MrsMcKenzie-EMS - Historical Fiction Unit

Interview with Laurence Yep

Historical Fiction – Related Non-fiction Resources

Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire

http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/trianglefire/primary/survivorInterviews/SarahDworetz.html

(Interviews with survivors)

http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/trianglefire/supplemental/3Dmodel.html

(Model of the building with fire-hazards)

http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/trianglefire/primary/newspapersMagazines/index.html

(Newspaper and magazine articles)

Great Chicago Fire

http://www.thechicagofire.com/

(Did the Cow Do It? A series of articles, interviews, and prints)

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/chicago/maps/

(Interactive map of the fire and a video clip)

http://www.greatchicagofire.org/anthology-of-fire-narratives/fannie-belle-becker

(Ten year-old’s account of the fire)

http://www.greatchicagofire.org/anthology-of-fire-narratives/bessie-bradwell

(Memoir of a 13 year-old’s account of saving her father’s law books from the fire)

San Francisco Earthquake of 1906

http://www.sfmuseum.net/1906/ew7.html

(account of one boy’s experience during and after the earthquake)

http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/pfsfeq.htm

(account of earthquake)

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/regional/nca/1906/18april/

(Background information about the Earthquake)

Titanic

http://www.biography.com/blog/titanics-100th-anniversary-6-survivor-stories-20799733

(Six survivor accounts)

http://www.history.com/topics/titanic/interactives/titanic-interactive

(Interactive map and video clips)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/titanic/5050.shtml

(3 minute audio clip of one man’s escape)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/titanic/5048.shtml

(8 minute audio clip of one man’s recollection of the collision)

http://www.history.com/videos/titanic-millvina-dean---a-titanic-survivor#titanic-millvina-dean---a-titanic-survivor

(Interview with the woman who inspired the movie Titanic – 3 minutes)

Dust Bowl

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/introduction/dustbowl-introduction/

(Surviving the Dust Bowl account)

Holocaust

http://www.ushmm.org/learn/students/the-holocaust-a-learning-site-for-students(Also indicated on the site that on the left hand side towards the bottom you can click other languages including Spanish for the site to be translated)

__http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/lesson_images/lesson416/WebSites.pdf__

this is a pdf that lists additional sites and a brief note about what is available on each one

http://www.42explore2.com/holoc.htm (Lists many other sites/resources)

Pearl Harbor

\http://www.history.com/speeches/fdr-asks-congress-to-declare-war-on-japan#fdr-asks-congress-to-declare-war-on-japan

Audio of FDR address to Congress

http://military.discovery.com/battles-history/videos/pearl-harbor-news-live-from-pearl-harbor.htm

2 minute newsreel of attack on Pearl Harbor

Webquests to Complete: pick the web quest for your disaster

Pearl Harbor