Pathfinder #1 Teaching
Name: Jill Cabe
School:
Action Plan: Teaching
Grade Level: 6 – 9
Subject: Social Studies
Topic:
Content Information:
The materials listed here
are for teaching the History of Cleveland, Ohio to middle school students.
Dewey:
977.132
Subject headings:
Books: Nonfiction Books
A Ghetto Takes Shape: Black Cleveland 1870 – 1930, Kenneth Kusmer.
American Splendor: The Life and Times of Harvey Pekar, Harvey Pekar.
Black Americans in
Russell
H. Davis
Carl B. Stokes and the Rise of Black Political Power, Leonard N. Moore.
The
Cleveland Cemeteries: Stone, Symbols and Stories, Vicki Blum Vigil.
Cleveland Then and Now, John T. Grabowski.
Cleveland’s Downtown Architecture, Shawn Patrick Hoefler.
Cleveland’s Transit Vehicles, Jim Toman.
Death Ride at
The Encyclopedia of
Finding Fish,
Antwone Fisher.
Garrett Morgan: Inventor of the Traffic Light and Gas
Mask, Patrick Murphy.
Harvey Pekar’s American
Splendor: Unsung Hero: The Story of Robert McNeil,
Harvey
Pekar.
The History of the Standard Oil Company: Briefer
Version, Ida Tarbell.
Indians Memories, Tim Long.
LeBron James, David Morgan.
The New
David
Sweet.
Radio Daze: Stories from the Front in
Olszewsky.
Rock ‘n’ Roll and the
Showplace of
Their Paths Are Peace: The
Story of Cleveland’s Cultural Gardens,
Clara
Lederer.
What’s So Big About
Women in
Books: Fiction
Crooked River Burning, Mark Winegardner.
Full Cleveland, Les Roberts.
Seedfolks, Paul Fleischman.
Through the Windshield, Michael Decapite.
Torso,
Brian Michael Bendis.
Selected Websites:
Cleveland
Museum of Art - History
Cleveland Neighborhoods on
the Web
Cuyahoga County Public Library
Encyclopedia of Cleveland History
Exploring the
Cleveland Salt Mine
Greater Cleveland Research – High
School Pathfinder
History
of the Cleveland Division of Water
Teaching Cleveland: A
Bicentennial Education Project
Western Reserve Historical Society
INFOhio Resources:
American National Biography
Britannica Online School
Edition
Newsbank: Plain Dealer
Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps
Videos:
A Christmas Story
Antwone Fisher
Sister Wendy’s American Collection: The