Teaching Tools: Literature (Charles River)
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Charles River Reading List (Charles River Conservancy)
General Interest:
Eliot, Charles W. Charles Eliot: Landscape Architect. Forward by Keith Morgan. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 1999.
Hall, Max. The Charles: The People's River. Boston, MA: David R. Godine, 1986.
Kreiger, Alex and David Cobb with Amy Turner. Mapping Boston. Boston, MA: MIT Press, 1999.
Marchione, William P. The Charles; A River Transformed. Dover, NH: Arcadia Publishing, 1998.
McAdow, Ron. The Charles River: Exploring Nature on Foot and by Canoe. Marlborough, MA: Bliss Publishing Co,1992.
Metropolitan District Commission. The New Charles River Basin Master Plan. Boston, MA: Metropolitan District Commission, 1995.
Sanmarco, Anthony Mitchell. Cambridge: Images of America. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 1999.
Sanmarco, Anthony Mitchell. Boston's West End: Images of America. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 1998.
Tougias, Michael. Exploring the Hidden Charles. Boston, MA: Appalachian Mountain Club Books, 1997.
Specialized interest:
American Society of Civil Engineers. Boston's Charles River Basin: An Engineering Landmark. Boston: Journal of the Boston Society of Civil Engineers, Vol 67, No 4, 1981.
Bunting, Bainbridge & Nylander, Robert H. Report Four: Old Cambridge. Cambridge, MA: Cambridge Historical Commission & MIT Press, 1973.
Cambridge Historical Commission. Report Two: Mid Cambridge. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1967.
Cambridge Historical Commission. Report Three: Cambridgeport. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1971.
Cambridge Historical Commission. Report Four: Old Cambridge. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1973.
Charles River Watershed Association. Charles River Canoe Guide. Auburndale, MA: Charles River Watershed Association, 1977.
Cronin, John and Robert K. Kennedy, Jr. The Riverkeepers: Two Activists Fight to Reclaim Our Environment as a Basic Human Right. New York, NY: Scribner, 1997.
Dickinson, Harry Ellis. Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1981.
Maycock, Susan E. (ed). East Cambridge. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1988.
Perry, Ralph Frederick. Canoeing the Charles. Hollis, NH: Hollis Publishing Co, 1996.
Rogers, Patricia H. and Charles Sullivan. A Photographic History of Cambridge. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1986.
Warner, Sam Bass, Jr. The Charles from Newton to the Sea: Sketchbook 1995-1998. Auburndale, MA: Charles River Watershed Association, 1998.
Zaitzevsky, Cynthia. Frederick Law Olmsted and the Boston Park System. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1982.
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Teaching Tools: Literature (Lake Champlain)
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Create a Literary Work
From “And the Drop Goes On” (adapted from “This Lake Alive!” by Amy B. Demarest)
Find a large piece of rope or string and tie both ends together to make a knot (the rope should be long enough so that students can all hold onto it while standing in a circle)
Explain to the students that together they are going to tell the story of a drop of Lake Champlain water. The knot symbolizes the drop.
The student holding the knot begins and emphasize that this drop of water can go wherever, meet whomever, and go through all different forms: rain, evaporation, snow, wave, spray, ice, etc.
After the first student starts the story, they slide the knot over to the next person who continues on where the previous person left off.
Lit List
From “This Lake Alive!” by Amy B. Demarest, here is a listing of youth literature that deals with the Lake Champlain area, with a special focus on the settlement of the area in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Champlain Literature List
Green Mountain Hero by Edgar Jackson
Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare
Fawn by Robert Newton Peck (out of print, but worth hunting for)
The Courage of Sarah Noble by Sarah Dalgiesh
The Light in the Forest by Conrad Richter
Calico Captive by Elizabeth George Speare
The Ice Trail by Anne Eliot Crompton (also hard to find)
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Teaching Tools: Literature (Hudson River)
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Looking to do some Hudson River reading?
Here's a good start:
The Hudson River: A Natural and Unnatural History
by Robert H. Boyle
Hudson River: An Adventure From the Mountains to the Sea
by Peter Lourie
The Hudson River
by Melissa Whitcraft
Legend of Sleepy Hollow
by Washington Irving
Rip Van Winkle
by Washington Irving
The Forgotten Legend of Sleepy Hollow
by E.R. Welles
North Country: An anthology of Contemporary Writing from the
Adirondacks and the Upper Hudson Valley
by Joseph Bruchac, et al.
A Passage Through the Land of Sleepy Hollow
Story and Photographs by Lynn Hyman Butler
Along the Hudson with Washington Irving
by Wallace Bruce
The Hudson River In Literature
An anthology edited by Arthur Adams
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