Good Stories for Great Holidays: Arranged for Story-Telling and Reading Aloud and for the Children's Own ReadingOlcott, Frances Jenkins
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Good Stories for Great Holidays: Arranged for Story-Telling and Reading Aloud and for the Children's Own Reading
Olcott, Frances Jenkins
Children's literature; Holidays; Short stories; Storytelling
Kearny at Seven Pines, Stedman (poem); Quivira, Guiterman (poem), in
Story-Telling Poems; Reading the List, in Sehauffler, Memorial Day;
Remember the Alamo, in Lodge and Roosevelt, Hero Tales, Reuben James,
Roche, (poem), in Story-Telling Poems; The Defense of the Alamo, Miller
(poem), in Stevenson, Poems of American History; The Fire Rekindled, in
Schauffler, Memorial Day; The Flag-Bearer, in Lodge and Roosevelt, Hero
Tales; The March of the First Brigade, in Riverside Eighth Reader.
INDEPENDENCE DAY
For grades S-6.
A Winter at Valley Forge, in Tappan, American Hero Stories; Cornwallis's
Buckles, in Revolutionary Stories Retold from St. Nicholas; Ethan Allen,
in Johonnot, Stories of Heroic Deeds; Fourth of July Among the Indians,
in Indian Stories Retold from St. Nicholas; How “Mad Anthony” Took Stony
Point, in Tappan, American Hero Stories; How the “Swamp Fox” Made the
British Miserable, in Tappan, American Hero Stories; John Paul Jones,
in Tappan, American Hero Stories; Laetitia and the Redcoats, in
Revolutionary Stories Retold from St. Nicholas; Molly Pitcher, in
Revolutionary Stories Retold from St. Nicholas; Paul Revere's Ride
Longfellow (poem), in Story-Telling Poems; Prescott and the Yankee Boy,
in Johonnot, Stories of Heroic Deeds; Rodney's Ride, Brooks (poem), in
Story-Telling Poems; The Boston Massacre, in Hawthorne, Grandfather's
Chair; The Bulb of the Crimson Tulip, in Revolutionary Stories Retold
from St Nicholas; The First Day of the Revolution, in Tappan; American
Hero Stories.
For grades 7-8.
A Woman's Heroism, in Tomlinson, War for Independence; Grandmother's
Story of Bunker-Hill Battle, Holmes (poem); How the Major Joined
Marion's Men, in Tomlinson, War for Independence; Molly Pitcher,
Sherwood (poem), in Stevenson, Poems of American History; Patrick Henry,
in Morris Historical Tales, American, Second Series; Song of Marion's
Men, Bryant (poem); That Bunker Hill Powder, in Revolutionary Stories
Retold from St. Nicholas; The Mantle of St. John de Matha, Whittier
(poem); The Tory's Farewell, in Hawthorne, Grandfather's Chair.
LABOR DAY
For grades 1-4.
Dust Under the Rug, in Lindsay, Mother Stories, Giant Energy and
Fairy Skill, in Lindsay, Mother Stories; How Flax was Given to Men, in
Holbrook, Book of Nature Myths; My Friend the Housekeeper, in Riverside
Fourth Reader,
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