Reading Stories With Social Studies Content Connections
|
TITLE OF WORK |
SOCIAL STUDIES CONTENT |
| Dragon, Dragon | Medieval Fiction |
| What Will Our Town Look Like? | Future Technology |
| The Bridegroom | Russian Setting |
| Earth Poems | Geography |
| from Bud, Not Buddy | Adoption/Child Labor |
| Ta-Na-E-Ka | Native American |
| The Wind People | Facts about the Kaw, Native Americans |
| The Bracelet | World War II-Japanese Internment |
| Wartime Mistakes, Peacetime Apologies | World War II |
| Celebrating Quinceanera | Hispanic Heritage |
| Two Frogs and the Milk Vat | Fable |
| Everybody is Different but the Same Too | Immigration |
| The Emperor's New Clothes | Fairy Tale |
| Baucis and Philemon | Greek Myth |
| One Child's Labor of Love | Child Labor |
| Rapunzel | Fairy Tale |
| Rumpelstilskin | Fairy Tale |
| King Long Shanks | Fairy Tale |
| Little Mangy One | Lebanese Folk Tale (Middle East) |
| I Was Not Alone, an Interview with Rosa Parks | US Civil Rights Movement |
| The Gold Cadillac | US Civil Rights Movement |
| Separate but Never Equal | US Civil Rights Movement |
| Goodbye Records, Hello CD's | Technology |
| Medusa's Head | Greek Mythology |
| Perseus and the Dragon's Head | Mythology/Cartooning |
| The Lion, Bruh Bear, Bruh Rabbit | Folk Tale |
| The Fox and the Crow | Aesop's Fables |
| The Wolf and the House Dog | Aesop's Fables |
| How the Snake Got Its Poison | African American Folk Tales/Legends |
| How the Possum Lost the Hair on Its Tail | African American Folk Tales/Legends |
| Why the Gator Is Black | African American Folk Tales/Legends |
| Why Dogs Chase Cats | African American Folk Tales/Legends |
| Ugly Duckling or Little Mermaid | Danish Story |
| Storm | Weather/Environment |
| A Glory Over Everything-Harriet Tubman | History/Biography |
| All Aboard | Underground Railroad |
| Yes, It Was My Grandmother | History/Heritage |
| That Day | History/Heritage |
| The Landlord's Granddaughter | Cultural Revolution in China |
| John Brown | Anti-slavery Movement |
| The Nightingale | Fairy Tale |
| His Gift to Girls | Women's Rights |
| The Sea | Geography |
| John Henry | Ballad |
| The Dog of Pompeii | Roman History |
| Pompeii | Roman History |
| The Flood | Geography |