Book Detail

Independent Dames: What You Never Knew about the Women and Girls of the American Revolution

Publication Information
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:
ABE/ABLE:   Yes ESOL:   Yes
Family:   Yes Young Adult:   Yes
Picture:   Yes

General Information:
Book Type(s):    biography and autobiography, nonfiction, reference, true story, easy reading

HSE Descriptor(s):    social studies| language arts - reading

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:
bullet Book Conversations
   http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/book_conversations.pdf
bullet Herringbone
   http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/herringbone.pdf
bullet K-W-L Instruction Strategy
   http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/k_w_l.pdf
bullet Reader's Theater
   http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/readers_theater.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 History > time period > 18th Century
bullet History > region > U.S. history > founding of the country
bullet History > region > U.S. history > American Revolution
bullet History > topic > war > revolutions
bullet Heroes and Heroines
bullet Heroes and Heroines > ordinary people
bullet Social Studies > sociology > women > women in history
bullet Emotions-Personal Issues > emotions > patriotism


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