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Bibliography Signature Assignment Kelly Dwyer Arizona State University

Topic: World War II- Pearl Harbor


 * Nonfiction: **

Book #1 Stephen, Krensky. (2001). **Pearl Harbor**. Simon and Schuster Publishing. 42 pages. Scottsdale Public Library.

The second chapter takes the audience into a flashback three months prior to the scenario in the first chapter. This flashback explains the war that had begun in Europe, and how the United States had the intention of remaining peaceful. It highlighted the fact that during this time, Japan was planning an attack on the United States. The last chapters fast forward to the morning of December 7th 1941 when the attacks on Pearl Harbor began. The book talks about the planes, submarines and bombs that were used in the attack. The book concludes with a brief summary about the end of World War II, and how Pearl Harbor remains a symbol of an American tragedy that should never happen again.
 * Summary: ** This book begins with a detailed chapter about a meeting between the United States secretary of state (Cordell Hull) and two Japanese Diplomats. The meeting took place on December 7th 1941 and entailed an unpleasant exchange between the diplomats and Hull. The Japanese were pretending to show interest in peaceful solutions regarding a conflict with China over territory, but they were secretly planning to go to war with the United States.


 * Related curriculum: ** The book goes into detail about the events that occurred prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor, and the actual event. This is a major event in American history, and directly aligns with the social studies curriculum area. It ties to the specific areas of American history, world history, United States presidents, and geography. Other areas of curriculum that relate to this book could include writing/language arts, science, and creative arts. This book would be a great book for elementary students to read and write some kind of reflection to the story. It would also be a fantastic story to practice using silent reading skills. Brining in the concepts of the military submarines, airplanes, and ships could relate to science and technology. The book’s illustrations were done in watercolors; this could be a great opportunity to introduce watercolor to students, and complete an activity using watercolors.

Book #2 Santella, Andrew. (2005). **We The People: Pearl Harbor**. Compass Point Books. 48 pages. Scottsdale Public Library


 * Summary: ** The book begins with a chapter about the morning of the Pearl Harbor attacks, and a naval officer named George Macartney Hunter. It goes into detail about which US battleships were bombed including USS Arizona, USS West Virginia and USS Tennessee. The next chapter talks about Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and his decision to declare war on Japan. The book then goes into detail about the military history of Japan, and their efforts to expand and gain new territory throughout the 1930’s. The United States had developed bad relations with Japan because they did not like the way Japan was attacking other countries. The book then talks about Japan’s detailed plan of attack on Pearl Harbor, and the events that occurred on December 7th 1941. The book ends with a Pearl Harbor memorial tribute chapter. The last pages of the book include a glossary, a timeline of events, and an “important people to know” page. Each page of the book includes real authentic photographs related to each specific event (and important people).


 * Related Curriculum: ** The book relates to many different areas of social studies curriculum content. Some of the specific topics include: geography (maps), American history, world history, economics and government. Other related curriculum areas could include reading/language arts, science and creative arts. The glossary at the back of the book could help students expand their vocabulary. Also, the book provides a lot of different topics and biographical information that could be used for students to practice expository writing. Science and technology relate to the book in that the book discusses the machinery used for the warfare, specifically the ships, planes and bombs. There is also a section of the book that goes into great detail about the geography, landforms and things like waterways that surround Pearl Harbor. Students could do an activity with paint or clay to create the island of Honolulu and the specific area of Pearl Harbor.

Book #3 Venezia, Mike. (2007). **Franklin D. Roosevelt- Thirty-Second President**. Children’s Press. 32 pages. Scottsdale Public Library


 * Summary: ** This book is a biography of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s life. It begins with his childhood and sequentially goes through every major stage and event of his life. It goes into detail about his presidency, and the major issues he faced as a U.S. president during times of crisis. There is a chapter that goes into detail about the attack on Pearl Harbor, and how it affected his decision to enter World War II. The book is a kid-friendly book that includes both cartoon illustrations as well as real photographs.


 * Related curriculum: ** This book relates to social studies since it is a biographical text about Franklin Delano Roosevelt. It also includes details about major events that occurred in American history. Two related curriculum areas could include reading/language arts and technology. Since the book is a biographical book, it could be used as an opportunity to introduce various types of writing such as biographies and autobiographies. The book could be used as a model for students to complete a biography writing activity about themselves. The book ties to technology because it talks a lot about radios. President Roosevelt used the radio often to communicate with the American people. His friendly talks over the radio became known as “fireside chats”. The American people looked forward to hearing the president’s fireside chats, and many made it a family activity. A technology activity that could be done in class would be to have students complete a project on communication devices from the past to the present. Students would be able to learn about new technology as well as technology used in the past.

Book #4 Kent, Deborah. (2014). **Hawaii**. Children’s Press Scholastic Inc. 144 pages. Scottsdale Public Library
 * Summary: ** This book is a complete state book about the state of Hawaii. It includes information about a wide range of topics. The topics include environment, geography, native people, government, history, economy, and travel guide. The book offers many photographs, graphs, charts and interesting facts about the state. For example, there is a large section about Hawaiian food and agriculture. It even includes a menu of typical Hawaiian foods. The back of the book includes a glossary, timeline, facts page, and a page of the annual events in Hawaii such as festivals and state fairs.


 * Related curriculum: ** This book relates to many areas of curriculum including social studies, science, technology, mathematics, art, and reading/language arts. An example of a science/mathematics activity that could be incorporated would be to have the students create a statistics graph about a topic such as population. This could also be extended as a writing activity by having the students write a paragraph about the statistics they graphed. An example of a technology/art/writing activity could be to have the students create a PowerPoint or Word document “visitor’s guide” to Hawaii. The students could draw and or find images electronically to add to the presentation, and write about what they think would be important for visitors to know.

Book #5 Burgan, Michael. (2001). **Supercarriers**. Capstone Press. 48 pages. Scottsdale Public Library


 * Summary: ** This book is about U.S Navy warships and super carriers. Supercarriers are the world’s largest warships that are typically used to carry aircrafts and weapons. These ships are powered by nuclear reactors instead of oil. The reactors produce nuclear energy that keeps the ship going for long periods of time. During World War II the United States built many supercarriers to carry warplanes and weapons across the ocean. The book includes many photographs and descriptions of supercarriers, as well as the various warplanes that were transported on these ships.


 * Related curriculum: ** This book relates to the social studies content area as well as science/technology and art. The class could do a study about how natural resources, systems and technologies work together to create things like supercarriers. The class could create a large ship and describe the systems and parts within the ship. Roles could be assigned to groups of students to research and then create. This could be a science technology and art project all in one.

Book #6 Pierce, Alan. (2005). **The Bombing of Pearl Harbor.** ABDO Publishing Company**.** 48 pages. Scottsdale Public Library


 * Summary: ** This book goes more into detail about the history of Japan and the events leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor. It begins with the history between the United States and Japan starting from 1840. It goes through a timeline of Japan’s progress as a country, including their advances and innovations. Throughout the 19th century Japan developed its military and became a strong power in Asia. The book covers the Russo-Japanese War as well as World War I. Germany and Japan became allies in 1936 due to similar conflicts with the Soviet Union. Japan’s main source of oil came from the United States, and in 1941 President Roosevelt placed an embargo on oil sales to Japan. This event triggered Japan to prepare for war with the United States, which resulted in the Pearl Harbor attack.


 * Related curriculum: ** This book heavily relates to the social studies strand of World History. It goes into depth about conflicts in many countries, which impacted the United States to enter World War II. Other curriculum areas that could relate to this book are reading/language arts and geography. An activity that could be incorporated with this book would be for the class to create a world map or globe. The class could identify where all of the countries that were significant in World War II are on the map/globe, and get a better picture of the important locations. This book would also be a great opportunity for a vocabulary lesson. There are many terms in the book about government and foreign relations that children could learn.

Book #7 DK Publishing. (2014). **Complete Flags of the World.** DK Publishing Inc. 320 pages. Barnes & Noble
 * Summary: ** This book is a picture book for all ages that includes vivid images of world flags and their meanings. There are many flags included in the book, but I specifically wanted to focus on the United States flag and the Japanese flag for the purpose of the topic. The American flag includes horizontal red and white stripes as well as a blue rectangle with 50 white stars. The stars represent the 50 states, and the 13 stripes represent the 13 original colonies that declared independence from Great Britain. The Japanese flag is a white with a red circle in the middle of the flag. The red circle represents the sun. Japan’s name translates to the meaning “land of the rising sun”. The white color of the flag represents honesty, and the red sun represents brightness and warmth.


 * Related curriculum: ** This book could integrate many areas of curriculum. These areas could include: mathematics/geometry, creative arts, and language arts. There are many shapes that are present in the flags. The teacher could do an activity about flags and the shape of a rectangle, circle, square or star. For a creative arts activity, the children could use acrylic paint to paint the American flag. Another activity could be to paint a large class flag, and hang the flag up in the room. For a language arts activity, I think that the flags could be used for a poetry activity. Flags possess a lot of meaning and symbolisms, so having students create poems based on a flag could be a great writing opportunity.

Book #8 Fitzgerald, Stephanie. (2006). **Snapshots in History: Pearl Harbor.** White-Thompson Publishing. 94 pages. Scottsdale Public Library


 * Summary: ** This book gave a detailed account of the attack on Pearl Harbor, and the prior history surrounding the United States and China. This book is unique because on every page there are one or more authentic photographs of the events described. The book begins with the day Pearl Harbor was attacked and then goes back in time to discuss the history surrounding the attack. The end of the book provides information on each U.S. naval ship that was destroyed by the bombings. It concludes with an excerpt about how this catastrophic event “awakened a sleeping giant” and sparked the United States to come together to prepare for war.


 * Related curriculum: ** The book mainly focused on facts and historical events surrounding the events at Pearl Harbor, which connects the book most directly to social studies curriculum. The other areas of curriculum that could be integrated with this book could be reading/language arts, science technology and creative arts. A writing and creative arts activity that could be pared with this book would be to have the students create a photo collage of a major event (historical or personal), and then write about the collage they created. The technology used to execute the attack on Pearl Harbor would be a great discussion topic for the class to have an informal discussion. The teacher could show images and videos of the airplanes, submarines, and weapons that were used.

Book #9 Garnett, Sammie. Pallota, Jerry. (2004). **U.S. Navy Alphabet Book**. Charlesbridge Publishing. 27 pages. Scottsdale Public Library


 * Summary: ** This book is an alphabet book that has a different letter of the alphabet on every page. Each letter represents a different topic related to the U.S. Navy. For example, the first page of the book has a letter “A”. There is a paragraph under the letter “A” with the first sentence stating that “A” stands for aircraft carrier. The rest of the paragraph entails information about U.S. aircraft carriers. The book covers topics such as boats, diving, electronics, ground tackle, knots, planes, submarines, uniforms and yardarms. It provides detailed explanations about each of the topics. Each page also includes intricate illustrations of the topic representing the letter.


 * Related Curriculum: ** The book provides detailed information about the various aspects of the U.S. Navy. It ties to the social studies curriculum area of United States history including technological advances, military, flags, and the roles and responsibilities of military workers. Related curriculum and content area could include reading/language arts, science and technology. The book is based on the alphabet, which in itself incorporates phonics. The class could do an activity such as create their own class alphabet book based on the topic of Pearl Harbor. The book is a great “coffee table” book that I believe students would enjoy looking at and reading to themselves.

Book #10 Hansen, Ole Steen. (2003). **Military Aircraft of WWII.** Crabtree Publishing Company. 31 pages. Scottsdale Public Library


 * Summary: ** This book is an informational text about military aircraft used in World War II. It provides pictures of over 30 different kinds of planes used for different combat purposes. All of the pictures provide descriptions of what the plane was used for, and what type of pilots operated the planes. For example, one section talks about small artillery spotter planes. Any enemy in their path on the ground feared these planes out of fear of being spotted. These planes were very small planes that were typically used for finding enemies on the ground. The planes were typically unarmed and were used as a communication/ control center to facilitate important information.


 * Related curriculum: ** Three related areas of curriculum for this book could include science/technology, art, and mathematics. Having the class construct their own plane prototype would be a great activity for the class to participate in. The students could choose a plane they want to create, and then paint the plane accordingly. The book provides a lot of information about measurements of the warplanes, including exact feet and inches. This could be used as an opportunity for a math lesson to teach inches, feet, yards, length and width.