3rd
grade reading level references:
Websites about race relations in the south
during the 1930's.
1. Scottsboro Trials - This web site is about the Scottsboro trials in the 1930's. (http://library.thinkquest.org/12111/scottsboro/scottsbo.htm)
2. Growing up Black in the 1930s - This is an interview with a black woman who lived in Alabama in the 1930s. (http://library.thinkquest.org/12111/mculley.html).
3. Growing up white in the 1930s - This is an interview with 3 affluent white women who lived in the south. (http://library.thinkquest.org/12111/girl.html).
4. Hundred
years of terror - This web site is about the Ku Klux Klan from
the late 1800's through the mid 1900's. (http://osprey.unf.edu/dept/equalop/oeop11.htm)
Websites about the Dust Bowl that occured in the 1930's.
1. People
& Events The Drought This web site lists basic facts about the
Dust Bowl with many quotes
from people during this era.
2. Dust bowl Timeline This web site is a timeline about events that occurred during the Dust Bowl.
3. Another
Dust Bowl This web site is an interview with a man who thinks
we might have another dust
bowl.
Websites about the economic situation people
were facing during the Great Depression
1. A Case of Unemployment: This web site deals with the unemployment issues of the Great Depression.
2. Documenting America 1935-1943: This web site shows pictures of people during the Great Depression.
3. Memories
from the Great Depression:This web site has documents that people wrote,
about life during the Great Depression.
Websites about the Harlem Renaissance which started in the 1920's
1. Great Days in Harlem: Briefly describes the Harlem Renaissance including info about literary roots.
2. Harlem Renaissance: A very informative site about the Harlem Renaissance including poetry, prose and painters of the Harlem Renaissance.
Fourth Grade Reading
Level Resources:
http://www.escape.com/~paulg53/politics/great_depression.shtml
http://panther.bsc.edu/~gcworley/bob.htm
http://nw1.newsweek.com/nw-srv/inetguide/iguide_2067.html
Fifth Grade Reading Level Resources:
http://www.erroluys.com/frontpage.htm
http://www.sos.state.mi.us/history/museum/explore/museums/hismus/1900-75/depressn/labnews2.html
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/timeline/depwwii/depress/hoovers.html
http://longman.awl.com/garraty/glossary_h.htm
http://www.freecampus.co.uk/login/sec/history/newdeal/
Sixth Grade Reading Level Resources:
http://breakthrough.blackside.com/blackside/EducationOutreach/GDguide.html
http://www.findarticles.com/cf_0/m1546/n1_v13/20330373/p1/article.jhtml
http://www.britannica.com/bcom/eb/article/6/0,5716,47396+1+46315,00.html
http://search.britannica.com/frm_redir.jsp?query=klu+klux+klan&redir=http://www.pathfinder.com/time/magazine/1998
/dom/980518/law.widow_and_the_wizard11.html
http://www.comptons.com/encyclopedia/ARTICLES/0100/01032448_A.html
http://encarta.msn.com/find/Concise.asp?ti=02A24000
http://hammer.ne.mediaone.net/lowell/eli_whitney.html
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ammemhome.html
http://www.dpi.state.nc.us/curriculum/socialstudies/grade5.html