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The Sidney Poitier High School
Young scholars research the life of Sidney Poitier and plan an hour-long dedication ceremony for a school that has just been renamed after him.
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Carbohydrates, Proteins, and Fats
Students describe the properties of carbohydrates, proteins and fats. In this health science lesson, students identify food sources where these nutrients can be found. They explain how they affect our body.
Curated OER
Earth and Matter
In this matter learning exercise, students review the Earth's layers, write balanced equations, and compare the properties of different elements. This learning exercise has 29 fill in the blank questions.
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Penguin Reading Guide: "The Secret Life of Bees"
Reading guide for "The Secret Life of Bees" provided by the book's publisher, Penguin. Sections include an introduction, a short biography of Sue Monk Kidd, a much longer transcript of an interview with her, and eleven discussion...
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Classroom Strategies: Reading Guides
Reading Guides help students navigate reading material, especially difficult textbook chapters or technical reading. Students respond to a teacher-created written guide of prompts as they read an assigned text. Reading Guides help...
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Geoscience Australia: Map Reading Guide: How to Use Topographic Maps [Pdf]
A topographic map can be challenging to read. This guide explains how to decipher one and how to use a magnetic compass to orient yourself to the landscape. It also explains how to use GPS coordinates.
Penguin Publishing
Penguin Random House: Penguin: David Copperfield Reading Guide
A reading guide to the novel David Copperfield along with biographical tidbits about Dickens and discussion questions for reading groups.
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Penguin Random House: Reading Guide for "Sleeping at the Starlite Motel"
This site offers a reading guide for Bailey White's book "Sleeping at the Starlite Motel." A plot summary, 16 study questions, suggestions for further reading, and links to other useful sites are included.
Savvas Learning
Penguin: Reading Guide: A Room With a View [Pdf]
This reading guide provides a critical introduction, background biographical information, and a number of questions to spark discussion about the book. Requires Adobe Reader. [PDF]
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Peguin: Reading Guide: The House Gun
Besides the usual critical introduction, biographical information and discussion question; this reading guide includes an interview with the author.
Academy of American Poets
Poets.org: Reading Guide to Langston Hughes
This guide discusses Langston Hughes's body of poetry, as well as briefly analyzing characteristics in several individual poems. The site also offers an interview with writer Afaa Weaver regarding Hughes's works, discussion questions, a...
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Harper Collins: "Parrot in the Oven" Reading Guide
Reading guide for Victor Martinez's "Parrot in the Oven" provided by the book's publisher, HarperCollins. Sections include an introduction, short biography of the author (including a picture), and ten discussion questions.
Scholastic
Scholastic Book Files: A Reading Guide to a Wrinkle in Time
This teaching guide accompanies Madeleine's L'Engle's book, A Wrinkle in Time. Setting, plot, characters, and theme questions are included, along with guided reading questions for each chapter.
National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Reading Guide: Elizabeth Cady Stanton: "Seneca Falls Address"
A powerful call for women's rights, particularly for suffrage, expressed in the "Declaration of Sentiments" and issued at the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention by Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Includes discussion questions.
National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Assimilation and the Crucible of the City: Reading Guide to Yerzierska
Two short stories from Polish immigrant, Anzia Yerzierska, about the challenges of Americanization that immigrants faced in the early-twentieth century. Includes questions for discussion.
National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Assimilation and the Crucible of the City: Reading Guide: Two Stories
An excerpt from Abraham Cahan's novel, "Yekl: A Tale of the New York Ghetto," and Charles Chesnutt's short story, "The Wife of His Youth," that describe challenges of assimilation into American culture for both European immigrants and...
Department of Defense
Do Dea: Ap Us Government and Politics: Unit 2: Bill of Rights Reading Guide [Pdf]
A 2-page worksheet where students fill in the blanks with information about the rights and protections embedded in the amendments in the Bill of Rights. They are also asked to explain the meanings of eight terms used in the Bill of Rights.
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Penguin: Reading Guide: The Autobiography of My Mother
This reading guide provides a critical introduction to Kincaid's novel, background information about the author, and a number of discussion questions suitable for reading groups or class discussion.
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Penguin: Reading Guide: The Gunslinger: The Dark Tower I
This reading guide provides discussion questions, biographical information about King, and explanatory introduction to the Dark Tower novels.
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Penguin: Reading Guide: None to Accompany Me
The author talks about the main character, Vera, in this interview exceprt. The reading guide also includes a critical introduction and discussion questions.
Penguin Publishing
Penguin Random House: Reading Guide: Howards End
A detailed critical introduction, biographical material and discussion questions make up this concise reading guide.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Book Files: Sounder
Newbery Award Winner, "Sounder", by William H. Armstrong, is about a sharecropping family and their hunting dog, Sounder. Overarching themes of this novel are courage, family, racial injustice, the importance of education, and hope. Make...
Scholastic
Scholastic: Book Files: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
"Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry", by Mildred D. Taylor is a riveting, Newbery Award winning novel, about a family living in the 1930s Jim Crow South. Make a smart choice by reading your favorite novel with a BookFiles reading guide. The...
Penguin Publishing
Penguin Random House: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: Reading Guide
Learn the background of both the book and the author, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland by Lewis Carroll; then click on the Readers Guide link to use the detailed study questions to spark discussion.
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