History speaks: picture books plus reader's theater
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Pub. Date
2010, c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Relates the story of seventeen-year-old Annie Shapiro, who launched a months-long strike with her fellow clothing workers in 1910 Chicago. Includes a script for a reader's theatre based on this story, a glossary, and further reading sources.
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Series
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Tells the story of fifteen-year-old John Greenwood as he joins the American army during the American Revolution and journeys to fight in the Battle of Bunker Hill. Includes a script for a reader's theatre based on this story, a glossary, and further reading sources.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Until 1957, two worlds existed in Little Rock, Arkansas: one for white Americans and another for African Americans. Whites and blacks went to separate schools, ate at separate restaurants, and even used separate drinking fountains. That year, the U.S. Supreme Court decided to end the laws that kept people apart. Nine black students agreed to attend Little Rock's all-white Central High School. But could they face angry mobs, threats, and violence?...