Entries by Jim McCabe

Elective 3: Reading and Writing Black History at 6th-8th Grade Reading Level

The epub format below is for your Apple and Android devices including the Send-to-Kindle feature in Amazon. Download  the mobi file for Amazon devices except the Send to Kindle feature  here. Enjoy descriptions and links to nine eBooks written at the 6th to 8th grade level. The titles are: The Long Black Schooner by Emma […]

Elective 4: Reading and Writing Black History at a Reading Level of 9th-12th Grade

The epub format below is for your Apple and Android devices including the Send-to-Kindle feature in Amazon. Download  the mobi file for Amazon devices except the Send to Kindle feature  here. Enjoy descriptions and links to nine eBooks written at the 9th to 12th grade level. The titles are: The Black Napoleon by Percy Waxman: […]

Teaching U.S. History with eBooks and Electives by Jim McCabe

The epub format below is for your Apple and Android devices including the Send-to-Kindle feature in Amazon. Download  the mobi file for Amazon devices except the Send to Kindle feature  here. This is a guidebook to ninety free eBooks, primarily about American history, from three non-profits: Project Gutenberg, StandardeBooks, and this site. The idea is […]

Sea and Earth: The Life of Rachel Carson

Download in epub format for Chromebooks, and Apple devices: Download for Kindle Fires or other Amazon devices: This is the story of the most important science writer of the 20th century. With “Silent Spring” Rachel Carson shocked Americans into reevaluating the man-made chemicals that have polluted our whole environment. Carson “jolted the entire country into […]

Shirley Chisholm by Susan Brownmiller

The epub format below is for your Apple and Android devices including the Send-to-Kindle feature in Amazon. Download  the mobi file for Amazon devices except the Send to Kindle feature  here. Critics’ Corner: “The author chronicles major events in Shirley Chisholm’s life and career from her childhood in Barbados through her first year as Representative […]

So Big by Edna Ferber

Here is the epub format: Here is the mobi format for Amazon devices: Winner of the 1924 Pulitzer Prize, So Big is widely regarded as Edna Ferber’s crowning achievement. A rollicking panorama of Chicago’s high and low life, this stunning novel follows the travails of gambler’s daughter Selina Peake DeJong as she struggles to maintain […]