Kate Messner's presentation Historical Fiction as a Bridge to Content Area Literacy

1. Historical Fiction as a Bridge to Content Area Literacy Kate Messner Children’s Author & ELA Teacher NBCT, 2005 www.katemessner.com

2. What do we remember?

17. New from Tanya Lee Stone…

22. What’s New in Historical Novels?

25. Civil War Era

26. Vietnam Era

32. Liberty Enterprise Royal Savage

36. Holland Patent, NY ROAD TRIP!

45. LAKE CHAMPLAIN MARITIME MUSEUM VERGENNES, VERMONT http://www.lcmm.org

50. Sinking of the Philadelphia

51. Scuttling the American Fleet Panton, Vermont

52. 18th Century Medicine Going to the hospital… Having surgery… http://www.museumboerhaave.nl/collectie/e_voorwerpen/amputatiezaag.html

53. 18th Century Powder Horns http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trm003.html Powder horn map, 1757

54. From the Journal of Bayze Wells… September 22, 1776 This day the wind was Southerly but small and variable this morning at eight A.M. Ananius Tubbs was cabbed twelve strokes on his naked buttocks for sleeping on his watch. The wind increased at Southwest until night. Lieutenant Fox and Sergeant Whitney made us a visit.

55. Rabble in Arms Re-enacting the Battle of Valcour Island

60. Secondary Sources

61. Primary Sources Sabbath 13 Oct this Day the wind at North we being against the mouth of Gillilands Crick the Enemy hove in Sight and Persued us with all Speede they Soon overtook the two Rear Rogalleys and Ogligd of them to Strike her Coulours and Come too the Galley Congress Retreated and fought they Soon Came up With four Gondolas and the Congress who were Obligd to run a Shore and blow them up and take to the land with the Loss of but few we marchd by land as far as against Crown point and Logd in the woods.

62. Field Trips & Virtual Field Trips

63. Experimental Archaeology

65. Perfect Partners…

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70. Coming in 2009… 1918 Spanish Influenza Epidemic

71. Coming in 2009… Iraq War On the Homefront

72. Coming in 2009… When the Whistle Blows by Fran Cannon Slayton Set in West Virginia - 1940s Switch from Steam to Diesel

73. Coming in 2009… About the Teenaged girl who was the Fifth wife of Henry VIII

74. Coming in 2009… World War II Era Internment of Japanese Americans

75. Coming in 2009… Historical Fantasy Set in 1890 NYS

76. Coming in 2009… Historical YA set at the Saratoga Racetrack… 1930s.

77. Coming in 2009… J.T. Dutton Set in 1990s at the time of Jerry Garcia’s death Main character obsessed with The Grateful Dead - 60s culture Edgy YA

78. Coming in 2009… THE BRILLIANT FALL OF GIANNA Z Walker Books for Young Readers, Fall 2009 Kate Messner

79. Historical Fiction as a Bridge to Content Area Literacy Kate Messner http://www.katemessner.com