Gettysburg Resources

Studying the Civil War? If you are attending the Living History Performance Gettysburg: The Second Day presented by Bob Farewell at Killarney Baptist Church, October 20, you might find you will be soon if your children carry their curiosity home with them. If you aren't attending you may still find these resources helpful for future Gettysburg or related studies. There are Internet links, living books and biographies. Please understand I am not endorsing a viewpoint on the Civil War and I would encourage parents to view, read or do research about the resources below before placing in the hands (or eyes and ears) of your child(ren).

Biographies

• Meet Robert E. Lee by George Swift Trow (Vintage, so you might have to hunt for this book. Great for emerging readers, family read-aloud and discussion) 
• Meet Abraham Lincoln by Barbara Cary (Vintage, so you might have to hunt for this book. Great for emerging readers, family read-aloud and discussion.Newer versions available though content may not be same as original) 
• Abraham Lincoln, Log Cabin to the White House by Sterling North (Newer Landmark series)
• Gallant Christian Soldier Robert E. Lee Sower Series
• Mary Todd Lincoln by Katherine Elliot Wilke (Childhood of Famous Americans series)
• Boy of Old Virginia: Robert E Lee by Helen Monsell (Childhood of Famous Americans series)
• A Picture Book of Abraham Lincoln by David A. Alder
• Abe Lincoln, The Boy Who Loved Books by Kay Winters 
• Abe Lincoln's Hat by Martha Brenner

Living Books

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• Gettysburg by Mackinlay Kantor
• Lincoln and Douglas, the Years of Decision by Regina Zimmerman Kelly (Vintage Landmark series, so you might have to hunt for this book. Great for family read-aloud and discussion.) 
• Mr. Lincoln's Drummer by G. Clifton Wisler 
• Red Cap by G. Clifton Wisler
• The Drummer Boy at Vicksburg by G. Clifton Wisler 
• Rifles for Watie by Harold Keith 

Informational and Activity Books

• If You Lived at the Time of the Civil War by Kay Moore
• A Soldier's Life in the Civil War (Dover History Coloring Book)
• History Pockets: The American Civil War (Evan-Moor Publishers)
• B is for Battle Cry: A Civil War Alphabet Book by Patricia Baur
• Welcome to Addy's World (American Girl series) 

Internet Resources

• Sleeping Bear Press Unit for B is for Battle Cry by Patricia Baur
• Civil War Unit Study
• Civil War Lapbook Templates 
• Compare Two Worlds Scholastic study

Sticky Letters Become Words

"Mom! Can I have these!" 

Our youngest, a budding emergent reader, emergent speller happened upon a large sheets of 2-inch peel off brightly-colored sticky letters. A gold mine! Within 40 minutes she had completed the equivalent of a month's worth of spelling lessons, without tears, without coercion. Best of all, she remembered the words she spelled, days later. A win-win-win situation. Learning, fun, retention. That is what I call a productive day!