I teach at a Title 1 school in Southeast Raleigh, North Carolina. My first graders are kind, curious, and feisty.
Teaching first grade, I've learned that 6 and 7 year olds are natural historians.
They care deeply about grand concepts like equality and justice. They care about smaller details, like the name of Ruby Bridges' mom. And they notice patterns, even though they sometimes need guidance to interpret them. Last year we spent a lot of time discussing questions that were equally humorous and heartbreaking like, "Why didn't Barack Obama just help Harriet Tubman?"
My Project
My goal is to use these books to discuss how characters and historical figures overcame segregation, violence, and discrimination. My school's population is almost entirely Latino and black, and I believe my students will see themselves in many of these stories.
I chose these texts specifically to share the stories of people who are under represented in history and children's fiction, as well as in my school's curriculum and shelves.
The book list includes the true stories of Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor and journalist Ida B. Wells. It includes fictional stories of a girl with two dads, and a boy living in the US while his mom is in Mexico. Some books introduce children to history through historical fiction, like Freedom on the Menu, a book about the Greensboro sit ins.
As we read them, my plan is to create an in-class timeline on our wall so that students can place historical people and events in context. It is my hope that they will gain inspiration and power from the struggles and triumphs we read about.
Nearly all students from low‑income households
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That's Not Fair! / ¡No Es Justo!: Emma Tenayuca's Struggle for Justice/La lucha de Emma Tenayuca por la justicia (Spanish and English Edition)
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Pride: The Story of Harvey Milk and the Rainbow Flag
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Thunder Boy Jr. (Bccb Blue Ribbon Picture Book Awards (Awards))
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Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and Her Familys Fight for Desegregation (Jane Addams Award Book (Awards))
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The William Hoy Story: How a Deaf Baseball Player Changed the Game
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I am Gandhi (Ordinary People Change the World)
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Big Red Lollipop
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King and King
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Yours for Justice, Ida B. Wells: The Daring Life of a Crusading Journalist
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We Came To America
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Malala: Activist for Girls' Education
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Sonia Sotomayor: A Judge Grows in the Bronx / La juez que crecio en el Bronx (Spanish and English Edition)
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Who Says Women Can't Be Doctors?: The Story of Elizabeth Blackwell (Christy Ottaviano Books)
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A Tale of Two Daddies
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The Case for Loving: The Fight for Interracial Marriage
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From North to South / Del Norte al Sur
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The Youngest Marcher: The Story of Audrey Faye Hendricks, a Young Civil Rights Activist
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My Diary from Here to There: Mi diario de aqui hasta alla (English and Spanish Edition)
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Last Stop on Market Street
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Mama's Nightingale: A Story of Immigration and Separation
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The Name Jar
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This Day in June
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Lillian's Right to Vote: A Celebration of the Voting Rights Act of 1965
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Rashad's Ramadan and Eid Al-Fitr (Cloverleaf Books - Holidays and Special Days)
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Freedom on the Menu: The Greensboro Sit-Ins
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Elizabeth Leads the Way: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Right to Vote
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¡Si, Se Puede! / Yes, We Can!: Janitor Strike in L.A. (English and Spanish Edition)
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We March
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North American Indians (Pictureback(R))
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The Very First Americans (All Aboard Books)
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The Story Of Ruby Bridges: Special Anniversary Edition
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Ida B. Wells: Let the Truth Be Told
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Materials cost
$308.37
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$30.00
Total project cost
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