NCSS Notable Trade Book Lesson Plan Maggie’s Door by Patricia Reilly Giff

Abstract

This lesson plan can be used with upper-level elementary students to discuss the Irish potato famine and immigration to America by displaced peoples. It uses a trade book entitled Maggie’s Door to foster students’ consideration of people, places, and environments as well as individual development and identity through a cultural lens.

Citation

Hickey, M.G. and Codispoti, M. (2008), "NCSS Notable Trade Book Lesson Plan Maggie’s Door by Patricia Reilly Giff", Social Studies Research and Practice, Vol. 3 No. 2, pp. 147-155. https://doi.org/10.1108/SSRP-02-2008-B0012