Elementary / Grades K-2
14 Cows for America, Carmen Agra Deedy
A Day in the Life of a Police Office, Heather Adamson
A Day in the Life of a Teacher, Heather Adamson
Amazing Grace, Mary Hoffman
Arthur Meets the President, March Brown
Brave Girl: Clara and The Shirtwaist Makers’ Strike Of 1909, Michelle Markel
Celebrate America: A Picture Book of America's Greatest Symbols, Mary Firestone
Chrysanthemum, Kevin Henkes Greenwillow
Exclamation Mark, Amy Krouse Rosenthal
First Day, Hooray!, Nancy Poydar
I Pledge Allegiance, Bill Martin Jr. and Michael Sampson
On A Beam of Light: A Story of Albert Einstein, Jennifer Berne
Papa Is a Poet: A Story About Robert Frost, Natalie S. Bober
Red, White, Blue, and Uncle Who? The Stories behind Some of America's Patriotic Symbols, Teresa
Bateman
So You Want To Be President?, Judith St. George
The Blessing Cup, Patricia Polacco
The Library, Sarah Stewart
The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights, Russell
Freedman
Trouper, Meg Kearney
Wemberley Worried, Kevin Menkes
Why are Elections Important?, Jacqueline Laks Gorman
Why Do We Have Laws?, Jacqueline Laks Gorman
Working Together: Learning about Cooperation and Citizenship, Regina Burch
Documents and Resource sites:
First Grade:
Pledge of Allegiance http://www.va.gov/opa/publications/celebrate/pledge.pdf
National Anthem http://amhistory.si.edu/starspangledbanner/
Second Grade:
The United States Constitution (identify and recognize as a symbol, not read)
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/constitution_transcript.html
Elementary / Grades 3-5
Amazing but True Stories, Phyllis Hollander
Amelia’s Notebook, Marissa Moss
Anne Frank’s Chestnut Tree, Jane Kohuth
Eleanor Roosevelt, Russell Freedman
First Day in Grapes, L. King Perez
Give Me Liberty: The Story of the Declaration of Independence, Russell Freedman
Kickoff, Donna King
Louisa May’s Battle: How the Civil War Led to Little Women, Kathleen Krull
Miss Moore Thought Otherwise: How Anne Carroll Moore Created Libraries for Children, Jan
Pinborough
My Name Is Maria Isabel, Alma Flor Ada
Nelson Mandela, Kadir Nelson
Our Country’s Presidents, Ann Bausum
Our Government Series: The U.S. Senate, The U.S. House of Representatives, The U.S Presidency
and The U.S. Supreme Court, Muriel L. Dubois
Our Government, Mary Firestone
Serving Your Community, Christian Ditchfield
Shh! We're Writing the Constitution, Jean Fritz
The Bill of Rights in Translation, Amie Jane Leavitt
The Branches of Government: Government in Action!, John Hamilton
The City Council (First Facts: Our Government Series), Terri DeGezelle
The Declaration of Independence in Translation, Amie Jane Leavitt
The Federalist-Anti-Federalist Debate over States' Rights: A Primary Source Investigation, Lea
Ball
The Fifteenth Amendment: African-American Men's Right to Vote, Susan Banfield
The Hundred Dresses, Eleanor Estes
The Keeping Quilt, Patricia Polacco
Through My Eyes: Ruby Bridges, Ruby Bridges
Transformed: How Everyday Things Are Made, Bill Slavin
Vote!, Eileen Christelow
War Dogs: Churchill and Rufus, Kathryn Selbert
We the People: The Constitution of the United States of America, by Peter Spier
We the People: The Story of Our Constitution, Lynne Cheney
What are the levels of government?, Baron Bedesky
You Want Women to Vote, Lizzie Stanton?, Jean Fritz
Documents and Resource sites:
Third Grade:
The United States Constitution (identify and recognize as a symbol, not read)
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/constitution_transcript.html
Fourth Grade:
The Florida Constitution http://www.flsenate.gov/Laws/Constitution
Fifth Grade:
The Declaration of Independence http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/declaration.html
The Articles of Confederation http://www.archives.gov/historicaldocs/document.html?doc=2&title.raw=Articles%20of%20Confederation
The United States Constitution
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/constitution_transcript.html
The Bill of Rights http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/bill_of_rights.html
Middle / Grades 6-8
Anne Frank: the Diary of a Young Girl, Anne Frank
Becoming Ben Franklin: How A Candlemaker’s Son Helped Light the Flame of Liberty, Russell
Freedman
Bridge to Terabithia, Katherine Paterson
Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice, Phillip Hoose
Counting By 7s, Holly Goldberg Sloan
Diary Of A Wimpy Kid: Greg Heffley’s Journal, Jeff Kinney
Dicey’s Song, Cynthia Voight
Give Me Liberty! The Story of the Declaration of Independence, by Russell Freedman
Hope Was Here, Joan Bauer
Look Up!, Henrietta Leavitt
Maniac Magee, Jerry Spinelli
Pioneering Woman Astronomer, Robert Burleigh
Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry, Mildred D. Taylor
Tangerine, Edward Bloor
The Boy On The Wooden Box: How The Impossible Became Possible… On Schindler’s List, Leon
Leyson with Marilyn J. Harran and Elisabeth B. Leyson
The Declaration of Independence: The Words That Made America, illustrated by Sam Fink
The Granddaughter Necklace, Sharon Dennis Wyeth
The Tree Lady: The True Story of How One Tree-Loving Woman Changed A City Forever, Joseph
Hopkins
The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793, Jim Murphy
Trumpet of the Swan, E. B. White
Documents and Resource sites:
Sixth - Seventh Grades
Magna Carta http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/featured_documents/magna_carta/
English Bill of Rights http://avalon.law.yale.edu/17th_century/england.asp
Mayflower Compact http://constitutioncenter.org/learn/educational-resources/historicaldocuments/mayflower-compact
Thomas Paine’s Common Sense http://www.gutenberg.org/files/147/147-h/147-h.htm
Articles of Confederation http://www.archives.gov/historicaldocs/document.html?doc=2&title.raw=Articles%20of%20Confederation
The United States Constitution
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/constitution_transcript.html
The Bill of Rights http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/bill_of_rights.html
Amendments to the United States Constitution http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/constitution_amendments_11-27.html
Florida Constitution http://www.flsenate.gov/Laws/Constitution
Eighth Grade:
The Declaration of Independence http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/declaration.html
The Articles of Confederation http://www.archives.gov/historicaldocs/document.html?doc=2&title.raw=Articles%20of%20Confederation
The United States Constitution
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/constitution_transcript.html
The Bill of Rights http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/bill_of_rights.html
The Declaration of Sentiments http://www.nps.gov/wori/learn/historyculture/declaration-ofsentiments.htm
The Gettysburg Address http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/gettysburg-address/
13th, 14th, and 15th amendments to the US Constitution
http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/13thamendment.html
http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/14thamendment.html
http://loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/15thamendment.html
High / Grades 9-12
A Fence Away from Freedom, Ellen Levine
A Kid’s Guide to America’s Bill of Rights: Curfews, Censorship, and the 100 Pound Giant,
Kathleen Krull
A Patent Lie, Paul Goldstein
A Separate Peace, John Knowles
Adventurers Against Their Will, Joanie Holzer Schirm
Bill of Rights, by Sheila Rivera
Bleachers, John Grisham
Golden Boy, Tara Sullivan
Martin Luther King Jr.: Dreaming of Equality, by Ann S. Manheimer
Monument 14, Emmy Laybourne
Monument 14: Sky on Fire, Emmy Laybourne
Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World,
Tracy Kidder
Panic, Sharon M. Draper
Son of Fortune, Victoria McKernan
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Poetry of Robert Frost, Robert Frost
The Scarlett Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make A Big Difference, Malcolm Gladwell
The Universe in a Nutshell, Stephen Hawking
To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
Whirligig, Paul Fleischman
Yellow Flag, Robert Lipsyte
Grade level documents and resource sites:
Ninth - Twelfth Grade:
The Declaration of Independence http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/declaration.html
The Articles of Confederation http://www.archives.gov/historicaldocs/document.html?doc=2&title.raw=Articles%20of%20Confederation
The Federalist Papers http://thomas.loc.gov/home/histdox/fedpapers.html
The United States Constitution and Amendments
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/constitution_transcript.html
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/constitution_amendments_11-27.html
The Bill of Rights http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/bill_of_rights.html
The Emancipation Proclamation
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/featured_documents/emancipation_proclamation/
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?doc=100&page=transcript