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New Perspectives on The California Missions: A Unit of Study for 4th Grade.(Book review)
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California History
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March 1, 2008
- Author:
- Senkewicz, Robert M.
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NEW PERSPECTIVES ON THE CALIFORNIA MISSIONS: A UNIT OF STUDY FOR 4TH GRADE
By Delores Hendricks, Elaine Jeche, Rosemarie McCabe, Nancy Ruiz, and Christina Williams (Los Angeles: National Center for History in the Schools, University of California, Los Angeles, 2006, 81 pp., resource CD-ROM, $16.95 paper)
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MANY CALIFORNIANS OF A CERTAIN age still have vivid memories of their fourth grade "mission project," in which they (or their parents!) constructed elaborate models of one of the state's twenty-one missions from such materials as wooden matches, old cardboard boxes, and seemingly ubiquitous sugar cubes. New Perspectives on the California ...