Multicultural American History: Through Children's Literature

This integrated teacher resource provides lesson ideas for the instruction of social studies and history concepts within the context of quality multicultural children's books and picture books. Each chapter focuses on three picture books related to various multicultural themes in American history. Chapters are organized chronologically, and by theme, and include book summaries, materials lists, student-centered activities, related books and poetry, and links to national history standards. Multicultural themes include: Old West American Revolution Slavery Civil War World War II and the Holocaust Vietnam Native AmericansKay Chick is the author of 'Multicultural American History: Through Children's Literature', published 2003 under ISBN 9781563089558 and ISBN 1563089556.