written about this time period. Your child will be learning geography and be engaged in exciting activities. History Odyssey presents history in a way that is exciting and memorable. Most parents and teachers fi nd themselves wishing they had been taught history this way. So don’t be surprised if you fi nd yourself learning and having fun right along with your child or student! Th is edition of History Odyssey Level One is appropriate for third- through sixth-grade. We do not recommend using this course for a child younger than third-grade without some signifi cant alterations. Th is course covers more violent content than previous Level One courses, including several wars, the atomic bomb, and assassinations. Also, the writing assignments in this course are more advanced, preparing the student for Level Two History Odyssey courses.

How to Use This GuideAdapting for Diff erent Levels

Th ese lesson plans are written for a student who is in the grammar or logic stage of a classical education or in the third- through sixth-grade (approximately 8 to 11 years old). Th at is a big span. Th ere can a tremendous reading- and writing-skill discrepancy between a typical third- and sixth-grade student. Th ese plans have been carefully formulated to provide material to meet the needs of all students in this age span no matter what their level or ability. Here are some further suggestions for adapting these plans for students at either end of the spectrum: Advanced Level (advanced reading and writing skills) - Independently read books or read aloud to the groupHeavy focus on map workAdd resources (especially whole books and classic literature) History lessons three times per week (use the third lesson for further research or independent reading)Outline lessons or write summaries

Beginning Level (beginning reading and writing skills) - Read books aloudLess focus on map workMore focus on coloring and activitiesHistory lessons two times per weekCopy or dictate writing assignments

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Sequence

In a classical education, history is studied chronologically. Ideally, a student will study the entire history of mankind over a four-year period three separate times, each time building on his knowledge.

1st grade, 5th grade, and 9th grade - Ancients2nd grade, 6th grade, and 10th grade - Th e Middle Ages 3rd grade, 7th grade, and 11th grade - Early Modern 4th grade, 8th grade, and 12th grade - Modern Times

However, it has been our experience that many students are unable to follow this schedule exactly from fi rst- through twelft h-grade. Don’t worry if your child or student has to miss a period of history in one or more of the stages of education. He has three times to learn it! What is important is that your child is building on knowledge in a sequential way and is enjoying history.

Required Resources

Additional Resources and Activities

Each lesson contains an additional reading list to allow students to research a topic further and to provide resources to meet the needs of students with varying abilities. Most can be found at your local library. In addition to the required resources listed above, you will need a world map or globe, a three-ring notebook or folder for each student to store his work, blank paper, simple art supplies, and a children’s dictionary. You will also want to have a three-hole punch and a camera handy.

Writing Assignments

Th e writing activities in this guide include dictionary work, writing answers to comprehension questions, and summarizing the main points of each lesson. Th e latter is a prerequisite to outlining, which is required in Level Two courses. You could have your child either write each summary, copy it, or dictate to you depending on his skill level. Copying sentences helps young children learn spelling, punctuation, and basic grammar, and prepares them for writing.

Main Reference Spine: Th e Usborne Internet-Linked Encyclopedia of World History Optional Additional Reference Spine: A Child’s History of the World by Virgil M. Hillyer (Calvert Educational Services)

Books and Resources for Modern Times:Th e Story of the World, Volume 4: Th e Modern Age by Susan Wise Bauer (Peace Hill Press) Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, adapted by Judith Conaway (Random House) Th e Last Safe House by Barbara Greenwood (Kids Can Press)Th e Story of Th omas Alva Edison by Margaret Cousins (Random House Books for Young Readers) Number the Stars by Lois Lowry (Yearling) Th e Breadwinner by Deborah Ellis (Groundwood Books)

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History Notebook

Your child will need a place to keep his written work, map work, and coloring pages while completing this course. We recommend having a designated history folder or a three-ring binder for this purpose. All work that is collected can be used to compile the magazine writing project at the end of the course.

Lessons

Th ese plans are based on a full school year of history studies. Many lessons contain one or more parts. Each part is intended to take about a week to complete. In some lessons you will fi nd an abundance of information and you will want to take two or more weeks for these lessons. Th is study guide is written to include as much information as possible. Since every family has a diff erent schooling style, these lesson plans are designed to be as fl exible as possible. When a concept interests your child, use the book list or look up that topic at your library. Bring the book list from the next two lessons with you to the library to avoid having to scramble for resources. Reading at least one additional book from the book list per lesson is recommended; more if your child is interested. At the end of this study guide, you will be assisting your child in “publishing” a history magazine that will be complied of articles about events and people he learned while studying Modern Times. It will be a wonderful keepsake for him. He can show his family and friends all he learned about modern history.

Activities: Projects, Coloring Pages, Writing Projects, and Maps Th e activities in this guide include coloring pages, activity projects, writing projects, and map work. Th ese activities provide hands-on learning experiences, and we highly recommend that you complete most of them.

Maps - Th ere are twenty-one maps included in this course. Th e maps provide an excellent opportunity to learn historic and modern-day world geography. Map work includes simple labeling, coloring, and completing map keys. Your child will need a detailed wall map or atlas to complete the maps. When labeling and coloring maps, use colored pencils or crayons. Markers tend to bleed through and blot out labels. Aft er completing each map, locate the area in an atlas. Determine where the area is in relation to where you live and point out any modern-day name or boundary changes.

Coloring Pages - Th ere are six coloring pages included in this course. Th e course instructions indicate the appropriate time for each coloring page. Th e best way to incorporate the coloring pages is to have your child color the corresponding page while you are reading aloud.

Writing and Literature Projects - Th is course contains several projects involving writing and literature, including journal- and letter-writing projects, poetry writing and memorization, and creating a “magazine.” Th ese projects will help reinforce the lesson and prepare your child for higher-level writing assignments in Level Two.

Activity Projects - Th ere are eleven project instructions included in this guide that provide hands-on learning experiences. We highly recommend completing all of these projects. We suggest you take pictures of the projects as you go along to place in your child’s history notebook.

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Project Supply List:

Lesson 2 - Henna Hand Construction paper Colored felt pens, markers or crayons

Lesson 5 - Make a Modern History Game Paper Markers, crayons, and/or colored pencils Pencil Ruler or yardstick Scissors Two pieces of posterboard Tokens Dice or a spinner Modern history books

Lesson 6 - Egyptian Recipe: Hummus 1 can garbanzo beans ¼ cup tahini (sesame paste) 2-3 tablespoons warm water 2 tablespoons olive oil Juice of one lemon 2 cloves of garlic, minced ½ teaspoon salt ¾ teaspoon ground cumin

Lesson 7 - Make a Flag Two 9˝ x 12˝ sheets of construction paper, one red and one white One 8½˝ x 11̋ sheet of blue construction paper Ruler White paint, paint pen, or chalk (or use star stickers) Glue

Lesson 8 - Make a Pioneer Toy 36˝ of heavy thread One big, round, and fl at button with either two or four holes

Lesson 10 - Tangrams Blank sheet of paper Poster board, cardstock, or an old cereal box Glue Scissors Colored markers

Lesson 11 - Paper Poppies Red tissue, crepe, or copy paper Green or black paper Green or black pipe cleaners (one for each fl ower you plan to make) Clear tape Glue

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Lesson 14 - Create a Ration Book Construction paper Copy paper (or similar blank paper) Scissors Pencil Ruler Colored pencils, markers, and/or crayons Stapler

Lesson 16 - Hand Fatima and Star of David Charms Heavy gauge (jeweler’s) wire, 2 pieces, each 12˝ to 18˝ long Pliers Colored beads

Lesson 21 - Rocket Launcher Experiment Film canister or pill bottle with non-childproof cap (ask at your pharmacy) 2 tablespoons vinegar 1 ½ teaspoons baking soda Paper or plastic plate (optional) Construction paper (optional) Scissors (optional) Markers or crayons (optional) Tape (optional) Lesson 22 - Make a Trinket Tray A sturdy, shallow cardboard box (a fl at for carrying sodas works well, or the top of a copy-paper box) Scissors Some strong, wide ribbon or belting Markers and/or crayons (optional)

Suggested Weekly Schedule

Week Start Date Lesson Books and Supplies

1 Lesson One—Africa, 1850-1900

2 Lesson Two—India and Afghanistan, 1850-1900

3 Lesson Th ree—Victorian Era (part one)

4 Lesson Th ree—Victorian Era (part two)

5 Lesson Four—Asia, 1850-1900 (part one)

6 Lesson Four—Asia, 1850-1900 (part two)

7 Lesson Five—Europe, 1850-1900 (part one)

8 Lesson Five—Europe, 1850-1900 (part two)

9 Lesson Six—Around the World, 1850-1900 (part one)

10 Lesson Six—Around the World, 1850-1900 (part two)

11 Lesson Seven—Civil War and Reconstruction (part one)

12Lesson Seven—Civil War and Reconstruction (part two)

13 Lesson Eight—America, 1865-1914 (part one)

14 Lesson Eight—America, 1865-1914 (part two)

15 Lesson Nine—Inventions and Technology 1850-1900 (part one)

16 Lesson Nine—Inventions and Technology 1850-1900 (part two)

17Lesson Ten—Around the World Again, 1900-1914 (part one)

18 Lesson Ten—Around the World Again, 1900-1914 (part two)

19 Lesson Eleven—World War I (part one)

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20 Lesson Eleven—World War I (part two)

21 Lesson Twelve—Th e Rise of Fascism

22 Lesson Th irteen—Between the World Wars (part one)

23 Lesson Th irteen—Between the World Wars (part two)

24 Lesson Fourteen—World War II and the Holocaust (part one)

25 Lesson Fourteen—World War II and the Holocaust (part two)

26 Lesson Fift een—Cold War and the Space Race (part one)

27 Lesson Fift een—Cold War and the Space Race (part two)

28 Lesson Sixteen—Th e Middle East, 1945-1985

29 Lesson Seventeen—Africa and South America, 1945–Present (part one)

30 Lesson Seventeen—Africa and South America, 1945–Present (part two)

31 Lesson Eighteen — Asia and India, 1945-2000 (part one)

32 Lesson Eighteen — Asia and India, 1945-2000 (part two)

33 Lesson Nineteen—Vietnam War and Civil Rights (part one)

34 Lesson Nineteen—Vietnam War and Civil Rights (part two)

35 Lesson Twenty—Iran and Iraq

36 Lesson Twenty-One—Inventions and Technology, 1900-2001

37 Lesson Twenty-Two—End of the Century (part one)

38 Lesson Twenty-Two—End of the Century (part two)

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Date: ________________

Lesson One—Africa, 1850-1900Main Lesson:

In your history notebook, write the heading “Africa, 1850-1900.” ☐Read UILE pages 346-47. ☐Read SOTW Chapter 3: British Invasions - Wandering Th rough Africa. ☐

Why did Dr. Livingstone fi rst go to Africa? Was he successful?Look at Map 1, “Africa and Its Neighbors, 1850 - 1914.” (Refer to the map in SOTW and your atlas for ☐

labeling.) Can you fi nd the places where Dr. David Livingstone traveled? Color the Kalahari Desert. Trace the Congo, Niger, and Nile rivers. Label the Atlantic Ocean and the Red Sea

Read SOTW Chapter 11: Th e Far Parts of the World - Carving Up Africa. ☐ How did King Leopold manipulate events so that he could claim lots of African land as his own? Why was this period of African history called “Th e Scramble”?

Read SOTW Chapter 12: Unhappy Unions - Th e Boers and the British. ☐ Why was Mafeking under siege? How did the British try to control the Afrikaaners and the black Africans?

Read SOTW Chapter 14: Two Czars and Two Emperors - Ethiopia and Italy. ☐ What kept Yohannes and Menelik from fi ghting each other in a civil war? How did the Italians try to trick Menelik? Were they successful? Why or why not?

On Map 1, use the maps found in Chapter 12 of SOTW and on page 346 in UILE to label and shade the ☐Union of South Africa (within the dashed lines). Record this area on the map key. Also label the following: Egypt Liberia Ethiopia Cape Colony Mark the path of the Great Trek with red arrows and add to the map key.

In your history notebook, write down three things you learned in this lesson. Jot down some keywords and ☐important names of people and places as well.

Writing Project: ☐ Pretend you are one of these people—David Livingstone, Henry Morton Stanley, a Boer, or a Zulu in 1879. Write a journal entry describing where you are and what is happening around you. Why are you there? Who is with you? Are you in danger? Check your grammar and spelling. Put your fi nished journal entry in your history notebook.

Book List:

Diouf, Sylviane A. Kings and Queens of Africa series (Franklin Watts)

Eyewitness: Africa. (DK Children) ISBN 0789460300

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Fairman, Tony (adapter). Bury My Bones but Keep My Words (Puffi n) ISBN 0140368892

Gershator, Phillis. Only One Cowry: A Dahomen Tale (Scholastic) ISBN 0531302881

Grifalconi, Ann. Th e Village that Vanished (Puffi n) ISBN 0142401900

Hansen. Joyce. African Princess: Th e Amazing Lives of Africa’s Royal Women (Jump at the Sun) ISBN 0786851163

Kurtz, Jane. Saba: Under the Hyena’s Feet (American Girls) ISBN 158485829X

Mandela, Nelson. Nelson Mandela’s Favorite African Folktales (W.W. Norton) ISBN 0393329909

Marie, D. Tears for Ashan (Creative Press Works) ISBN 0962168106

Musgrove, Margaret. Ashanti to Zulu: African Tradition (Puffi n) ISBN 0140546049

Rodanas, Kristina. Blind Hunter (Marshall Cavendish Corpage) ISBN 0761451323

Steptoe, John. Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters (Amistad) ISBN 0688040454

Washington, Donna L. A Pride of African Tales (Amistad) ISBN 0060249293

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Date: ________________

Lesson Two—India and Afghanistan, 1850-1900Main Lesson:

In your history notebook, write the heading “India and Afghanistan, 1850-1900.” ☐Read UILE pages 328-29 ☐Read SOTW Chapter 1: Britain’s Empire - Th e Sepoy Mutiny. ☐

What big mistake did the East India Company make that led to the Sepoy Mutiny? What is a sepoy? Why did Queen Victoria declare that India was a British colony?

On Map 2, “India, 1850 - 1945,” use page 329 of UILE to color in the primary region in which the Indian ☐Mutiny occurred (within the dashed lines). Complete the map key.

Project: Henna Hand ☐ In India, for special occasions women will oft en decorate their hands and feet with a dye called henna. Th e designs they use are most oft en geometric, but they sometimes include fl owers. You can make a decorated hand at home. You will need: Construction paper Colored felt pens, markers or crayons

Read SOTW Chapter 3: British Invasions - Th e Great Game. ☐ Who was Dost Mohammad? What was the Great Game? Look up the word sepoy. Put the defi nition in your history notebook.

On Map 2, use the map in SOTW from the last reading to label the cities of Calcutta, Delhi, Kandahar, and ☐Kabul with a dot. (A dot is the proper way to label a city on a map.) Also label the Arabian Sea, Indian Ocean, and Bay of Bengal. Color India, China, Afghanistan, and Persia diff erent colors.

Coloring page: On page 329 of UILE is a photograph showing decorated Indian elephants. Color your ☐own bright decorations on the following elephant coloring page. Try to fi nd out more about trained Indian elephants. You might look in an encyclopedia, a book about India, or on the computer.

Write down two things in your history notebook that you learned in this lesson. Be sure to jot down ☐keywords and important names of people and places.

Directions: First, trace your hand and wrist on the construction paper. Now use your pens, markers, or crayons to draw a design on the construction-paper hand. You may draw any kind of design you want—geometric, fl owers, animals, cars, rockets, ships, etc. Th is is your project and your design. Have fun with it!

Book List:

Backstein, Karen. Th e Blind Men and the Elephant (Cartwheel) ISBN 0590458132

Bannerman, Helen. Th e Story of Little Babaji (HarperTrophy) ISBN 0060080930

Chatterjee, Manini. India (Eyewitness Books) (DK Children) ISBN 0789489716

Claire, Elizabeth. Th e Little Brown Jay: A Tale from India (Mondo) ISBN 1879531232

Galdone, Paul. Th e Monkey and the Crocodile: A Jataka Tale from India (Clarion) ISBN 0899195245

Kamen, Gloria. Th e Ringdoves (Atheneum) ISBN 0689313128

Kipling, Rudyard. Kim (Oxford University Press) ISBN 0192835130

Kipling, Rudyard. Jungle Books (Whole Story) (Viking Juvenile) ISBN 0670856977

Krishnaswami, Uma. Shower of Gold: Girls and Women in the Stories of India. (Linnet Books) ISBN 0208024840

Staples, Suzanne Fisher. Shiva’s Fire (HarperTrophy) ISBN 0064409791

Th ornhill, Jan. Th e Rumor: A Jataka Tale from India (Maple Tree Press) ISBN 1897066279

Verma, Jatinda. Th e Story of Divaali (Barefoot Books) ISBN 1902283988

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Decorated Indian Elephant

Date: ________________

Lesson Th ree—Victorian EraMain Lesson, Part One:

In your history notebook, write the heading “Victorian Era and the Crimean War.” ☐Read CHOTW Chapter 80: Th e Daily Papers of 1854-1865, read up to “Japanese News.” ☐Read SOTW Chapter 1: Britain’s Empire - Victoria’s England. ☐Read SOTW Chapter 2: West Against East - Th e Crimean War. ☐On Map 3, “Th e Crimean War, 1853 - 1856,” use the map in Chapter 2 of SOTW to label the Baltic, ☐

Mediterranean, Black, and Caspian seas. Next label England, Spain, France, and the Russian Empire. Find the Crimean Peninsula and label and color it. Label Bethlehem, Jerusalem, Constantinople (Istanbul), and Sevastopol. Shade France, England, and the Russian Empire diff erent colors.

Read the poem “Th e Charge of the Light Brigade” by Alfred, Lord Tennyson found on page 19. ☐ Memorize the poem by repeating it two or more times a day until you have it memorized. Recite it for your family or friends.

Main Lesson, Part Two:

Read ☐ Th e Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle, adapted by Judith Conaway. Read at least one chapter each day. When you have fi nished the book, answer these questions in your history journal: Which of the mysteries in the book was your favorite? Why? How was Sherlock Holmes able to solve the mystery? What new fact or facts did you learn about the Victorian Era by reading this book?

Write down two or more things you learned in this lesson. Also, make a note of any keywords or important ☐names.

Book List:Adler, David. Picture Book of Florence Nightingale (Holiday House) ISBN 0823412849

Alcott, Louisa May. Little Women (Signet) ISBN 0451529308 Little Men (Indy Publish) ISBN 1404314504

Baker, Rachel. Th e First Woman Doctor: Th e Story of Elizabeth Blackwell (Tandem) ISBN 0613004930

Barrie, J.M. Peter Pan (Scholastic) ISBN 043929133X.

Burnett, Frances Hodgson. Secret Garden (Tor Classics) ISBN 0812505018 Little Princess (Dover) ISBN 0486414469 Little Lord Fauntleroy (Puffi n) ISBN 0140367535

Carroll, Lewis. Alice in Wonderland and Th rough the Looking Glass (Penguin) ISBN 0141439769

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Deary, Terry. Barmy British Empire (Horrible Histories) (Scholastic) ISBN 0439992257 Gorgeous Georgians and Vile Victorians (Horrible Histories) (Scholastic) ISBN 0439958970

Fritz, Jean. You Want Women to Vote, Lizzie Stanton (Putnam Juvenile) ISBN 0698117646

Hakim, Joy. History of US, Book 5: Liberty for All? 1820-1860 (Oxford University Press) ISBN 0195153286

Johnston, Johanna and Deanne Hollinger. Th ey Led the Way (Puffi n) ISBN 0142400572

King, David C. Victorian Days: Discover the Past with Fun Projects, Games, Activities, and Recipes (Jossey Bass) ISBN 0471331228

Kirwan, Anna. Victoria: May Blossom of Britannia (Scholastic) ISBN 0439215986

MacDonald, Fiona. You Wouldn’t Want to Be a Victorian Servant (Franklin Watts) ISBN 0531169979

Mack, Tracy and Michael Citrin. Fall of the Amazing Zalindas: Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars (Orchard) ISBN 0439828368

Malam, John. You Wouldn’t Want to Be a 19th Century Coal Miner in England (Franklin Watts) ISBN 0531168860

Meigs, Cornelia. Invincible Louisa (Louisa May Alcott) (Little Brown Young Readers) ISBN 0316565946

Ross, Stewart. Th e Little Queen: Th e Amazing Story of Queen Victoria (Wayland) ISBN 0750225009

Steele, Philip. Clothes and Craft s in Victorian Times (Gareth Stevens) ISBN 0836827384

Stevenson, Robert Louis. Treasure Island (Whole Story) (Viking Juvenile) ISBN 0670867050. Kidnapped (Scholastic) ISBN 0439295785. A Child’s Garden of Verses (Puffi n) ISBN 014036692X

Tierney, Tom. Late Victorian Costumes Paper Dolls (Dover) ISBN 0486403718 Victorian Fashions Coloring Book (Dover) ISBN 0486299171

Wells, H.G. War of the Worlds (Aerie) ISBN 0812505158.

Whitelaw, Nancy. Queen Victoria: And the British Empire (Morgan Reynolds) ISBN 193179829X

Wilson, Jacqueline. Th e Lottie Project (Tandem) ISBN 0613338359

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Th e Charge of the Light Brigade by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Half a league, half a league, Half a league onward, All in the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. “Forward, the Light Brigade! “Charge for the guns!” he said. Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred.

“Forward, the Light Brigade!” Was there a man dismay’d? Not tho’ the soldier knew Someone had blunder’d: Th eir’s not to make reply, Th eir’s not to reason why, Th eir’s but to do and die. Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred.

Cannon to right of them, Cannon to left of them, Cannon in front of them Volley’d and thunder’d; Storm’d at with shot and shell, Boldly they rode and well, Into the jaws of Death, Into the mouth of Hell Rode the six hundred.

Flash’d all their sabres bare, Flash’d as they turn’d in air, Sabring the gunners there, Charging an army, while All the world wonder’d: Plunged in the battery-smoke Right thro’ the line they broke; Cossack and Russian Reel’d from the sabre stroke Shatter’d and sunder’d. Th en they rode back, but not Not the six hundred.

Cannon to right of them,Cannon to left of them,Cannon behind themVolley’d and thunder’d;Storm’d at with shot and shell,While horse and hero fell,Th ey that had fought so wellCame thro’ the jaws of DeathBack from the mouth of Hell,All that was left of them,Left of six hundred.

When can their glory fade?O the wild charge they made!All the world wondered.Honor the charge they made,Honor the Light Brigade,Noble six hundred.

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Date: ________________

Lesson Four—Asia, 1850-1900Main Lesson, Part One:

In your history notebook, write the heading “Asia, 1850-1900.” ☐Read UILE pages 356-357. ☐Read SOTW Chapter 2: West Against East - Japan Re-Opens. ☐

Look up the words shogun, technology, and samurai in your dictionary. Write the definitions in your history notebook.

On Map 4, “China, Japan, and Korea (1850-1945),” use your atlas and the map in SOTW Chapter 2 to find ☐and label Japan and Korea. Next label the Pacific Ocean, the Yellow Sea, the East China Sea, and the Sea of Japan. Now find the city of Edo and label it.

SOTW Chapter 4: Resurrection and Rebellion - The Taiping Rebellion. ☐ How were the Taiping rebels like Robin Hood?

On Map 4, shade the area in green that the Taiping rebels controlled (within the dashed lines) and record it ☐on the map key. Use the map of China in Chapter 4 of SOTW as a guide.

Read SOTW Chapter 8: Becoming Modern - Japan’s Meiji Restoration. ☐ What do the words daimyo and feudal mean? Write down the definitions in your history notebook. Look up the word conscript in your dictionary. Write the definition in your history notebook. Look at Map 4. What happened to the city of Edo? Write the new name alongside or below the old name.

Main Lesson, Part Two:

Read UILE pages 354-355. ☐Read SOTW Chapter 9: Two More Empires, Two Rebellions - The Dutch East Indies. ☐

Look up the words archipelago and guerrilla in your dictionary and write the definitions in your history notebook.

On Map 4, use the map in Chapter 9 of SOTW to label the Bay of Bengal, the Indian Ocean, Acheh, ☐Singapore, Sumatra, and the Dutch East Indies. In which modern-day country is Singapore? Look in your atlas to find out.

SOTW Chapter 15: Small Countries With Large Invaders - The Korean Battleground. ☐ Look up the word hermit in your dictionary and write the definition in your history notebook.

On Map 4, label Manchuria. Today, Manchuria is part of China. ☐SOTW Chapter 17: China’s Troubles - The Boxer Rebellion. ☐

Look up the words patriotic and embassy and write the definitions in your history notebook.On Map 4, label French-Indo China, Weihai, and Beijing. Shade in the area in which the Boxer Rebellion ☐

took place. Use the maps on page 355 on UILE and in Chapter 17 of SOTW as guides. Writing project: Tanka ☐

Many Japanese people love poetry. You have probably heard of a type of Japanese poetry called haiku. It is a short poem that developed from another type of poetry called tanka. There are five lines in a tanka poem. Each line has a maximum number of syllables. Line one has five or fewer syllables; line two has seven or fewer syllables; line three has five or fewer syllables; line four has seven or fewer syllables; and line five has seven or fewer syllables. A haiku poem only has the first three lines. Usually tanka poems are poems of love

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or appreciation. Try your hand at writing a tanka poem. Th ink about something for which you are grateful or something that means a great deal to you—a person, an experience or feeling, a piece of nature—and write about it. When you’ve got your tanka written in rough draft form, fi nd ink and paper colors that suit the poem and write or print out your fi nal draft in those colors. You can decorate the fi nal draft if you like. Read your tanka aloud to your family and friends.

In your history notebook, write down two or more things you learned in this lesson. Also, jot down ☐keywords and names of important people and places.

Book List:

China. (DK Children) ISBN 0756629764

Davol, Marguerite. Th e Paper Dragon (Atheneum) ISBN 0689319924

Dillon, Doug. A Brief Political and Geographic History of Asia: Where Are Saigon, Kampuchea, and Burma? (Mitchell Lane) ISBN 1584156236

Flack, Marjorie. Th e Story of Ping (Grosset & Dunlap) ISBN 0448421658

Garland, Sherry. Children of the Dragon: Selected Tales from Vietnam (Harcourt Children’s Books) ISBN 0152342007

Lasky, Kathryn. Kazunomiya, Prisoner of Heaven (Scholastic) ISBN 0439164850

Major, John S. Th e Silk Route: 7000 Miles of History (HarperTrophy) ISBN 0064434780

McCully, Emily. Beautiful Warrior: Th e Legend of the Nun’s Kung Fu (Arthur A. Levine) ISBN 0590374877

McLenighan, Valjean. China: A History to 1949 (Children’s Press) ISBN 0516027549

Simonds, Nina. Moonbeams, Dumplings, and Dragon Boats (Gulliver Books) ISBN 0152019839

So-un, Kim. Korean Children’s Favorite Stories (Tuttle) ISBN 084835918

Yep, Laurence. Th e Dragon Prince: A Chinese Beauty and the Beast Tale (HarperTrophy) ISBN 0064435180 Spring Pearl: Th e Last Flower (American Girl) ISBN 1584855193

Young, Ed. Lon Po Po: A Red Riding Hood Story (Putnam Juvenile) ISBN 0698113829

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Date: ________________

Lesson Five—Europe, 1850-1900Main Lesson, Part One:

In your history notebook, write the heading “Europe, 1850-1900.” ☐Read CHOTW Chapter 81: Th ree New Postage Stamps. ☐Read SOTW Chapter 4: Resurrection and Rebellion - Italy’s “Resurrection.” ☐

Look up the words nation and dervish and write the defi nitions in your history notebook.On Map 5, “19th Century Italy and France,” use your atlas and the map in Chapter 4 of SOTW to label the ☐

following: Atlantic Ocean Spain Sicily Naples Mediterranean Sea Italy Sardinia Adriatic Sea Venice Rome Color Italy your favorite color. Can you fi nd where Garibaldi, Victor Emmanuel II, and Mazzini led their troops?

Read SOTW Chapter 7: Two Empires, Th ree Republics, and One Kingdom - Two Empires and Th ree ☐Republics. Look up the words constitutional, monarchy, and republic in your dictionary and write the defi nitions in your history notebook.

On Map 5, use the map in the last reading of SOTW to label France, Portugal, the English Channel, North ☐Sea, and England. Also label the cities of Paris, Versailles, Sedan, and London. Trace the Seine and the Th ames with a blue crayon or pencil. Color France your second favorite color.

Project: Make a Modern History Game ☐ You will need: Paper Markers, crayons, and/or colored pencils Pencil Ruler or yardstick Scissors Two pieces of poster board Tokens Dice or a spinner Modern history books

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Directions: You are going to make a board game using the facts about modern history that you have already learned in this course. As the year progresses, you may add to the game with other facts you learn. First, use a ruler or yardstick to divide one of the pieces of poster board into a grid. Each rectangle of the grid should be 2˝ x 3 .̋ Cut out the rectangles. Th ese will be your fact cards. Now, look at your history notebook and the books, magazines, encyclopedias, etc., that you have used in this course so far. Collect fi ve to ten facts from each lesson. Th e more facts you collect, the more interesting your game will be. Be sure that your facts are not too picky! Use the facts you’ve collected to come up with questions to write on your fact cards. Write the answers to the questions on the same side of the cards at the bottom. You can make your questions true/false, multiple choice, or just straightforward questions. For example, “Journalist Henry Stanley found Dr. Albert Schweitzer in Africa. True or false”; or “Journalist Henry Stanley found someone in Africa. Was it (a) Albert Schweitzer, (b) Albert Einstein, (c) David Livingstone, or (d) Charles Dickens”; or “Whom did Henry Stanley fi nd in Africa?” Next, design your game board. What do you want it to look like? Do you want it to look like the board of a game you like? Will players move around the perimeter of the board? Or will their path(s) be circular or winding all over the board like a snake? Th is course covers events all over the world. Will you draw a map of the world on your board? Or write the names of diff erent countries all over the board? Use your imagination. Make it colorful! Make up the rules of your game. Write them down so that everyone who plays knows what they are. Consider the following when making up the rules: Decide how players will know when to ask another player a question from the fact cards. What happens if the answer is correct? What if it’s wrong? Will you divide the fact cards into lessons, continents, countries, types of questions, other categories, or just jumble them all together? How do the players move from space to space on the board? Do they roll dice? Spin a spinner? Or do they just advance a space when they get an answer right? How will each player know when her turn is? How will players know who has won the game? Is the winner the person with the most points, the fewest points, the most money, the most cards, or the most chips? Th e person who reaches the last space fi rst? When you have fi nished designing your game and writing the rules down, play it!

Main Lesson, Part Two:

Read SOTW Chapter 7: Two Empires, Th ree Republics, and One Kingdom - Th e Second Reich. ☐ Look up the words confederation, chancellor, and dictatorship and write the defi nitions in your history notebook.

In 1853 composer Richard Wagner published the operatic series ☐ Th e Ring Cycle. Th e Ring Cycle set old Germanic and Norse mythology to music. Th is work is oft en regarded as one of the single most ambitious undertakings in musical history. Locate the coloring page based on a scene from Th e Ring Cycle. Try to listen to a portion of the music from it while you color.

Read SOTW Chapter 12: Unhappy Unions - Ireland’s Troubles. ☐ Look up the words blight, evicted, and repeal in your dictionary, and write the defi nitions in your history notebook. What was the Home Rule Bill? Did it succeed?

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On Map 6, “United Kingdom,” label Ireland, England, and Scotland. Also label the North Sea, the Atlantic ☐Ocean, the English Channel, and the Irish Sea. Draw and shade the areas in Ireland that were most aff ected by the potato blight. (Use the map in Chapter 12 of SOTW and your atlas as a guide.) Complete the map key.

Write down two or more things that you learned in this lesson along with keywords and important people ☐and places.

Book List:

Bartoletti, Susan. Black Potatoes: Th e Story of the Great Irish Famine (Houghton Miffl in) ISBN 0618548831

Denenberg, Barry. Elizabeth: Th e Princess Bride, Austria-Hungary, 1853 (Scholastic) ISBN 0439266440

Dickens, Charles; adapted by Monica Kulling. Great Expectations (Random House Books for Young Readers) ISBN 0679874666

Eyewitness: Impressionism (DK Children) ISBN 0789455838

Eyewitness: Monet (DK Children) ISBN 0789448807

Ganeri, Anita and Nicola Barber. Th e Young Person’s Guide to the Opera (Harcourt Children’s Books) ISBN 0152164987

Getzinger, Donna and Daniel Felsenfeld. Johannes Brahms and the Twilight of Romanticism (Morgan Reynolds) ISBN 1931798214 Richard Wagner and the German Opera (Morgan Reynolds) ISBN 1931798249

Giff , Patricia Reilly. Nory Ryan’s Song (Yearling) ISBN 0440418291

Harris, Nathaniel. Paul Cezanne (Franklin Watts) ISBN 0531166465

Henty, G.A. Out with Garibaldi (Robinson) ISBN 1590870964

Hoobler, Dorothy and Th omas. Th e Italian American Family Album (Oxford University Press) ISBN 0195124200

Hugo, Victor; adapted by Marc Cerasini. Th e Hunchback of Notre Dame (Random House Books for Young Readers) ISBN 0679874291 Adapted by Monica Kulling. Les Miserables (Random House Books for Young Readers) ISBN 067986668X

Leroux, Gaston; adapted by Kate McMullan. Th e Phantom of the Opera (Random House Books for Young Readers) ISBN 0394838475

Orczy, Baroness. Th e Scarlet Pimpernel (Puffi n) ISBN 014037454X

Roberts, J.M. Th e Age of Revolution (Oxford University Press) ISBN 0195215257 Th e European Empires (Oxford University Press) ISBN 0195215265

Stevenson, R.L. Th e Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Whole Story) (Viking Juvenile) ISBN 0670888710Alternatively, try the one adapted by Kate McMullan (Random House Books for Young Readers) ISBN 0394863658

Synge, M.B. Th e Growth of the British Empire (Yesterday’s Classics) ISBN 1599150174

Verne, Jules. Around the World in 80 Days (Viking Juvenile) ISBN 0670867934

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A scene from Wagner’s Ring Cycle

Date: ________________

Lesson Six—Around the World, 1850-1900Main Lesson, Part One:

In your history notebook, write the heading “Around the World, 1850-1900.” ☐Read SOTW Chapter 6: Two Tries For Freedom - Paraguay and the Triple Alliance. ☐

Look up the words creole and cholera in your dictionary and write the defi nitions in your history notebook. Re-read the last paragraph of this assignment. Do you think Lopez was a patriot or a “monster without parallel”? Why?

On Map 7, “South America,” label Paraquay, Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay. Trace the Paraguay River in ☐blue. Label the Atlantic and Pacifi c Oceans. (Use SOTW or look on page 345 of UILE for assistance with this map.)

Read SOTW Chapter 10: A Canal to the East and a Very Dry Desert - Th e War of the Pacifi c ☐ If the Atacama Desert is the driest place on earth, why were Bolivia and Chile arguing about it? How was Peru dragged into the fi ght?

On Map 7, use the map found in SOTW Chapter 10 to label Bolivia, Chile, and Peru. Shade the Atacama ☐Desert tan. Label the city of Lima.

Read SOTW Chapter 13: Th e Old-Fashioned Emperor and the Red Sultan - Brazil’s Republic. ☐ Do you think Pedro II was a good ruler for Brazil? Why or why not?

On Map 7, label the city of Rio de Janeiro. ☐Read SOTW Chapter 6: Two Tries For Freedom - Th e Dominion of Canada. ☐

Look up the word annexation in your dictionary and write the defi nition in your history notebook. Why did Canadians want a federation?

On Map 8, “Canada,” label the following provinces: Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Quebec, Ontario, ☐Manitoba, and British Columbia. Label the United States. Finally, label the city of Montréal. Shade each province a diff erent color. If you need help with this map, look at the map in the last reading of SOTW.

Main Lesson, Part Two:

Read SOTW Chapter 9: Two More Empires, Two Rebellions - Th e Sick Man of Europe. ☐ Look up the words ambassador and sultan in your dictionary and write the defi nitions in your history notebook. Why did Czar Nicolas I call the Ottoman Empire “a sick man”? Why did the British not want to help Russia annex any of the Ottoman Empire?

On Map 1, refer to SOTW Chapter 9 to shade the Ottoman Empire (within the dotted lines) and complete ☐the map key. Label Anatolia, Bulgaria, and Greece. Look in your atlas to fi nd the modern-day name for Anatolia.

Read SOTW Chapter 13: Th e Old-Fashioned Emperor and the Red Sultan - Abdulhamid the Red. ☐ Look up the words deport and secular in your dictionary and write the defi nitions in your history notebook. Why was Abdulhamid called the Red Sultan? Who were the Young Turks?

Read SOTW Chapter 10: A Canal to the East and a Very Dry Desert - Th e Suez Canal. ☐ Look up the word canal in your dictionary and write the defi nition in your history notebook. Why were European countries so interested in the Suez Canal?

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What does the word khedive mean? Write the defi nition in your history notebook. At the end of this reading, what country controlled Egypt? Can you remember what other countries or regions Britain controlled?

On Map 1, use the map in SOTW Chapter 10 to label Cairo. Draw in orange the Suez Canal and add it to ☐the map key.

Recipe-Hummus (with adult supervision) ☐ Hummus is a paste made of garbanzo beans, also called chickpeas. It is high in protein and oft en made in the Middle East. Easy to make, hummus can be used as a dip or a sandwich fi ller. You will need: One can garbanzo beans ¼ cup tahini (sesame paste) 2-3 tablespoons warm water 2 tablespoons olive oil Juice of one lemon Two cloves of garlic, minced ½ teaspoon salt ¾ teaspoon ground cumin

Directions: Combine all ingredients in a food processor or blender. Use the food processor or blender WITH ADULT SUPERVISION ONLY. Use 2 tablespoons of water at fi rst. If the hummus does not seem creamy enough, add the remaining tablespoon. If you are using hummus as a dip, serve it with multi-grain chips, tortilla chips, or pita bread cut into eighths. If you want to make a sandwich out of your hummus, try putting it in a half a piece of pita bread with lettuce, tomato, bean or alfalfa sprouts. Enjoy!

Read SOTW Chapter 11: Th e Far Parts of the World - Th e Iron Outlaw. ☐ Writing Project: Write a Letter. ☐

Pretend you are one of the Australians petitioning the governor for Ned Kelly’s release. Write a letter to the governor urging him to let Ned go. Be sure to open and close your letter properly. Check your rough draft for spelling and grammar. Read it aloud to be sure it makes sense. Put a fi nal draft in your history notebook.

On Map 9, “Oceania,” use the map in SOTW to label the Pacifi c Ocean and the Southern Ocean. Now ☐label Tasmania and New Zealand. Label the Australian provinces—Western Australia, South Australia, Queensland, New South Wales, and Victoria. Finally, label Melbourne. Shade each province a diff erent color.

Read SOTW Chapter 14: Two Czars and Two Emperors - Th e Next-to-Last Czar of Russia. ☐ Look up the word autocracy in your dictionary and write the defi nition in your history notebook. Why does SOTW say that Alexander III was an autocrat? How did Alexander III save his family’s life?

Write down two or more things you learned in this lesson along with keywords and the names of ☐important people and places. If you like, make up some more fact cards for your modern history game.

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Book List:

Ada, Alma Flor. Th e Gold Coin (Aladdin) ISBN 0689717938

Adam, Winky. Around the World Coloring Book (Dover) ISBN 0486439836

Crew, Gary and Anne Spudvilas. Bright Star (Kane/Miller) ISBN 0916291758

Ehlert, Lois. Market Day (Voyager) ISBN 0152168206

Henty, G.A. Dash for Khartoum (Robinson) ISBN 1590871189

Herman, Charlotte. Th e House on Walenska Street (Puffi n) ISBN 0141301295

Hobbs, Will. Down the Yukon (HarperTrophy) ISBN 0380733099

Jaramillo, Nelly Palacio. Grandmother’s Nursery Rhymes: Lullabies, Tongue Twisters, and Riddles from South America (Henry Holt) ISBN 0805046445

Knutson, Barbara. Love and Roast Chicken: A Trickster Tale from the Andes (Carolrhoda Books) ISBN 1575056577

Lasky, Kathryn. Broken Song (Puffi n) ISBN 0142407410

Little, Jean. Th e Belonging Place (Toronto: Puffi n Penguin) ISBN 0140386637

McDermott, Gerald. Jabuti the Tortoise: A Trickster Tale from the Amazon (Voyager) ISBN 0152053743

Menick, Stephen. Th e Muffi n Child (Philomel) ISBN 0399233032

Montgomery, Lucy Maud. Anne of Green Gables (Signet Classics) ISBN 0451528824

Neuberger, Richard. Th e Royal Canadian Mounted Police (Landmark series) (Random House)

Pavlova, Anna. I Dreamed I Was a Ballerina (Atheneum) ISBN 0689846762

Soff er, Ruth. Australian Wildlife Coloring Book (Dover) ISBN 0486451674

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Date: ________________

Lesson Seven—Civil War and ReconstructionMain Lesson, Part One:

In your history notebook, write the heading “Civil War and Reconstruction.” ☐Read pages 4 to 16 of ☐ Th e Last Safe House by Barbara Greenwood. You may answer these questions aloud or

by writing them in complete sentences in your history notebook. What is linsey-woolsey? What is gingham? Why did Johanna want to give Eliza her old linsey-woolsey dress and not the blue gingham one? Th ink about the ordeal that Eliza has been through. Do you think she and her family made the right choice by running to freedom on the Underground Railroad? Why or why not? How do you think their lives might be diff erent from their time in Virginia if they are free in Canada?

Read pages 17 to 33 of ☐ Th e Last Safe House. How did the Underground Railroad get its name? Why were people like the Reids willing to risk their own lives to help runaway slaves? Who was Harriet Tubman? Why was she called Moses? How did Eliza’s great-grandmother get from Africa to North America? Did she want to come? What happened to her once she got to America? How did the story of the Gingerbread Man save Eliza’s life? Why was Eliza frightened when she broke the bowl?

Look at the map on pages 18 and 19 of ☐ Th e Last Safe House. Trace with your fi nger the Jacksons’ route from Virginia to Canada. Find a map or atlas with a mileage scale. About how many miles did the Jacksons have to walk to get to St. Catherine’s? How far could you walk in a day? A week? A month?

Read pages 34 to 43 of ☐ Th e Last Safe House. Why did Eliza’s mother want Eliza to be trained to work in the Big House? With a grown-up’s assistance, try making the gingerbread cookies from the recipe on pages 38-39. Be creative with your decorations! Why did slaves run away? If you were a slave, would you run away? What if you were caught? On a dark, clear night go outside and look for the North Star. Also look for moss on trees. Is the moss on the north side of the trees? What was the Fugitive Slave Act? What did it mean for people in the northern United States who were helping slaves escape from the southern states? What did it mean for the slaves themselves? Look up the word abolitionist in your dictionary. Write the meaning in your history notebook. What were some of the ways in which abolitionists tried to change people’s minds about slavery? What was Uncle Tom’s Cabin? Who was the honorary president of the Underground Railroad? Can you fi nd Fountain City, Indiana, on a map? Why would it have been a good place for a stop on the Underground Railroad? Now fi nd Cincinnati. Would it also have been a good place for a stop?

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Read pages 44 to 59 in ☐ Th e Last Safe House. What were the swamp ghosts that Ben saw? Why did the man give Ben a skunk to drag along behind him? Look up the word vigilant in your dictionary and write down the meaning in your history notebook. Who told Ben to be vigilant? Why? Why do you think Ben’s master lied to him about what Canada would be like? Describe a day in the life of a plantation slave who worked in the fi elds. What was the cotton gin? Who invented it? Aft er the invention of the cotton gin, why did plantation owners want more slaves? Look up the word manumission in the dictionary and write down the meaning in your history notebook. Who freed Reuben? What might happen to a freed slave who did not have his papers with him to prove that he was no longer a slave? Name three diff erent bold, inventive ways that slaves escaped to freedom. Pretend that you are a slave plotting your escape. Write a story about your plan and the escape itself.

Read pages 60 to 75 in ☐ Th e Last Safe House. With a grown-up’s assistance, make the lantern described on page 60. How did Eliza learn to write her name? Why didn’t slave owners want their slaves to know how to read and write? Look up the word barouche in the dictionary. Write down the meaning in your history notebook. What do you think of Joanna’s friends? Why do they not want her to ride with them to the garden party? Why do you think it made Joanna mad? Why did being left out of the ride to the party make Joanna decide to help Eliza learn to read? Who was Frederick Douglass? How did he work to help end slavery? Why do you think storytelling was so important to slaves? Following the steps on page 74, practice telling a story (it can be “Brer Rabbit and the Tar Baby” or another story that you like). Tell the story to an audience!

Read pages 76 to 93 of ☐ Th e Last Safe House. How does Joanna’s father make a living? Why did people need barrels? Who is the stranger who is hanging around the cooperage? What song does Eliza sing? What happens when the stranger comes back? How does Eliza get away from him? What happened to former slaves if a slave catcher caught them? Look up the word unscrupulous in your dictionary. Write down the meaning in your history notebook. How were slave catchers unscrupulous? Who was Alexander Ross? What kinds of things did he do to help slaves? Look at the songs on pages 92 to 93. If you, a family member, or a friend can read music, try to sing the songs. Why do you think songs were important to slaves?

Read pages 94 to 115 of ☐ Th e Last Safe House. What is a sampler? What does Eliza write on her slate? Why does it make her cry? What do Joanna and Eliza do outside? Who sees them? Why do you think Caroline is rude to Eliza? How does Eliza fi nd out her mother is safe? Where is her mother? Why do you think Eliza leaves her doll behind? What other present does Eliza send to Joanna later? How was Eliza’s mother rescued?

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Now that she is free, what kind of work might Mrs. Jackson fi nd? What other jobs were available to former slaves? Now that Eliza can read, how might life be easier for her than for her mother? Aft er you’ve read about Josiah Henson, William King, and Mary Ann Shadd, tell someone about them. Try to use some of the storytelling techniques you learned earlier. Look up the word emancipation in your dictionary. Write down the meaning in your history notebook. What was the Emancipation Proclamation? Who signed it into law? When did he do so? What did the Emancipation Proclamation mean to the former slaves in Canada and the northern United States? With a grown-up’s assistance, make a cornhusk doll following the directions on page 108 of Th e Last Safe House. Dress the doll as Eliza might have done.

Main Lesson, Part Two

Read Read UILE pages 348 and 349. ☐Read CHOTW Chapter 80: Th e Daily Papers of 1845–1865, read from “Japanese News” to the end of the ☐

chapter.Read SOTW Chapter 5: Th e American Civil War. ☐

Look up the word secede in your dictionary. Write down the meaning in your history notebook.In SOTW Chapter 5, the author states that, when Abraham Lincoln fi rst called on the U.S. Army to fi ght ☐

the Confederate States, American citizens cheered and sang Th e Star Spangled Banner. Find the words and music to Th e Star Spangled Banner and learn the song if you don’t know it already.

Activity: Make a Flag. ☐ You will need: Two 9˝ x 12˝ sheets of construction paper, one red and one white One 8½˝ x 11̋ sheet of blue construction paper Ruler White paint, paint pen, or chalk (or use star stickers) Glue

Directions: First cut a rectangle that is 6˝ x 4˝ from the blue construction paper. Measure carefully. Next paint or draw white stars on the blue rectangle. If you want to make a Civil War-era fl ag, draw 36 stars—eight stars in the fi rst row, six in the second, eight in the third, six in the fourth, and eight in the fi ft h. If you’d like to make a modern fl ag with 50 stars, alternate drawing six stars in a row and then fi ve stars in a row until you have fi ve rows of six stars and four rows of fi ve stars. (You could use small star stickers instead.) Now, glue the blue

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rectangle to the upper left -hand corner of the white construction paper. Next, cut the red piece of construction paper into seven strips that are ¾˝ to 1̋ wide and 12˝ long. Trim the fi rst four strips so that they will fi t beside the blue rectangle. Now glue the red strips on the white paper. One red strip will be at the very top of the white paper next to the blue rectangle. Th en skip a space so that you have a white stripe next. Continue gluing the red strips, skipping spaces so that you have red and white stripes on your fl ag. Let your fl ag dry. Th en hang it up in your room. Now you have your own Star Spangled Banner!

One of Abraham Lincoln’s most famous speeches is the Gettysburg Address. Lincoln made this speech ☐in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on November 19, 1863. Lincoln made the speech four months aft er the Battle of Gettysburg at a dedication of the Soldiers’ National Cemetery in Gettysburg. Th e fi rst line is one of the most quoted lines in all of American history. Practice saying the line several times a day until you’ve committed it to memory:

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. What do you think Abraham Lincoln was talking about here? Why did he think it was important to mention that “all men are created equal” during the Civil War?

In your history notebook, write down two or more things you learned in this lesson along with keywords ☐and the names of important people and places. If you like, make up some more fact cards for your modern history game.

Book List:

Adler, David A. A Picture Book of Frederick Douglass (Holiday House) ISBN 0823412059 A Picture Book of Abraham Lincoln (Holiday House) ISBN 0823408019

American Girls series: Th e Addy books (American Girl)

Bains, Rae. Clara Barton, Angel of the Battlefi eld (Troll) ISBN 0893757535 Robert E. Lee, Brave Leader (Troll) ISBN 0816705461 Harriet Tubman: Th e Road to Freedom (Troll) ISBN 0893757616

Beatty, Patricia. Turn Homeward, Hannalee (HarperTrophy) ISBN 0688166768

Brandt, Keith. Abe Lincoln: Th e Young Years (Troll) ISBN 0816774358

Childhood of Famous Americans series (Bobbs-Merrill and Aladdin)

Civil War (DK Children) ISBN 078946988X

Cooper, Michael. From Slave to Civil War Hero: Th e Life and Times of Robert Smalls (Dutton Juvenile) ISBN 052567896

Copeland, Peter. Civil War Uniforms Coloring Book (Dover) ISBN 0486235351 Famous Women of the Civil War Coloring Book (Dover) ISBN 0486407993

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From Antietam to Gettysburg: A Civil War Coloring Book (Dover) ISBN 0486244768 Naval Battles of the Civil War Coloring Book (Dover) ISBN 0486288154 A Soldier’s Life in the Civil War (Dover) ISBN 0486415449 Th e Story of the Civil War (Dover) ISBN 0486265323 Th e Story of the Underground Railroad (Dover) ISBN 0486411583

Crane, Stephen. Th e Red Badge of Courage (Aladdin) ISBN 0689878354 Foster, Genevieve. Abraham Lincoln’s World. (Beautiful Feet) ISBN 1893103161

Freedman, Russell. Lincoln: A Photobiography (Scholastic) ISBN 059042145X

Hakim, Joy. History of US, Book 7: Reconstruction and Reform (1865-1896) (Oxford University Press) ISBN 0195127641 History of US, Book 6: War, Terrible War (1860-1865) (Oxford University Press) ISBN 0195127617

Henty, G.A. With Lee in Virginia (Preston-Speed Pub.) ISBN 1887159665

Herbert, Janis. Th e Civil War for Kids: A History with 21 Activities (Chicago Review Press) ISBN 1556523556

Hunt, Irene. Across Five Aprils (Berkley) ISBN 0425182789

Keith, Harold. Rifl es for Watie (HarperTeen) ISBN 006447030X

King, David C. Civil War Days: Discover the Past with Exciting Projects, Games, Activities, and Recipes (Jossey-Bass) ISBN 0471246123

Levine, Ellen. If You Lived at the Time of the Underground Railroad (Scholastic) ISBN 0590451561

Lincoln, Abraham. Gettysburg Address, illus. by Michael McCurdy (Houghton Miffl in) ISBN 0395883970

Murphy, Jim. Th e Boys’ War (Clarion) ISBN 0395664128

Osborn, Mary Pope. Aft er the Rain: Virginia’s Civil War Diary (Scholastic) ISBN 0439369045 A Time to Dance: Virginia’s Civil War Diary (Scholastic) ISBN 0439443432

Rappaport, Doreen. Freedom Ship (Jump at the Sun) ISBN 0786806451

Reit, Seymour. Behind Rebel Lines (Gulliver Books) ISBN 0152164278

Smith, A.G. Abraham Lincoln Coloring Book (Dover) 0486253619 Civil War Paper Dolls in Full Color: 100 Authentic Union and Confederate Soldiers (Dover) ISBN 0486249875

Tierney, Tom. Civil War Fashions Coloring Book (Dover) ISBN 0486296792

Weidt, Maryann N. Voice of Freedom: A Story about Frederick Douglass (Carolrhoda Books) ISBN 1575054590

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Date: ________________

Lesson Eight—America, 1865-1914Main Lesson, Part One:

In your history notebook, write the heading “America in the late 1800s.” ☐Read SOTW Chapter 15: Small Countries With Large Invaders - Th e Spanish-American War. ☐Read SOTW Chapter 16: Th e Expanding United States. ☐

Look up the words pioneer, territory, and philanthropist in your dictionary and write the defi nitions in your history notebook.

Long-term Project: “Invest” in the Stock Market ☐ In Chapter 16 of SOTW you learned about investing and stocks. Pretend that you have $1,000 you would like to invest. Th ink of some companies that make food, clothes, medicines, toys, books, music, movies or television programs or that provide services like hospitals or airlines. Pick four or fi ve of these companies. Now look at the stock pages in the newspaper or online. A typical stock page looks like this:

Ticker Company Name

Sales 100s Hi Low Last Change

ZZ Zebra

Zippers

1257 5.06 4.87 5.04 -.08

Ticker means the stock’s symbol. Company name is the name of the stock. Sales 100s means the number of shares traded on the last day that the stock traded. Th is number should be multiplied by 100. Just add two zeros to the number to get the actual number of shares traded. For example, on the last day of trading, 125,700 shares of Zebra Zippers stock were sold, not just 1,257 shares. Hi is the highest price per share that was paid for the stock on the last day it traded. Low is the lowest price per share that was paid for the stock on the last day it traded. Last is the last price per share paid for the stock on the last day it traded. Th is number might be the same as the Hi or Low or it will fall somewhere in between the Hi and Lo. Another name might be closing price. Change is how much the price changed from the day before the last day the stock traded to the last day the stock traded. For example, Tuesday the price for ZZ was $5.04 per share. Th is price is 8 cents lower than it was on Monday. If the price on Tuesday was higher than the price on Monday, then it would not have a minus sign in front of it.

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Can you fi nd the symbols for the companies you chose? What is today’s price for one share of each stock? Figure out how many of each stock you can buy out of your $1,000. Now write down the name of the stock, its symbol, how much you “paid” for each share, how many shares you “bought,” and how much you “paid” total for each stock. Each week look at your stocks again and fi nd out the current price for each share. On that same piece of paper write the new date and the new price per share. Calculate how much your shares are currently worth and write that down. Aft er two weeks, your sheet might look something like this:

Symbol Company Name Number of Shares Cost Per Share Total

ZZ Zippy Zippers 100 5.08 $500.80

YY Yak Yarn 10 36.42 $364.20

Week 2ZZ 5.28 $520.80

YY 35.89 $358.90

Week 3ZZ 5.30 $53.00

YY 30.89 $300.89

At the end of the Modern Times course, you can see if you “earned” or “lost” money.

Main Lesson, Part Two:

Read Read UILE pages 350 to 351. ☐Project: Make a “Wanted” Poster ☐

On Map 10, “United States and Mexico,” use your atlas to label Missouri, Oregon, and California. Use UILE ☐page 351 to create a route for the pioneers to get from the eastern United States to the western United States. Start the route in St. Louis, Missouri, and fi nish in Oregon or California. Record the route on the map key.

On page 351 in UILE is a picture of a wanted poster for Billy the Kid. Make up your own wanted poster for a Wild West outlaw. Your bandit could be real, like Jesse James or Belle Starr, or one you’ve made up. Include on your poster how much the reward is for the bandit’s capture, what he/she is wanted for and where he/she was last seen, and his/her name. Th e poster in the book does not have a picture, but you might want to put one on your poster. It could be a picture you draw or one you fi nd on the Internet or cut out of a magazine.

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Activity: Make a Pioneer Toy ☐ You learned that pioneer children did not have many toys, and those they had were relatively simple. One such toy that you can easily make at home was oft en called a Button Buzz Saw. You will need: 36˝ of heavy thread 1 big, round, and fl at button with either two or four holes

Write down two or more things that you learned in this lesson. Also include keywords and the names of ☐important people and places. If you like, make up some more fact cards for your modern history game.

Book List:

Adler, David A. A Picture Book of Helen Keller (Holiday House) ISBN 0823409503

Ballard, Robert. Exploring the Titanic (Scholastic) ISBN 0590419528

Bunting, Eve. Train to Somewhere (Clarion) ISBN 0618040315

Childhood of Famous American series (Bobbs-Merrill and Aladdin)

Clements, Barthe. Bite of the Gold Bug: A Story of the Alaskan Gold Rush (Puffi n) ISBN 0140360816

Coerr, Eleanor. Big Balloon Race (HarperTrophy) ISBN 0064440532

Copeland, Peter. Powell’s Colorado River Expedition Coloring Book (Dover) ISBN 048627526 Western Pioneers Coloring Book (Dover) ISBN 0486294110

Davidson, Margaret. Helen Keller (Scholastic) ISBN 0590424041

Denenberg, B. So Far From Home (Scholastic) ISBN 043955506X

Donnelly, Judy. Titanic, Lost and Found (Random House Books for Young Readers) ISBN 0394886690

Eyewitness: Cowboy. (DK Children) ISBN 0789458543

Directions: Put one end of your thread through one of the button holes. Put the other end through another button hole. Tie the ends together. Hold one end of the thread loop with the index fi nger of one hand and the other end with your other index fi nger. Try to get the button toward the middle of the loop. Spin the button to twist the thread tighter and tighter. Now stop spinning and pull on either end of the thread loop to release the twist.

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Freedman, Russell. Cowboys of the Wild West (Clarion) ISBN 0395548004 Th e Wright Brothers: How Th ey Invented the Airplane (Holiday House) ISBN 082341082X

Fritz, Jean. Bully for You, Teddy Roosevelt (Putnam Juvenile) ISBN 0698116097 You Want Women to Vote, Lizzie Stanton? (Putnam Juvenile) ISBN 0698117646

Gross, Virginia T. Th e Day It Rained Forever (Puffi n) ISBN 0140345671

Hakim, Joy. A History of US, Book 7: Reconstructing America 1865-1890 (Oxford University Press) ISBN 0195153324 A History of US, Book 8: An Age of Extremes 1890-1917 (Oxford University Press) ISBN 0195153340

Henty, G.A. In the Heart of the Rockies (BiblioBazaar) ISBN 1426431600

Kudlinski, Kathleen. Earthquake! A Story of Old San Francisco (Puffi n) ISBN 0140363904

Landmark series (Random House)

Lawson, Robert; Great Wheel (Walker Books for Young Readers) ISBN 0802777058

Lasky, Kathryn. Dreams in the Golden Country (Scholastic) ISBN 0590029738

Lenski, Lois. Strawberry Girl (HarperTrophy) ISBN 0064405850

Levine, Ellen. If You Lived at the Time of the Great San Francisco Earthquake (Scholastic) ISBN 059045157X

Levinson, Nancy. If You Lived in the Alaska Territory (Scholastic) ISBN 0590744492

Littlefi eld, Holly. Fire at the Triangle Factory (Carolrhoda) ISBN 0876148682

London, Jack. Call of the Wild (Scholastic) ISBN 0439227143 White Fang (Scholastic) ISBN 0439236193

McGovern, Ann. If You Lived 100 Years Ago (Scholastic) ISBN 0590960016

McKissack, Patricia. Run Away Home (Scholastic) ISBN 0590467522

McCully, E.A. Bobbin Girl (Viking Penguin) ISBN 0140561862

Monjo, F.N. One Bad Th ing About Father (Teddy Roosevelt) (Harpercollins) ISBN 0060243333

Murphy, Jim. Th e Great Fire (Scholastic) ISBN 0590472666

Nixon, Joan Lowry. Ellis Island series and Orphan Train Quartet (both from Laurel Leaf)

O’Neil, Zibby. Long Way to Go (Puffi n) ISBN 0140329501

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Reedstrom, E.L. Legendary Outlaws and Lawmen of the Old West Coloring Book (Dover) 0486259951

Rickman, David. Cowboys of the Old West Coloring Book (Dover) ISBN 0486250016

Smith, A.G. Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island Coloring Book (Dover) ISBN 0486249662

Twain, Mark. Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Whole Story) (Viking Juvenile) ISBN 0670869856

Wetterer, Margaret. Kate Shelley and the Midnight Express (Carolrhoda) ISBN 0876145411

Wild West (DK Children) ISBN 0756610974

Wilder, Laura Ingalls. Little House in the Big Woods (and the rest of the series) (HarperTrophy) ISBN 0060885378

Yep, Laurence. Dragon’s Gate (HarperTrophy) ISBN 0064404897 Dragonwings (HarperTrophy) ISBN 0064400859

Date: ________________

Lesson Nine—Inventions and Technology 1850-1900

Main Lesson, Part One:

In your history notebook, write the heading “Inventions and Technology In the Late 1800s.” ☐Read SOTW Chapter 8: Becoming Modern - Rails, Zones, and Bulbs. ☐

Look up the words standardized and fi lament in your dictionary and write the defi nitions in your history notebook.

Read CHOTW Chapter 79: From Pan and His Pipes to the Phonograph. ☐Read CHOTW Chapter 82: Th e Age of Miracles. ☐Read Chapter 1 of ☐ Th e Story of Th omas Alva Edison by Margaret Cousins.

Why did Al stop going to school? How did homeschooling prepare Al to be an inventor? Why did Al want to be a candy butcher?

Read chapters 2 and 3 of ☐ Th e Story of Th omas Alva Edison. When did Al start losing his hearing? Who was his favorite author? What kinds of things did Al like to do in the railroad yard? How did Al convince his father to let him stay up past 11 pm? Why do you think Mr. McKenzie off ered to teach Al about telegraphy? How did Al get his job at the Grand Trunk Railway?

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For what reasons was Tom frequently fi red? What joke did the operators in Boston play on Tom? Did the joke work? Why or why not?

Read Chapter 4 of ☐ Th e Story of Th omas Alva Edison. What was Tom’s fi rst invention and why was it considered a failure? Tom arrived in New York City hungry and without a cent. How did he get something to eat? What happened when Tom tried to cash General Leff ert’s check? What did Tom do with the money?

Read Chapter 5 of ☐ Th e Story of Th omas Alva Edison. What happened when Tom sold his quadruplex telegraph machine? Describe Menlo Park. Who invented the telephone? How did Tom improve upon it? What was Edison’s inspiration for inventing the phonograph? How many of Edison’s predictions about the uses of the phonograph came true?

Main Lesson, Part Two:

Read Chapter 6 of ☐ Th e Story of Th omas Alva Edison. What is a micro-tasimeter? Who was Bill Wallace and what was he trying to invent? What kinds of power did Edison think could be converted to electricity? How many diff erent kinds of fi lament did Edison try in his electric lamp?

Read Chapter 7 of ☐ Th e Story of Th omas Alva Edison. What kinds of things had to be developed so that Edison could provide cheap electric power for his light bulbs? What all did Edison do to ensure his new electric system would work successfully? Was it a success? Why did people prefer electric train engines over steam? Why do you think Edison and his family caused such a sensation in Paris? Why were they there? What inspired Edison to invent motion pictures? What was the Black Maria? Where would Edison sleep in his offi ce?

Read Chapter 8 of ☐ Th e Story of Th omas Alva Edison. How does the author say Edison achieved greatness? How was being stubborn both a help and a hindrance to Edison? Edison believed that people would want to choose their own music and would not listen to the radio. Th ink about today’s world of CDs, radio, and iPods. Do you think Edison was ultimately correct? What is mastoiditis? With whom did Edison like to go camping? What was the invention that Edison was working on when he died? What was the inspiration behind it?

Read Chapter 9 and the author’s note in ☐ Th e Story of Th omas Alva Edison. What did Edison say genius really was? What did he say about thinking? What roles did curiosity, problem-solving, and optimism play in Edison’s life? Why does the author admire Edison so? Do you? Why or why not?

Memorize “Th e Rainy Day” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Th is is the poem that Edison loved. ☐

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Th e Rainy Day by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Th e day is cold, and dark, and dreary; It rains, and the wind is never weary; Th e vine still clings to the moldering wall, But at every gust the dead leaves fall, And the day is dark and dreary.

My life is cold, and dark, and dreary;It rains, and the wind is never weary;My thoughts still cling to the moldering Past,But the hopes of youth fall thick in the blastAnd the days are dark and dreary.

Be still, sad heart! And cease repining;Behind the clouds is the sun still shining;Th y fate is the common fate of all,Into each life some rain must fall,Some days must be dark and dreary.

Write down at least two things you learned in this lesson along with keywords and the names of ☐important people and places. If you like, make up some more fact cards for your modern history game.

Reminder: Check on your stocks. Note the current prices for the shares. Are you “making” or “losing” ☐money on them? Be sure to write down the information on your stock sheet.

Book List:

Adler, David. A Picture Book of George Washington Carver (Holiday House) ISBN 082341633X A Picture Book of Louis Braille (Holiday House) ISBN 0823414132

Bedard, Michael. Emily (Emily Dickinson) (Dragonfl y) ISBN 0440417406 Glass Town: Th e Secret World of the Bronte Children (Atheneum) ISBN 0689811853

Childhood of Famous Americans series (Bobbs-Merrilll and Aladdin)

Cook, James. Th e Th omas Edison Book of Easy and Incredible Experiments (Jossey-Bass) ISBN 0471620904

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Driscoll, Laura. George Washington Carver: Th e Peanut Wizard (Grosset & Dunlap) ISBN 0448432439

Fisher, Leonard Everett. Alexander Graham Bell (Atheneum) ISBN 0689816073

Freedman, Russell. Out of the Darkness: Th e Story of Louis Braille (Clarion) ISBN 0395968887

Gaber, Susan. Favorite Poems for Children Coloring Book (Dover) ISBN 0486239233

Great Scientists (DK Children) ISBN 0756629748

Harness, Cheryl. Mark Twain and the Queens of the Mississippi (Tandem) ISBN 0613617959

Hill, Ralph N. Doctors Who Conquered Yellow Fever (Random Library) ISBN 0394903781

Hornung, Clarence. Automobiles Coloring Book (Dover) ISBN 0486227421 Invention. (DK Children) ISBN 0756610753

Jakab, E.A.M. Louis Pasteur: Hunting Killer Germs (McGraw-Hill) ISBN 0071343342

Johnson, Jane. My Dear Noel (Beatrix Potter) (Dial) ISBN 0803720513

Kane, Harnett T. Young Mark Twain (Random House Books for Young Readers) ISBN 0394891821

Klingel, Cynthia. Alexander Graham Bell: Inventor (Child’s World) ISBN 1567663672

LaFontaine, Bruce. Great Inventors and Inventions Coloring Book (Dover) ISBN 0486297845

Lasky, Kathryn. A Brilliant Streak: Th e Making of Mark Twain (Harcourt Children’s Books) ISBN 0152521100

McClaff erty, Carla Killough. Something Out of Nothing: Marie Curie and Radium (Farrar, Straus, & Giroux) ISBN 0374380368

McCully, Emily Arnold. Marvelous Mattie: How Margaret E. Knight Became an Inventor (Farrar, Straus, & Giroux) ISBN 0374348103 Popcorn at the Palace (Browndeer Press) ISBN 0152776990

McPherson, Stephanie. Rooft op Astronomer (Maria Mitchell) (Carolrhoda) ISBN 0876144725)

Mitchell, Barbara. America, I Hear You (Gershwin) (Carolrhoda) ISBN 0876143095 Click! A Story About George Eastman (Carolrhoda) ISBN 0876144725

Raggin’: A Story about Scott Joplin (Carolrhoda) ISBN 0876143109 Pocketful of Goobers (George Washington Carver) (Carolrhoda) ISBN 0876144741 Shoes for Everyone (Carolrhoda) ISBN 0876144733

O’Connor, Barbara. Th e World at His Fingertips: A Story about Louis Braille (Lerner) ISBN 1575054612

Prince, April Jones. Who Was Mark Twain? (Grosset & Dunlap) ISBN 0448433192

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Reid, Struan. Th e Usborne Book of Discovery: Inventors/Scientists/Explorers (grades 3-7) (Educational Development Corp.) ISBN 074601872X

Sabin, Francene. Louis Pasteur: Young Scientist (Troll) ISBN 089375854X

Shippen, K.B. Mr. Bell Invents the Telephone (Random House Books for Young Readers) ISBN 0394853385

Stanley, Diane. Charles Dickens (HarperCollins) ISBN 0688091105

Stein, R. Conrad. Golden Spike (Children’s Press) ISBN 0516446215

Wetterer, Margaret. Clyde Tombough and Th e Search for Planet X (Carolrhoda) ISBN 0876148933

Date: ________________

Lesson Ten—Around the World Again, 1900-1914

Main Lesson, Part One:

In your history notebook, write the heading “Around the World Again, 1900-1914.” ☐Read SOTW Chapter 17: China’s Troubles - Th e Czar and the Admiral. ☐

Look up the word diplomacy in your dictionary and write the defi nition in your history notebook. Why were the Russians not afraid of the Japanese military? How did the Japanese prove the Russians wrong?

On Map 4, use the map found in your last reading of SOTW to label the cities of Haerbin, Mukden, and ☐Port Arthur. Do you see why the Russians thought they might be able to attack Korea from Port Arthur?

Read SOTW Chapter 18: Europe and the Countries Just East - Persia, Its Enemies and Its “Friends.” ☐ Why was oil so important to Great Britain? Why did Russia want control of Persia? In this Chapter, you learned that “shah” is the Persian word for “king.” Can you think of other words for “king” or “caesar”? What is the Russian word? Th e German word? Write down as many words for “king” or “caesar” as you can think of in your history notebook.

Read SOTW Chapter 18: Europe and the Countries Just East - Th e Balkan Mess ☐ Do you think the title of this section, “Th e Balkan Mess,” is a good title? Why or why not?

Use the map found in the last reading of SOTW to label the following on Map 11, “Th e Balkans and Eastern ☐Europe Prior to World War I”: Croatia Bosnia Russian Empire Adriatic Sea Montenegro Serbia Austro-Hungarian Empire Albania Macedonia Italy Greece Bulgaria Black Sea Anatolia Romania Mediterranean Sea

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Main Lesson, Part Two:

Read SOTW Chapter 19: China, Vietnam—and France - Th e Last Emperor. ☐ Look up the word abdicate in your dictionary and write the meaning in your history notebook. Would you like to grow up like Henry Puyi?

Activity: Tangrams ☐ Did you know that tangrams were invented by the Chinese? If you don’t have your own set of tangrams, you can make your own. You will need: Blank sheet of paper Poster board, cardstock, or cardboard Glue Scissors Colored markers

Directions: Draw a 4˝ x 4˝ square on the piece of blank paper. Fold the square or use a ruler to create a sixteen-square grid as shown in fi gure 1. Draw the design on your square of paper to create seven pieces (fi gure 2). Color the pieces, if you like. Glue the square to the poster board, cardstock, or cardboard. Cut out the individual pieces (fi gure 3). See if you can use your tangram set to make a cat, a person, a bird, or other designs. If you make several sets in diff erent colors, you will be able to make more designs with them.

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Read SOTW Chapter 19: China, Vietnam—and France - Th e Vietnamese Restoration Society. ☐ What did the Viet Nam Quang Phuc Hoi (Vietnamese Restoration Society) want? Who was its leader? Was he successful? Why is he still regarded as a Vietnamese patriot?

Use the map in last reading of SOTW to label the following on Map 12, “French Indo-China”: ☐ Siam Laos Vietnam Cambodia China South China Sea Shade the area of Indo-China your favorite color (Laos, Vietnam, and Cambodia). Look in your atlas to fi nd the modern-day name of Siam.

Read SOTW Chapter 20: Revolutions In the Americas ... War In the World - Th e Mexican Revolution. ☐ Look up the word armory in your dictionary and write the defi nition in your history notebook. Why did the Mexican people not like President Diaz? Why was Francisco Madero not successful in his eff orts to make Mexico more democratic?

On Map 10, label Mexico, Mexico City, Ciudad Juárez, the Gulf of Mexico, Pacifi c Ocean, and San Antonio. ☐Trace the Rio Grande in blue. Shade in that portion of Mexico that was in rebellion (within the dashed lines and the Rio Grande). Record this area on the map key. Use the map in the last reading of SOTW to assist you with this map.

Write down at least two things that you learned in this lesson along with keywords and the names of ☐important people and places. If you like, make up some more fact cards for your modern history game.

Reminder: Check on your stocks. What are the current prices of the shares? Are you making or losing ☐money? Be sure to write down the information on your stock sheet.

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Book List:

Childhood of Famous Americans series (Bobbs-Merrill and Aladdin)

Geeslin, Campbell. Elena’s Serenade (Atheneum/Anne Schwartz) ISBN 0689849087

Hakim, Joy. History of US, Book 8: An Age of Extremes 1880-1917 (Oxford University Press) ISBN 0195153340

Ibbotson, Eva. Th e Star of Kazan (Puffi n) ISBN 0142405825

Jaff e, Nina. Cow of No Color: Riddle Stories and Justice Tales from Around the World (Henry Holt and Co.) ISBN 0805037365

Kimmel, Eric. Cactus Soup (Michael Cavendish Children’s Books) ISBN 0761451552

Lovelace, Maud Hart. Betsy and the Great World (HarperTrophy) ISBN 0064405451

Menick, Stephen. Th e Muffi n Child (Philomel) ISBN 0399233032

Milord, Susan. Mexico: 40 Activities to Experience Mexico Past and Present (Williamson Publishing Co.) ISBN 1885593228

Ogburn, Jacqueline K. Th e Magic Nesting Doll (Puffi n) ISBN 0142500658

Roberts, J.M. Th e European Empires (Th e Illustrated History of the World, Vol. 8) (Oxford University Press) ISBN 0195215265

Shea, Pegi Deitz. Ten Mice for Tet (Chronicle) ISBN 0811823964

Venezia, Mike. Getting to Know the World’s Greatest Artists series (Children’s Press)

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Date: ________________

Lesson Eleven—World War IMain Lesson, Part One:

In your history notebook, write the heading “World War I.” ☐Read SOTW Chapter 20: Revolutions In the Americas ... War In the World - World War I. ☐

Look up the words ally, draft , front, and cryptographer in your dictionary and write the defi nitions in your history notebook. Can you name two things that caused the United States to enter World War I?

Read CHOTW Chapter 84: A World at War. ☐Read UILE pages 358-359. ☐On Map 11, use the map on page 359 of UILE to label Portugal, France, Spain, Belgium, the Netherlands, ☐

the German Empire, Great Britain, and Switzerland. Color the countries which fought for the Allied cause one color. Color the countries that fought for the Central Powers another color. Complete the map key.

On the next page is a famous poem about World War I written by John McCrae, a Canadian. You can ☐memorize the poem by saying it several times each day until you have committed it to memory. McCrae lived from 1872 to 1918. He served in the artillery in the Second Boer War. As a member of the British Empire, Canada declared war on Germany when Britain did in 1914, and McCrae served as a surgeon in Ypres. Later in the war, he was put in charge of a military hospital and died there of pneumonia and meningitis. “In Flanders Fields” was published in many newspapers and magazines in the United States before the U.S. made the decision to enter the war. How did McCrae intend for the reader to feel about the war?

Main Lesson, Part Two:

Read SOTW Chapter 21: A Revolution Begins, and the Great War Ends - Th e End of World War I. ☐ Look up the words armistice and suff rage in your dictionary and write the defi nitions in your history notebook. How did World War I help women get to vote in Britain and the United States?

Read SOTW Chapter 23: “Peace” and a Man of War - Th e Peace of Versailles. ☐ What was the League of Nations? Whose idea was it? Why did Congress not want the United States to join the League of Nations?

On Map 13, “Europe Aft er World War I,” label the countries and water areas as they are labeled in Chapter ☐23 of SOTW. Take out Map 11, which shows Europe prior to World War I. Compare Map 11 to Map 13. Map 13 shows Europe aft er the Peace of Versailles was signed and World War I was over. Was the new division of countries a good one? Were the citizens of those countries happy with the Peace of Versailles? Why or why not?

In Flanders Fieldsby John McCrae

In Flanders fi elds the poppies blowBetween the crosses, row on row, Th at mark our place; and in the sky Th e larks, still bravely singing, fl yScarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days agoWe lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved and were loved, and now we lie In Flanders fi elds.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:To you from failing hands we throw Th e torch; be yours to hold it high. If ye break faith with us who dieWe shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders fi elds.

Project: Paper Poppies ☐ Since the publication of “In Flanders Fields,” red poppies have become a symbol of remembrance for those who have fought in wartime in many countries, including Canada, Australia, and the United States. Sometimes veterans’ organizations sell paper poppies on Veterans or Remembrance Day. You can make your own poppy or poppies, if you like. You will need: Red tissue, crepe, or copy paper Green or black paper Green or black pipe cleaners Clear tape Glue

Write down at least two things you learned in this lesson along with keywords and the names of important ☐people and places. If you like, make up some more fact cards for your modern history game.

Reminder: Check on your stock. What are the current prices per share? Are you making or losing money? ☐Be sure to write down the information on your stock sheet.

Directions: Cut out the petal template found on the next page. Trace around the template on your red paper. You will need to trace and cut out four petals for each fl ower you want to make. For each fl ower you plan to make, cut a circle about the size of a U.S. dime (3/4˝ or 1 ½ cm. in diameter) from the green or black paper. Tape the long, skinny ends of two of the petals to the end of the pipe cleaner on opposite sides. Tape the other two petals to the end of the pipe cleaner so that they fi ll in the gaps left by the fi rst two petals. Now glue the round piece of green or black paper to the center of your fl ower. Voilá! Now you have a paper poppy!

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Poppy fl ower template:

Example of a completed poppy fl ower:

Book List:

Bradley, Kimberly. Ruthie’s Gift (Tandem) ISBN 0613228057

Castor, Henry. America’s First World War: General Pershing (Random House Children’s Books) ISBN 0394903773

Daniel, Anita. Story of Albert Schweitzer (Random House) ISBN 039480533X

Feldman, Ruth Tenzer. World War I (Lerner) ISBN 0822501481

Glendinning, Richard. Stubby: Brave Soldier Dog (Garrard) ISBN 0811648648

Gurney, Gene. Flying Aces of WWI (Random House Trade) ISBN 0394805607

Hakim, Joy. Story of US, Book 8: An Age of Extremes 1880-1917 (Oxford University Press) ISBN 0195153340

Havill, Juanita. Eyes Like Willy’s (HarperCollins) ISBN 0688136729

Kinsey-Warnock, Natalie. Th e Night the Bells Rang (Puffi n) ISBN 0141309865

Kudlinski, Kathleen V. Hero Over Here (Viking Juvenile) ISBN 067083050X

Lasky, Kathryn. Marven of the Great North Woods (Voyager) ISBN 0152168265

Levine, Beth Seidel. When Christmas Comes Again (Scholastic) ISBN 0439439825

Little, Jean. His Banner Over Me (Penguin Global) ISBN 0140377611 MacLean, Alistair. Lawrence of Arabia (Sterling) ISBN 1402736134

Maybury, Richard. World War I: Th e Rest of the Story and How It Aff ects You (Bluestocking Press) ISBN 0942617428

McCutcheon, John. Christmas in the Trenches (Peachtree Publishers) ISBN 1561453749

Montgomery, Lucy Maud. Rilla of Ingleside (Starfi re) ISBN 0553269224

Mukerji, Dhan Gopal. Gay Neck, Story of a Pigeon (Dutton Juvenile) ISBN 0525304002

Rabin, Staton. Casey Over Th ere (Harcourt) ISBN 0152531866

Reeder, Red. Bold Leaders of WWI (Little, Brown) ISBN 016736716 Medal of Honor Heroes (Random House) ASIN B0006BMNJY

Ross, Stewart. Causes and Consequences of WWI (Raintree) ISBN 0817240578

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Seredy, Kate. Th e Singing Tree (Puffi n) ISBN 0140345434

Sisson, Kathryn C. and Cathy Morrison. Eddie Rickenbacker: Boy Pilot and Racer (Patria Press) ISBN 1882859138

Skuzynski, Gloria. Goodbye, Billy Radish (Aladdin) 0689804431

Voight, Cynthia. Tree by Leaf (Aladdin) ISBN 0689835272

Wells, Rosemary. Th e Language of Doves (Dial) ISBN 0803714718

World War I (DK Eyewitness Guides) (Dorling Kindersley) ISBN 1405302984

Wright, Nicolas. Th e Red Baron (McGraw Hill) ISBN 0070720401

Yeats, W.B. “An Irish Airman Foresees His Death”

Date: ________________

Lesson Twelve—Th e Rise of FascismMain Lesson:

In your history notebook, write the heading “Th e Rise of Fascism.” ☐Read UILE pages 360-361. ☐Read SOTW Chapter 21: A Revolution Begins, and the Great War Ends - Th e Russian Revolution. ☐

For what reasons had the Russian royal family become unpopular with their subjects? Look up the words hemophilia and communism in your dictionary and write the defi nitions in your history notebook. How did World War I make Czar Nicholas II even more unpopular? Who was Lenin?

Read UILE pages 362-363. ☐Read CHOTW Chapter 89: A New ☐ BIG POWER in the World. Read SOTW Chapter 23: “Peace” and a Man of War - Th e Rise of Joseph Stalin. ☐

Look up the words totalitarian, fascist, and dissident in your dictionary and write the defi nitions in your history notebook. What kinds of things did Stalin do to control the people of Russia?

Read SOTW Chapter 24: Th e King and II Duce - Fascism in Italy. ☐ From where did the word “fascist” come? Why did Mussolini drive a tractor around Italy?

Read Read UILE pages 368-369. ☐Read SOTW Chapter 26: Th e Great Crash, and What Came of It - Hitler’s Rise to Power. ☐

Look up the words reparations and anti-Semitism in your dictionary and write the defi nitions in your history notebook.

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Why do you think Hitler was able to rise to power in Germany?Read SOTW Chapter 27: Civil War and Invasion - Red Spain, Black Spain, a King, and a General. ☐

Look up the word coronate in your dictionary and write the defi nition in your history notebook.

Writing Project: Write an Editorial / Film a Newsreel ☐ Several British and American writers fought in the Spanish Civil War, including George Orwell and Ernest Hemingway.

Challenge: On a blank sheet of paper, use a ruler to draw lines and create a table with four columns and ☐four rows. (On a table, columns run up and down while rows run side to side.) Across the top of the table, label the fi rst column “Russia,” the second column “Italy,” the third column “Germany,” and the fourth column “Spain.” Label the fi rst row “Monarch,” the second row “Opposition party and leader,” the third row “Treaty of Versailles,” and the fourth row “Conditions leading to takeover.” Your table should look like this:

Russia Italy Germany Spain

Monarch

Opposition party and leader

Treaty of Versailles

Conditions leading to takeover

Fill out everything on the chart to the best of your ability. In the section labeled “Monarch, “ write the names of the monarchs who were ruling the country. In the section labeled “Opposition party and leader” write the names of the leader and party that were in control during this time. In the column labeled “Treaty of Versailles,” write down what the country gained or lost because of the treaty. In the column labeled “Conditions leading to take over,” write down events that were taking place in the country that allowed the takeover. Looking at your chart, what similarities do you see among these four countries? What diff erences? Keep this chart in your history notebook.

Directions: Pretend you are a British or American writer fi ghting for the Popular Front. Write a newspaper article about your experiences to send to a paper back home. Be sure to include a title, byline (who wrote the article), dateline (where the article was written), as well as the 5 W’s and an H—where, when, who, what, why, and how. When your article is done, check spelling and grammar. Make a clean, fresh corrected copy. If you like, you may read the article to your family or friends. You could also read it into a tape or video recorder as if you were on the radio or doing a newsreel. Before television, news was oft en fi lmed and shown in movie theatres before the movie played. Th ese news pieces were called newsreels. Put your article in your history notebook.

Read SOTW Chapter 27: Civil War and Invasion - Rebuilding the “Fatherland.” ☐ Why didn’t the United States and the rest of Europe stop Hitler when he began breaking the terms of the Treaty of Versailles by building a huge army and annexing Austria and Czechoslovakia?

On Map 13, use your atlas or the map in SOTW to label Czechoslovakia and Poland if you didn’t already ☐label them in Lesson 11. Label the cities of Warsaw, Munich, and Vienna.

Read CHOTW Chapter 86: Modern ☐ Barbarians. Look up the word laconic in your dictionary and write the defi nition in your history notebook.

Write down two or more things that you learned in this lesson along with keywords and the names of ☐important people and places. If you like, make up some more fact cards for your modern history game.

Remember to check on your stocks and write down the new prices and totals! ☐

Book List:

Altman, Linda Jacobs. Hitler’s Rise to Power and the Holocaust (Enslow) ISBN 0766019918

Bartoletti, Susan Campbell. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler’s Shadow (Scholastic Nonfi ction) ISBN 0439353793

Cech, John. My Grandmother’s Journey (Tandem) ISBN 0613055454

Gogerly, Liz. Adolph Hitler (Raintree) ISBN 0739852566

Grahame, Kenneth. Th e Wind in the Willows (Aladdin) ISBN 068971310X

Hakim, Joy. History of US, Book 9: War, Peace, and All Th at Jazz (1918-1945) (Oxford University Press) ISBN 0195153367

Haugen, Brenda. Benito Mussolini: Fascist Italian Dictador (Compass Point Books) ISBN 075651892X

Hautzig, Esther. Endless Steppe (HarperTrophy) ISBN 006440577X

Hesse, Karen. Letters from Rifk a (Puffi n) ISBN 0140363912

Kerr, Judith. When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit (Putnam Juvenile) ISBN 0698115899

Morpurgo, Michael. Toro! Toro! (HarperSport) ISBN 0007107188

Roberts, Jeremy. Benito Mussolini (Lerner) ISBN 0822526484

Seuss, Dr. Yertle the Turtle (Random House Books for Young Readers) ISBN 0394800877

Skrypuch, Marsha Forchuk. Enough (Fitzhenry & Whiteside) ISBN 155041884X

Whelan, Gloria. Th e Impossible Journey (HarperTrophy) ISBN 0064410838

Zuehlke, Jeff rey. Joseph Stalin (21st Century Books) ISBN 0822534215

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The Long March

Date: ________________

Lesson Th irteen—Between the World Wars

Main Lesson, Part One:

In your history notebook, write the heading “Between the World Wars.” ☐Read UILE pages 364-365. ☐Read SOTW Chapter 25: Armies in China - Japan, China, and a Pretend Emperor. ☐

What was the National Revolutionary Army and who was its leader? How did the Japanese military capture Manchuria? Did Emperor Hirohito and his government know about this action? Why did they later approve of it?

Read SOTW Chapter 25: Armies in China - Th e Long March. ☐ What was Chiang Kai-shek’s role model for the new China? Who emerged as a leader of the Chinese Communist Party? Why did Mao Zedong lead his followers on the Long March? How did the March help Mao become more popular? Why did Chiang Kai-shek decide it was time to end the civil war?

Color “Th e Long March” coloring page. ☐On Map 4, write the alternative name for Manchuria (“Manchukuo”) in parentheses. Next mark the path of ☐

the Long March. Use the map in SOTW Chapter 25 for assistance. Complete the map key. Read UILE pages 366-367. ☐Read SOTW Chapter 26: Th e Great Crash and What Became of It - Black Tuesday and a New Deal. ☐

Look up the word depression in your dictionary and write the defi nition in your history notebook. Why did some Americans say, “FDR is making alphabet soup for the USA?” How did FDR’s New Deal help the U.S. come out of the Great Depression?

Read CHOTW Chapter 85: A Short Twenty Years. ☐Th e board game Monopoly was introduced in 1933. If you’ve ever played Monopoly, you know the goal of ☐

the game is to own as much property and to make as much money as you can. Why do you think such a game would appeal to people in the Great Depression? If you have a Monopoly set, play a game!

Read SOTW Chapter 22: National Uprisings - Th e Easter Uprising. ☐ Look up the word boycott in your dictionary and write the defi nition in your history notebook. What is the history of the word boycott?

Sinn Féin and the IRA are still in existence today. Look in newspapers, news magazines, and online to fi nd ☐out who the leaders are and what they are doing now. Tell an adult family member or friend what Sinn Féin and the IRA were like in 1916 and what they are like now.

Read the William Butler Yeats poem “Th e Lake Isle of Innisfree” found on page 63 of this guide. Innisfree ☐in County Sligo, Ireland. See if you can fi nd it on a map of Ireland. Memorize Yeats’ poem by saying it several times a day until you know it by heart. Using some of the storytelling skills you learned from Th e Last Safe House in the Civil War lesson, recite the poem for family and friends. Color the cabin.

On Map 6, use the map in Chapter 22 of SOTW to label and shade Ulster. Label Dublin. ☐

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Main Lesson, Part Two:

Read SOTW Chapter 22: National Uprisings - Indian Nationalism. ☐ What does satyagraha mean? Write the defi nition in your history notebook. Look up the word massacre and write the defi nition in your history notebook.

On Map 2, label Amritsar. ☐Read CHOTW Chapter 88: A New Spirit in the World. ☐Read the book ☐ Gandhi: Peaceful Warrior by Rae Bains, another short Gandhi biography, or several

encyclopedia articles about him. Pretend you are interviewing someone who knew Gandhi very well. Write down the questions you would ask them about Gandhi and the answers they might give. Along with details about Gandhi’s life, you might ask what they think his legacy is. Aft er you check your spelling and grammar, rewrite your interview in your best handwriting and put it in your history notebook.

Read SOTW Chapter 24: Th e King and II Duce - Th e First King of Egypt. ☐ How did the Egyptian national independence movement Wafd get its name? What three powers were struggling for control of Egypt?

Challenge: See if you can match the names on the left to the descriptions on the right. ☐

William Gladstone

Al Capone

Fu’ad I

Amritsar

Charles Lindbergh

Sinn Fein

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

William Butler Yeats

Mao Zedong

Congress Party

Hirohito

Herbert Hoover

Henry Puyi

Mohandas Gandhi

Chiang Kai-shek

Last Qing emperor

First person to fl y solo across the Atlantic Ocean

U.S. president

Irish poet

U.S. gangster

Leader of Kuomintang

Indian political party

First king of modern independent Egypt

British prime minister

Japanese emperor

Another U.S. president

Irish resistance group

Indian holy city, site of a massacre

Leader of the Chinese Communist Party

Indian lawyer who advocated passive resistance

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Write down at least two things you learned in this lesson along with keywords and the names of important ☐people and places. If you like, make up some more fact cards for your modern history game.

Don’t forget to take a look at how your stocks are doing and update your stock sheet! ☐

Book List:Adler, David A. A Picture Book of Amelia Earhart (Holiday House) ISBN 0823415171

American Girls series (Kit) (American Girl)

Bagnold, Enid. National Velvet (HarperTrophy) ISBN 0380810565

Bains, Rae. Gandhi: Peaceful Warrior (Scholastic) ISBN 0439667607

Brandt, Keith. Babe Ruth: Home Run Hero (Troll) ISBN 0816705542

Burch, Robert. Ida Early Comes Over the Mountain (Puffi n) ISBN 0140345345

Celenza, Anna Harwell. Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue (Charlesbridge) ISBN 1570915563

Childhood of Famous Americans series (Bobbs-Merrill and Aladdin)

Curtis, Christopher Paul. Bud, Not Buddy (Laurel Leaf) ISBN 0553494104

Dahlberg, Maurine. Play to the Angel (Puffi n) ISBN 0142301450

Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee. Neela, Victory Song (American Girl) ISBN 1584855215

Feinberg, Barbara. Black Tuesday: Th e Stock Market Crash of 1929 (Millbrook Press) ISBN 1562945742

Flegg, Aubrey. Katie’s War: A Story of the Irish Civil War (O’Brien Press) ISBN 0862785251

Francis, Dorothy. Northern Ireland (Millbrook Press) ISBN 0761322523

Freedman, Russell. Children of the Great Depression (Clarion) ISBN 0618446303 Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery (Clarion) ISBN 0395845203 Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Clarion) ISBN 0395629780

Gilbreth, Frank and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey. Cheaper by the Dozen (HarperTorch) ISBN 0060594330

Glaser, Linda. Bridge to America (Houghton Miffl in) ISBN 0618563016

Greenfi eld, Eloise. Mary McLeod Bethune (HarperTrophy) ISBN 0064461688

Grimes, Nikki. Talkin’ About Bessie (Orchard) ISBN 0439352436

Hakim, Joy. History of US: War, Peace, and All that Jazz 1918-1945 (Oxford University Press) ISBN 0195153367

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Hesse, Karen. Out of the Dust (Scholastic) ISBN 0590371258

Jerome, Kate B. Who Was Amelia Earhart? (Grosset & Dunlap) ISBN 0448428563

Kinsey-Warnock, Natalie. Nora’s Ark (HarperCollins) ISBN 068817244X

Lawson, Don. Abraham Lincoln Brigade (Spanish Civil War) (Ty Crowell) ISBN 0690046979

Levine, Gail Carson. Dave at Night (HarperTrophy) ISBN 0064407470

McKerley, Jennifer. Man O’War: Best Racehorse Ever (Random House Books for Young Readers) ISBN 0375831649

Meyer, Carolyn. White Lilacs (Harcourt Paperbacks) ISBN 0152058516

Mitchell, Barbara. Between Two Worlds: A Story about Pearl Buck (Carolrhoda) ISBN 087614332X Moss, Marissa. Mighty Jackie: Th e Strike-Out Queen (Simon & Schuster) ISBN 0689863292

Parkinson, Siobhan. Kathleen: Th e Celtic Knot (American Girl) ISBN 158485748X

Ruth, Amy. Growing Up in the Great Depression 1929-1941 (Lerner) ISBN 0822506556

Ryan, Pam Munoz. Esperanza Rising (Blue Sky Press) ISBN 043912042X When Marian Sang (Scholastic Press) ISBN 0439269679

Standiford, Natalie. Th e Bravest Dog Ever: Th e True Story of Balto (Random House Books for Young Readers) ISBN 0394896955

Stanley, Jerry. Children of the Dustbowl (Crown Books for Young Readers) ISBN 0517880946

Stauff acher, Sue. Bessie Smith and the Night Riders (Putnam Juvenile) ISBN 0399242376

Taylor, Mildred. Roll of Th under, Hear My Cry (Puffi n) ISBN 0142401129 Let the Circle Be Unbroken (Puffi n) ISBN 0140348921 Mississippi Bridge (Skylark) ISBN 0553159925 Th e Road to Memphis (Puffi n) ISBN 0140360778

Turnbull, Ann. No Friend of Mine (Walker Books) ISBN 0744547903

Uchida, Yoshiko. A Jar of Dreams (Aladdin) ISBN 0689716729

Wells, Rosemary and Tom. Th e House in the Mail (Puffi n) ISBN 0142400610

Wilkinson, Philipage. Gandhi: Th e Young Protestor Who Founded a Nation (National Geographic Children’s Books) ISBN 1426301324

The Lake Isle of Innisfree

I WILL arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made;Nine bean rows will I have there, a hive for the honey bee, And live alone in the bee-loud glade.

And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings;There midnight‘s all a-glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet’s wings.

I will arise and go now, for always night and dayI hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore;While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements gray, I hear it in the deep heart’s core.

by William Butler Yeats

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Date: ________________

Lesson Fourteen—World War II and the HolocaustMain Lesson, Part One:

In your history notebook, write the heading “World War II and the Holocaust.” ☐Read UILE pages 370-371. ☐Read UILE pages 372-373. ☐Read SOTW Chapter 28: Th e Second World War - Th e Th ree-War War. ☐

Look up the word infamy in your dictionary and write the defi nition in your history notebook. Why did Tojo advise Emperor Hirohito that it was time to attack the United States? Why did FDR say that December 7, 1941, was a “day that would live in infamy?”

On Map 14, “World War II—Pacifi c Th eatre,” label the Pacifi c Ocean. Circle Hawaii and Pearl Harbor. ☐Label the Soviet Union, China, Korea, Japan, the Philippine Islands, the Dutch East Indies, and Australia. Circle the land and sea areas controlled by Japan in 1942. Record this area on the map key. Finally label the cities of Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Nanjing, Beijing, Hong Kong, and Singapore. Use the maps in SOTW Chapter 28 and UILE p. 372 to assist you with this map.

Read SOTW Chapter 28: Th e Second World War - Th e Holocust. ☐ Who was Jesse Owens and why did Hitler refuse to acknowledge his victory? What was Kristallnacht? Look up the word genocide in your dictionary and write the defi nition in your history notebook. What was the “fi nal solution”?

Read SOTW Chapter 29: Th e End of World War II - Th e War that Stretched Across the World. ☐ What was the Blitzkreig? What was the Battle of Britain? Look up the word partisan in your dictionary and write the defi nition in your history notebook. Which countries changed sides during the war and why? What was D-Day? How did it change the course of the war? What was the Battle of the Bulge?

On Map 15, “World War II—European Th eatre,” use the maps in your readings from UILE p. 370 and ☐SOTW Chapters 28 and 29 to label the following: Great Britain Norway North Africa Mediterranean Sea Denmark France Germany Atlantic Ocean Poland Czechoslovakia Austria North Sea Albania Italy Soviet Union Also label the following cities (with a dot): Berlin Paris Dachau Dunkirk Dresden Munich Rome Warsaw Auschwitz Label and shade the Vichy area in France.

Read SOTW Chapter 29: Th e End of World War II - Th e Atom Bomb. ☐ What was the Manhattan Project? What is “nuclear fallout”? Write the defi nition in your history notebook. What happened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki? Your book says that people still argue about President Truman’s decision to bomb these cities. Do you think

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it was the right decision? Why or why not? Now argue the other way. What is the United Nations?

You have a coloring page for Sir Winston Churchill, the British Prime Minister during World War II. ☐Churchill was an interesting man; you might want to fi nd out more about him. He once said, “Continuous eff ort—not strength or intelligence—is the key to unlocking our potential.” Th ink about what that means while you are coloring the page.

Read SOTW Chapter 31: Western Bullies and American Money - Th e Marshall Plan. ☐ Look up the word ration in your dictionary and write the defi nition in your history notebook. Why were children made to leave London during World War II? King George VI and Queen Elizabeth of Great Britain were urged to send their daughters, princesses Elizabeth and Margaret, to Canada, but they refused. Queen Elizabeth said, “Th e children could not possibly go without me, I will never leave the King, and the King will never leave his country.” In other words, no one in the royal family would desert their country. Does this quote from Queen Elizabeth remind you of Churchill’s speech that you read in SOTW Chapter 29? Describe how the Marshall Plan helped Europe recover from World War II. Why was Germany divided aft er World War II? What is the Berlin Wall?

Read CHOTW Chapter 87: Fighting the Dictators. ☐Project: Create a Ration Book ☐

During World War II, citizens in many countries were encouraged to do many things to help with the war eff ort. For example, people were asked to gather aluminum and tin as well as old tires for recycling. Th e recycled metals and rubber were used to make materials, such as airplanes, for the military. Just like today, recycling during World War II conserved resources and made production of new items less costly. Th e governments of many countries asked their citizens to do without some items or use less of them so that the men and women at the front might have more. Citizens were issued ration books for certain items like coff ee, sugar, and gasoline. Th e ration books had a certain number of stamps for each item. Each time the person whose name was on the ration book bought some sugar, for example, a sugar stamp was pulled from the book. You can create your own ration book. Th ink about what you might need to ration: treats, free time, time with one of your parents, time with a friend, books, computer time, television time, etc. Th ere are many possibilities. Discuss the options with your parents. You will want to sit down with your parents to establish the rules for using your ration book. With their help, decide for how long you will use the ration book and how many stamps of each item you will need. Th en go to work. You will need: Construction paper Copy paper (or similar blank paper) Scissors Pencil Ruler Colored pencils, markers, and/or crayons Stapler

Directions: First cut your copy paper in half so that you have pages that are 5 ½˝ x 8 .̋ Using your ruler and pencil divide each page into a grid. (Be sure to leave about ½˝ on the side of each page blank where it will be stapled.) Each rectangle of the grid will represent one stamp. It is a good idea to use a separate page for each type of stamp. For example, all the “computer time” stamps should be on one page and all the “sleepover with a

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friend” stamps should be on another page. If you need 16 stamps altogether, then draw a grid with 16 stamps on one page or draw grids with 8 stamps on two pages. If you need 100 stamps, you could make 10 pages with 10 stamps on each page or 5 pages with 20 stamps on each page. On each stamp you can write what the stamp is for and draw a picture of the item, if you like. When you have all your pages for your ration book ready, cut your piece of construction paper so that it is 6˝ x 9 .̋ Write “John’s [put your own name] Ration Book” on one piece of construction paper. Th is will be the front of your book. Th e other piece of construction paper will be the back of your book. If you want to, you can draw pictures on the front and back of your book. Now put your pages together and put the back and front covers on and staple everything into place. To use a stamp, cut it out and hand it to your parents.

Main Lesson, Part Two:

Writing Project: You are a spy on a secret mission in Germany. It is September 5, 1940. You have discovered ☐that Hitler plans to bomb London, beginning the Blitz, on September 7, 1940. If you can get word to British command in time, many lives might be saved. Write a message to British command. Now write the same message in a code. Th e code could be simple—replacing one letter of the alphabet for another—or more complex—replacing letters with symbols or entire syllables with letters or symbols. Be sure to have a key to the code. Now give the key to the code and the coded message to a family member or friend to see if they can decode the message and save London!

Project: Plant a Victory Garden ☐

Another thing that some governments asked their citizens to do was to plant victory gardens. Th e governments said that if the citizens at home planted a lot of their own fruits and vegetables, then farmers would have more fruits and vegetables to send to the men and women in the military. Even people in cities were oft en able to plant gardens. Sometimes owners of vacant lots granted permission for whole neighborhoods to plant gardens in the vacant lots. Some people also used pots or containers to grow some vegetables. Citizens with a little or a lot of land around their houses were able to plant bigger gardens, but many, many people did whatever they could to help. You can plant your own victory garden. If you live where you don’t have much land for planting, you can plant vegetables in containers. Tomatoes oft en do well in pots, for instance. Or you can do some investigating and see if there is a community garden near you. If you have a bigger space for planting, use that. Don’t start too big, though, especially if you’ve never had a garden before. Th ink about the vegetables you really like. Th en learn about how diffi cult each is to grow. You can start each plant from seed (more diffi cult) or start with tiny plants (easier but more expensive). Some good gardening books for beginners are:Bull, Jane. Th e Gardening Book (DK Children) Krezel, Cindy. Kids Container Gardening: Year-Round Projects for Inside and Out (Ball Publishing) Lovejoy, Sharon. Roots, Shoots, Buckets & Boots: Gardening Together with Children (Workman Publishing)

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Read chapters 1-2 of ☐ Number the Stars by Lois Lowry. Where does the story take place? Where are the soldiers from and why are they there? Find Copenhagen on a map or globe. Who is the King of Denmark and where does he live? Do the people of Denmark respect their king? How do you know? Who are Lise and Peter? What happened to Lise?

Read chapters 3-4 of ☐ Number the Stars. What happened to Mrs. Hirsch’s store and why? What do you think Annemarie means when she says that all Danes will be bodyguards to the Jews? Why did the Danish navy sink its own ships? Why is Ellen staying with the Johansens?

Read chapters 5-6 of ☐ Number the Stars. Why did Annemarie rip the necklace from Ellen’s throat? Why did Papa tear the photographs out of the family picture album? Why did Papa speak in code to Uncle Henrik? Why did the soldiers ask Mama if she were celebrating New Year’s? What was Annemarie afraid Kirstie might say?

Read chapters 7-10 of ☐ Number the Stars. Why does Mama tell Annemarie and Ellen to avoid people while they are staying with Uncle Henrik? What do you think Uncle Henrik meant when he said, “Tomorrow will be a day for fi shing?” Why do you think that Mama and Uncle Henrik made up a story about Great-Aunt Birte? Who did Peter bring with him to Uncle Henrik’s house? How does Mama stop the soldiers from opening the coffi n?

Read chapters 11-14 of ☐ Number the Stars. Why do Peter and Mama hand out warm clothing and blankets to the visitors? Where are the visitors going? What happened to Mama? Why did Annemarie end up having to take the basket to Uncle Henrik? Th roughout Number the Stars, Lois Lowry talks about fairy tales and fantasy. Annemarie thinks about how some things in real life are diff erent than in fairy tales. She also thinks that some things that happen seem like part of a story. In Chapter 14, Annemarie thinks about telling Kirstie the story of “Little Red Riding Hood” while she travels through the woods to deliver a basket to Uncle Henrik. How is Chapter 14 like “Little Red Riding Hood” and how is it diff erent?

Finish reading ☐ Number the Stars, including the aft erword. How does Annemarie get through the confrontation with the soldiers as she’s taking the basket to Uncle Henrik? What does Uncle Henrik say being brave means? Why was the handkerchief important? What happened to Peter and Lise? Why do you think Annemarie wants to wear Ellen’s necklace until she can give it back to Ellen? Lois Lowry was inspired to write this story because of her friend Annelise who grew up in Denmark during World War II. Do you know anyone whose true-life stories inspire you?

Write down at least two things you learned in this lesson along with keywords and the names of important ☐people and places. If you like, make up some more fact cards for your modern history game.

Remember to check on your stocks and update your stock sheet. ☐

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Book List:

Adler, David A. A Picture Book of Eleanor Roosevelt (Holiday House) ISBN 0823411575 A Picture Book of Anne Frank (Holiday House) ISBN 0823410781

American Girls series (Molly) (American Girl)

Atkinson, Linda. In Kindling Flame: Th e Story of Hannah Senesh (Beech Tree) ISBN 0688116892

Ballard, Robert. Exploring the Bismarck (Scholastic Trade) ISBN 0590442694

Batchelor, John. World War II Warships (coloring book) (Dover) ISBN 0486451631

Bishop, Claire Huchet. Twenty and Ten (Puffi n) ISBN 0140310762

Borden, Louise. Across the Blue Pacifi c (Houghton Miffl in) ISBN 0618339221

Bruchuc, Joseph. Code Talker (Puffi n) ISBN 0142405965

Childhood of Famous Americans series (Bobbs-Merrill and Aladdin)

Choi, Sook Nyul. Year of Impossible Goodbyes (Yearling) ISBN 0440407591

Claypool, Jane. Hiroshima and Nagasaki (Franklin Watts) ISBN 0531048624

Coerr, Eleanor. Sadako and the Th ousand Paper Cranes (Puffi n) ISBN 0142404403

Copeland, Peter. Story of World War II (coloring book) (Dover) ISBN 0486436950

Deedy, Carmen Agra. Th e Yellow Star: Th e Legend of King Christian X of Denmark (Peachtree Publishers) ISBN 1561452084

Demand, Carlo. Airplanes of the Second World War Coloring Book (Dover) ISBN 0486241076

Fehrenbach, T.R. Th e United Nations in War and Peace (Random Library) ISBN 0394905636

Frank, Anne. Diary of Anne Frank (Bantam) ISBN 0553296981

Garrigue, Sheila. Th e Eternal Spring of Mr. Ito (Tandem) ISBN 0785736522

Giff , Patricia Reilly. Lily’s Crossing (Yearling) ISBN 0440414539

Greene, Bette. Summer of My German Soldier (Puffi n) ISBN 014130636X

Hahn, Mary Downing. Stepping on the Cracks (HarperTrophy) ISBN 0380719002

Hakim, Joy. History of US, Book 9: War, Peace, and All that Jazz 1918-1945 (Oxford University Press) ISBN 0195153367

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Hesse, Karen. Aleutian Sparrow (Aladdin) ISBN 1416903275

Hest, Amy. Love You, Soldier (Puffi n) ISBN 014036174X

Hicyilmaz, Gaye. Smiling for Strangers (Farrar, Straus, & Giroux) ISBN 0374370818

Holm, Anne. I Am David (Harcourt Paperback) ISBN 0152051600

Lawton, Clive. Hiroshima: Th e Story of the First Atom Bomb (Candlewick) ISBN 0763622710

Levine, Ellen. Darkness Over Denmark (Holiday House) ISBN 0823417557

Levitin, Sonia. Journey to America (Aladdin) ISBN 0689711301 Room in the Heart (Puffi n) ISBN 0142403393

Lisle, Janet Taylor. Th e Art of Keeping Cool (Aladdin) ISBN 0689837887

Lowry, Lois. Autumn Street (Yearling) ISBN 0440403448

Maguire, Gregory. Th e Good Liar (HarperTrophy) ISBN 0064408744

Maruki, Toshi. Hiroshima No Pika (HarperCollins) ISBN 0688012973

Maybury, Rick. World War II: Th e Rest of the Story and How It Aff ects You Today, 1930 to September 11, 2001 (Uncle Eric Book) (Bluestocking Press) ISBN 0942617436

Mazar, Harry. Heroes Don’t Run (Aladdin) ISBN 1416933948 A Boy at War (Aladdin) ISBN 0689841604

Mazar, Norma Fox. Good Night, Maman (HarperTrophy) ISBN 0064409236

McGowen, Tom. Sink the Bismarck (21st Century) ISBN 0761315101

McSwigan, Marie. Snow Treasure (Scholastic) ISBN 0590425374

Napoli, Donna Jo. Stones in the Water (Puffi n) ISBN 0141306009

Panchyk, Richard. World War II for Kids: A History with 21 Activities (Chicago Review Press) ISBN 1556524552

Patneaude, David. Th in Wood Walls (Houghton Miffl in) ISBN 0618342907

Pressler, Mirjam. Halinka (Laurel Leaf) ISBN 0440228573

Propp, Vera. When the Soldiers Were Gone (Putnam Juvenile) ISBN 069811812

Say, Alan. Bicycle Man (Houghton Miffl in) ISBN 0395506522

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Schmer, Steven. Shadow Children (HarperCollins) ISBN 0688132812

Serraillier, Ian. Escape from Warsaw (Scholastic) ISBN 0590437151

Skipper, G.C. Battle of the Atlantic (Children’s Press) ISBN 0516447939

Sloan, Frank. Bismarck! (Franklin Watts) ISBN 0531200027

Sullivan, George. Th e Day Pearl Harbor Was Bombed (Scholastic) ISBN 0590434497

Watkins, Yoko Kawashima. So Far from the Bamboo Grove (HarperTrophy) ISBN 0688131158

Watts, Irene. Finding Sophie (Tundra Books) ISBN 0887766137

Weidt, Maryann N. Stateswoman to the World: A Story About Eleanor Roosevelt (Carolrhoda) ISBN 0876145624

World War II (DK Children) ISBN 0756607434

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Date: ________________

Lesson Fift een—Cold War and the Space RaceMain Lesson, Part One:

In your history notebook, write the heading “Cold War and the Space Race.” ☐Read UILE pages 380-381. ☐Read SOTW Chapter 35: Th e Cold War - Th e Space Race. ☐

Look up the word orbit in your dictionary and write the defi nition in your history notebook. Why do you think that the confl ict between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. was called the Cold War? Why did the two countries think it was really important to be the fi rst to get into space and to put an astronaut on the moon?

You have an illustration of the Apollo 13 spacecraft to color. Th e story of the Apollo 13 mission is an ☐exciting one. See if you can fi nd a book, encyclopedia or magazine article, or a Web site that tells about it.

Read UILE pages 378-379. ☐Read SOTW Chapter 35: Th e Cold War - Th irteen Days in October. ☐

Who is Fidel Castro? What happened at the Bay of Pigs and why did it lead to one of the major “battles” of the Cold War? How was the “battle” resolved?

On Map 10, label Cuba. ☐Read SOTW Chapter 36: Struggles and Assassinations - Th e Death of John F. Kennedy. ☐

How was the assassination of President Kennedy diff erent from the assassinations of Presidents Lincoln, Garfi eld, and McKinley?

On Map 10, label Texas and Dallas. ☐

Main Lesson, Part Two:

Read SOTW Chapter 38: Two Ways of Fighting - Soviet Invasions. ☐ Look up the words defector and asylum in your dictionary. Write the defi nitions in your history notebook. What was the KGB? Why did the U.S.S.R. invade Czechoslovakia and Afghanistan? What are “Mujaheddin”? Write the meaning in your history notebook.

On Map 16, “Middle East,” label Afghanistan and the U.S.S.R. ☐Read UILE pages 382-383. ☐Read SOTW Chapter 40: Th e 1980s in the USSR - Th e End of the Cold War. ☐

What do perestroika and glasnost mean? Write the meanings in your history notebook. What did “Peace through Strength” mean? What was the INF Treaty? How did these two things help bring about the end of the Cold War, according to SOTW?

Read SOTW Chapter 41: Communism Crumbles—but Survives - Communism Crumbles. ☐ Why was the Berlin Wall torn down? What happened when hard-line communists in the U.S.S.R. tried to put Gorbachev under house arrest?

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Use the map found in the last reading of SOTW to label the following on Map 17, “Europe aft er ☐Communism”: Russia Kazakhstan Uzbekistan Turkmenistan Black Sea Azerbaijan Georgia Armenia Turkey Caspian Sea Moldova Bulgaria Ukraine Belarus Mediterranean Sea Lithuania Latvia Estonia Poland Romania Macedonia Greece Bosnia-Herzegovina Hungary Czech Republic Austria Germany France Italy Spain Portugal

Write two or more things that you learned in this lesson along with keywords and the names of important ☐people and places. If you like, make up some more fact cards for your modern history game.

Remember to check your stocks. Write down the prices of your shares. How much have you gained or lost ☐since the project began? Since last week?

Book List:

Almond, David. Th e Fire-Eaters (Yearling) ISBN 0440420121

Bunting, Eve. Gleam and Glow (Voyager) ISBN 0152053808

Dahlberg, Maurine. Escape to West Berlin (Farrar, Straus, & Giroux) ISBN 0374309590

Donahue, John. Til Tomorrow (Farrar, Straus, & Giroux) ISBN 0374375901

Epler, Doris. Th e Berlin Wall: How It Rose and Why It Fell (Millbrook Press) ISBN 1562948350

Frisbee, Lucy. John F. Kennedy: America’s Youngest President (Aladdin) ISBN 0020419902

Fuqua, Jonathon Scott. Th e Willoughby Spit Wonder (Candlewick) ISBN 0763617768

Gross, Virginia. Th e President Is Dead (Viking Juvenile) ISBN 0670851566

Khan, Rukhsana. Th e Roses in My Carpets (Fitzhenry & Whiteside) ISBN 1550050699

LaFontaine, Bruce. History of Space Exploration (coloring book) (Dover) ISBN 0486261522 Levine, Ellen. Catch a Tiger by the Toe (Viking Juvenile) ISBN 0670884618

Quackenbush, Robert. Th e Boy Who Dreamed of Rockets (Parent’s Magazine Press) ISBN 0819309966

Sheehan, Sean. Th e Cold War (Smart Apple Media) ISBN 1583402667

Space Exploration (DK Children) ISBN 0756607310

Westman, Paul. Neil Armstrong, Space Pioneer (Lerner) ISBN 0822504790

Whelan, Gloria. Th e Turning (HarperCollins) ISBN 0060755938

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Lesson Sixteen—Th e Middle East, 1945-1985Main Lesson:

In your history notebook, write the heading “Middle East 1945-1985.” ☐Read UILE page 376. ☐Read SOTW Chapter 30: Partitioned Countries - Th e Partitioning of Palestine. ☐

Look up the words Zionism and diaspora in your dictionary and write the defi nitions in your history notebook. Why did fi ghting break out immediately when the country of Israel was created?

On Map 16, label Israel, Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, and Jordan. Also label the Red Sea and the Mediterranean ☐Sea.

Read SOTW Chapter 31: Western Bullies and American Money - Th e Suez Crisis. ☐ What were the Suez Crisis and Operation Musketeer?

On Map 16, label Alexandria, Cairo, the Caspian Sea, the Black Sea, and Port Said. Draw and label the Suez ☐Canal.

Read SOTW Chapter 37: Two Short Wars and One Long One - Trouble in the Middle East. ☐ Look up the word embargo in your dictionary and write the defi nition in your history notebook. What happened in the Six-Day War and the Yom Kippur War? What is OPEC? What were the Camp David Accords and why were they important?

On Map 16, use the map found in SOTW to label the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, and the Sinai Peninsula. ☐Read SOTW Chapter 38: Two Ways of Fighting - Terrorism. ☐

What was Black September? Do you think terrorism is an eff ective way to bring about change? Which is more eff ective in bringing about lasting change—terrorism or nonviolent resistance and demonstration?

Project: Hand of Fatima and Star of David Charms ☐ You will need: Heavy-gauge (jeweler’s) wire, (two pieces, each 12˝ to 18˝ long) Pliers Colored beadsDirections: Take one piece of wire and bend it with your pliers to make the shape of a hand. Take the other piece of wire and bend it into the shape of a six-pointed star. If you like, you may put beads on them. Now, put them on a bracelet or necklace. Pinch the two ends together with your pliers, so the charms don’t fall off the bracelet or necklace. Muslims oft en wear the Hand of Fatima. It is considered a good-luck charm and is also a symbol of patience and faithfulness. Th e Star of David is a symbol of Judaism and is worn by Jewish people all over the world.

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Write down two or more things that you learned in this lesson along with keywords and the names of ☐important people and places. If you like, make up some more fact cards for your modern history game.

Remember to check on your stocks. Write down the current price per share. Are you losing money or ☐making money?

Book List:

Adler, David A. Our Golda: Th e Story of Golda Meir (Puffi n) ISBN 0140321047 Alexander, Sue. Behold the Trees (Arthur A. Levine) ISBN 0590762117

Bamberger, David. Young Person’s History of Israel (Behrman House) ISBN 0874413931

Carmi, Daniella. Samir and Yonatan (Blue Sky Press) ISBN 0439135230

Finkelstein, Norman H. Ariel Sharon (First Avenue Editions) ISBN 0822595230

Jacobs, Eli. Brothers Divided (Pitspopany Press) ISBN 1930143397)

Kaplan, Kathy Walden. Dog of Knots (Eerdman’s Books for Young Readers) ISBN 0802852742

Levine, Anna. Running on Eggs (Cricket Books) ISBN 0812628756

Morgan, Anna. Daughters of the Ark (Second Story Press) ISBN 1896764924

Steiner, Connie. On Eagles’ Wings and Other Th ings (Jewish Publication Society) ISBN 082760274X

Waldman, Neil. Th e Never-Ending Greenness (Boyds Mill Press) ISBN 1590780647

Williams, Colleen. Yasir Arafat (Chelsea House) ISBN 0791071863

Date: ________________

Lesson Seventeen—Africa and South America, 1945–PresentMain Lesson, Part One:

In your history notebook, write the heading “Africa and South America, 1945–Present.” ☐Read UILE page 375. ☐Read UILE page 385. ☐Read SOTW Chapter 32: Africa and China Aft er World War II - One Country, Two Diff erent Worlds. ☐

What does the word apartheid mean? Write the defi nition in your history notebook. How was the National Party in South Africa similar to the Nazi Party in Germany?

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On Map 18, “Southern Africa, 1930 - 1960,” use the map in SOTW Chapter 32 to label the Atlantic Ocean ☐and the Indian Ocean. Label South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, and Mozambique.

Read SOTW Chapter 34: Dictators in South America and Africa - Freedom in the Belgian Congo. ☐ Why did Lumumba not want Katanga to secede for the Republic of Congo? What is Congo called now?

On Map 18, use the map found in your last reading of SOTW to label Lake Tanganyika, Angola, the ☐Republic of Congo, Congo-Brazzaville, Northern Rhodesia, Southern Rhodesia, and Nyasaland.

Main Lesson, Part Two:

Read SOTW Chapter 42: Th e End of the Twentieth Century - Africa, Independent. ☐ Why did the Hutu hate the Tutsi? At the end of Chapter 42, the author says that the way in which the world reacted to the laws of apartheid “is one of the few times in the history of the twentieth century in which countries have united together to force change for the better—instead of a government seizing power and exercising it for the worse.” Can you think of three examples of “a government seizing power and exercising it for the worse?”

Writing project: Pretend you are Nelson Mandela in 1994. You are running for president of South Africa. ☐If you win, it will be the fi rst time that a black African has served as president of your country. Write your big campaign speech. Talk about what you will do to make South Africa a better place for all South Africans, if you are elected. With your speech, try to persuade all South Africans to vote for you. When you have fi nished writing the speech, check it for spelling and grammar. Write it out as neatly as possible. Now gather your family and friends for the speech. You might want to describe what conditions were like in South Africa before you make the speech. Make the speech. Be persuasive. Aft er you are done, put a copy of the speech in your history notebook.

On Map 19, “Modern-Day Africa,” use SOTW Chapter 42 to label Zaire (the Republic of Congo), Congo, ☐Rwanda, Burundi, Malawi, South Africa, Angola, Botswana, Zambia, Mozambique, Namibia, and Zimbabwe. Label the Indian Ocean and Atlantic Ocean. Challenge: Use your atlas to label the remaining African countries. Shade each African country a diff erent color. Compare Map 19 to Map 18 and note any name changes.

Read SOTW Chapter 34: Dictators in South America and Africa - Argentina’s President and His Wife. ☐ Look up the word junta in your dictionary and write the defi nition in your history notebook. What does the word descamisados mean? Write the defi nition in your history notebook. Who were the descamisados and why were they important to President Peron? Your book tells you a little about Eva Duarte Peron (“Evita”). Did you know that a musical was written about her? Evita, released in 1976, played in London and New York for several years. Later the play became a movie. One of the songs, “Don’t Cry for Me, Argentina,” has been sung by many diff erent people, including Patti LuPone, Sarah Brightman, Julie Covington, Elaine Paige, Karen Carpenter, Joan Baez, Olivia Newton-John, and Madonna, among others. In the song, Evita, talks to the people of Argentina, telling them how much she loves them. If you can fi nd the song, listen to it. Do you think the songwriters did a good job of capturing the true Eva Peron?

You have a coloring page of Eva (Evita) Peron. Perhaps you can listen to “Don’t Cry for Me, Argentina” as ☐you color Evita.

On Map 7, label the city of Buenos Aires. Look on the map of South America in Chapter 34 of SOTW. Label ☐any countries that you haven’t labeled already.

Write two or more things that you learned in this lesson along with keywords and the names of important ☐people and places. If you like, make up some more fact cards for your modern history game.

Remember to check your stocks. Write down the current prices of your shares. Are you losing or making ☐money?

Book List:Aardema, Verna. Traveling to Tondo: A Tale of the Nkundo of Zaire (Dragonfl y Books) ISBN 0590467581

Alvarez, Julia. Before We Were Free (Laurel Leaf) ISBN 044023784X

Daly, Niki. Jamela’s Dress (Frances Lincoln Children’s Books) ISBN 1845073479 What’s Cooking, Jamela? (Frances Lincoln Children’s Books) ISBN 071121705X

Ellis, Deborah. Th e Heaven Shop (Oxford University Press) ISBN 0192754351

Farmer, Nancy. A Girl Named Disaster (Puffi n) ISBN 0140386351

Ferreira, Anton. Zulu Dog (Farrar, Straus, & Giroux) ISBN 0374392234

Haskins, Jim. African Heroes (Jossey-Bass) ISBN 0471466727

Ibbotson, Eva. Journey to the River Sea (Puffi n) ISBN 0142501840

Kurtz, Jane (ed.). Memories of Sun: Stories of Africa and America (Amistad) ISBN 0060510501

Levitin, Sonia. Dream Freedom (Silver Whistle) ISBN 0152024042

Mankell, Henning. Secrets in the Fire (Annick Press) ISBN 1550378007

McDonough, Yona Zeldis. Peaceful Protest: Th e Life of Nelson Mandela (Walker Books for Young Readers) ISBN 080278948X

Moore, Miriam. Koi’s Python (Hyperion) ISBN 0786812273

Naidoo, Beverley. Chain of Fire (HarperTrophy) ISBN 0064404684 Journey to Jo’burg (HarperTrophy) ISBN 0064402371 No Turning Back: A Novel of South Africa (HarperTrophy) ISBN 0064407497 Th e Other Side of Truth (Amistad) ISBN 0064410021

Sisulu, Elinor. Th e Day Gogo Went to Vote: South Africa April, 1994 (Little Brown Young Readers) ISBN 0316702714

Stille, Darlene R. Eva Peron: First Lady of Argentina (Compass Point) ISBN 0756515858

Temple, Frances. Tonight by Sea (HarperTrophy) ISBN 0064406709)

Twagilimana, Aimable. Hutu and Tutsi (Rosen) ISBN 0823919994

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Lesson Eighteen — Asia and India, 1945-2000Main Lesson, Part One:

In your history notebook, write the heading “Asia and India, 1945-2000.” ☐Read UILE pages 364-365. ☐Read SOTW Chapter 32: Africa and China Aft er World War II - Two Republics of China. ☐

What is a “Yuan?” Write the defi nition in your history notebook. What are the two republics of China? Why did the Kuomintang and the CCP not get along?

Read SOTW Chapter 41: Communism Crumbles—but Survives - Democracy in China? ☐ Look up the word propaganda in your dictionary and write the defi nition in your history notebook. What was the Cultural Revolution? How did things improve in China when Deng Xiaoping came to power? What happened in Tiananmen Square from April to June in 1989? Did it help change things in China?

Activity: Make a Poster ☐ Posters were a very important means of communication in China. Pretend you are a Chinese student in 1989. Create a poster to rouse people to join you in Tiananmen Square. Write a slogan and, if you like, draw a picture for your poster. Put your poster or a picture of it in your history notebook.

On Map 20, “China and India and Th eir Neighbors Aft er 1945,” use an atlas to assist you in labeling the ☐U.S.S.R., Mongolia, China, Japan, Taiwan, the Pacifi c Ocean, the Yellow Sea, and the East China Sea. Trace the Yangtze River in blue. Label the cities of Beijing and Nanjing.

Main Lesson, Part Two:

Read UILE page 374. ☐Read SOTW Chapter 30: Partitioned Countries - Muslims and Hindus in India. ☐

Look up the word partition in your dictionary and write the defi nition in your history notebook. Why did some people want India to be partitioned? Why did others not want it to be partitioned? What happened when it was partitioned?

Read SOTW Chapter 39: Th e 1980s in the East and the Mideast - India Aft er Partition. ☐ What happened to East and West Pakistan? Who are the Sikhs and what did they want? What happened in Bhopal?

On Map 20, use the map in your last reading of SOTW to label the following: ☐ India Pakistan Arabian Sea Bay of Bengal Indian Ocean Bangladesh

Read SOTW Chapter 33: Communism in Asia - Th e Korean War. ☐ Look on a globe or a map. Find the 38th parallel. Follow it around the globe. Can you fi nd it in the U.S., Europe, Asia? What countries fought in the Korean War and why? Was anything gained by the Korean War?

Read CHOTW Chapter 90: Trying to Keep Peace, up to “Sadly to say, the answer is no.” ☐

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On Map 20, use your atlas to label the 38 ☐ th Parallel, North Korea and South Korea.Write two or more things that you learned in this lesson, including keywords and the names of important ☐

people and places. If you like, make up some more fact cards for your modern history game.Remember to check on your stocks. Write down the prices of your shares. Have the prices changed much ☐

since you “bought” your stock?

Book List:

Balgassi, Haemi. Peacebound Trains (Clarion) ISBN 0618040307

Bridges, Shirin Yim. Ruby’s Wish (Chronicle Books) ISBN 0811834905

Chatterjee, Manini. India (Eyewitness Books) (DK Children) ISBN 0789489716

China (DK Children) ISBN 0756629764

Choi, Sook Nyal. Th e Echoes of the White Giraff e (Yearling) ISBN 0440409705 Th e Year of Impossible Goodbyes (Yearling) ISBN 0440407591

D’Adamo, Francesco. Iqbal (Aladdin) ISBN 1416903291

Fricker, E.B. Th e War in Korea (Franklin Watts) ISBN 0531043304

Fritz, Jean. China’s Long March (Putnam Juvenile) ISBN 0399215123 Homesick (Putnam Juvenile) ISBN 0698117824

Garland, Sherry. Children of the Dragon: Selected Tales from Vietnam (Harcourt Children’s Books) ISBN 0152242007

Green, Carl. Soldier at Heartbreak Ridge (Capstone) ISBN 1560560060

Mah, Adeline Yen. Chinese Cinderella and the Secret Dragon Society (HarperTrophy) ISBN 0060567368

McCully, Emily. Beautiful Warrior: Th e Legend of the Nun’s Kung Fu (Arthur A. Levine Books) ISBN 0590374877

Park, Linda Sue. When My Name Was Keoko (Yearling) ISBN 0440419441

Russell, Ching. Child Bride (Boyds Mills) ISBN 1590780248 Water Ghost (Boyds Mills) ISBN 1563974134

Schlein, Miriam. Th e Year of the Panda (HarperTrophy) ISBN 0064403661

Watkins, Yoko Kawashima. My Brother, My Sister, and I (Simon Pulse) ISBN 0689806566 So Far from the Bamboo Grove (HarperTrophy) ISBN 0688131158

Yep, Laurence. Spring Pearl: Th e Last Flower (American Girl) ISBN 1584855193

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Date: ________________

Lesson Nineteen—Vietnam War and Civil RightsMain Lesson, Part One:

In your history notebook, write the heading “Vietnam War and Civil Rights.” ☐Read SOTW Chapter 33: Communism in Asia - Ho Chi Minh and the Viet Minh. ☐

How did Ho Chi Minh help Vietnam get its freedom from the French and the Japanese? Why was the country of Vietnam split in two?

Read SOTW Chapter 37: Two Short Wars and One Long One - Th e Vietnam War. ☐ Look up the word conscription in your dictionary and write the defi nition in your history notebook. Who helped North Vietnam and who helped South Vietnam? Why? What were the results of the long civil war?

Read CHOTW Chapter 90: Trying to Keep Peace, read from “Another very murderous war. . . “ to the end ☐of the Chapter.

On Map 21, “Vietnam and Its Neighbors,” use your atlas and the map found in the last reading of SOTW ☐to label Vietnam. Draw a dotted line to indicate where the border between North and South Vietnam was. Now label Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) and Hanoi. Also label China, Laos, Cambodia, Japan, North Korea, South Korea, and the Pacifi c Ocean. Color Vietnam your favorite color.

Writing Project: Pretend that it is 1970 and you are one of the following people: (a) a draft dodger; (b) a ☐nurse who has volunteered to go to Vietnam; (c) a soldier who was draft ed to go to Vietnam; (d) a mother or father whose son has been draft ed to go to Vietnam; or (e) a member of President Nixon’s staff . Write a letter to the editor of a newspaper in which you state whether or not you support the war in Vietnam. Give at least three reasons for your position. Use examples to support your reasoning. Be sure to write a good introductory paragraph and a strong concluding paragraph for your letter. Aft er you have written the letter, check it for spelling and grammar. Th en write or print out a nice copy to put in your history notebook.

Main Lesson, Part Two:

Read UILE page 384. ☐Read SOTW Chapter 36: Struggles and Assassinations - Civil Rights. ☐

Do you think Elizabeth Eckford was brave? What about Rosa Parks? How was Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., like Gandhi? Freedom and equality are ideas; they are not things that you can see or touch. For what ideas would you be willing to fi ght? How would you go about doing it?

On Map 10, use the map in Chapter 36 of SOTW or your atlas to label Charleston, South Carolina; ☐Birmingham and Montgomery, Alabama; Memphis, Tennessee; Topeka, Kansas; Michigan; Washington, D.C.; the Atlantic Ocean; and Little Rock, Arkansas. Challenge: Use your atlas to label the rest of the United States and the Great Lakes. Shade each state a diff erent color.

Try to fi nd a book of poetry or a selection of poems by Langston Hughes. Hughes was an African-American ☐poet who wrote in the 20th century. Poems you might especially want to look at are “Th e Negro Speaks of Rivers,” “Afro-American Fragment,” and/or “Harlem.” Choose one to memorize.

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Project and Field Trip: Design a Monument and Visit a Monument ☐ Your town has been selected to be the site of a new national civil rights monument, and you have been chosen to be its designer. Find the place in your town where you think the monument should go. Now design the monument. It could be a statue like the World War II Memorial or it could be more abstract like the Washington Monument or the Vietnam Memorial. You might choose to have names of those who worked for civil rights in your area or nationally on it, a poem, a quote from a famous activist, or a combination of these or no writing at all. Make a model of your monument or draw a detailed series of pictures showing all sides of it. Go visit a Vietnam memorial, or a memorial representing another war, at a park in your area. Read the writing and the names on the memorial. Draw a picture of the memorial and place it, along with the memorial you designed, in your history notebook.

Note two or more things you learned in this lesson along with keywords and the names of important people ☐and places. If you like, make up some more fact cards for your modern history game.

Don’t forget to see how your stocks are doing. Write down the prices of your shares. ☐

Book List:

Adler, David A. A Picture Book of Martin Luther King, Jr. (Holiday House) ISBN 0823408477 A Picture Book of Rosa Parks (Holiday House) ISBN 082341177X A Picture Book of Jackie Robinson (Holiday House) ISBN 0823413047 A Picture Book of Th urgood Marshall (Holiday House) ISBN 0823415066

Antle, Nancy. Lost in the War (Puffi n) ISBN 0141308362

Belton, Sandra. Ernestine and Amanda series (Aladdin)

Benjamin, Anne. Young Rosa Parks (Troll) ISBN 0816737754

Birtha, Becky. Grandmama’s Pride (Albert Whitman & Co.) ISBN 080753028X

Brown, Jackie. Little Cricket (Hyperion) ISBN 0786818522

Bunting, Eve. Th e Wall (Clarion) ISBN 0395629772

Curtis, Christopher. Th e Watsons Go to Birmingham (Yearling) ISBN 0440414121

Donnelly, Judy. Th e Wall of Names (Random House Books for Young Readers) ISBN 0679801693

Dunham, Montrew. Langston Hughes: Young Black Poet (Aladdin) ISBN 0689717873

English, Karen. Francie (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) ISBN 0374424594

Garland, Sherry. Th e Lotus Seed (Voyager Books) ISBN 0152014837 Giovanni, Nikki. Ego-Tripping and Other Poems for Young People (Lawrence Hill Books) ISBN 1556521898

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Greene, Carol. Th urgood Marshall: First African-American Supreme Court Justice (Children’s Press) ISBN 0516442252

Greenfi eld, Eloise. Mary McLeod Bethune (HarperTrophy) ISBN 0064461688

Haskins, James. New Americans: Vietnamese Boat People (Enslow) ISBN 0894900358

Hearn, Betsy. Listening for Leroy (Margaret K. McElderry) ISBN 0689822189

Jacobs, William. Human Rights (Atheneum) ISBN 0684190362

Kadohata, Cynthia. Kira-kira (Aladdin) ISBN 0689856407

Kidd, Diana. Onion Tears (HarperTrophy) ISBN 0688118623

Kroll, Virgina. Especially Heroes (William B. Eerdmans Pub. Co.) ISBN 08082852211

Lawson, Dan. An Album of the Vietnam War (Franklin Watts) ISBN 0531101398

Lee, Harper. To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) ISBN 0061120081

Levine, Ellen. If You Lived at the Time of Martin Luther King (Scholastic Paperbacks) ISBN 059042582X

Lucas, Eileen. Cracking the Wall: Th e Struggles of the Little Rock Nine (Carolrhoda) ISBN 157505227X

Lynch, Chris. Gold Dust (HarperTrophy) ISBN 0064472019

McGuigan, Mary Ann. Where You Belong (Atheneum) ISBN 0689812507

McKissack, Patricia. Abby Takes a Stand (Puffi n) ISBN 0142406872 Goin’ Someplace Special (Atheneum) ISBN 0689818858

Millender, Dharathula H. Martin Luther King, Jr. (Aladdin) ISBN 0020420102

Miller, William. Th e Bus Ride (Lee & Low Books) ISBN 1584300264

Mochizuki, Ken. Heroes (Lee & Low Books) ISBN 1880000504

Paterson, Katherine. Park’s Quest (Puffi n) ISBN 0140342621

Rodman, Mary Ann. Yankee Girl (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) ISBN 0374386617

Ruby, Lois. Steal Away Home (Aladdin) ISBN 0689824351

Shalant, Phyllis. When Pirates Came to Brooklyn (Dutton Juvenile) ISBN 0525469206

Sherlock, Patti. Letters from Wolfi e (Puffi n) 014240358X

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Taylor, Mildred. Th e Friendship (Puffi n) ISBN 0140389644 Th e Gold Cadillac (Puffi n) ISBN 0140389636 Vietnam War (DK Children) ISBN 0756611660

Warren, Andrea. Escape from Saigon (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) ISBN 0374322244

Weatherford, Carole. Freedom on the Menu: Th e Greensboro Sit-ins (Puffi n) ISBN 0142408948

Whelan, Gloria. Goodbye Vietnam (Yearling) ISBN 067982376X

White, Ellen Emerson. Th e Journal of Patrick Seamus Flaherty, United States Marine Corps (Scholastic) ISBN 0439148901 Where Have All the Flowers Gone? Th e Diary of Molly MacKenzie Flaherty (Scholastic) ISBN 0439148898

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Lesson Twenty—Iran and IraqMain Lesson:

In your history notebook, write the heading “Iran and Iraq.” ☐Read UILE page 377. ☐Read SOTW Chapter 39: Th e 1980s in the East and the Mideast - Iran and Iraq. ☐

What does the word ayatollah mean? Write the defi nition in your history notebook. What was the White Revolution? Why was the Shah so unpopular?

On Map 16, use the map in your last reading of SOTW and/or your atlas to label the following: ☐ Iran Iraq Arabian Sea Persian Gulf Kuwait Saudi Arabia Yemen South Yemen Oman Turkey United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.)

Read SOTW Chapter 42: Th e End of the Twentieth Century - Th e First Persian Gulf War. ☐ Why did Saddam Hussein invade Kuwait? What actions did the United Nations take? What happened to the oil fi elds and to the people, land, and wildlife around them? Why do you think oil plays such an important part in what happens in the Middle East? Why is oil so important to the rest of the world?

On Map 16, use your atlas to label Tehran and Baghdad. ☐Writing project: You have been hired by the state department of Iran or Iraq to create a pamphlet about ☐

your country. Th e year is between 1975 to the present (choose which year). Th e secretary of state wants a pamphlet that is colorful and informative; it should include a brief history of the country, at least fi ve interesting facts about the country, a description of everyday life, and a summary of current events in the country. It should also include some illustrations. Be sure to fold your paper into thirds and to use both sides of the paper.

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Book List:

Alshalabi, Fivyal. Summer 1990 (Aunt Strawberry Books) ISBN 0966998804

Colfer, Eoin. Benny and Omar (O’Brien Press) ISBN 0862785677

Cooney, Caroline B. Operation: Homefront (Starfi re) ISBN 055329685X

Fogelin, Adrian. Th e Big Nothing (Peachtree Publishers) ISBN 1561453889

Giff , Patricia Reilly. Th e War Began at Supper: Letters to Miss Loria (Yearling) ISBN 0440405726

Laird, Elizabeth. Kiss the Dust (Puffi n) ISBN 0140368558

Marston, Elsa. Figs and Fate: Stories about Growing up in the Arab World Today (George Braziller) ISBN 0807615544

Mead, Alice. Dawn and Dusk (Farrar, Straus, & Giroux) ISBN 0374317089

Pratchett, Terry. Only You Can Save Mankind: If Not You Who Else? (HarperTrophy) ISBN 0060541873

Stamaty, Mark Alan. Alia’s Mission: Saving the Books of Iraq (Knopf Books for Young Readers) ISBN 0375832173

Winter, Jeanette. Th e Librarian of Basra: A True Story of Iraq (Harcourt Children’s Books) ISBN 0152054456

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Lesson Twenty-One—Inventions and Technology, 1900-2001Main Lesson:

In your history notebook, write the heading “Inventions and Technology, 1900–2001.” ☐Read UILE pages 386-387. ☐Read UILE pages 390-391. ☐Read SOTW Chapter 40: Th e 1980s in the USSR - Chernobyl and Nuclear Power. ☐

Look up atomic fi ssion, radioactivity, controversial, and reactor in your dictionary. Write the defi nitions in your history notebook. Why is the use of nuclear energy to provide electrical power controversial? What happened at Th ree Mile Island and Chernobyl? Edison’s invention of the phonograph has been improved upon several times over the last 100 years or so. First, 78 rpm discs, or records, were produced instead of Edison’s cylinder. In 1948, 33 rpm records, also known as LPs (for long-playing), were sold for the fi rst time. LPs could play 25 minutes of music per side, far more than a 78 rpm record could play. Th e next year 45 rpm records, which usually played one song per side, were introduced. Compact discs were introduced in 1983 and were outselling LPs by 1988. In October, 2001, Apple fi rst sold its iPod devices, using music downloaded from computers.

Rocket Launcher Experiment (with adult supervision ONLY): ☐

You will need: Paper or plastic plate (optional) Construction paper (optional) Scissors (optional) Markers or crayons (optional) Tape (optional) Film canister or pill bottle with a non-childproof cap (ask at your pharmacy) 2 tablespoons vinegar 1 ½ teaspoons baking soda

Directions:1. If you like, you may decorate your rocket (the canister or pill bottle). Cut out a strip of construction paper that is slightly shorter than the height of the bottle. Th e strip of paper should wrap around the bottle once. Color the paper as you wish and then tape it to the bottle.2. Take the bottle, the plate, the vinegar, and the baking soda outside to a clear area. Put 1 tablespoon of vinegar in the bottle.3. Get very close to the tube and get ready to snap the lid on the canister. Add 1/4 teaspoon baking soda to the canister. Put the cap on quickly.4. Put the canister with its lid down on the plate. (Th e purpose of the plate is to catch the vinegar and baking soda solution as the rocket launches. You and your parents may decide you don’t need it.)

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5. Get back!6. Your rocket will launch VERY QUICKLY. If it doesn’t, wait two full minutes before checking on it. You may just have a slow reaction.7. Now rinse out the canister.8. Put 1 tablespoon of vinegar in the canister.9. Put 1/8 teaspoon of baking soda in the canister. Snap the lid on the canister quickly.10. Put the canister on the plate, lid side down.11. Get back!

Which time did the rocket launch faster? Higher? What if you put in less baking soda? More? What causes the rocket to launch? What if you used a liquid other than vinegar? Lemon juice? Soda pop?

Write down two things that you learned in this fi rst part of the lesson. Also jot down keywords and ☐

important names. If you like, make up some more fact cards for your modern history game.Remember to check on your stocks and write their prices down on your stock sheet. ☐

Book List:

Childhood of Famous Americans series (Bobbs-Merrill and Aladdin)

Copeland, Peter. Antique Airplanes Coloring Book (Dover) ISBN 0486215245

Freedman, Russell. Th e Wright Brothers (Holiday House) ISBN 082341082X

Gherman, Beverly and Rockwell Family Trust. Norman Rockwell: Storyteller with a Brush (Atheneum) ISBN 0689820011

Giesecke, Ernestine. Frederic Remington (Heinemann Library) ISBN 1588102815

Great Scientists (DK Children) ISBN 0756629748

Greenberg, Jan and Sandra Jordan. Action Jackson (Jackson Pollock) (Roaring Brook Press) ISBN 0761316825

Greene, Carol. John Philip Sousa: Th e March King (Children’s Press) ISBN 0516442260

Hendler, Maurice. Color Your Own series (Dover Publishing)

Holub, Joan and Brad Bucks. Vincent van Gogh: Sunfl owers and Swirling Stars (Grosset & Dunlap) ISBN 0448425211

Invention (DK Children) ISBN 0756610753

LaFontaine, Bruce. Famous Buildings of Frank Lloyd Wright (coloring book) (Dover) ISBN 0486293629 Story of the Wright Brothers Coloring Book (Dover) ISBN 0486413217

Lester, Julius. Th e Blues Singers: Ten Who Rocked the World (Jump at the Sun) ISBN 0786804637

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Maltbie, PageI. Picasso and Minou (Charlesbridge) ISBN 1570916209

McPherson, Stephanie Sammartino. Ordinary Genius: Th e Story of Albert Einstein (Carolrhoda Books) ISBN 1575050676

Mitchell, Barbara. America I Hear You (George Gershwin) (Carolrhoda Books) ISBN 0876143095 We’ll Race You, Henry (Henry Ford) (Carolrhoda Books) ISBN 0876144717

Noble, Marty. Color Your Own series (Dover Publishing)

O’Reilly, Wanda. Van Gogh and Friends Art Game (Birdcage Press) ISBN 1889613096

Quackenbush, Robert. Th e Boy Who Dreamed of Rockets (Robert Goddard)(Parents’ Magazine Press) ISBN 0819309966 Along Came the Model T! How Henry Ford Put the World on Wheels (Parents’ Magazine Press) ISBN 0819309524 Take Me Out to the Airfi eld (Parents’ Magazine Press) ISBN 081930879X

Raimondo, Joyce. Imagine Th at: Activities and Adventures in Surrealism (Watson-Guptill) ISBN 0823025020

Ray, Deborah Kogan. Hokusai: Th e Man Who Painted a Mountain (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) ISBN 0374332630

Reid, Struan. Th e Usborne Book of Discovery: Inventors/Scientists/Explorers (Educational Development Corp.) ISBN 074601872X

Reynolds, Quentin. Th e Wright Brothers (Random House Books for Young Readers) ISBN 0394847008

Rodriquez. Rachel. Th rough Georgia’s Eyes (Georgia O’Keeff e) (Henry Holt) ISBN 0805077405

Schulz, Walter A. Will and Orv (First Avenue Editions) ISBN 0876145683

Shull, Jodie A. Georgia O’Keeff e: Legendary American Painter (Enslow) ISBN 0766021041

Venezia, Mike. Getting to Know the World’s Greatest Artists series (Children’s Press) Getting to Know the World’s Greatest Composers series (Children’s Press)

Warhola, James. Uncle Andy’s (Andy Warhol) (Puffi n) ISBN 0142403474

Weatherford, Carole Barton. Th e Sound that Jazz Makes (Walker Books for Young Readers) ISBN 0802776747

Winter, Jeanette. Cowboy Charlie: Th e Story of Charles M. Russell (Harcourt Children’s Books) ISBN 0152008578

Winter, Jonah. Frida (Frida Kahlo) (Arthur A. Levine Books) ISBN 0590203215

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Lesson Twenty-Two—End of the CenturyMain Lesson, Part One:

In your history notebook, write the heading “End of the Century.” ☐Read UILE pages 388-389. ☐Read UILE page 392-393. ☐Read SOTW Aft erword. ☐Read CHOTW Chapter 91: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow. ☐Read the glossary in the back of ☐ Th e Breadwinner by Deborah Ellis. Write down in your history notebook

any words and defi nitions that you don’t know. Now look at the map in the front of the book. On Map 16, fi nd Afghanistan and label the cities of Jalalabad, Kunduz, and Mazar-e-Sharif. Also label the cities of Kandahar and Kabul. Label the Wakhan Corridor and the Registan Desert.

Read Chapter One of ☐ Th e Breadwinner. How does Parvana’s father make money? Who are the Taliban? Why have bombs been a part of Parvana’s whole life?

Read Chapter Two of ☐ Th e Breadwinner. Why does Parvana have to get water for her family? Why do you think Nooria and her mother clean all the time? Who was Hossain? What story does Father tell? Who was Malali? Why do the Taliban take Father?

Read Chapters Th ree and Four of ☐ Th e Breadwinner. What do Parvana and her mother do to try to fi nd Father? Are they successful? What did Parvana’s mother do for a living before the Taliban came to power? How does Mother react when she and Parvana get back home from the prison? What happens to the food and water for Parvana’s family?

Read Chapters Five and Six of ☐ Th e Breadwinner. Why does Parvana only get bread at the market? Whom does Parvana run into on her way home from the market? How does Mrs. Weera help Parvana and her family? Why do Parvana’s mother, Nooria, and Mrs. Weera want Parvana to act like a boy? Does it work?

Read Chapters Seven and Eight of ☐ Th e Breadwinner. How did reading the letter for the Talib make Parvana feel diff erently about the Taliban? Why did Parvana not stay at the market all day? Whom does Parvana take with her now to get water? Why will this make Nooria, Maryam, and Ali stronger? What lands on Parvana’s blanket and where did it come from? From where does Parvana recognize the tea boy?

Read Chapters Nine and Ten of ☐ Th e Breadwinner. How does Shauzia think she and Parvana could earn more money?

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What are Mrs. Weera and Parvana’s mother planning to do? Why do you think the Window Woman is throwing presents down to Parvana? How do Parvana and Shauzia make the money to buy the tea trays? Where do the girls get the bones? Where do Parvana and Shauzia have to go to the bathroom? What does Parvana worry might be in the building or on the way to the building?

Read Chapters Eleven and Twelve of ☐ Th e Breadwinner. What are the bones used for, according to Mrs. Weera? What does Mrs. Weera say when Nooria and Parvana talk back to their mother? What is going on at the stadium? What does the kind man say to Parvana and Shauzia? Where does Shauzia want to go? Does Parvana think she should go? Do you?

Read Chapters Th irteen and Fourteen of ☐ Th e Breadwinner. Why does Nooria think it’s a good idea to marry the boy from Mazar? Why does Parvana not go to Mazar with the rest of her family? Who stays in Kabul with her? Why does Parvana duck into the building during the rainstorm? Who does Parvana fi nd in the building? How does Parvana get the woman back to the apartment without a burqa and chador? Who does Parvana pretend she is? What story does the young woman tell Parvana and Mrs. Weera? Why does the story worry Parvana?

Read Chapter Fift een and the author’s note of ☐ Th e Breadwinner. Who comes home? For what does Parvana say she’s working? For what does Shauzia say she’s working? What does Mrs. Weera’s visitor tell Father about the people who were in Mazar? What does Father want to do? Where is Mrs. Weera going? When Parvana suggests that Mrs. Weera take Shauzia with her, what does Mrs. Weera say? Why does Parvana plant the fl owers? What is Shauzia going to do? What have twenty years of war done to the country of Afghanistan? What happened to the Taliban?

Th ere are two sequels to ☐ Th e Breadwinner—Parvana’s Journey and Mud City. Would you like to read them? Why or why not?

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Main Lesson, Part Two:

Project: Make a Trinket Tray ☐ Parvana and Shauzia buy trays to put the items they sell on. You can make your own tray. You will need: A sturdy, shallow cardboard box (or the top of a copy paper box) Scissors Some strong, wide ribbon or belting Markers and/or crayons (optional)

Write two or more things that you learned in this lesson along with keywords and the names of important ☐people and places. If you like, make up some more fact cards for your modern history game.

Year-End Project: Publish a Magazine ☐ Congratulations! You have just been named editor, writer, and illustrator of a new magazine called Modern History, 1850-2000. Th e publisher wants the fi rst issue to have at least ten articles, one comic strip, one advertisement, one game or puzzle, and fi ve illustrations. Of the ten articles, fi ve should be about real people who lived any time from 1850 to 2000 (they can still be living) and fi ve should be about real events that occurred between 1850 and 2000. Each article should tell who, what, when, where, why, and how. Be sure each article has a byline even if it’s a made-up writer; for example, “Wilbur and Orville Wright Fly! By John Doe.” Try to have at least one interview article (Q and A). Be sure each article has a snappy title with a good action verb in it. Th e illustrations can be your original artwork, the coloring pages you completed in this course, photographs of the projects you completed, things you’ve clipped from a magazine or the newspaper, and/or pictures you’ve downloaded from the Internet. Th e comic strip and advertisement should have something to do with the events you’ve studied in this course. You will also need to create a cover for your magazine. When you have your fi nal draft of your magazine ready, let your family and friends read it, and be sure to put a copy in your history notebook.

Th is is the fi nal lesson for this history guide. Look up the prices for the stock you “bought” earlier. Write ☐down the current prices per share. Now fi gure out how much money you made or lost for each diff erent stock. Finally fi gure out whether you made or lost money. You might also create a line graph showing how you gained or lost money over the weeks that you kept track of the stocks.

Directions: Decorate the box with whatever design you like. With an adult’s help, make a hole on each of the short sides of the box. Next measure your ribbon so that it’s the right length to wear the box over your shoulders and behind your neck. Add 3-4˝ on either side so that you can tie the ribbon to the box. With adult supervision, cut the ribbon to the right length. Now tie one end of the ribbon through the hole on one side of the box and the other end of the ribbon through the hole on the other side of the box. Now your tray is ready!

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Book List:

Ballard, Robert. Ghost Liners: Exploring the World’s Greatest Lost Ships (Little, Brown Young Readers) ISBN 0316080209

Dorros, Arthur. Under the Sun (Amulet) ISBN 0810992507

Ellis, Deborah. Parvana’s Journey (Groundwood Books) ISBN 0888995199 Mud City (Groundwood Books) ISBN 0888995423

Hakim, Joy. History of US, Book 10: All the People 1945-2001 (Oxford University Press) ISBN 0195153383

Hoobler, Dorothy and Tom. Families (Millbrook Press) ISBN 0761316094

Lorbiecki, Marybeth. My Palace of Leaves in Sarajevo (Dial) ISBN 080320313

Mead, Alice. Adem’s Cross (Laurel Leaf) ISBN 0440227356 Girl of Kosovo (Yearling) ISBN 0440418534

Meltzer, Martin. Th e Day the Sky Fell: A History of Terrorism (Random House Books for Young Readers) ISBN 037582250X

O’Grady, Scott and Michael French. Basher Five-Two: Th e True Story of F-16 Fighter Pilot Capt. Scott O’Grady (Tandem) ISBN 0613073126

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Lesson Two—India and Afghanistan, 1850-1900Main Lesson:

In your history notebook, write the heading “India and Afghanistan, 1850-1900.” Read UILE pages 328-29Read SOTW Chapter 1: Britain’s Empire - The Sepoy Mutiny.

What big mistake did the East India Company make that led to the Sepoy Mutiny? What is a sepoy? Why did Queen Victoria declare that India was a British colony?

On Map 2, “India, 1850 - 1945,” use page 329 of UILE to color in the primary region in which the Indian Mutiny occurred (within the dashed lines). Complete the map key.

Project: Henna Hand In India, for special occasions women will often decorate their hands and feet with a dye called henna. The designs they use are most often geometric, but they sometimes include flowers. You can make a decorated hand at home. You will need: Construction paper Colored felt pens, markers or crayons

Read SOTW Chapter 3: British Invasions - The Great Game. Who was Dost Mohammad? What was the Great Game? Look up the word sepoy. Put the definition in your history notebook.

On Map 2, use the map in SOTW from the last reading to label the cities of Calcutta, Delhi, Kandahar, and Kabul with a dot. (A dot is the proper way to label a city on a map.) Also label the Arabian Sea, Indian Ocean, and Bay of Bengal. Color India, China, Afghanistan, and Persia different colors.

Coloring page: On page 329 of UILE is a photograph showing decorated Indian elephants. Color your own bright decorations on the following elephant coloring page. Try to find out more about trained Indian elephants. You might look in an encyclopedia, a book about India, or on the computer.

Write down two things in your history notebook that you learned in this lesson. Be sure to jot down keywords and important names of people and places.

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Main Reference Spines:Th e Usborne Internet-Linked Encyclopedia of World History

A Child’s History of the World (optional)

Books and Resources:Th e Story of the World, Volume 4: Th e Modern Age by Susan Wise Bauer

Th e Breadwinner by Deborah Ellis

Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, adapted by Judith Conaway

Th e Last Safe House by Barbara Greenwood

Th e Story of Th omas Alva Edison by Margaret Cousins

Number the Stars by Lois Lowry

Other Supplies:Th ree-ring binder or folder

Atlas or world map

Basic art supplies

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Book & Supply List for Modern Times (level one)

Recommended for Grades 3-6

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ISBN 978-0-9798496-0-2