Fourth Grade History, Set Five

Covering the years 1899 - 1906

American Samoa was occupied

• Territories and Possessions by Thomas Aylesworth -- there were a few paragraphs on pages 78 and 79 about American Samoa becoming a U.S. territory
• Samoans! by June Behrens -- easy reading, lots of pictures

Newsies Strike

• American Story page 187
• The Journal of Finn Reardon: A Newsie by Susan Bartoletti -- we didn't get this read, but it looks interesting

Boxer Rebellion

• The United States in the Spanish-American War by Don Lawson -- pages 117 - 129 (first complete paragraph) and 121 (last complete paragraph) - 122 (first complete paragraph) are about the Boxer Rebellion and it leading to the Russo-Japanese War. It is written for older students, but we talked about what it meant

 Galveston Hurricane of 1900

• World's Worst Hurricanes by Janey Levy -- has a couple pages about hurricanes and a page about Galveston's hurricane
• Hurricane Harry by Kathryn Lay -- fiction book about kids in a hurricane on Galveston; we did not get it read

Theodore Roosevelt

• Theodore Roosevelt by Mike Venezia
• The President's Daughter by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley -- very good book; I highly recommend reading this book aloud as a family
• Teddy Roosevelt by Edd Winfield Parks
• The First Teddy Bear by Helen Kay
• Young Teddy Roosevelt by Cheryl Harness -- good book; covers his life in a picture book format

The First Rose Bowl Game

• Rose Bowl by Lauren Diemer -- it has a couple pages about the first Rose Bowl game

Henry Ford

• We'll Race You, Henry by Barbara Mitchell -- easy reading, lots of illustrations, covers his life and inventions
• Henry Ford and the Model T by Michael O'Hearn -- graphic style book
• Henry Ford by Erika L. Shores

 The First World Series

• The World Series: Baseball's Biggest Stage by Matt Deoden -- read pages 7 - 10, which tell how the first world series game came about

Wright Brothers

•  Sky Pioneers: The Story of Wilbur and Orville Wright by Jeanne LeMonnier Gardner

Panama Canal Zone

• Building the Panama Canal by Dale Anderson -- chapter 3 is about the U.S. getting possession of the Panama Canal Zone; depending on your child's age, you can read it all or pick and choose sections to read

 St. Louis World's Fair

• Ice-Cream Cones for Sale! by Elaine Greenstein -- a book about the invention of the ice cream cone
• Meet Me in St. Louis by Robert Jackson -- we read chapter 1 and then looked at the pictures in the rest of the book
• Meet Me in St. Louis -- we watched the movie with Judy Garland; it doesn't show a lot about the fair, but it does communicate how excited people were about the fair

 Russo-Japanese War

• The Russo-Japanese War 1904 - 05 by A. Ivanov -- this book seemed to be mostly about their uniforms. It has great illustrations.

 Food and Drug Administration founded

• The Food and Drug Administration by William Patrick -- pages 29 - 31 are about how the FDA was started

San Francisco Earthquake

• ,,,If You Lived at the Time of the Great San Francisco Earthquake by Ellen Levine -- good book
• The Story of The San Francisco Earthquake by R. Conrad Stein -- a Cornerstones of Freedom book; covers the earthquake very well and is easily understood
• The San Francisco Earthquake of 1906 by Marc Tyler Nobleman -- a We The People book
• Earthquake!: A Story of Old San Francisco by Kathleen Kudlinski
• Lizzie Newton and the San Francisco Earthquake by Stephen Krensky -- a picture book format with a script at the end for a reader's theater; you can even download the sound effects from their website.

 Other People in this time period

• Marie Curie: Discoverer of Radium by Joanne Landers Henry
• Helen Keller by Margaret Davidson