A learning module that begins with "Last Diary Entry of John Wilkes Booth" by John Wilkes Booth, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online...

The text of diary entries written by Carrie Berry, a 10 year old girl living in Atlanta, Georgia during the Civil War. Her diary gives details of both the course of the war as she knows it, and her daily life. From the Center For...

[Free Registration/Login Required] This resource offers active ways to learn facts about Shakespeare's life and works such as moving about the room collecting facts about Shakespeare and then creating a group collage with them and...

Students will learn about the life of children and teenagers before and during the Holocaust by reading excerpts from their diaries. In the end, these children perished in the concentration camps. Read entries about their everyday life...

This is a wordlist (in order of appearance by entry date) and a fill-in-the-blank word puzzle for The Diary of Anne Frank.

A fascinating site that presents the story of Alice Fletcher who traveled to Dakota Territory to live with Sioux women. Click on dates on the calendar for diary entries. Also includes historic photo gallery.

Organized into six sections, this website allows visitors to choose specific "Chapters in Lady Bird's life." Each section provides general biographical information as well as speeches, diary entries, timelines, and excerpts from the PBS...

The writer will assume the role of a living creature (like an arthropod) or an abstraction (like a fraction). Writers will do research on what they have chosen as their roles, and learn new facts about these roles. The writer will...

[Free Registration/Login Required] This PowerPoint contains 16 various writing tasks connected to Louis Sachar's young adult novel, the book Holes. Students will write multi-paragraph essays, diary entries, personal letters, and more.

[Free Registration/Login Required] A series of fictional diary entries about a girl named Kim who get a new pet goat. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.

Click through the pages and read this web version of the best selling novel Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney. Read straight through each day, or click on any day in the calendar feature to go straight to that entry. The main...

This site is provided for by the Library of Congress. Benjamin Brown French, politician and Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives, kept a diary. The Library of Congress has digitalized for display the December 25, 1851, entry...

Dr. Zvi Asaria-Hermann Helfgott kept a detailed diary of the events he witnessed during the Holocaust. From being a POW to aiding survivors, he chronicled his and his comrades' experiences. View these artifacts, pictures, and diary...

Check out this site to read Roosevelt's personal diary entries & see an actual diary page. Site includes a biography, photos and links to related sources.

A rich-media website that traces a major expedition into the Belgian Congo (the present-day Democratic Republic of the Congo) at the dawn of the twentieth century. Includes maps, diary entries, specimens, and recordings as well as a...

This is a comprehensive unit on Norse Mythology including, key words, Norse history and background, Norse literature, Norse poetry (old and modern), Norse gods and creatures, assignments, quizzes, diary entries, and an final assessment...

These artifacts in this online exhibition were created, gathered, and written in real time during the Holocaust. These first-hand accounts are important in preserving the memory of the Holocaust. Included are letters, diary entries,...

September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland beginning WWII. View primary sources curated by the Holocaust Museum to better understand the agony of this time period in Poland. Sources include videos, photographs, interviews, diary entries,...

Students will work with primary resources such as diary entries to investigate a historical situation: the starving time in Jamestown. This interactive site raises questions that will enable students to use 21st century skills to...

The Ford's Theatre, where Abraham Lincoln was assassinated, has curated hundreds of artefacts from the night he was killed to the months of mourning that followed. Primary sources in this collection include newspaper articles, memorial...

This site examines the lives of African-Americans during colonial times in the city of Williamsburg, Virginia. Content provides background information, journal articles, diary entries, biography fact sheets, and more.

This collection of primary source documents discusses international relations during World War II and the years shortly after. It begins with the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact signed in 1939 and ends with documents from the 1950's. The...

Interactive map highlights the emigrations of men and women over the Oregon, California, and Mormon Trails in the 1840s and 50s. Also features a timeline of migration, diary entries from individual migrants, and a flow map showing how...

This site has much to offer the Tolstoy scholar. There is a diary entry written by a young woman the day after Tolstoy's death which reveals the emotions of the Russian people at the passing of this great man. There is the text of...