We the People Bookshelf
—EDSITEment resources—
EDSITEment Lesson Plans:
2007-2008: Created Equal
—Grades K-3—
The Ugly Duckling — Hans Christian Andersen
Hans Christian Andersen’s Fairy Tales
http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=417
The Gettysburg Address — Abraham Lincoln
Pink Y Say — Patricia Polacco
—Grades 4-6—
Saturnalia — Paul Fleischman
Give Me Liberty! The Story
of the Declaration of
Independence — Russell Freedman
Declare the Causes: The Declaration of Independence
http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=282
Lincoln: A Photobiography — Russell Freedman
Many Thousand Gone: African
Americans from
Slavery to Freedom — Virginia Hamilton
After the American Revolution: Free African Americans in the North
http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=452
Lyddie — Katherine Paterson
—Grades 7-8—
Elijah of Buxton — Christopher Paul Curtis
Freedom Walkers: The Story
of the Montgomery
Bus Boycott — Russell Freedman
Abraham Lincoln the Writer:
A Treasury of His Greatest
Speeches and Letters — ed. by Harold Holzer
We Must Not Be Enemies: Lincoln's First Inaugural Address
http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=246
Breaking Through — Francisco Jiménez
—Grades 9-12—
Abigail Adams: Witness to a Revolution — Natalie S. Bober
That All People May Be
One People, Send Rain to Wash the
Face of the Earth — Nez Perce Chief Joseph
Flowers for Algernon — Daniel Keyes
Lincoln’s Virtues: An Ethical Biography — William Lee Miller
Lincoln Goes To War
http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=263
Amistad: A Novel — David Pesci
Who Was Cinque?
http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=308
2006-2007: Pursuit of Happiness
—Grades K-3—
Aesop's Fables — Aesop
Aesop and Ananse: Animal Fables and Trickster Tales
http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=240Fables and Trickster Tales Around the World
http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=237Morality “Tails” East and West: European Fables and Buddhist Jataka Tales http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=593
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening — Robert Frost
Poems That Tell a Story: Narrative and Persona in the Poetry of Robert Frost
http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=345
Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel — Virginia Lee Burton
—Grades 4-6—
Tuck Everlasting — Natalie Babbitt
The Great Migration: An American Story — Jacob Lawrence
These Happy Golden Years — Laura Ingalls Wilder
The Journal of Wong Ming-Chung — Laurence Yep
—Grades 7-8—
Carry on, Mr. Bowditch — Jean Lee Latham
A Wrinkle in Time — Madeleine L’Engle
Esperanza Rising — Pam Munñoz Ryan
Esperanza Rising: Learning Not to be Afraid to Start Over
http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=739
—Grades 9-12—
Kindred — Octavio Butler
O Pioneers! — Willa Cather
Pioneer Values in Willa Cather’s My Antonia
http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=443
The Great Gatsby — F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Secret Society and Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby
http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=432
Leaves of Grass — Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman’s Notebooks and Poetry: The Sweep of the Universe
http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=427Walt Whitman to Langston Hughes: Poems for a Democracy
http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=428
Common Sense — Thomas Paine
Common Sense: The Rhetoric of Popular Democracy
http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=721
2005-2006: Becoming American
—Grades K-3—
The Lotus Seed — Sherry Garland
Watch the Stars Come Out — Riki Levinson*
Grandfather's Journey — Allen Say
—Grades 4-6—
Immigrant Kids — Russell Freedman
Where I Come From
http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=309The Statue of Liberty: The Meaning and Use of a National Symbol
http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=313Pearl S. Buck: “On Discovering America”
http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=736
The People Could Fly: The Picture Book — Virginia Hamilton
Rip Van Winkle — Washington Irving*
In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson — Bette Bao Lord
—Grades 7-8—
Rifles for Watie — Harold Keith
The Glory Field — Walter Dean Myers
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn — Betty Smith
Dragonwings — Laurence Yep
—Grades 9-12—
Death Comes for the Archbishop — Willa Cather*
Barrio Boy — Ernesto Galarza
Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin — edited by Louis P. Masur
Giants in the Earth: A Saga of the Prairie — Ole Edvart Rølvaag
2004-2005: Freedom
—Grades K-3—
The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses — Paul Goble
Watch the Stars Come Out — Riki Levinson
Paul Revere's Ride — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Why Do We Remember Revere? Paul: Revere’s Ride in History and Literature
http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=393
The Tale of Peter Rabbit — Beatrix Potter
Beatrix Potter’s Naughty Animal Tales
http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=386
—Grades 4-6—
The House of Dies Drear — Virginia Hamilton
Ben and Me — Robert Lawson
Chronicles of Narnia — C.S. Lewis
—Grades 7-8—
Fahrenheit 451 — Ray Bradbury
Across Five Aprils — Irene Hunt
To Be a Slave — Julius Lester
Perspectives on the Slave Narrative
http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=321Slave Narratives: Constructing U.S. History using Primary Documents
http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=364
The Witch of Blackbird Pond — Elizabeth George Speare
—Grades 9-12—
My Antonia — Willa Cather
Pioneer Values in Willa Cather’s My Antonia
http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=443
1984 and Animal Farm — George Orwell
More than a Metaphor: Allegory and the Art of Persuasion
http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=613
Miracle at Philadelphia — Catherine Drinker Bowen
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich — Alexander Solzhenitsyn
2003-2004 Courage
—Grades K-3—
The Cabin Faced West — Jean Fritz
Anansi the Spider — Gerald McDermott
Aesop and Ananse: Animal Fables and Trickster Tales
http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=240
Sylvester and the Magic Pebble — William Steig
—Grades 4-6—
The Matchlock Gun — Walter D. Edmonds
My Side of the Mountain — Jean Craighead George
The Dream Keeper and Other Poems — Langston Hughes
The Poet's Voice: Langston Hughes and You
http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=405
Little House on the Prairie — Laura Ingalls Wilder
Sodbusters!
http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=296
—Grades 7-8—
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass — Frederick Douglass
From Courage to Freedom: Frederick Douglass’s 1845 Biography
http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=594
Johnny Tremain — Esther Forbes
The Hobbit — J.R.R. Tolkien
—Grades 9-12—
The Red Badge of Courage — Stephen Crane
The Red Badge of Courage: A New Kind of Courage
http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=445The Red Badge of Courage: A New Kind of Realism
http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=444
Invisible Man — Ralph Ellison
Profiles in Courage — John F. Kennedy
To Kill a Mockingbird — Harper Lee
Profiles in Courage: Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird
http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=525
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn — Mark Twain
Critical Ways of Seeing The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in Context
http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=447