1 Westward Expansion Multi-Media Text Set This is an incomplete list of highly recommended resources related to Westward Expansion. We envision that you will use this list as a resource to add to the collection of materials you already have at your fingertips. We included websites as one kind of resource as they are free and easily accessible. Short texts are another kind of resource we’ve included. You can find some of these short texts available for download on The Treasure Chest. Websites: Websites Website Description http://postalmuseum.si.edu/letterwriting/ National Postal Museum: Letter Writing in lw03.html America During Westward Expansion http://www.history.com/topics/trail-of-tears Videos, photo galleries, interactive http://www.america101.us/trail/ Comprehensive information about the Oregontrail.html Oregon Trail (historic sites, fantastic facts, archive) http://www.nationalgeographic.com/features/ Interactive website that follows Louis and 97/west/ Clark's journey Short Texts: Title Author Source Level/Other (assorted) http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/ A selection of the memoirs, resources/archives/index.htm journals, letters, reports and images (assorted) http://www.pbs.org/lewisandclark/ Resource to adapt articles for students (assorted) http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/ A selection of maps and places/states/index.htm photographs of US western states at the time of the Westward Expansion (assorted) http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/ An interactive biographical people/ dictionary that provides concise profiles of people important in Westward Expansion Teachers College Reading and Writing Project DRAFT 1-6-2012 Prepared for: Maha Ghanem ([email protected]) Copyright 2015 Reading and Writing Project. Page 1 of 5 c 2 The Wild http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/ Premiering January 10. West americanexperience/collections/ The Wild West collection wild-west/ features documentaries about some of the most controversial and mythic figures in American western history. From Billy the Kid to Wyatt Earp, from Custers Last Stand to Geronimo's fight against the U.S. government, learn the real stories behind some of America's greatest western tales (various Cobbl Issue on Orphan Trains Contains different articles all articles) estone on topic Magazine “Go West, Marcia Cobblestone - Click! Photos That Young Amidon Made History issue, p. 9 Photographe Lusted rs!” Pioneers Kids Kids Discover Discover Frontier Richard Schools Uhlich Women of Lisa the West Yount Gold Kids Kids Discover Discover Teachers College Reading and Writing Project DRAFT 1-6-2012 Prepared for: Maha Ghanem ([email protected]) Copyright 2015 Reading and Writing Project. Page 2 of 5 c 3 Poetry: Title Author Source Only Opal: The Diary of Jane Boulton a Young Girl (assorted poems) Jeannine Atkins Borrowed Names: Poems About Laura Ingalls Wilder, Madam C.J. Walker, Marie Curie, and Their Daughters (assorted poems) anthology compiled by Lee Hand in Hand Bennett Hopkins Western Wagons Rosemary and Stephen Vincent Benet Twelve Hundred More! Drama (Songs, plays, etc.): Title Type (Song, play, etc.) Source (assorted titles) plays 10 American History Plays for the Classroom by Sarah J. Glasscock (assorted titles) plays Famous Americans: 22 Short Plays for the Classroom, Grades 4-8: Ben Franklin, Lewis & Clark, Abraham Lincoln, Susan B. Anthony, Harriet Tubman, John Muir, Cesar Chavez, Franklin Delano Roosevelt . [Deluxe Edition] by Sarah Glasscock, et. al. Narcissa Whitman play Building Fluency Through Reader's and the Westward Theater Movement: Expanding and Preserving the Union by Catherine M. Shannon Lewis and Clark: play Building Fluency Through Reader's Expanding and Theater Teachers College Reading and Writing Project DRAFT 1-6-2012 Prepared for: Maha Ghanem ([email protected]) Copyright 2015 Reading and Writing Project. Page 3 of 5 c 4 Preserving the Union by Kathleen E. Bradley “Oh, Susanna” by song Stephen Foster Expository Nonfiction: Title Author Level Daily Life in a Covered Wagon Paul Erickson (YA) If You Traveled West in a Covered Wagon Ellen Levine Children of the Wild West Russell Freedman X Cowboys of the Wild West Russell Freedman X Narrative Nonfiction: Title Author Level The Devil’s Paintbox Victoria McKernan Women’s Diaries of the Westward Journey Lillian Schlissel (YA) Covered Wagon Women, Volume 1: Diaries and Kenneth L. Holmes (YA) Letters from the Western Trails, 1840-1849 Black Elk’s Vision: A Lakota Story S.D. Nelson Hybrid Nonfiction: Title Author Level Legendary Journeys: Trains Philip Steele Lewis and Clark (Watts Library: Exploration) Andrew Santella S York's Adventures with Lewis and Clark: An Rhoda Blumberg Y African-American's Part in the Great Expedition Teachers College Reading and Writing Project DRAFT 1-6-2012 Prepared for: Maha Ghanem ([email protected]) Copyright 2015 Reading and Writing Project. Page 4 of 5 c 5 (Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children) The Trailblazing Life of Daniel Boone and How Cheryl Harness Early Americans Took to the Road (Cheryl Harness Histories) Kids Discover Magazine - Pioneers Biographies: Title Author Level Sacagawea: Hameray Publishing N Bill Pickett: Rodeo-Ridin' Cowboy Andrea Davis Pinkney P Annie Oakley Charles Wills The Trouble Begins at 8: A Life of Mark Twain in Sid Fleischman (YA) the Wild, Wild West Historical Fiction: Title Author Level How to Get Rich on the Oregon Trail Tod Olson Bad News for Outlaws Vanda Micheauz R On Viney’s Mountain Joan Donaldson The Cowgirl Way: Hats Off to America’s Women of Holly George-Warren the West Francis Tucket series Gary Paulson Teachers College Reading and Writing Project DRAFT 1-6-2012 Prepared for: Maha Ghanem ([email protected]) Copyright 2015 Reading and Writing Project. Page 5 of c.