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Dive into history and explore the Progressive Era, a time of real change for the United States. Discover the changes inspirational men and women were able to make for better work conditions, women's rights, and breaking up monopolies. The change makers were Presidents, writers, reformers, and suffragists, all working hard to make the United States better.
This book builds content knowledge across multiple social studies disciplines. The text features...
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This engaging primary source book dives into history to explore immigration during the twentieth century. Learn about the journey millions of immigrants faced trying to seek freedom and better lives in the United States. These people helped shape the country's languages, traditions, politics, and economy. This book builds content knowledge across multiple social studies disciplines. The text features include a Reader's Guide, side bars, table of contents,...
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Dive deep into your exploration of history with this social studies book that piques students' curiosity about history through dynamic primary sources. This book focuses on the 2nd Industrial Revolution in the U.S. Primary sources give students unique insights and personal connections to history. Examples of primary sources include images of children factory workers, firefighters at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, New York City circa 1900, an...
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Dive deep into your exploration of WWII history with this social studies book that piques students' curiosity about history through dynamic primary sources. Primary sources give students unique insights and personal connections to history. Examples of World War II primary sources include a letter about the Manhattan Project, a map of Japanese Expansion, and images of Pearl Harbor, Code Talkers, internment camps, and much more. This 32-page book includes...
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Between 1950 and 2001, the development of technology changed the world. Known as the Information Revolution, this era revolutionized the way humans communicate and share information. Dive deep into history with this social studies book that piques students' curiosity about history through dynamic primary sources. Primary sources give students unique insights and personal connections to history. This 32-page book includes text features that help students...
7) Cold War Era
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Two nations. Two ideologies. One Cold War. From 1947 to 1991, the United States and the Soviet Union engaged in an open rivalry known as the Cold War. Dive deep into your exploration of history with this social studies book that piques students' curiosity about history through dynamic primary sources. Primary sources give students unique insights and personal connections to history. Examples of primary sources include images of maps, images, newspaper...
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Dive deep into your exploration of US history and the Great Depression with this social studies book that piques students' curiosity about history through dynamic primary sources. Primary sources give students unique insights and personal connections to history. Examples of primary sources include a newspaper article about the stock market crash, a social security poster, images of the 1929 bank run, shantytowns, soup kitchens, dust storms, and many...
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The U.S. economy affects you every day. How does it work? Learn about this complex system with this social studies book that piques students' curiosity about history through dynamic primary sources. Primary sources give students unique insights and personal connections to history. Examples of primary sources include a 1920s advertisement and a 1943 image of Americans lining up for ration books. This 32-page book includes text features that help students...
10) World War I
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Dive deep into your exploration of World War I history with this social studies book that piques students' curiosity about history through dynamic primary sources. Primary sources give students unique insights and personal connections to history. Examples of primary sources include a Royal Navy recruitment poster, a painting of the death of Archduke Ferdinand, newspaper headlines, a 1917 Liberty Bond poster, an image of the Harlem Hellfighters, and...
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To be a citizen anywhere today is really to be a citizen of the world. The rights and responsibilities of world citizenship are like those of other types of citizenship, simply on a larger scale. This primary source reader focuses on what it means to be a 21st century citizen. Features include: Build content knowledge across multiple social studies disciplines; Text features include a Reader's Guide, side bars, table of contents, glossary, and index...
12) The Windy Hill
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Will these two siblings help solve a family mystery? Find out in one of the earliest Newberry Honor Award winners!
Brother and sister, Oliver and Janet, are excited to spend their summer with their cousin Jasper, who has always been cheerful and fun to be around. However, when the children arrive at his home, Jasper is despondent and distracted-nothing like the cousin they know. Eventually, the children discover that their cousin has been having...
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Dive deep into your exploration of history with this social studies book that piques students' curiosity about history through dynamic primary sources. This book focuses on the 2nd Industrial Revolution in the U.S. Primary sources give students unique insights and personal connections to history. Examples of primary sources include images of children factory workers, firefighters at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, New York City circa 1900, an...
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Dive deep into your study of US presidents with this biography of Ronald Reagan that piques students' curiosity about history through dynamic primary sources. Primary sources give students unique insights and personal connections to history. This 32-page social studies book includes text features that help students increase reading comprehension and their understanding of the subject. Packed with interesting facts, sidebars, and essential vocabulary,...
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Dive deep into financial literacy with this social studies book that teaches students everything they need to know about personal finances and how to save money. It features primary sources that pique students' curiosity about the subject while giving them meaningful insights and personal connections. This 32-page book includes text features that help students increase reading comprehension and their understanding of the subject. Packed with interesting...
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Dive deep into financial literacy with this social studies book that teaches students everything they need to know about personal finances and how to save money. It features primary sources that pique students' curiosity about the subject while giving them meaningful insights and personal connections. This 32-page book includes text features that help students increase reading comprehension and their understanding of the subject. Packed with interesting...
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Learn how 20th century history changed world geography with this social studies book that piques students' curiosity about history through dynamic primary sources. Primary sources give students unique insights and personal connections to history. Examples of primary sources include images of Pearl Harbor, nuclear weapon testing, a pro-communism poster, and a factory assembly line. This 32-page book includes text features that help students increase...
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Dive deep into your exploration of US history and the Great Depression with this social studies book that piques students' curiosity about history through dynamic primary sources. Primary sources give students unique insights and personal connections to history. Examples of primary sources include a newspaper article about the stock market crash, a social security poster, images of the 1929 bank run, shantytowns, soup kitchens, dust storms, and many...
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Dive deep into your exploration of World War I history with this social studies book that piques students' curiosity about history through dynamic primary sources. Primary sources give students unique insights and personal connections to history. Examples of primary sources include a Royal Navy recruitment poster, a painting of the death of Archduke Ferdinand, newspaper headlines, a 1917 Liberty Bond poster, an image of the Harlem Hellfighters, and...
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IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
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This book relays factual details of the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 through multiple accounts of the event. Readers learn details through the point of view of a U.S. Soldier at Pearl Harbor, a Japanese military commander, and a Hawaiian worker near the military base. This book offers opportunities to compare and contrast various narrative perspectives in the text while gathering and analyzing information about an historical event.
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