Content-Based Chapter Books Fiction (Social Studies: Stand Up and Speak Out): Building a Dream

In 1916, an African-American family faces descrimination in the South. As conditions worsen for them, the family struggles with the decision to move to the North during the Great Migration. Students will learn about important events that shaped American history through the Stand Up and Speak Out series of historical fiction readers’ theater. Readers follow the lives of children and their families as they struggle to make the right decisions during times of change. (Genre: Historical Fiction for Readers’ Theater)