Social Studies/History Informational Texts

Social Studies/History Informational Texts CCSS Appendix B http://www.corestandards.org/assets/Appendix_B.pdf

EFL 2 [GRADES 2-3] TEXT EXEMPLARS HISTORY MATRIX NUMBER So You Want to Be President? Civics/Government CG.c.2 Lincoln: A Photobiography Chapter One: “The Mysterious Mr. Lincoln” US History USH.c The Story of Ruby Bridges US History USH.d.1 USH.d.3 EFL 3 [GRADES 4-5] TEXT EXEMPLARS “The New Colossus” Favorite Poems Old and New (poetry) US History USH.e England the Land “Living Fences” Geography G.a A History of US Book 1: The First Americans, Prehistory to 1600; Chapter 7: “The Show- US History USH.b.6 Offs” My Librarian Is a Camel: How Books Are Brought to Children Around the World Geography G.c.1 We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball “4th Inning: Racket Ball: Negro US History USH.d League Owners” EFL 4 [GRADES 6-8] TEXT EXEMPLARS “Paul Revere’s Ride” (poetry) US History USH.b.1 “Letter on Thomas Jefferson” Adams on Adams Chapter 6: “Declaring Independence US History USH.b.4 1775–1776” Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass an American Slave, Written by Himself US History USH.c.1 “Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat: Address to Parliament on May 13th, 1940.” Lend Me Your US History USH.f.8 Ears: Great Speeches in History, 3rd Edition “Winston Churchill Braces Britons to Their USH.f.9 Task” Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad Chapter 3: “Six Years Old” US History USH.c.1 United States. Preamble and First Amendment to the United States Constitution Civics & Government CG.c CG.c.1 A Short Walk through the Pyramids and through the World of Art Chapter 1 Geography G.a The Great Fire Chapter 1: “A City Ready to Burn” Economics E.a E.h Vincent Van Gogh: Portrait of an Artist Chapter 1: “A Brabant Boy 1853–75” Geography G.d.2 This Land Was Made for You and Me: The Life and Songs of Woody Guthrie Preface: Geography G.d “Ramblin ’Round” Words We Live By: Your Annotated Guide to the Constitution “We the People ...” Civics & Government CG.c Freedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott Introduction: “Why They US History USH.d.1 Walked” USH.d.3 EFL 5 [GRADES 9-10] TEXT EXEMPLARS The Killer Angels “Longstreet” (fiction) US History USH.c “Speech to the Second Virginia Convention” History USH.b.1 George Washington “Farewell Address” US History USH.b.3 “Gettysburg Address” US History USH.c.1 Ush.c.2 Abraham Lincoln “Second Inaugural Address” US History USH.c.1 USH.c.2 Franklin Delano Roosevelt “State of the Union Address” US History USH.f “I Am an American Day Address” US History USH.f “Remarks to the Senate in Support of a Declaration of Conscience” US History USH.g Letters from Birmingham Jail US History USD.d.3 “Hope, Despair and Memory” US History USH.f.10 “Ronald Reagan: Speech at Moscow State University” US History USH.g.1 “A Quilt of a Country” Civics & Government CG.b Geography G.c.2 Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West Chapter 1: US History USH.b.6 “Their Manners Are Decorous and Praiseworthy” Geography USH.b.7 G.d.1 Son of the Morning Star: Custer and the Little Bighorn US History USH.b.7 The Story of Art, 16th Edition Chapter 27: “Experimental Art: The First Half of the Geography G.d.2 Twentieth Century” Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World Chapter 1: “The Race to Codlandia” Geography G.d.1 Black, Blue and Gray: African Americans in the Civil War “Introduction: A ‘White Man’s US History USH.c.1 War?’” USH.c.2 The Longitude Prize Chapter 1: “A Most Terrible Sea” US History USH.e Geography G.c.3 The Illustrated Book of Great Composers “Composition through the Ages” Geography G.d.2 Before Columbus: The Americas of 1491 Chapter 2 US History USH.e Geography G.b.5 EFL 6 [GRADES 11-12] TEXT EXEMPLARS Thomas Paine Common Sense US History USH.a.1 The Declaration of Independence US History USH.a.1 USH.b.1 USH.b.4 The Bill of Rights (Amendments One through Ten of the United States Constitution) US History USH.a.1 Civics & Government CG.d.1 “Lee Surrenders to Grant, April 9th, 1865.” Eyewitness to America: 500 Years of US History USH.c American History in the Words of Those Who Saw It Happen “Abraham Lincoln and the Self-Made Myth.” The American Political Tradition and the US History USH.c Men Who Made It Democracy in America Chapter 2: “The Origins of the Anglo-Americans” US History, USH.e Geography G.b.1 Declaration of Sentiments by the Seneca Falls Conference: An American Primer US History USH.d.2 USH.d.3 “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?: An Address Delivered in Rochester, New York, US History USH.c.1 on 5 July 1852” What They Fought For 1861–1865 Chapter 2: “The Best Government on God’s Footstool” US History USH.c.1 USH.c.2 America’s Constitution: A Biography Chapter 2: “New Rules for a New World” US History USH.c.1 Civics & Government CG.c 1776 Chapter 3: “Dorchester Heights” History USH.b.1 USH.b.3 Mirror of the World: A New History of Art Chapter 7: “Theatrical Realities” Geography G.d.2