Fifth Grade, History, Set One

Here is a list of books and videos we used or will use when we visit this time period again.

1920s

• The 1920s: Decade in Photos by Jim Corrigan -- excellent way to have an overview of the decade 
• Amendments: 18th, 19th: The Constitutional Amendments by William Loren Katz -- I'm still thinking of buying my own copy of this book. It gives such a good synopsis of each amendment.
• The History of Radio by Joanne Mattern -- interesting and well written; because we were learning about the invention of radio, we only read the parts of the book that pertained to that subject
• Inventing the Radio by Marianne Fedunkiw -- we did not get to this book, but it looks like it has more detail, so I plan to use it when K. is older
• Warren G. Harding: Twenty-Ninth President by Mike Venezia -- good book
• The Story of The Teapot Dome Scandal by Jim Hargrove -- we did not read this book; I decided that for 5th grade, we had read enough about the scandals in the book about President Harding
• Calvin Coolidge: Thirtieth President by Mike Venezia
• The Scopes Trial by Arthur Blake -- I really like how this book was written. It was an easy read for me (about an hour), then I told K. about it. The author did a good job of handling the subject objectively.
• Inherit the Wind movie about The Scopes Trial -- This movie is not factual, but is interesting.
• Charles Lindbergh by Lucile Davis -- good book. Touched on controversies, but did not go in depth
• The Boy Who Invented TV: The Story of Philo Farnsworth by Kathleen Krull -- excellent book with lots of illustrations
• The Television by Richard and Louise Spilsbury
• The Jazz Singer
• Herbert Hoover: Thirty-First President by Mike Venezia
• The Wall Street Crash: October 29, 1929 by Alex Woolf -- I only read the parts about the crash because we have other books that cover The Great Depression and The New Deal.

1930s

• The 1930s: Decade in Photos by Jim Corrigan
• The Empire State Building by Lisa Bullard -- good with lots of photos
• Building the Empire State Building: An Interactive Engineering Adventure by Allison Lassieur -- we really enjoyed this book. It has three story paths, and we read all three. I was going to stop with two, but K. asked if we were going to read the third.
• Amelia Earhart
• Amelia Earhart by Tamra B. Orr
• Franklin Delano Roosevelt
• Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Champion of Freedom by Kathleen Kudlinski
• A Boy Named FDR by Kathleen Krull
• First Dog Fala by Elizabeth Van Steenwyk
• Franklin D. Roosevelt: Thirty-Second President by Mike Venezia
• Amendments: 20th, 21st
• The Constitutional Amendments by William Loren Katz
• New Deal
• Climbing Out of the Great Depression by Sean Price
• Dust Bowl
• Angels in the Dust by Margot Theis Raven
• Voices of the Dust Bowl by Sherry Garland
• Survival in the Storm by Katelan Janke
• Social Security Act
• Social Security Act by Richard Worth
• Hindenburg Disaster
• The Hindenburg by Marc Tyler Nobleman
• Golden Gate Bridge
• The Golden Gate Bridge by Jeffrey Zuehlke
• The War of the Worlds
• We listened to the original broadcast on You Tube
• The War of the Worlds adapted by Kathryn Lay