Think back when you were a student, and it was the remaining month of the school year. The testing is completed, but your teachers want you to know more. This is what that American history teachers want at our school.
The population and the family incomes of my school district are extremely diverse.
I am the library media specialist at a middle school catering to seventh and eighth grade students, and our campus has an increasing student body on the free and reduced lunch program.
With budgetary cut backs there is not enough funds for any "end-of-the-year" extras.
My Project
The history students begin the first semester of school year with the pilgrims standing on Plymouth Rock, and they close with the Civil War and Restoration Era. With the extension novel, The Glory Field, our eighth graders can grasp a better understanding of history as a whole unit. Often the students see history as blocks, but they might not see it as a flowing timeline.
Our eighth grade American history students can benefit from the social and personal growth that reading The Glory Field will give them.
They will experience the thought that "History can repeat itself."
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