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51 matches found, viewing page 3 of 3, goto page < 1 2 3 > Search Again| Playing Fair: Anti-Racism Series 1992 4-15 min. sections Ages: 7-12 | 
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- A series of dramas to introduce discussion about racism's effects. Sections touch on white privilege, name-calling, cultural difference, exclusion, and friendship. Well-acted.
| Pocahontas: 1595-1617 Sonneborn, Liz 2003 32 p. Ages: 8-12 ISBN: 0736812148 | 
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- Discusses Pocahontas’ people and her life, her involvement with the Jamestown settlers, her kidnapping, marriages, her trip to England, and death. Includes activities, sidebars, a map, glossary, and a chronology. Good antidote for the misinformation in the Disney video.
| Sacagawea: 1788-1812 Wallner, Rosemary 2003 32 p. Ages: 8-12 ISBN: 073681213X |
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- Presents what is known of the life of Sacagawea, the Shoshoni who was an interpreter on the Lewis and Clark Expedition: her childhood in a Shoshoni village, capture by Hidatsas, travels, and reunion with her brother. Includes sidebars, activities, a chronology, glossary, and map. Text sometimes awkwardly includes phrases such as: 'Such a sight would surely have brought tears..." "Sacagawea certainly had fear..." 'But Sacagawea surely hoped she would someday..." But with an academic consultant listed, what is stated must (surely!) have historical accuracy…
| Sacred Places Sturges, Philemon 2000 38 p. Ages: 6-Adult ISBN: 0399233172 |
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- This remarkable book, with intricate illustrations, begins with a 2-page "Note to the Reader" that introduces the five major religions that are highlighted here: Hinduism, Buddhism, and the three religions whose followers, as "People of the Book," believe in the God of Abraham: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. The text begins: "People all over the world have made special places where they gather to worship, celebrate, meditate, and hope....."
Featured are churches and cathedrals (e.g. California and France); Muslim mosques and the Dome of the Rock (Turkey and Jerusalem); Jewish synagogues and temples (Germany and Canada); Buddhist shrines and temples (Korea and Tibet); and Hindu temples and Ganges River Ghat in India. The description of the significance of the Muslim Kaaba in Mecca, and the history of Jerusalem as holy to Jews, Christians, and Muslims are well done, and will aid anyone's understanding of the issues that are the basis of so much conflict in today's world.
| The Sign of the Beaver Speare, Elizabeth George 1984 144 p. Ages: 8-12 ISBN: 0440479002 |
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- When his father returns East to collect the rest of the family, 13-year-old Matt is left alone to guard his family's newly built homestead. One day, Matt is brutally stung when he robs a bee tree for honey. He returns to consciousness to discover that his many stings have been treated by an old Native American and his grandson. Matt offers his only book as thanks, but the old man instead asks Matt to teach his grandson Attean to read. Both boys are suspicious, but Attean comes each day for his lesson. In the mornings, Matt tries to entice Attean with tales from Robinson Crusoe, while in the afternoons, Attean teaches Matt about wilderness survival and Native American culture. The boys become friends in spite of themselves, and their inevitable parting is a moving tribute to the ability of shared experience to overcome prejudice.
| Sukey and the Mermaid Pinkney, Brian 1992 32 p. Ages: 5-10 ISBN: 068980718X |
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- Sukey's new step-pa is a mean, bossy man. Every day Sukey wakes at dawn to work in the garden. All her step-pa ever does is watch her and yell if she so much as stops to fan herself. Sukey's ma calls him Mister Jones. Sukey prefers the name "Mister Hard-Times."
So one day, Sukey runs away to her secret place by the ocean. There, she calls up Mama Jo, a beautiful black mermaid. Mama Jo's got a surprise for Sukey; a magical kingdom beneath the sea without time or pain. But it's also without people. Is it really better than the world above?
This tale of a dark-skinned mermaid, researched from various traditions, was a Coretta Scott King Honor Book.
| Teaching Tolerance http://www.tolerance.org/ Ages: 0-Adult | 
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- Sponsored by the Southern Law Poverty Center, this site is a treasure trove for educators and parents. Its free (to educators) semi-annual magazine (Teaching Tolerance) and excellent teaching resource packets offer the best in ideas to help us all get along. Check out their resource list of curricular materials for all grades. www.tolerance.org/teach/resources/index.jsp
| The Warrior's Challenge Jackson, Dave & Neta 1996 145 p. Ages: 8-12 ISBN: 155661473X |
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- Peaceful Moravian natives face aggressive white settlers and tribes as they search for a safe place during the war in 1756-63. David Zeisberger, Moravian missionary, moves with them.
| We Can’t Teach What We Don’t Know Howard, Gary R. 1999 160 p. |
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- Through stories and analysis, Howard looks to his own identity to discover what it means to be culturally competent "white" teachers in racially diverse schools. Author draws from 25 years of experience as a multicultural educator as well as from collaboration with students and colleagues from many cultures.
| What a Truly Cool World! Lester, Julius 1999 40 p. Ages: 5-Adult ISBN: 0590864688 |
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- A bright and imaginative creation myth from the African tradition--an antidote to the overused portrayal of God and angels as Caucasions.
| With All My Heart, With All My Mind: Thirteen Stories About Growing Up Jewish Asher, Sandy, ed. 1999 192 p. Ages: 11-14 |
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- Benjy has nightmares about his upcoming Bar Mitzvah ceremony. Rachel's grief over Grandma Hannah's illness turns her away from her temple. Jaci wrestles with peer pressure by day and angels by night.... What does "growing up Jewish" mean? How can young people reconcile centuries of tradition with the modern world? Can they embrace their religion "with all my heart, with all my mind"? Award-winning author and editor Sandy Asher posed these and other questions to thirteen Jewish writers. In the interviews following each story, the authors discuss their own experiences growing up Jewish.
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