Wednesday, January 9, 2013

Common Core Texts for 2nd Grade: Unit 4--Journey to Freedom

As January comes, I will be kicking off a unit on the Civil Rights and uncommon friends and work up to Martin Luther King, Jr.  Here are the books that are suggested for this unit.  Just click on the cover of the book for more information!

Suggested Works from the Common Core Curriculum Map 



The Other Side (1950s) by Jacqueline Woodson and E.B. Lewis


Freedom summer (1964) by Deborah Wiles and Jerome Lagarrigue



Stories for Read Alouds

Freedom on the Menu:  The Greensboro Sit-Ins (1960) by Carole Boston Weatherford and Jerome Lagarrigue



Dear Mr. Rosenwald (1920) by Carole Boston Weatherford



Finding Lincoln (1951) by Ann Malaspina and Colin Bootman



A Sweet Smell of Roses (1963) by Angela Johnson and Eric Velasquez








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