Exploring the Great Lakes States through Literature

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Exploring the United States through Literature describes the best of current print and nonprint materials teachers can use with their students to study individual states. Each volume covers a different geographic area and presents selected materials that represent the uniquely rich and varied history, diversity, geography, industries, resources, famous people, and contemporary culture of each state in that region. Much more than a series of detailed bibliographies, the volumes in the Exploring the United States through Literature series also describe classroom-tested activities that directly relate to each source.

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Comprehensive and well-organized....planning help for teachers as well as a user-friendly resource for students working on state reports....Public and school libraries will want to purchase the entire series.-School Library Journal
Each volume in the soon-to-be-seven-volume series explores a different geographic region, identifying resources - print and nonprint, fiction and nonfiction, contemporary and folkloric - to enhance a thematic literature study of the United States. The series is well-done....a must-have teacher and librarian resource.-The Apple Peddler
This will be helpful for teachers in all grades....A very helpful resource.-Ohioana Quarterly
"Comprehensive and well-organized....planning help for teachers as well as a user-friendly resource for students working on state reports....Public and school libraries will want to purchase the entire series."-School Library Journal
"This will be helpful for teachers in all grades....A very helpful resource."-Ohioana Quarterly
"Each volume in the soon-to-be-seven-volume series explores a different geographic region, identifying resources - print and nonprint, fiction and nonfiction, contemporary and folkloric - to enhance a thematic literature study of the United States. The series is well-done....a must-have teacher and librarian resource."-The Apple Peddler

Author Bio

KATHY HOWARD LATROBE is an associate professor at the University of Oklahoma School of Library and Information Studies, Norman, where she teaches children's and young adult library media services. She is coauthor of three books on reader's theater for young people, including Social Studies Readers Theatre for Young Adults: Scripts and Script Development (Libraries Unlimited, 1991). She is coeditor of Public Relations for School Library Media Centers (Libraries Unlimited, 1990) and Multicultural Aspects of Library Media Programs (Libraries Unlimited, 1992).