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My Brother Sam is Dead by Christopher Collier & James Lincoln Collier: Study Guide - Mini Essays
In this online interactive literature worksheet, students respond to 8 short answer and essay questions about the Colliers' My Brother Sam is Dead. Students may check some of their answers online.
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My Name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok: Study Guide - Mini Essays
In this online interactive literature worksheet, students respond to 8 short answer and essay questions about Chaim Potok's My Name is Asher Lev. Students may check some of their answers online.
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My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult: Study Guide - Mini Essays
In this online interactive literature worksheet, learners respond to 10 short answer and essay questions about Jodi Picoult's My Sister's Keeper. Students may check some of their answers online.
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Native Son by Richard Wright: Study Guide - Mini Essays
In this online interactive literature worksheet, students respond to 10 short answer and essay questions about Richard Wright's Native Son. Students may check some of their answers online.
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Night by Elie Wiesel: Study Guide - Mini Essays
In this online interactive literature worksheet, students respond to 9 short answer and essay questions about Elie Wiesel's Night. Students may check some of their answers online.
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Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen: Study Guide - Mini Essays
In this online interactive literature worksheet, students respond to 8 short answer and essay questions about Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey. Students may check some of their answers online.
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Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky: Study Guide - Mini Essays
In this online interactive literature worksheet, students respond to 10 short answer and essay questions about Fyodor Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground. Students may check some of their answers online.
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Number the Stars by Lois Lowry: Study Guide - Mini Essays
In this online interactive literature worksheet, students respond to 8 short answer and essay questions about Lois Lowry's Number the Stars. Students may check some of their answers online.
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Obasan by Joy Kogawa: Study Guide - Mini Essays
For this online interactive literature worksheet, students respond to 8 short answer and essay questions about Joy Kogawa's Obasan. Students may check some of their answers online.
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The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway: Study Guide - Mini Essays
In this online interactive literature learning exercise, students respond to 8 short answer and essay questions about Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea. Students may check some of their answers online
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Ordinary People by Judith Guest: Study Guide - Mini Essays
In this online interactive literature worksheet, students respond to 10 short answer and essay questions about Judith Guest's Ordinary People. Students may check some of their answers online.
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Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen: Study Guide - Mini Essays
In this online interactive literature worksheet, students respond to 9 short answer and essay questions about Isak Dinesen's Out of Africa. Students may check some of their answers online.
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American Frontiers
Students study the settlement of the American frontier through literature. In this literature lesson, students read and discuss works by James Fenimore Cooper, Bret Harte, Mark Twain, Willa Cather, and Hamlin Garland. Students compare...
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Esperanza Rising: Lesson 7
Sixth graders discuss the vocabulary word, "migrate" and what it means and how it relates to the novel they are reading, Esperanza Rising. In this novel instructional activity, 6th graders read chapter 7 of their novel in small groups...
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Two Settings
Fifth graders analyze two settings. In this compare and contrast instructional activity students compare and contrast the settings in The Watsons Go to Birmingham-1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis. Students find and record similarities and...
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To Kill a Mockingbird Test
In this novel test, students complete a variety of questions including true/false, short answer, fill in the blank, essay,matching and bonus questions. The cover page of the test contains a area to record the student's score.
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Writing (and Rewriting!) History
Middle schoolers differentiate between fiction and non-fiction, discuss historical fiction, which combines both genres, choose historical novel from list and read independently, and write original short stories that combine elements of...
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The Voice of Dreams
Students explore, analyze and study novel reflections on the American dream that the United States has held the promise of unlimited possibilities. They describe the concept of the American dream, listen to and record real stories of...
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Literature Circles in Action
Learners form cooperative groups to read, discuss, and respond to a novel. They select a novel from offered choices or by criteria given by teacher and complete a culminating project on the novel from such choices as: creating a...
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Bridging the Centuries: Teaching the Nineteenth Century English Novel Today
Learners compare and contrast the elements used in the 19th century British novel and those novels in American society today. In groups, they brainstorm what it might have been like to be a teenager growing up in England during the 19th...
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Roll With the Punches: Oprah's On!
Sixth graders prepare questions for an Oprah Winfrey talk show featuring the characters from Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, the amazing novel by Mildred D. Taylor. Selected students role-play the characters and answer questions Oprah...
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Evaluating a Book By Its Cover
Learners practice using predictive strategies before reading a book. In this literacy lesson, students identify the theme and characters of the novel based on the cover illustrations.
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Lesson Plan 1: Introducing NaNo and Novels
Did you know that November is Novel Writing Month? In the first of a series of lessons, class members are introduced to the NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) project.
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Children's Literature Across the Curriculum Ideas-Stone Fox
Students read and complete a variety of cross-curricular activities surrounding the novel, Stone Fox by John Reynolds Gardiner. Included are reading, math, science, writing, social studies, and library connections. A vocabulary/spelling...