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The We the People
Grant:
I am pleased to announce that we have received a
grant from the American Library Association and the National
Endowment for the Humanities. This program,
We the People Bookshelf,
was developed to encourage young people to read and
experience quality literature while also exploring themes in
American history. The focus of this year’s bookshelf is the
experience of becoming American and contains the following
titles listed below.
This
grant was given to 2,000 public and school libraries around
the United States. It is my hope that these books will be
used as a sounding board for class discussion on what it
means to be American. Further, I would like to begin
collecting family stories of those who have experienced
becoming American directly. This could be from a
grandparent or parent or even from our own students’
experiences. I will be sending out collection/interview
forms to anyone who is interested in participating.
Kindergarten through 3rd Grade
The Lotus Seed by
Sherry Garland
Watch the Stars Come Out by Riki Levinson
Grandfather's Journey by Allen Say
4th Grade through 6th Grade
Immigrant Kids by
Russell Freedman
The People Could Fly: African Black Folktales by
Virginia Hamilton
Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving
In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson by Betty
Bao Lord
7th Grade through 8th Grade
Rifles for Watie by
Harold Keith
The Glory Field by Walter Dean Myers
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
Dragonwings by Laurence Yep
9th Grade through 12th Grade
Death Comes for the Archbishop by
Willa Cather
Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin edited by Louis P.
Masur
Barrio Boy by Ernesto Galarza
Giants in the Earth: A Saga of the Prairie by Ole
Edvart Rølvaag
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