Sadako and a Thousand Paper Cranes

http://asterix.ednet.lsu.edu/~edtech/webquest/sadako.htm

Description: 'Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes' by Eleanor Coerr is a true story about a girl who lived in Japan toward the end of World War This Web Quest is designed to introduce you to Sadako Sasaki and her country of Japan. Find out why Sadako is a heroine to the children of Japan. Standard 1.5.3 and 2.5

Author: Pat Duhon

Lesson ID: 923

Two Tickets to Freedom

http://www.mcps.k12.md.us/curriculum/socialstd/grade5/Two_Tickets.html

Description: Two Tickets to Freedom is a true story of fugitive slaves William and Ellen Craft. The story begins on a winter morning in 1848 when Ellen Craft, a light-skinned young slave, disguised in men's clothing, walks into a train station in Macon, Georgia, and purchases two tickets, one ticket was for herself and the other for her husband. Posed as a white Southern planter, and her husband, William, as her slave, she escaped to freedom. Standards 2.5, 3.4.6, 8.7.2, 8.9.1

Author: Patricia King Robeson

Lesson ID: 1147