Book Detail

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Publication Information
Author:  Freedman, Russell Illustrator:  
Title:  Franklin Delano Roosevelt Date:  1990
Publisher:  Clarion City:  New York
ISBN, paperback:   ISBN, hardback:  0-395-62978-0

Recommended audience:
ABE/ABLE:   Yes ESOL:  
Family:   Young Adult:   Yes
Picture:  

General Information:
Book Type(s):    biography and autobiography

HSE Descriptor(s):    social studies

Summary:
Russell Freedman scores his usual high marks for this biography of FDR, complete with excellent archival photographs and bibliographical information for further study.

Teaching Ideas:
Students in a class could each take a chapter and share the information in a jigsaw strategy. Or a single student could keep a reading journal to note important events in FDR's life. Students could also choose a special time of FDR's life and research more information--polio, New Deal, WPA, World War II, etc.It might be interesting to do a Venn Diagram comparison with FDR and the Great Depression programs and Obama and the current Recession programs. How FDR overcame his disabilities from polio or how a privileged rich man became the champion of the poor and dispossessed might make good discussion/writing topics. Learners might do an Agree? Disagree? strategy on whether FDR was right for staying out of the the war as long as he did?

Teaching Strategies:
bullet Agree? Disagree? Why?
   http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/agree_disagree_why.pdf
bullet Save the Last Word for Me (Adaptation)
   http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/adapt_save_last_word.pdf
bullet Types of Journals
   http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/types_of_journals.pdf
bullet Venn Diagrams
   http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/venn_diagrams.pdf

Keywords: select any link below for a list of resources which also have that keyword
bullet Emotions-Personal Issues > personal issues > group > leadership
bullet Emotions-Personal Issues > personal issues > individual > physical issues > physical disability
bullet Emotions-Personal Issues > personal issues > group > values > humanity
bullet History > topic > war > World War II
bullet History > region > U.S. history > Great Depression
bullet Government/Civics > politics
bullet History > region > U.S. History > well-known people > Roosevelt, Eleanor
bullet Government/Civics > government > Presidents
bullet History > topic > war > WWII > Pearl Harbor
bullet History > region > U.S. history > well-known people > Roosevelt, Franklin Delano


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