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· Bushman, John H., and Kay Parks Haas. __Using Young Adult Literature in the English Classroom__. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education, Inc., 1993. o This book is very informative on how to teach and relate young adult literature to middle and high school students. · Harjo, Lisa D., Karen D. Harvey, and Lynda Welborn. __How to Teach about American Indians: A Guide for the School Library Media Specialist__. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1995. o With teaching in an area like South Dakota, this book provides a lot of information crucial when teaching Native American students. · Schmidt, Laurel. __Social Studies that Sticks: How to Bring Content and Concepts to Life__. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2007. o This book provides an interesting approach on how to teach Social Studies, emphasizing student interaction and relating material to student experiences and knowledge.
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 * 1. ****Research/ Teaching Books **

· Beyer, B. K. “  How to Teach Thinking Skills in Social Studies and History .” //The Social Studies (Washington, D.C.)// v. 99 no. 5 (September/October 2008) p. 196-201. o This article discusses different strategies to use for direct instruction in thinking skills in social studies classes. It talks about the importance of knowing what thinking skills the students will need, and how to incorporate them into lessons. · Wiersma, A. “  A study of the teaching methods of high school history teachers.” //The Social Studies (Washington, D.C.)// v. 99 no. 3 (May/June 2008) p. 111-16. o This article provides more of a general background discussion about history teaching methods. This is helpful, as it talks about several different ideas. · Young, J. “  Small Group Scored Discussion: Beyond the Fishbowl, or, Everybody Reads, Everybody Talks, Everybody Learns.” //The History Teacher (Long Beach, Calif.)// v. 40 no. 2 (February 2007) p. 177-81. o <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">This article gives a useful, in-depth look at how the fishbowl strategy can be used in history classrooms and lessons to promote class and group discussion. · <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Simon, L. ‘  <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">“I Wouldn't Choose It, but I Don't Regret Reading It”: Scaffolding Students' Engagement With Complex Texts.’ //Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy// v. 52 no. 2 (October 2008) p. 134-43. o <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">This talks about the importance of scaffolding and using previously gained experiences in the students to give them better understanding of complex texts and novels.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">2. ****<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Journal Articles **

· <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Schindler’s List o <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">This is a very well-made movie that gives the students an immersive, first-hand look at the Holocaust. · <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">To Kill a Mockingbird o <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">This is a very well-made film that can be used to supplement the book in an English class. It is also a very good period piece that could be used in discussions about racial oppression. · <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">[] o <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">There are many different videos on many different topics in history that can be found at this site. · <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">[|www.teachertube.com/] o <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">This site contains viewer-submitted videos, but unlike YouTube, they all relate to education. Videos from the site can be used as visual and audio supplements to lessons. · <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">[|www.youtube.com/] o <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Although not all videos are educationally appropriate, there are dozens of educational videos that could be used from this site to supplement lessons.
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· <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Remarque, Erich Maria. __All Quiet on the Western Front__. Trans. A. W. Wheen. New York: Grosset and Dunlap: 1930. o <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">This book is a prime example of literature about war. It is not long, and could be used in either a history or English class, or combined lessons. · <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Orwell, George. __Animal Farm__. New York: Penguin Books Ltd.: 1946. o <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">This book is not only useful for history classes, as it provides a vivid critique of Bolshevism and Joseph Stalin, but it could also be used in an English class as a great example of satire. · <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Lowry, Lois. __The Giver__. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1993. o <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">This is a good middle school book that might not only be used in English class to teach literature terms and themes, but it is also a good lower-level substitute for a book like //Nineteen-Eighty-Four//.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">4. ****<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Books **

· <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">[] o <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">This site contains a variety of games for students to learn geography with. · <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Brown Bag Project o <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">This Literature game has students putting eight items into bags that somehow represent a book. It is useful to teach literature terms such as symbols, setting and plot, among others. Choosing the items for the books also allows the students to make their own choices and be creative. · <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">[] o <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">This site has many online activities that students can perform, as well as activities teachers can implement in their classrooms.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">5. ****<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Games **

· <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Shakespeare Plays o <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Often offered at the Washington Pavilion or a colleges like Mount Marty, any plays would be an educational opportunity, but Shakespeare plays would be especially good considering Shakespeare is such an important part of the English Curriculum, and Shakespeare’s plays are just that—plays; they need to be seen. · <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Pierre Capital o <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Field trips to the Capital can provide students with firsthand looks at how the state government operates. · <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Gavin’s Point Dam o <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">A field trip to Gavin’s Point dam can teach students how the dam operates, what are its uses to South Dakota, the history of the dam, and how it affects the surrounding terrain and wildlife.
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· <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Teachers.net: [] o <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">This site contains activities and projects for classes in any subject, as well as sample lesson plans, articles for teachers, and other resources for the classroom. · <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">[] o <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">This website, set up by PBS, has many useful resources for teachers, including videos from PBS, projects, printable activities and worksheets that can be used in class. · <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">[] o <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The Library of Congress has many resources useful for teachers, including archives of primary documents, with sample projects and lesson plans attached to this documents, as well as themed resources and other lesson plans. · <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">[] o <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">This site contains copies of a variety of poems, information of the poets, historical recordings of the poets reading their poems, as well as lesson plans and activities. · <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">[] o <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Like the Library of Congress, the National Archives provide many primary sources, as well as sample projects for teaching with the sources.
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· <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Best of History websites: [] o <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">This site provides several sample lesson plans exclusively for history, drawing them from other websites and rating them on quality and usefulness. · <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">California State University Northridge Compilation of Social Studies Lesson Plans [] o <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">This site contains both a sort section on teaching strategies and many sample lesson plans for the social studies. · <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">[] o <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">This site contains collections of lesson plans for all disciplines, and arranges each discipline’s lessons plans by topics or specific themes. · <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">[] o <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">This site contains lesson plans from all content areas, dividing them into grade levels.
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· <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">[] o <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">This site contains dozens of different posters that can be purchased for a classroom. · <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">[]= o <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">This site also contains many posters, but is devoted solely to educational posters. · <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">[] o <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">This site provides posters, along with many other materials needed in the classroom.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">9. ****<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Pictures, Posters, graphs, cartoons, quote **

· <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Here are sites containing the assorted standards needed in teaching Social and English in South Dakota. o <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">South Dakota Standards: [] o <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">National History Standards: [] o <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">National Social Studies Standards: [] o <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">National English Standards: [] o <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">National Psychology Standards: []
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· <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The Dollar Tree and other dollar stores have a lot of inexpensive things that will be need in a classroom. · <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">[] <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">i.Federal Resources for Educational Excellence provides free items for teachers, such as animations to supplement lesson, as well as primary documents, maps and photographs. · <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">[] o <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">This site has cheap deals on supplies for the classroom and for different content areas.
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· <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">[] o <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">This site contains many different themes from all disciplines. Within each theme it provides sample lesson plans, activities, resources, and other ideas. · <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">[] o <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">This site divides its themes among the disciplines, providing activity ideas for different topics in each content area. · <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">[] o <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Random House is a publishing website that lists several books that can be used to help teach assorted themes. · <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">[] o <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">This site has a in-depth discussion over the use of themed literature units, and provides ideas and steps for how to effectively implement them.
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