Exploring the Plains States through Literature

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.

List of contents

Series Statement vii
Preface ix
Contributors xi
Iowa 1, by Bonnie Raasch
Kansas 17, by June Level
Missouri 33, by Leslie Edmonds
Nebraska 44, by Eunice Parrish
North Dakota 64, by Myla Alsaker, Esther Hornbacher, Kathleen Oksendahl, Beverly Quamme, and Hazel Yliniemi
South Dakota 78, by Donna Gilliland
Directory of Publishers and Vendors 95
Author Index 105
Title Index 109
Subject Index 117

About the author

CAROLYM BRODIE is assistant professor in the School of Library and Information Science, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio. She is coauthor of Many Voices: Multicultural Literary Experiences for Youth (Highsmith Press, 1992), a book based on the Virginia Hamilton Conference held each spring at Kent State University. She contributed the sections on Ohio and Arkansas for the Exploring the Great Lakes States through Literature and Exploring the Southeast States through Literature volumes, respectively, in Oryx's Exploring the United States through Literature Series.

Product details

• Authors: Carolyn S. Brodie, Brodie Carolyn S.
• Assisted by: Carolyn S. Brodie (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.05.1994
• EAN: 9780897747622
• ISBN: 978-0-89774-762-2
• Series: Exploring the United States through Literature Series
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works > Dictionaries, encyclopaedias; USA, Places & peoples: general & pictorial works, Geography, TRAVEL / Pictorials, SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geography, TRAVEL / United States / General, EDUCATION / Curricula, United States of America, USA, Curriculum planning & development, Places and peoples: general and pictorial works, Curriculum planning and development, The Arts: American Literature