Exploring the Southwest 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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"Start choosing titles for whole-class and enrichment reading by using the seven-volume Oryx Press Exploring the United States through Literature [series]."-NJEA Review
Comprehensive and well-organized....planning help for teachers as well as 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
Start choosing titles for whole-class and enrichment reading by using the seven-volume Oryx Press Exploring the United States through Literature [series].-NJEA Review
"Comprehensive and well-organized....planning help for teachers as well as 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

Author Bio

PAT TIPTOM SHARP is chair of the Department of Curriculum and Instruction, School of Education, Baylor University, Waco, Texas. A professor in the School of Education, Dr. Sharp teaches children's literature and directs the Learning Resource Center. She has published articles and reviews in School Library Journal, American Reference Books Annual, and Top of the News, and has written chapters that appear in Multicultural Aspects of Library Media Programs and in Public Relations for School Library Media Centers.