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District List: BCPS Social Studies - Grade 4

Description: Baltimore City Public Schools Social Studies book list for students in 4th Grade. #bcps


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Northeast Indians

by Christin Ditchfield

This title teaches readers about the first people to live in the Northeast region of North America. It discusses their culture, customs, ways of life, interactions with other settlers, and their lives today.

Date Added: 07/08/2019


Southeast Indians

by Andrew Santella

This title teaches readers about the first people to live in the Southeast region of North America. It discusses their culture, customs, ways of life, interactions with other settlers, and their lives today.

Date Added: 09/17/2019


America in the Time of Columbus

by Sally Isaacs

Uses the life of Christopher Columbus as a backdrop to present the history of the people of America from the time the Native Americans arrived until 1590.

Date Added: 08/21/2019


The Mayflower

by Susan Whitehurst

Discusses what it would have been like to be on the Mayflower on the journey to America, including the passengers, life at sea during the voyage, and conditions.

Date Added: 07/12/2019


You Wouldn’t Want to Explore With Sir Francis Drake

by David Stewart

An addition to a humorous series looks at the darker side of exploring the world with Sir Francis Drake--a dangerous voyage that would last for three long years.

Date Added: 09/16/2019


You Wouldn't Want to Sail with Christopher Columbus!

by Fiona Macdonald and David Antram and David Salariya

- High interest topic for children of all ages. - Draws in even the most reluctant reader with a lighthearted tone and hilarious illustrations. - Includes glossary and index. National Social Studies Education Standards: Grades K-4II. Time, Continuity, and Change- Accounts of past events, people, places, and situations contribute to our understanding of the pastI. Culture- People, societies, and cultures address needs and concerns in ways that are both similar and different

Date Added: 05/10/2019


The World Made New

by Marc Aronson and John W. Glenn

National Geographic has always given readers the bigger picture of our world. Now The World Made New shows children the bigger context of American history. Written by award-winning children's author Marc Aronson and John W. Glenn, this innovative title will lead children through the causes and consequences of the defining age of exploration. Its unique approach will provide children with new ways of thinking about and learning from history, and instill a lasting sense of our country's past. The World Made New provides a detailed account of the charting of the New World and the long-term effects of America's march into history. The text uses primary sources to bring history to life and features evocative profiles of the major explorers of the age. The book is beautifully illustrated with full-color artwork, multiple-time lines, and six custom National Geographic maps. The text and layout combine to provide an enlightening overview of New World exploration, and outline the historical context for the discoveries that literally changed the world. The narrative carries young readers through this age of glorious, and sometimes inglorious, adventure. Follow the timeline of history unfolding; how the early colonies were established; how dissemination of products like the potato, tomato, tobacco, and corn made the Americas a major part of the new world economy; and how the Caribbean became a major trading hub.

Date Added: 05/10/2019


Nystrom Atlas of Our Country's History

by Nystrom

This atlas tells the story of United States' history through maps, graphs, pictures, and words.

Date Added: 05/10/2019


Molly Bannaky

by Alice Mcgill and Chris K. Soentpiet

On a cold gray morning in 1683, Molly Walsh sat on a stool tugging at the udder of an obstinate cow. When she spilled the milk, she was brought before the court for stealing. Because she could read, Molly escaped the typical punishment of death on the gallows. At the age of seventeen, the English dairymaid was exiled from her country and sentenced to work as an indentured servant in British Colonial America. Molly worked for a planter in Maryland for seven long years. Then she was given an ox hitched to a cart, some supplies-and her freedom. That a lone woman should stake land was unheard of. That she would marry an African slave was even more so. Yet Molly prospered, and with her husband Bannaky, she turned a one-room cabin in the wilderness into a thriving one hundred-acre farm. And one day she had the pleasure of writing her new grandson's name in her cherished Bible: Benjamin Banneker.

Jane Addams Children’s Book Award Winner

Date Added: 05/10/2019


The Maryland Adventure

by Suzanne Ellery Chapelle

NIMAC-sourced textbook

Date Added: 05/10/2019


Before Columbus

by Charles C. Mann

A companion book to Mann's groundbreaking bestseller "1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus," this is a fascinating journey that presents the Americas as young readers have never seen them before. [This text is listed as an example that meets Common Core Standards in English language arts in grades 9-10 at http://www.corestandards.org.]

Date Added: 05/10/2019


The First Americans

by Joy Hakim

Thousands of years-- way before Christopher Columbus set sail-- wandering tribes of hunters made their way from Asia across the Bering land bridge to North America. They didn't know it, but they had discovered a New World. The First Americans is a fascinating re-creation of pre-Columbian Native American life, and it's an adventure of a lifetime! Hunt seals with the Inuit; harvest corn on a cliff-top mesa; hunt the mighty buffalo; and set sail with Leif Erickson, Columbus, and all the early great explorers-- Cabot, Balboa, Ponce de Leon, Cortes, Henry the Navigator, and more-- in this brilliantly told story of America before it was America. [This text is listed as an example that meets Common Core Standards in English language arts in grades 4-5 at http://www.corestandards.org.]

Date Added: 05/10/2019


Colonial Times

by Stephanie Harvey and Anne Goudvis

These short nonfiction texts for American history include:
10 comprehension strategy lessons for close reading in content literacy.
Short nonfiction articles on a wide range of topics and at a variety of reading levels.
( 45 articles in Colonial Times and 52 articles in The American Revolution and Constitution )

A bank of historical images, primary source documents and artifacts, plus primary source documents and artifacts bibliographies, web sites, and ideas for online investigations.

A Digital Companion Resource provides all of the texts, primary source documents, and the image bank in a full-color digital format so you can display them for group analysis.

Date Added: 05/10/2019



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