Mill Valley Middle School - Language Arts

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Sixth Grade Historical Fiction Additional Resources

- San Francisco Chronicle article - about the plague in SF
- NIH: Plague in San Francisco 1900
- Mass Escape of Jews from Denmark in WWII
- Evacuees article from the BBC
- Evacuees story from NPR
- A look back at Operation Pedro Pan from NPR
- Pedro Pan: A Children's Exodus from Cuba (Smithsonian)
- Smithsonian article about tunneling under the Berlin Wall
- BBC Short History of Vietnam War protests
- Smithsonian article about migrant farm workers during the depression
- BrainPop about Jim Crow laws/ Segregation
- Smithsonian Article about Lusitania Propaganda
- Lost Year from the National Park Service
- 16th Street Bombing
- Lewis and Clark - National Geographic
- Lewis and Clark - PBS
- Lewis and Clark - National Park Service
- Buxton, Canada - Museum
- Underground Railroad, Canadian Settlements - PBS
- Underground Railroad (Interactive) - Scholastic
- Civil War - National Park Service
- Time of the Lincolns - PBS American Experience (inc. slave quarters and medical field tent tour)
- Civil War - PBS
- Civil War Medicine Slide Show - CBS News
- Yellow Fever in Philadelphia- Harvard
- Yellow Fever - PBS, Africans in America
- Yellow Fever - PBS American Experience
- Philadelphia: The Great Experiment
- Colonial America: Library of Congress
- Colonial House: PBS (really fun site)
- Evolution of Virgina Colony - Library of Congress
- Historic Jamestowne - Official Site
- American Revolution - Library of Congress
- British Prison Ships - History.com
- Liberty! The American Revolution - PBS
- Our American Revolution - From Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
- Revolutionary Period - Library of Congress
- Slavery in America - Revolts - PBS
- How Slavery Ended in America - NY Times Magazine
- Slavery and the Making of America - PBS
- International Slave Museum - Liverpool
  - Salem Witch Trials - National Geographic Interactive
  - Salem Witch Trials - University of Missouri Famous Trials
  - Salem Witch Trials - Documents from University of Virginia
  - Salem Witch Trials - PBS Interactive
  - War Death Statistics - All Wars from the Department of Veteran's Affairs