America: Pathways to the Present. Pearson Prentice Hall.
This textbook is a useful tool that students can use to journey from 1861 as the American nation is becoming formed. This textbook takes the students on a journey through both World Wars and the 45 year Cold War. This textbook provides helpful background into the Second World War, especially. Grouped with activities, practice tests, vocabulary, and helpful review sections, this textbook is an essential part of this class. It will be used in preparation as well as class itself to help master topics of the Second World War and understanding what causes and effects come along with the war.
Ayres, T. L. (2010). The bomber boys: heroes who flew the B-17s in World War II. Waterville, Me.: Thorndike Press.
Countless stories from actual B-17 Bombers who risked their life flying over enemy lines fighting in the air and bombing cities. This gives a unique view of the war since most the time we hear about everything that happens on the ground instead of above us. This was one of the most deadliest jobs in the war and many men risked their life and flew into the sky courageously without any doubt in their mind. Read about the many near death experiences, blown engines, and tumbling through the sky in this exciting book.
Denenberg, B. (2007). Early Sunday Morning: the Pearl Harbor diary of Amber Billows. New York: Scholastic.
Pearl Harbor is an event said to have completely changed the direction of the Second World War, mainly by drawing the United Sates into the war, which resulted in the victory of the Allied powers. What starts as simply a diary of a twelve-year-old girl whose family is adjusting to moving across the United States becomes an extraordinary account of Pearl Harbor, and the aftermath and effect on the people in and around the naval base. Unlike most retellings of the tragic event, this diary focuses in on a fictional girl who shows the very real consequences of the attack on the everyday people, both Americans and Japanese Americans, who were thrown into chaos as a result of the devastation.
Frank, A. (1993). Anne Frank: the diary of a young girl. New York: Bantam Books.
This diary is considered to be one of the definite Holocaust accounts. Anne Frank, a thirteen-year-old German girl who was Jewish, spent two years hiding in an attic with other Jews including her family, which ultimately ended in their capture and most of their deaths, including Anne's. Her detailed account of her years in hiding, as well as her commentary and thoughts on the war and discrimination, are viewed to this day as a testament to the sufferings of the 9 million Jews in Europe, only a third of which survived the massacre. Anne's belief in humanity despite these struggles are the basis of why so many still turn to this young girl's diary.
O'Brien, T. (1990). The Things They Carried. Houghton Mifflin.
In The Things They Carried, Tim O'Brien takes a look at several first hand accounts of the Second World War and puts the students in the shoes of soldiers and gives them a sense of the war. This type of book makes students realize the actuality of war and the possibility of them becoming soldiers one day. This book also makes war real to them. At this point in their lives, they can only consider war as a word and this is the closest they will come to actually experiencing war for themselves.
Wiesel, E. (2013). Night. New York, NY: Hill and Wang, a division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Elie Wiesel is a 12 year old Jewish boy whose family gets taken to Auschwitz. He is immediately separate from his mother and sister but is able to stay with his father. The whole book is his horrifying experiences of getting to Auschwitz, surviving Auschwitz, transferring to a new concentration camp called Buna, and getting liberated by the Allied Armies. In the book he explains how he struggling with keeping faith and forgetting how to love. This is a very rare memoir of actual experiences of living through the deathly Auschwitz concentration camp.
America: Pathways to the Present. Pearson Prentice Hall.
This textbook is a useful tool that students can use to journey from 1861 as the American nation is becoming formed. This textbook takes the students on a journey through both World Wars and the 45 year Cold War. This textbook provides helpful background into the Second World War, especially. Grouped with activities, practice tests, vocabulary, and helpful review sections, this textbook is an essential part of this class. It will be used in preparation as well as class itself to help master topics of the Second World War and understanding what causes and effects come along with the war.
Ayres, T. L. (2010). The bomber boys: heroes who flew the B-17s in World War II. Waterville, Me.: Thorndike Press.
Countless stories from actual B-17 Bombers who risked their life flying over enemy lines fighting in the air and bombing cities. This gives a unique view of the war since most the time we hear about everything that happens on the ground instead of above us. This was one of the most deadliest jobs in the war and many men risked their life and flew into the sky courageously without any doubt in their mind. Read about the many near death experiences, blown engines, and tumbling through the sky in this exciting book.
Denenberg, B. (2007). Early Sunday Morning: the Pearl Harbor diary of Amber Billows. New York: Scholastic.
Pearl Harbor is an event said to have completely changed the direction of the Second World War, mainly by drawing the United Sates into the war, which resulted in the victory of the Allied powers. What starts as simply a diary of a twelve-year-old girl whose family is adjusting to moving across the United States becomes an extraordinary account of Pearl Harbor, and the aftermath and effect on the people in and around the naval base. Unlike most retellings of the tragic event, this diary focuses in on a fictional girl who shows the very real consequences of the attack on the everyday people, both Americans and Japanese Americans, who were thrown into chaos as a result of the devastation.
Frank, A. (1993). Anne Frank: the diary of a young girl. New York: Bantam Books.
This diary is considered to be one of the definite Holocaust accounts. Anne Frank, a thirteen-year-old German girl who was Jewish, spent two years hiding in an attic with other Jews including her family, which ultimately ended in their capture and most of their deaths, including Anne's. Her detailed account of her years in hiding, as well as her commentary and thoughts on the war and discrimination, are viewed to this day as a testament to the sufferings of the 9 million Jews in Europe, only a third of which survived the massacre. Anne's belief in humanity despite these struggles are the basis of why so many still turn to this young girl's diary.
O'Brien, T. (1990). The Things They Carried. Houghton Mifflin.
In The Things They Carried, Tim O'Brien takes a look at several first hand accounts of the Second World War and puts the students in the shoes of soldiers and gives them a sense of the war. This type of book makes students realize the actuality of war and the possibility of them becoming soldiers one day. This book also makes war real to them. At this point in their lives, they can only consider war as a word and this is the closest they will come to actually experiencing war for themselves.
Wiesel, E. (2013). Night. New York, NY: Hill and Wang, a division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Elie Wiesel is a 12 year old Jewish boy whose family gets taken to Auschwitz. He is immediately separate from his mother and sister but is able to stay with his father. The whole book is his horrifying experiences of getting to Auschwitz, surviving Auschwitz, transferring to a new concentration camp called Buna, and getting liberated by the Allied Armies. In the book he explains how he struggling with keeping faith and forgetting how to love. This is a very rare memoir of actual experiences of living through the deathly Auschwitz concentration camp.