Summary – In luminous paintings and arresting poems, two of children’s literature’s top African-American scholars track Arturo Schomburg’s quest to correct history. Candlewick

Activities

Word Search – On the Hunt with Arturo Schomburg

Books

Benjamin Banneker: pioneering scientist by Ginger Wadsworth

Booker T. Washington by Thomas Amper

Boy who drew Birds: A story of John James Audubon by Jacqueline Davies

Carter Reads the Newspaper by Deborah Hopkinson – Teachers Guide

Dear Benjamin Banneker by Andrea Pinkney

Fifty cents and a dream: young Booker T. Washington by Jabari Asim

Five Brave Explorers by Wade Hudson

Five Brillian scientists by Lynda Jones (Great Black heroes series)

Five famous writers by Lynda Jones (Great Black heroes series)

Frederick Douglass : The Lion Who Wrote History by Walter Dean Myers

Langton Hughes: American Poet by Alice Walker

Langston Hughes: young black poet by Montrew Dunham

Langston’s Train Ride by Robert Burleigh

Love to Langston by Tony Medina

More Than Anything Else by Marie Bradby

Nat Turner: Rebellious Slave (New Nation Biographies) by Susan R. Gregson

Nat Turner’s Slave Rebellion by Michael Burgan (Graphic Novel)

Phillis Wheatley by Susan Gregson

Story of Booker T. Washington by Pat McKissack

Toussant L’Ouverture: The Fight for Haiti’s Freedom by Walter Dean Myers

Visiting Lanston by Willie Perdomo

Voice of Her Own: The Story of Phillis Wheatley, Slave Poet by Kathryn Lasky

What are you Figuring Now: A story about Benjamin Banneker by Jeri Ferris

Young , gifted and Black: meet 52 black heroes from Past and Present by Jamia Wilson

Video

Trailer – Schomburg

Carole Boston Weatherford reads from “Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library”

Websites about Schomberg

Authors Website – Carole Boston Weatherford

Artist Website – Eric Velasquez

Arturo Alfonso Schomburg: Digging Up African History – Thoughtco

Arturo Alfonso Schomburg – BlackPast

Information Sheet/Reading Tips – New Balanced Literacy Schools

Picture Book Power – Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library – Discussion Questions

Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library – Teacher’s Guide – Candlewick

Schomberg Center for Research in Black Culture | The New York Public Library

Websites about other important African Americans

Aaron Douglas – Theartstory.org

Alain Locke – BlackPast

Arna Bontemps – Black History Edzone

Alexander Pushkin – Saint Petersburg.com

Alexandre Dumas – Alexandre Dumas Works

Benjamin Banneker – Duckster

Booker T. Washington – Duckster

Charles Cordier – African Venus, Said Abdullah

Chevalier de Saint-Georges – AfriClassical.com

Countee Cullen – Poem Hunter

David Walker – PBS

Denmark Versey – NPS. gov

Georgia Douglas Johnson – Thoughtco

Jessie Redmon Faust – Black History Edzone

John James Audubon – BlackHistoryNow

Juan de Pareja – Web Gallery of Art (WGA)

Juan Latino – BlackPast

Ira Aldridge – BlackPast

Langston Hughes – TeacherVision (Sign up for free account)

Langston Hughes Books – Kids World Citizens

Lois Mailou Jones – Phillips Collection

Nat Turner – Kidskonnect

Nicolas Guillen – Poem Hunter

Paul Cuffee – PaulCuffee.org

Phillis Wheatley – National Women’s History Museum

Phillis Wheatley Poet and Slave – Barbara Lowell Children’s Book Author

Sebastian Gomez – BlackPast

Toussaint Louverture – Britannica Kids

W.E.B. Dubois – Black Past

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28Sep / 2020

Vincent Can’t Sleep

by Barb Rosenstock

A gorgeous, lyrical picture-book biography of Vincent van Gogh by the Caldecott Honor team behind The Noisy Paint Box. – Penguin Random House

Activities
Coloring Pages | van Gogh Gallery

Starry Night – Enchanted Learning – Coloring Page

Educator’s Guide – Discussion Questions, Activity Sheets

Books – Fiction

Camille and the Sunflowers/Van Gogh and the Sunflowers by Laurence Anholt

First Starry Night by Joan Shaddox Isom

Katie and the Starry Night by Hames Mayhew

Twas the Night before Thanksgiving by Dav Pilkey

Books – Nonfiction

Getting to Know the Greatest Artists: Vincent van Gogh by Mike Venezia

Junior Vincent Van Gogh by Fiona Holt

Vincent Van Gogh: sunflowers and Swirly Stars/ By Brad Bucks and Joan Holub

Vincent van Gogh & the Colors of the Wind b Chiara Lossani

Vincent Van Gogh Starry Night Dreamer by Alesandra Weekley

Looking for Vincent/ Thea Dubelaar

Vincent’s Colors / words and pictures by Vincent van Gogh

Vincent Van Gogh / Sean Connolly.

The Yellow House : Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin Side by Side / by Susan Goldman Rubin – Contrast Lesson Plan

Videos

Art with Matt & Dada – VanGogh

Vincent becomes an artist – Van Gogh Museum – YouTube

Vincent Can’t Sleep – YouTube Video – Free School

Vincent van Gogh for Children: Biography for Kids – Freeschool – YouTube

Who was Vincent van Gogh? – Van Gogh Museum – YouTube

Websites

Author Website – Barb Rosenstock – Video, Pinterest Board, Teacher’s Guide

NGA – Teaching Packet – Van Gogh

Starry Night – MoMa

Van Gogh at Primary School – Van Gogh Museum

Vincent van Gogh- Met Museum WebMuseum: Gogh, Vincent van

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14Sep / 2020

September 11 – Patriot’s Day

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Subject Heading – September 11 Terrorist Attack, 2001

Activity
9/11 Good Deed Challenge
https://911day.org/

Books
The Impossible Patriotism Project/ by Linda Skeers, pictures by Ard Hoyt
September Roses / Jeanette Winter.
The attacks of September 11/ Tarshis (I survived series)
On that day : a book of hope for children / by Andrea Patel.
A little Peace by Barbara Kerley
14 cows for America/by Carmen Agra Deedy – Teacher’s Guide
Animal Heroes: True Rescue Stories/ Sandra Markle* Book about Michael & his guide dog who led him out of the Twin Towers on Sept. 11 (see website)
The Man who walked between the Towers/ Mordicai Gerstein – see videos online
September 11 / by Mary Englar.
Attack on America : the day the Twin Towers collapsed / Mary Gow.
September 11,2001: The Day That Changed America / Jill C. Wheeler
Escape from the Tower/ Andra Serlein Abramson
The 2001 World Trade Center Attack/ by Jacqueline Dembar Greene
September 11, 2001: Attack on New York City/ Wilborn Hampton
Fireboat : the heroic adventures of the John J. Harvey / by Maira Kalman.* (see website)

Videos
Remembering September 11th
Man Who Walked between the Towers

Videos – Online
Man Who Walked between the Towers – Weston Woods
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEDT8mCOfM4

Philippe Petit and the Twin Towers(1974)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAZppPSbxxs

Websites
America Experience| The Center of the World – New York: A Documentary film| PBS
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/newyork/

A Blind Man, His Guide Dog and Lessons Learned on 9/11
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2011/09/06/blind-man-his-guide-dog-and-lessons-learned-on-11/

Character Education lesson plans- 9/11
http://www.character-education.info/resources/911.htm

Fireboat
www.fireboat.org
Information about the John J. Harvey Fireboat which aided the September 11 fire

9/11/2001: The day that changed America
http://teacher.scholastic.com/scholasticnews/indepth/911/teachers/index.htm

Man Who Walked Between the Towers, The by Mordicai Gerstein
http://www.carolhurst.com/titles/manwhowalked.html
Includes review, things to talk about and activites

Mr. Dowling’s September 11 page
http://www.mrdowling.com/608conflicts.html
Simples explanation of what happened and definition of terrorist.

Remembering the heroes of 9/11 – My hero
https://myhero.com/national-day-of-service-and-remembrance-showcase

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