CONTENT PATHFINDER

Black History Month Book Review Project


NAME: Melanie R. Moon
SCHOOL: Cincinnati Hills Christian Academy Middle School
WORKSHOP LOCATION: Bradford Media Center at Kings Mills High School
E-MAIL ADDRESS: melanie.moon@chca-oh.org
TITLE OF COMPANION
ACTION PLAN: Black History Month Book Review Project
GRADE LEVEL (S): 5-8
CURRICULUM/SUBJECT
AREA: Language Arts
SPECIFIC TOPIC: Black History Month


CONTENT INFORMATION
Brief summary of the Topic/Pathfinder: This guide is designed to help you find information about African-American Culture and Christian life using Internet and/or print resources. This information is to help you critique a book you will read that was written about or by an African-American. This is not intended to be an exhaustive list; rather, it is intended to be a useful starting point for those wishing to find quality information about the topic.

List of titles of books written by or about African-Americans available in the CHCA MS Library. See enclosed list.
BHMBR Booklist
Subject Headings:
African Americans--Fiction.
African Americans--History.
United States--Race relations--Juvenile literature.
African Americans.
African American children--History--Juvenile literature.
African American children--Social conditions--Juvenile literature.
African American air pilots--Juvenile literature.
African American art--Juvenile literature.
African Americans in literature.
African American soldiers--History--18th century--Juvenile literature.
African American soldiers--History--19th century--Juvenile literature.
African American churches--History--Juvenile literature.
African Americans--Civil rights--History.
Afro-Americans--History--1863-1877.
African Americans--Juvenile literature--Bibliography.
Afro-Americans--History--To 1863.
Slavery--United States--History--Juvenile literature.
African American families--Juvenile literature.
Slaves--Emancipation--United States--Juvenile literature.
African Americans--Intellectual life.
Harlem Renaissance.
African Americans--Suffrage--United States--History--Juvenile literature.
Child slaves--History--19th century--Sources.
African Americans--Social conditions--1975-


CONTENT CATEGORIES

Books (Fiction) Choose a book from any of the above subject headings from the CHCA library catalog or use the list provided by the librarian.

Books (Non-Fiction) Choose a book from any of the above subject headings from the CHCA library catalog or use the list provided by the librarian.
Reference Books
African American History in the press, 1851-1899: from the coming of the Civil War to the rise of Jim Crow as reported and illustrated in selected newspapers of the time/ the Schneider collection REF 973 AFR v.1 and v.2 CHHS

Notable Black American Women/Jessie Carney Smith, editor. REF 920 NOT Book 1 and Book 2 CHHS

A History of African-American Artists: from 1792 to the present/ Romare Bearden & Harry Henderson REF 920 BEA CHHS

Professional Resources
Teaching about culture, ethnicity & diversity: exercises and planned activities/editor, Theodore M. Singelis, Sage Publications, c1998
What is Information Literacy?
Media Literacy Clearinghouse
Children Now (Media)
Ohio Department of Education Academic Content Standards
Reading African American History and the Civil Rights Movement. Crowe, Chris; English Journal, v92 n3 p131-34 Jan 2003 (EJ660691)
Cultural Challenge. Knipp, Steven; Teacher Magazine, v14 n7 p18-21 May-Jun 2003 (EJ675622)
Web Sites (for students)
How to:
African-American Web Connection
Facts on the Black or African-American Population
American Memory - The African-American Experience in Ohio
African-American Health
Web Sites (for teachers)
National Educational Technology Standards for Students
International Reading Association
National Council of Teachers of English
Infohio Electronic Resources
MarcoPolo
Ohio Resource Center (Reading)
OH! TEACH
Media Resources (Video, CD-ROM, DVD, etc.)

The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman [videorecording] VC 140 CHHS

Toni Morrison [videorecording] VC 145 CHHS
REALIA

National Underground Railroad Freedom Center
312 Elm Street
Cincinnati, OH 45202
(513) 412-6900



National Underground Railroad Freedom Center

Christian Resources

Subject Headings
Christian life.
Bible Crosswalks
Christian Google Search
The victorious Christian life / Tony Evans. Evans, Anthony T. 248.4 EVA CHHS

Shine : make them wonder what you've got / Newsboys. Newsboys (Musical group) 248.4 NEW Charles W. 262 COL CHHS CHMS

Clippings from my notebook : writings and sayings collected / by Corrie ten Boom. Ten Boom, Corrie. CHMS

The body : being light in the darkness / Charles W. Colson with Ellen Santilli Vaughn. Colson, Charles W. 262 COL CHHS

How now shall we live? / Charles Colson and Nancy Pearcey. Colson, Charles W. 261 COL CHHS

To walk as He walked / T.B. Maston. Maston, T. B. (Thomas Buford), 1897- 232.9 MAS CHHS
Putting life back into Christianity. By: Copley, Terence. Times Educational Supplement, 11/28/2003 Issue 4560, TES Teacher p22, 2p, 1c; (AN 11790077)
Wrestling with Faith in Young Adult Fiction. By: Sullivan, Ed. Booklist, 10/1/2003, Vol. 100 Issue 3, p331, 1p; (AN 11270557)
Live by the Word and keep walking: Religious education and contextualization in a culture of... By: Eugene, Toinette M.. Religious Education, Spring97, Vol. 92 Issue 2, p178, 14p; (AN 9706256312)
The enemy conquered [videorecording] : four messages to prepare Christians for spiritual warfare. Hurley, Pat. VC 159 CHHS

Surviving the heat of battle [videorecording] : four messages to prepare Christians for spiritual warfare. Hurley, Pat. VC 158 CHHS

You're in the army now [videorecording] : four messages to prepare Christians for spiritual warfare. Hurley, Pat. VC 157 CHHS
REALIA

Actively participate in the church of your choice regularly.
Black History Month Book Review Project