Building a New Land
Publication Information
Author:  Haskins, James & Benson, Kathleen	Illustrator:  Ransome, James
Title:  Building a New Land	Date:  2001
Publisher:  HarperCollins	City:  New York
ISBN, paperback:  0-06-029361-6	ISBN, hardback:
Recommended audience:
ABE/ABLE:   Yes	ESOL:
Family:	Young Adult:
Picture:   Yes
General Information:
Book Type(s):    easy reading, nonfiction
HSE Descriptor(s):    social studies
Summary:
Each of the short chapters in this well written picture book addresses the lives, rights, changing roles, and contributions of African Americans in a different area of Colonial America. The author includes a timeline and a bibliography.
Teaching Ideas:
Individual chapters stand well alone and so may be useful for incorporation into other units of instruction. Students may want to keep lists of what they learn as they read or to compare African Americans' lives in one colony to those in another. Most nonfiction teaching strategies will work well. Since there are references to the percentages of blacks and whites in certain passages, students could use information from the U.S. Census web site to determine the percentages today. Web resources abound; teachers might search "African American history" on Yahooligans. Three especially good sites are "Footsteps, an African American History magazine" (http://www.footstepsmagazine.com), the Library of Congress's African American Odyssey (http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/aohome.html), and the Encyclopedia Britannica Guide to Black History, which is organized by time periods (http://blackhistory.eb.com).
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Ethnic Groups > African-American Education > reading History > region > U.S. history > founding of the country > early American life Social Studies > sociology > social issues > racism Communities > historical History > topic > Black History

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