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Our Place In History

Materials

Year  1
 Year 2
Year 3
Year 4

 

Year 1

 

Constitution Day Materials Online

 

Course Materials

 

Brooke, Robert, ed. Rural Voices: Place-Conscious Education and the Teaching of Writing. Practitioner Inquiry 25. Berkeley, CA: National Writing Project, 2003.

Clark, Christopher, ed., et al. Who Built America?  To 1877: Volume 1.  2nd edition.  New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000.

Ferris, William R.  "A Sense of Place."  Humanities 19, no. 1 (January/February 1998).  Available online at http://www.neh.gov/news/humanities/1998-01/ferris.html.

Fleischman, Paul.  Seedfolks.  New York: Harper Trophy, 2004.

Haas, Toni and Paul Nachtigal. Place Value: An Educator's Guide to Good Literature on Rural Lifeways, Environments, and Purposes of Education. Charleston, WV: Clearinghouse on Rural Education and Small Schools, 1998.

Hayes, Derek. Historical Atlas of the Pacific Northwest.  Seattle: Sasquatch Books, 2000.

_____. Historical Atlas of the United States: With Original Maps. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2007.

McTighe, Jay and Grant Wiggins. Understanding by Design. Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, 2004.

Rosenzweig, Roy, ed., et al. Who Built America?  From 1877 to Present: Volume 2.  2nd edition.  New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000.

Schur, Joan Brodsky.  Eyewitness to the Past: Strategies for Teaching American History in Grades 5-12.  Portland, ME: Stenhouse Publishers, 2007.

Sommer, Barbara W. and Mary Kay Quinlan.  The Oral History Manual.  American Association for State and Local History Book Series.  Walnut Creek, CA: Altamira Press, 2002.

Wood, Gordon S.  Revolutionary Characters: What Made the Founders Different. New York: Penguin Books, 2006.

 

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Year 2

 

Constitution Day Materials

 

Anonymous.  The Constitution of the Iroquois Nations.  Kessinger Publishing, 2004.

National Archives and Records Administration. Charters of Freedom 3-Pack. 

National Archives. Our Documents: 100 Milestone Documents from the National Archives.  Oxford University Press, 2004.

Additional Online Resources

 

Course Materials

 

Du Bois, W.E.B. The Souls of Black Folk. 1903. New York: Dover, 1994. 1-7, 127-31.

Fleischman, Paul.  Seedfolks.  New York: Harper Trophy, 2004.

Freire, Paulo. Pedagogy of the Oppressed. 30th Anniversary Edition. New York: Continuum, 2000.

Gruenewald, David A.  "The Best of Both Worlds: A Critical Pedagogy of Place."  Educational Researcher 32, no. 4; 3-12.

Gruenewald, David A. and Gregory A. Smith.  Place-Based Education in the Global Age: Local Diversity.  Lawrence Erlbaum, 2007.

Holter, Russell H. and Jesse Clark McAbee.  Rails to Paradise: The History of the Tacoma Eastern Railroad 1890-1919.  Rochester, WA: Gorham Printing, 2005.

Ignatiev, Noel. How the Irish Became White. New York: Routledge, 1995. 1-3.

Illich, Ivan. Deschooling Society. 1971.

-----."In Lieu of Education." Towards a History of Needs. 1978.

-----. "Needs." In Wolfgang Sachs, ed. A Development Dictionary: A Guide to Knowledge as Power. 1992.

Jacobson, Matthew Frye. Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999. 1-12.

Koppelman, Nancy. Reading to Write: Attuning College Freshman to a Literate Life. 2008.

Leopold, Aldo.  "The Land Ethic." A Sand County Almanac. 1948.  Available online from at http://home.btconnect.com/tipiglen/landethic.html.

Limerick, Patricia Nelson.  The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West.  W.W. Norton, 1987.

Mandell, Nikki and Bobbie Malone. Thinking Like a Historian: Rethinking History Instruction. 2007.

Nasaw, David. Schooled to Order: A Social History of Public Schooling in the United States. New York: Oxford University Press, 1981.

Sone, Monica.  Nisei Daughter.  Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 1979.

Stevens, Robert L.  Homespun: Teaching Local History in Grades 6-12. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2001.

Strasser, Susan.  Never Done: A History of American Housework. Holt Paperbacks, 2000.

Turner, Frederick Jackson.  "The Significance of the Frontier in American History."  1893.  Available online at http://xroads.virginia.edu/~Hyper/TURNER/.

Wade, Rahima C., ed.  Community Action Rooted in History: The CiviConnections Model of Service-Learning.  NCSS Bulletin 106. Silver Spring, MD: National Council for Social Studies, 2007.

White, Richard.  "It's Your Misfortune and None of My Own:" A New History of the American West. University of Oklahoma Press, 1993.

Whitman, Glenn.  Dialogue with the Past: Engaging Students & Meeting Standards through Oral History.  Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press, 2004.

 

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Year 3

 

Constitution Day Materials

 

Ellis, Joseph J. American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies at the Founding of the Republic. Knopf, 2007.

Founding Fathers. A & E Home Video, 2001.

The U.S. Constitution: And Fascinating Facts About It. 7th edition. Oak Hill Publishing,1999.

 

Course Materials

 

Bigelow, Bill and Bob Peterson. Rethinking Globalization: Teaching for Justice in an Unjust World. Rethinking Schools, 2002.

Davis, M. Elaine. How Students Understand the Past: From Theory to Practice. Walnut Creek, CA: Altamira Press, 2005.

Kupperman, Karen Ordahl. "International at the Creation: Early Modern American History." Chapter 4 in Rethinking American History in a Global Age by Thomas Bender, ed. University of California Press, 2002.

Kyvig, David E. and Myron A. Marty. Nearby History: Exploring the Past Around You. Altamira Press, 2000.

Mapes, Lynda V. Breaking Ground: The Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe and the Unearthing of Tse-whit-zen Village. University of Washington Press, 2009.

Martin, S.R., Jr. On the Move: A Black Family's Western Saga. Texas A & M University Press, 2009.

Mintz, Steven. Huck's Raft: A History of American Childhood. Belknap Press, 2006.

Nye, David E. Technology Matters: Questions to Live With. MIT Press, 2007.

Palmer, Parker J. The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life. Jossey-Bass, 2007.

Reichard, Gary W. and Ted Dickson, eds. America on the World Stage: A Global Approach to U.S. History. University of Illinois Press, 2008.

Reisner, Marc. Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water. Penguin Books, 1993.

Strasser, Susan. Never Done: A History of American Housework. Holt Paperbacks, 2000.

_____. Waste & Want: A Social History of Trash. Holt Paperbacks, 2000.

White, Richard.  "It's Your Misfortune and None of My Own:" A New History of the American West. University of Oklahoma Press, 1993.

_____. The Organic Machine: The Remaking of the Columbia River. Hill and Wang, 1996.

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Year 4

 

Constitution Day Materials

 

A More Perfect Union: American Independence and the Constitution. Fifth Ed. The Choices Program, 2009.

 

Course Materials

 

Alexie, Sherman. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. New York: Little, Brown, and Company, 2007.

Hevly, Bruce and John M. Findlay, eds. The Atomic West. Seattle: Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest in association with the University of Washington Press, 1998.

Scheuerman, Richard D. and Michael O. Finley. Finding Chief Kamiakin: The Life and Legacy of a Northwest Patriot. Pullman: Washington State Press, 2008.

White, Richard.  "It's Your Misfortune and None of My Own:" A New History of the American West. University of Oklahoma Press, 1993.

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