| WORLD HISTORY JACKDAW KITS | Keeley Library Rev. 4/4/2001 |
THE FOLLOWING WORLD HISTORY JACKDAW
KITS ARE LOCATED IN THE REFERENCE AREA.
Most have a "Think for yourself"
section with questions, and a list of recommended books.
Note : Some of the following Jackdaw
kits also have an accompanying booklet of reproducible student activities.
Each booklet includes vocabulary, quotes, guided writing, hands-on extended
projects involving critical thinking and problem-solving, research, and
interdisciplinary activities.
| The Arabs | China - a Cultural Heritage |
| W0RLD OF ISLAM | MIDDLE EAST, THE LAND AND ITS PEOPLES |
| Tutankhamun & the Discovery of the Tomb | Development of Writing |
| BYZANTINE EMPIRE, A CULTURAL LEGACY | HADRIAN'S WALL |
| Money--Denarius to Decimal | Man and Towns |
| Alfred the Great | Vikings |
| 1066 | Doomsday Book |
| Murder of Thomas Beckett | Richard III and the Princes in the Tower |
| Henry VIII/ Dissolution of the Monasteries | Merchant Adventurers |
| ELIZABETH I | PICTURE THE RENAISSANCE |
| Henry VIII and His Six Wives | Drake and the Golden Hinde |
| Mary, Queen of Scots | The Armada |
| The English Civil War | Cromwell's Commonwealth |
| Restoration of Charles II | Black Death |
| JOAN OF ARC | SPANISH INQUISITION |
| Plague and Fire of London | Massacre at Glencoe |
| Monmouth Rebellion | French Revolution |
| Rise of Napoleon | Battle of Waterloo |
| Battle of Trafalgar | Retreat from Moscow 1812 |
| Garibaldi and the Risorgimento | The Prince Regent |
| Crimean War | Great Exhibition 1851 |
| Peasant's Revolt | Caxton and the Early Printers |
| Magna Carta | Spanish Inquisition |
| James Watt and Steam Power | Martin Luther |
| Women in Revolt-Fight for Emancipation | Russian Revolution |
| BALKANS, ETHNIC CONFLICT | WORLD WAR I |
| The Somme 1916 | Early Trade Unions(includes Tollpuddle Martyrs) |
| Siege of Paris and the Commune | Elizabeth II--the Work of the Queen |
| Wanted, Ned Kelly | Disraeli |
| Gladstone | Clipper Ships and the Cutty Sark |
| ANGLO-BOER WAR | CONQUEST OF MEXICO |
| Easter Rising --Dublin 1916 | Lenin |
| General Strike | The Coming of War--1939 |
| Winston Churchill | Britain at War |
| Desert War | Dunkirk |
| ATOMIC BOMB | HOLOCAUST |
| NED KELLY | COLD WAR |
| VIETNAM WAR | MODERN IMMIGRATION |
MISCELLANEOUS JACKDAWS
| Christmas | Rubber | National Parks of the United States | Volcanoes |
| Everest | Oil | History of Unicef | Computers |
LITERATURE JACKDAWS
| Keats | Wordsworth | Young Shakespeare | BRONTES |
| Dickens | Shelley | SHAKESPEARE'S THEATER | . |
SCIENCE JACKDAWS
| Pasteur and the Germ Theory | Discovery of the Galaxies |
| Faraday and Electricity | Newton and Gravitation |
| Harvey and the Circulation of the Blood | Century of Smoking and Tobacco |
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Keeley Library, B.M.C.Durfee High School
of Fall River
September, 1978 to June, 2001