Picture Books (Introductory Material) Mountain Alphabet (Margriet Ruurs) •A is for Big Sky Country: A Montana Alphabet (Sneed B. Collard, III and Joanna Yardley) •B is for Piñata: A Mexico Alphabet (Tony Johnston) •P INFORMATIONAL TEXTS Rural United States Alamo (Cornerstones of Freedom, Second Series) (Tom McGowen) •The in the Old West (Cornerstones of Freedom series) (Tom McGowen) •African-Americans of Tears (Cornerstones of Freedom series) (R. Conrad Stein) •Trail Horses I Have Known (Hope Ryden) •Wild (Hope Ryden) Around the Year •Wildflowers American Science/Technical Subjects California Invasive Plant Council (Invasive Plant Inventory) (E) • How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet out of Idaho (Jon Katz) (E) Marginal World” (1955) in The Edge of the Sea (Rachel Carson) •“The North America Cry Wolf: The Amazing True Story of Life Among Arctic Wolves (Farley Mowat) •Never Hundred & One Beautiful Small Towns in Mexico (Guillermo Garcia Oropeza and Cristobal Garcia Sanchez) •One Additional Resources of Landscape Painting •History ART, MUSIC, AND MEDIA Art Wood, American Gothic (1930) •Grant ELA Grade: 8th Focus: Chunk 3 Time Frame: 9 Weeks Sample Theme: Back on America” “Looking Sample Essential Question: How does learning history through literature differ from learning through informational text?
Picture Books (Introductory Material) •A Mountain Alphabet (Margriet Ruurs) •B is for Big Sky Country: A Montana Alphabet (Sneed B. Collard, III and Joanna Yardley) •P is for Piñata: A Mexico Alphabet (Tony Johnston) INFORMATIONAL TEXTS Rural United States •The Alamo (Cornerstones of Freedom, Second Series) (Tom McGowen) •African-Americans in the Old West (Cornerstones of Freedom series) (Tom McGowen) •Trail of Tears (Cornerstones of Freedom series) (R. Conrad Stein) •Wild Horses I Have Known (Hope Ryden) •Wildflowers Around the Year (Hope Ryden) American Science/Technical Subjects • California Invasive Plant Council (Invasive Plant Inventory) (E) How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet out of Idaho (Jon Katz) (E) •“The Marginal World” (1955) in The Edge of the Sea (Rachel Carson) North America •Never Cry Wolf: The Amazing True Story of Life Among Arctic Wolves (Farley Mowat) •One Hundred & One Beautiful Small Towns in Mexico (Guillermo Garcia Oropeza and Cristobal Garcia Sanchez) Additional Resources •History of Landscape Painting ART, MUSIC, AND MEDIA Art •Grant Wood, American Gothic (1930) ELA Grade: 8th Focus: Chunk 3 Time Frame: 9 Weeks Sample Theme: “Looking Back on America” Sample Essential Question: How does learning history through literature differ from learning through informational text?