Independent Dames: What You Never Knew about the Women and Girls of the American Revolution |
Publication Information
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Author: Anderson, Laurie Halse |
Illustrator: Faulkner, Matt |
Title: Independent Dames: What You Never Knew about the Women and Girls of the American Revolution |
Date: 2008 |
Publisher: Simon Shuster Books for Young Reader |
City: New York |
ISBN, paperback: 13:978-0-689-85808-6 |
ISBN, hardback: |
Recommended audience:
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ABE/ABLE:
Yes |
ESOL:
Yes |
Family:
Yes |
Young Adult:
Yes |
Picture:
Yes |
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General Information:
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Book Type(s):
biography and autobiography, nonfiction, reference, true story, easy reading
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HSE Descriptor(s):
social studies| language arts - reading
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Summary: |
Brief biographies of women who played key roles in the Revolutionary War. Makes the facts of Early American history come alive with lives of women who don't usually get mentioned in history books. Below each illustration is a time line of events. |
Teaching Ideas: |
This book could easily be used as a readers' theater script. Students could do more research on the women in the book or research some of the women of later wars, WWI or WWII or the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. |
Teaching Strategies: |
Book Conversations
http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/book_conversations.pdf
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Herringbone
http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/herringbone.pdf
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K-W-L Instruction Strategy
http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/k_w_l.pdf
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Reader's Theater
http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/readers_theater.pdf
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Venn Diagrams
http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/venn_diagrams.pdf
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