TIME CAPSULE 1910 -1919

Nine-Week Unit Study

Short-Story Connection: Moving On, by Jeanette Ingold

Assigned Novel
Teacher Read-Aloud Novel
Literature Circles with Adolescent Literature Historical And Non-Fiction
Poetry For the Fallen, (Binyon) Sunday Bloody Sunday (U2) Out of the Dust (Hesse)
Multi-Media
Two-Written Assignments: (Jim Thorpes Olympic Struggle & Womens Vote)
One Final Module Multi-Media Project

READ-ALOUD (Teacher reads to class):

The Wars, by Timothy Findley: A young Canadian runs away to join the war effort.
Out of the Dust, by Karen Hesse: (Story in Verse). The first page connects into the next Decade

STUDENTS ASSIGNED READING:

The Trouble With Jeremy Chance, by George Harrar : This is 5 th-6th grade historical fiction
scaffolds to A Tree Grows in Brooklyn and The Wars
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, by Betty White: Set in the pre-World War I, continues through the
changing decade:

LITERATURE CIRCLE BOOKS:

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Endurance: Shackletons Incredible Voyage, by Alfred Lansing

Titanic: Voices from the Disaster, by Deborah Hopkinson
Shadow of a Century, by Jean Grainger
Hired Girl, by Laura Amy Schiltz
Anastasia and Her Sisters, by Caroline Meyer

Non-Fiction Study:
1. Why Are Jim Thorpes Olympic Records Still Not Recognized?
2. Titanic, Voices from the Disaster
3. Womens Work in World War I
Multi-Media:
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Shackleton. (A & E)
Jim Thorpe/Olympics of 1912
The Wars, Visual Essay
Russian Revolution Documentary
Women and the Right to Vote

Scaffold into the 1920s:

1. Out of the Dust, by Karen Hesse: Poem in Verse (page 3) History and Poetry to Come.