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Reading through African American History with Ms. Yohe

Unit 3

Unit 1

Unit 4

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You must read a book from the provided EPIC! Libraries You must read the entire book via EPIC! You must complete Microsoft Form Amazon Review with fidelity for credit.

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With Genially templates, you can include visual resources that’ll engage the class from the word go. Highlight key content to help students assimilate it and even embed external content that will surprise them and provide more context for the topic: videos, photos, audios ... Whatever you like! Interactivity and animation can be your best allies when creating tables, infographics, or graphs that help provide context on the topic or unit and simplify the information in order to make it easier to understand. We are visual beings and we find it easier to ‘read’ images than to read a written text.

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Stolen into Slavery

Judith Bloom Fradin, Dennis Brindell Fradin

National Geographic

4/5

Pages:

Synopsis

119

Follow Solomon Northup through his 12 years of bondage as a man kidnapped into slavery.

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National Geographic Readers: Ancient Egypt

Stephanie Warren Drimmer

National Geographic

4/5

Synopsis

Pages:

Dig into Ancient Egypt's amazing past with pyramids, mummies, pharaohs, and gods.

48

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Tituba of Salem Village

Ann Petry

Open Road

4/5

Synopsis

Pages:

287

In 1688, Tituba and her husband, John, are sold to a Boston minister and sent to the strange world of Salem, Massachusetts.

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Freedom in Congo Square

Carole Boston Weatherford

Little Bee Books

4/5

ynopsis

Pages:

34

Six days a week, enslaved people labor all day, but on Sunday afternoons they gather with free blacks at Congo Square, free from oppression.

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Author Name

Publisher

4/5

Sinopsis

Publication date:

xx/xx/xxxx

With Genially templates, you can include visual resources that’ll engage the class from the word go. Highlight key content to help students assimilate it and even embed external content that will surprise them and provide more context for the topic: videos, photos, audios ... Whatever you like! Interactivity and animation can be your best allies when creating tables, infographics, or graphs that help provide context on the topic or unit and simplify the information in order to make it easier to understand. We are visual beings and we find it easier to ‘read’ images than to read a written text.

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xxxx

Collection:

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Leaders Like Us: Rebecca Lee Crumpler

J. P. Miller

Rouke Educational Media

4/5

Synopsis

Pages:

26

Rebecca Lee Crumpler would not let anyone stop her from becoming the first African American woman doctor in the United States.

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Chasing the Nightbird

Krista Russell

Peachtree

4/5

Synopsis

Pages:

205

Lucky Valera's life changes when he is kidnapped and pressed into a life of servitude by his cruel and embittered half brother, Fortuna.

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The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave

Virginia Hamilton

Open Road

4/5

Synopsis

Anthony Burns is a runaway slave who has just started to build a life for himself in Boston.

Pages:

167

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The Need for Flight

Claire O'Neal

Purple Toad

4/5

Synopsis

Pages:

49

Learn about the history of North American slavery and the dangers that awaited slaves who tried to reach freedom.

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George Washington Carver

Kitson Jazynka

National Geographic Readers

4/5

Synopsis

Meet George Washington Carver and learn about his important work with peanuts and other plants.

Pages:

37

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Dear Benjamin Banneker

Andrea Davis Pinkney

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

4/5

Synopsis

In the 1700s, Benjamin Banneker was troubled that not all blacks were free like him, so he wrote to Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson.

Pages:

29

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Africa is not a Country

Mark Melnicove, Margy Burns Knight

Millbrook Press

4/5

Synopsis

Pages:

Enter into the daily lives of children in modern African countries and celebrate the extraordinary diversity of this vibrant continent.

40

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Book Title

Author Name

Publisher

4/5

Sinopsis

Publication date:

xx/xx/xxxx

With Genially templates, you can include visual resources that’ll engage the class from the word go. Highlight key content to help students assimilate it and even embed external content that will surprise them and provide more context for the topic: videos, photos, audios ... Whatever you like! Interactivity and animation can be your best allies when creating tables, infographics, or graphs that help provide context on the topic or unit and simplify the information in order to make it easier to understand. We are visual beings and we find it easier to ‘read’ images than to read a written text.

Pages:

xxxx

Collection:

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Translator:

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Dimensions:

xx x xx

Genre/theme:

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About the author

Tituba of Salem Village

Ann Petry

Open Road

4/5

Synopsis

Pages:

287

In 1688, Tituba and her husband, John, are sold to a Boston minister and sent to the strange world of Salem, Massachusetts.

Get EPIC!

Stolen into Slavery

Judith Bloom Fradin, Dennis Brindell Fradin

National Geographic

4/5

Pages:

Synopsis

119

Follow Solomon Northup through his 12 years of bondage as a man kidnapped into slavery.

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The Story of the Amistad

Emma Gelders Sterne

Dover

4/5

Synopsis

Pages:

149

A fictional account of the 1839 revolt of Africans against their Spanish captors aboard the slave ship Amistad.

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Before She Was Harriet

Lesa Cline-Ransome

Holiday House

4/5

Synopsis

Pages:

33

A lush and lyrical biography of Harriet Tubman, written in verse and illustrated by an award-winning artist.

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Henry's Freedom Box

Ellen Levine

Weston Woods

4/5

Synopsis

Pages:

10 minutes of Listening

Henry dreams of a world where his life belongs to him. But when his family is sold, he risks everything for what he knows is right.

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Slavery in America

Katie Marsico

Rouke Publishing

4/5

Synopsis

Explore the time of slavery in America through engaging text, detailed illustrations, and photos of artifacts.

Pages:

49

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All About Madam C.J. Walker

A'Lelia Bundles

Blue River

4/5

Synopsis

As America's first female self-made millionaire, Madam C. J. Walker is a true rags-to-riches story.

Pages:

57

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Blades of Freedom

Nathan Hale

Amullet Books

4/5

Synopsis

Pages:

130

Discover the story of the Haitian Revolution—the largest uprising of enslaved people in history.

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Dear Benjamin Banneker

Andrea Davis Pinkney

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

4/5

Synopsis

In the 1700s, Benjamin Banneker was troubled that not all blacks were free like him, so he wrote to Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson.

Pages:

29

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The Listeners

Gloria Whelan

Ceneage Learning

4/5

Synopsis

Pages:

41

The courageous story of a young slave girl growing up on an American plantation.

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The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave

Virginia Hamilton

Open Road

4/5

Synopsis

Anthony Burns is a runaway slave who has just started to build a life for himself in Boston.

Pages:

167

Get EPIC!

The Story of the Amistad

Emma Gelders Sterne

Dover

4/5

Synopsis

Pages:

149

A fictional account of the 1839 revolt of Africans against their Spanish captors aboard the slave ship Amistad.

Get EPIC!

Sojourner Truth

Gwenyth Swain

lerner Publishing Group

4/5

Synopsis

Pages:

49

This is about Isabella, who was shaped by slavery.

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A Spy Called James

Anne Rockwell

CarolRhoda Books

4/5

Synopsis

The true story of James Lafayette, a slave who spied for George Washington's army during the American Revolution.

Pages:

37

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Blades of Freedom

Nathan Hale

Amullet Books

4/5

Synopsis

Pages:

130

Discover the story of the Haitian Revolution—the largest uprising of enslaved people in history.

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Yours for Justice, Ida B. Wells

Philip Dray

Peachtree

4/5

Synopsis

Pages:

Ida Wells defied convention and she used her position as a journalist to speak out about injustice.

40

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When the Slave Esperança Garcia Wrote a Letter

Sonia Rosa

Groundwood Books

4/5

Synopsis

Pages:

39

In 1770, the slave Esperança bravely penned a letter to the governor requesting permission to return to the farm she was living.

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The Geography of Sub-Saharan Africa

Jill Keppeler

Rosen Group Publishing

4/5

Synopsis

Explore the brilliant, dynamic landscapes and cityscapes of Sub-Saharan Africa.

Pages:

34

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Friends for Freedom

Suzanne Slade

Peachtree

4/5

Synopsis

Pages:

263

No one thought Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass would ever become friends.

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Publisher

4/5

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Publication date:

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With Genially templates, you can include visual resources that’ll engage the class from the word go. Highlight key content to help students assimilate it and even embed external content that will surprise them and provide more context for the topic: videos, photos, audios ... Whatever you like! Interactivity and animation can be your best allies when creating tables, infographics, or graphs that help provide context on the topic or unit and simplify the information in order to make it easier to understand. We are visual beings and we find it easier to ‘read’ images than to read a written text.

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Buffalo Soldiers

Julia Garstecki

Black Rabbit

4/5

Synopsis

Pages:

10 minutes of Listening

This title describes the heroic efforts of the African American soldiers known as Buffalo Soldiers who served on the Western frontier.

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Africa

Mary Lindeen

Child's World

4/5

Synopsis

Pages:

24

A very simple introduction to the geography, topography, flora, fauna, and people of Africa.

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Author Name

Publisher

4/5

Sinopsis

Publication date:

xx/xx/xxxx

With Genially templates, you can include visual resources that’ll engage the class from the word go. Highlight key content to help students assimilate it and even embed external content that will surprise them and provide more context for the topic: videos, photos, audios ... Whatever you like! Interactivity and animation can be your best allies when creating tables, infographics, or graphs that help provide context on the topic or unit and simplify the information in order to make it easier to understand. We are visual beings and we find it easier to ‘read’ images than to read a written text.

Pages:

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Bessie Coleman: Daring to Fly

Sally M. Walker

Millbrook

4/5

Synopsis

Pages:

205

Bessie Coleman was forced to travel to France to fulfill her dream of earning a pilot's license.

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African Savanna

Josh Gregory

Cherry Lake

4/5

Synopsis

Explore the African savanna and learn all about what it's like to live in this biome, from what kinds of plants and animals.

Pages:

25

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Ida B. Wells

Nicole K. Orr

Dover

4/5

Synopsis

Civil rights activist Ida B. Wells made it her mission to stand up for people who couldn’t do it for themselves.

Pages:

219

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Slavery in America

Katie Marsico

Rouke Publishing

4/5

Synopsis

Explore the time of slavery in America through engaging text, detailed illustrations, and photos of artifacts.

Pages:

49

Get EPIC!

Leaders Like Us: Rebecca Lee Crumpler

J. P. Miller

Rouke Educational Media

4/5

Synopsis

Pages:

26

Rebecca Lee Crumpler would not let anyone stop her from becoming the first African American woman doctor in the United States.

Get EPIC!

Freedom in Congo Square

Carole Boston Weatherford

Little Bee Books

4/5

ynopsis

Pages:

34

Six days a week, enslaved people labor all day, but on Sunday afternoons they gather with free blacks at Congo Square, free from oppression.

Get EPIC!

Master George's People

Marfe Ferguson Delano

National Geographic

4/5

Synopsis

Read fascinating portraits of George Washington’s own enslaved cooks, overseers, valets, and farm hands.

Pages:

57

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The Need for Flight

Claire O'Neal

Purple Toad

4/5

Synopsis

Pages:

49

Learn about the history of North American slavery and the dangers that awaited slaves who tried to reach freedom.

Get EPIC!

Sojourner Truth

Gwenyth Swain

lerner Publishing Group

4/5

Synopsis

Pages:

49

This is about Isabella, who was shaped by slavery.

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African Myths and Folk Tales

Carter G. Woodson

Dover

4/5

Synopsis

A collection of beautiful, unique myths and folk-tales from Africa.

Pages:

219

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The Other Side of Free

Krista Russell

Peachtree

4/5

Synopsis

Pages:

263

Fourteen-year-old Jem has escaped a cruel master but is now in the custody of Phaedra, a difficult and angry woman.

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Follow the Drinking Gourd

Wim Coleman, Pat Perrin

Red Chair Press

4/5

Synopsis

Pages:

41

Escaped slaves Old Ellie and Old Sam share their story along the path to freedom, following the Big Dipper along the Underground Railroad.

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Before She Was Harriet

Lesa Cline-Ransome

Holiday House

4/5

Synopsis

Pages:

33

A lush and lyrical biography of Harriet Tubman, written in verse and illustrated by an award-winning artist.

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Freedom Train North

Julia Pferdehirt

Wisconsin Historical Society Press

4/5

Synopsis

Pages:

143

People running from slavery made many hard journeys to find freedom—on steamboats and in carriages, across rivers and in hay-covered wagons

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Focus on The Great Migration

Artika R. Tyner

Lerner

4/5

Synopsis

During the Great Migration, a large number of Black Americans relocated when faced with segregation and poor economic conditions.

Pages:

34

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What's Your Story, Frederick Douglass?

Jody Jensen Shaffer

Lerner

4/5

Synopsis

Cub Reporter interviews the civil rights activist to find out how Frederick, a freed slave, inspired others with his achievements.

Pages:

25

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George Washington Carver

Andy Carter, Carol Saller

Dover

4/5

Synopsis

Pages:

41

As a teacher and scientist at Alabama’s Tuskegee Institute in the 1900s, George Washington Carver became famous for his work helping farmers

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Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre

Carole Boston Weatherford

CarolRhoda

4/5

Synopsis

Pages:

A powerful look at the Tulsa Race Massacre, one of the worst incidents of racial violence in our nation’s history.

48

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Black Heroes of the Wild West

James Otis Smith

Toon Grapjics

4/5

Synopsis

Pages:

143

Explore the true tales of three Black heroes who took control of their destinies and stood up for their communities in the Old West.

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