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- Family
Trees - Lesson Plan
- from Teachnet.com comes this lesson plan on family trees and genealogy
- Genealogy
for Children
- Turn your students into family history detectives. These sites will help
parents and teachers direct children in their genealogy research.
- Family
History
- A middle years lesson plan
- Exploring
Our Roots - A lesson plan for grades 7-12 designed to incorporate personal
family trees into the larger context of community, state, and national histories.
- This
Is Your Life
- A unit for grades 7-12 in which students explore their backgrounds and discover
information about themselves and their families.
Related
Novel Sets Available from the Curriculum Materials Centre
- Bud,
Not Buddy
by Christopher Paul Curtis - Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in
Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression, escapes a bad foster home and
sets out in search of the man he believes to be his father--the renowned bandleader,
H.E. Calloway of Grand Rapids.
- Ramona
Quimby
Age 8 by Beverly Cleary - The further adventures of the Quimby family as Ramona
enters the third grade.
- Mama's
Going to Buy You a Mockingbird
by Jean Little - A young boy struggles to cope with his father's death.
- Last
Chance Summer
by Diana J. Wieler - A troubled twelve-year-old with a history of running
away from foster homes is given a last chance when he is sent to a farm where
other "tough kids," who can make or break each other, are looked
after by a caring Englishman.
- Hero
of Lesser Causes
by Julie Johnston - Twelve-year-old Keely and her older brother Patrick enjoy
a very close friendship. When Patrick falls victim to polio and loses the
will to live, Keely decides that her role as a hero will now need to be focused,
not on heroism on a grand scale, but on the lesser causes such as improving
Patrick’s life. While carrying out her heroic mission, Keely and her
girlfriend develop a first tentative friendship with a neighboring boy. This
novel is a Governor-General’s Literary Award winner
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