Brent Ashabranner
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Biography

Brent Ashabranner
His personal page at the Children's Book Guild
Brent Ashabranner. "FON Newsletter"
Article on Ashabranner from the Newsletter,
Winter, 1998.
Brent Ashabranner
Review of book, The New African Americans; space down page
for brief biography
Penguin Putnam. Brent Ashabranner Author Appearance Information

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Lesson Plans

Grade 6, Living and Learning
Activities and Internet resources for his To Live in Two Worlds;
Navajo Code Talkers. "Spotlight on Literature"
Keeping the Home Fires: The Lives of Western Women
Elementary grades 3-4; by Christine Y. House. A Strange and Distant
Shore: Indians of the Great Plains in Exile is on student
reading list
Immigration to the United States. Grades 6-8
Unit "Immigration to the United States" supports Discovery Channel's
"Destination America". Our Beckoning Borders: Illegal Immigration
to America on reading list
Modeling Intermediate Science Teaching
Use multiple resources, compare and contrast. Cowboys and the West.
Born to the Land
Heath Middle Level Literature. Becoming Myself
Gold level theme, Becoming Myself includes Pictures on A Rock.
The X Chromosome. From Pocahontas to Power Suits
Integrated / interdisciplinary thematic unit on the study of women's
roles and achievements. Bibliography includes People Who Make
a Difference
Is America A Melting Pot of Cultures
Space down for lesson plan; uses Still a Nation of Immigrants;
from coreknowledge.org
Through the Eyes of Immigrants
Grades 4 up; activities, links, bibliography. An Ancient
Heritage: The Arab-American Minority
ERIC Digests. Using Multicultural Children's Literature in ADult ESL Classes
Still a Nation of Immigrants
The American Experience
Social studies grades 7 or 8; By Wanda Velez; The New Americans
From Yale New Haven Lesson Plans
Cultural Diversity: The American Family Past, Present, and Future
Seventh grade gifted & talented; By Lorna Dils, To Live in Two
Worlds; from Yale New Haven Lesson Plans
My Family's Journey Through American History
Research ideas ; bibliography The New Americans
A Celebration of Cultural Richness in Our Community
Special education, grades 9-12; The New Americans
From Yale New Haven Lesson Plans

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Always to Remember :
The Story of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

Grade 7. Aspirations
Activities and Internet Resources for Always to Remember.
Vietnam Veterans Memorial. "Spotlight on Literature"
McGraw Hill. See also: Vietnam Veterans Memorial
Maya Lin
Grades 3/4. Vietnam Veterans Memorial
Offerings at the Wall : The Vietnam War Memorial
Lesson plans, Internet Resources, bibliography
Teach Your Children Well: Raising the Next Generation on the Viet Nam War
Essay and resources by Steve Potts, Dept. of History, University
of Nebraska. "The Sixties Project" Vietnam Generation Journal.
From University of Virginia

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Bibliography

ISLMC Brent Ashabranner Bibliography

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ERIC Resources

From the Peace Corps, A New Kind of Teacher
By Brent Ashabranner. 1968. ED033059
Popular Nonfiction Authors for Children. A Biographical and Thematic Guide
By Flora R. Wyatt, Margaret Coggins, and Jane Hunter Imber. ED416905

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