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Coffey, Rosemary K.; Howard, Elizabeth F. – 1997
Intended for use with grades 5-12, this book offers 201 titles of carefully selected novels as an antidote to students' laments about history being boring--good historical fiction that animates the data found in textbooks. The book is an expanded and updated edition of an earlier publication and includes 86 new titles, as well as 40 titles…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Curriculum Enrichment, Instructional Effectiveness, Intermediate Grades
Wilson, Wendy S.; Herman, Gerald H. – 1994
For many students, films and television provide not only a chief source of entertainment, but their only glimpse of history outside of a formal classroom. This book aims to stimulate media awareness and critical viewing skills in students through lessons in critical analysis and historical interpretation of selected films. The films chosen for…
Descriptors: American Indians, Audience Response, Blacks, Colonial History (United States)