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New York Theme Unit


Questions, Facts, and "Who am I?" for the state of New York
     State of New York Mixed Review: fill-in questions, "Who am I", facts, and writing prompts (multiple keys)


State of New York Theme - Reading Comprehensions
     One Penny at a Time   (Grades 3-4)
     "Take Me Out to Cooperstown"   (Grades 3-4)
     Statue of Liberty   (Grades 3-5)
     "Say Cheese"- The First Affordable Camera   (Grades 4-6)
     New York: "Ever Upward"   (Grades 4-6)
     New York State   (Grades 5-7)


New York Maze
Build New York maze - Make multiple mazes at once


State of New York Theme - Math Stories
     New York Math (Grades 2-3)
     New York Math (Grades 4-5)


State of New York Theme - Story Starters
     New York Story Starter Printables


State of New York Theme
     Location of New York in the United States Printable and Information


State of New York Theme Time Line
     New York Time Line #1 (32 events in time line)
     New York Time Line #2 (14 events in time line)


New York: Reading Comprehensions with References to New York
This section lists reading comprehensions on edHelper.com with references to the state of New York. These reading comprehensions were not written specifically for the state theme unit.

     Top reading comprehensions with most references to New York
     William "Boss" Tweed - How to Make Money in Politics (Grade 9)
     Aaron Burr (Grade 9)
     William "Boss" Tweed - Adventures in Justice (Grades 9-12)
     "Lucky Lindy" Takes the Bait, Part 2 (Grade 7)
     Remembering September 11th (Grade 6)
     Nellie Bly - First Female War Correspondent (Grade 8)
     James A. Michener, the Born Storyteller (Grades 9-12)
     Theodore Roosevelt
     Maria Tallchief - The Light of Two Worlds (Grade 9)
     The Middle Colonies (Grade 7)
     The First Capitals of the United States (Grade 7)
     Washington Irving (Grade 6)
     Frederick E. Church, Landscape Artist Extraordinaire (Grades 9-12)
     All the News That's Fit to Print - and Some That Isn't (Grades 9-12)
     He Walked Softly - Teddy Roosevelt (Grade 8)
     Benedict Arnold (Grade 8)

Biographies
(no assigned grade level)
     Auguste Bartholdi
     Booker T. Washington
     Charles Lindbergh
     George Washington
     Harriet Tubman
     John Glenn
     Juliette Gordon Low
     Katharine Hepburn
     Mary Anderson, Inventor of the Windshield Wiper
     Matthew Henson
     Samuel F. B. Morse
     Sojourner Truth
     Stanley and Livingstone
     Susan B. Anthony
     Theodore Roosevelt
     Thomas Edison: The Wizard of Menlo Park
(Grades 3-5)
     Noah Webster
(Grades 6-8)
     A Pearl to Behold: Pearl Bailey
     American Cartoonist
     Arnold Lobel
     Bob Marley
     Charlayne Hunter-Gault
     Daniel Webster - The Great Orator
     Edgar Allan Poe
     Emma Lazarus
     Fame and Grandma Moses
     Forever Endora
     Grace Kelly
     J.K. Rowling
     James Thurber, Author and Cartoonist
     Jesse Owens
     John Glenn
     Judy Blume
     Katie Couric - Lady Correspondent
     Langston Hughes
     Leo Lionni
     Levi Strauss and Blue Jeans
     Lois Lowry
     Magical Dreams
     Mary Pope Osborne
     Mobile Artist
     Multi-talented Maya Angelou
     Nolan Ryan
     Norman Rockwell
     Robert Frost
     Russian-Jewish Artist
     Sarah Vaughn: The Divine One
     The Hoosier Poet
     The Life of Peggy Fleming
     The Man Who Made Animals Talk
     The World's Favorite Cowboy
     W.E.B. DuBois
     Washington Irving
     Wilt Chamberlain
     Yellow Springs Teller - Virginia Hamilton
(Grades 9-12)
     Aaron Burr
     Anna Pavlova, the Immortal Swan
     Biography of Calvin Klein
     Coming of Age in America—The Life of Margaret Mead
     Dr. Antonia Novello: Surgeon General
     Dr. Mae Jemison: A True Explorer
     Frederick E. Church, Landscape Artist Extraordinaire
     George W. G. Ferris
     Jackson Pollock, or Jack the Dripper
     James A. Michener, the Born Storyteller
     Kofi Annan
     Maria Tallchief - The Light of Two Worlds
     Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood
     Nicholas Roerich
     Pablo Picasso, the Inventor of Cubism

Daily Themes
(Grades 1-2)
     Call Me Dan
     Ellis Island Family History Day
     Morningeagle
     The House of Ruth
(Grades 3-5)
     Going to the Circus
     High in the Sky
     Labor Day
     Liberty Enlightening the World
     Mickey Mouse's Birthday!
(Grades 6-8)
     A New Tradition
     Charles Lindbergh
     I'm a Proud American!
     In Honor of Heroes
     Inaugural Parades
     Memorial Day
     National Heroes Day in Jamaica
     The Edible Cup
     Three Kings Day
     United Nations Play
     Women's Equality Day
(Grades 9-12)
     America's Number One Snack
     Franklin D. Roosevelt

Miscellaneous
(no assigned grade level)
     Baseball Hall of Fame
     Billy the Kid
     Delaware - The Early History
     Elizabeth Blackwell
     Inventions for Babies
     Inventors of the Automobile Engine
     Jackie Robinson
     Maya Lin
     Mosses
     New Jersey
     Secondhand Smoke
     Statue of Liberty
     The Iroquois
     Thomas Alva Edison
     What Ever Happened to Amelia Earhart?
(Grades 1-2)
     Yoko Yodels
(Grades 3-5)
     American Symbols
     Black Literature Leaders
     Early Slave Trade
     Ice Hockey
     Olympic Cross-Country Skiing
     Olympic Speed Skating
     One, Two, Three Strikes You're Out
     Producing and Supplying Electricity: Garden of Amps
     Punxsutawney Who?
     Subways
     Take Me Out to the Ball Game, Part 2
     Take Me Out to the Ball Game, Part 3
     The Charter Oak Tree
     The Seal of Approval
     The Teddy Bear
     The World of Jazz
     Where Has Our Water Gone?
(Grades 6-8)
     "Lucky Lindy" Takes the Bait, Part 2
     "Lucky Lindy" Takes the Prize, Part 3
     "Say Cheese" - The First Affordable Camera
     Alexander Hamilton
     American Musicians
     An Early New Jersey Timeline
     Balloons As Weapons?
     Baron von Steuben
     Battles of Saratoga
     Benedict Arnold
     Boy Scouts of America
     Building Our Nation’s Capital
     Cable Cars
     Chris Burke - A Success Story
     Civil War Photography
     Comic Books Come of Age
     Creation of the Post Office Department
     Declaring Our Independence
     Discovery of the North Pole
     Eleanor Roosevelt - From Wallflower to Activist
     Ethan Allen and Fort Ticonderoga
     Ethan Allen and Fort Ticonderoga
     Explorers for Holland
     From Hunting Ground to Home
     General Charles Cornwallis
     General John Burgoyne
     General William Howe
     George Washington - General
     George Washington's Army - The Department of War
     George Washington
     He Walked Softly - Teddy Roosevelt
     Home Sweet Home - Life in Hooverville
     How an Olympic City is Chosen
     Kerry's Plan - A Story about Being Prepared
     Law Enforcement and Fire Fighting
     Lost Water?
     Martha Washington
     Mildred Gillars AKA Axis Sally
     Mission - Manual Transmission
     Money for the New Country
     Nathan Hale
     NATO
     Nellie Bly - First Female War Correspondent
     Nicaragua - Culture: El Nino Poeta
     Pennsylvania, the Beginning of Freedom
     Pioneer African-American Writers
     Poets of the Harlem Renaissance
     Prisoners of War
     Puerto Rico - Culture
     Red Summer - A Season of Fear
     Remembering September 11th
     Robert Fulton and the Steamboat
     Sudoku History
     Synchronized Swimming
     Tadeusz Kosciuszko
     Take Me Out to the Ballgame - The World Series
     The Assassination of President McKinley
     The Constitutional Convention
     The Final Battle - Yorktown 1781
     The First Capitals of the United States
     The First U.S. Women's Rights Movement (1800's)
     The Manhattan Project
     The Middle Colonies
     The Northwest Ordinance
     The Pulitzer Prize
     The Story of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
     The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
     The Unsinkable Titanic
     Typhoid Mary
     Valley Forge - Winter of 1777-1778
     Washington, D.C.
     When Man Took Flight
     Women and Health Care
     Women as Citizens
     Women Win the Right to Vote
     Woodstock
     You Switch, We Deliver?
     You Want Fuel With That?
(Grades 9-12)
     A Costly Oops!
     All the News That's Fit to Print - and Some That Isn't
     Apolo Anton Ohno
     Battles - Fort Sumter
     E. B. White
     Earth Time - Precambrian Time and the Paleozoic Era
     If at First You Don't Succeed...The Invasion(s) of Canada
     John Steinbeck
     Leaders in Crisis - Franklin D. Roosevelt
     Malcolm X
     Other Local Governments
     Polio and FDR's Disability
     Rails across America - "Done!" The Last Spike
     Rates of Weathering
     Robert Kennedy
     Say "Uncle!" — The Strange End of the War of 1812
     Sid Fleischman
     Spies for the Confederacy
     Suriname - History
     The "Beat" of a Different Drum - Rebels of the Nifty Fifties
     The Declaration of Independence
     The Movement of Soil, Part 2
     The Need for Speed - The Age of Computers
     The North after the Civil War
     V-J Day, Part 2 - "It's Over!"
     Warriors and Heroes - Native Americans in World War II
     William "Boss" Tweed - Adventures in Justice
     William "Boss" Tweed - How to Make Money in Politics

Stories
(no assigned grade level)
     Summer Dreams
     The Marmalade War
(Grades 9-12)
     An Alien Landscape
     Jason's Long Ride
     The Magi in New York
     Unexpected Inspiration

Animals
(no assigned grade level)
     Gulls
     Ladybugs
(Grades 3-5)
     Animals in Motion
(Grades 6-8)
     Pale Male & Lola -- Red-Tailed Hawks


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