Unit Plan
CommonLit

Common Lit: The Mysterious Dark Day

For Students 5th - 6th
A learning module that begins with "The Mysterious Dark Day" by Lois Minder Huey, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through free...
Unit Plan
CommonLit

Common Lit: Last Diary Entry of John Wilkes Booth

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
Activity
Other

University of Massachusetts: Notes Payable

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the University of Massachusetts Lowell presents a series of quiz questions and problems about current liabilities, with an emphasis on notes payable. Solutions and answers are provided and journal entries for various...
Primary
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Response, American Beginnings: 1492 1690

For Students 9th - 10th
Five literary responses to exploration and discovery-poems, fictional accounts, a play, and journal entries-that reflect European desire, frustration, and enchantment with the New World.
Primary
Patrick McSherry

Spanish American War Centennial: Robert Travis: 4th u.s. Infantry, Company B: Records His Adventures

For Students 9th - 10th
Transcription of an account written by Robert Travis in a letter or journal entry describing his adventures as part of the 4th U.S. Infantry during the Spanish-American War.
Unit Plan
Other

Penguin Group Canada: 'Run' Teacher's Guide [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Run' by Eric Walters is a fictionalized account of Terry Fox's Marathon of Hope run across Canada. This teacher's guide has discussion questions and response journal prompts for each chapter as well as extension activities for the novel....
Graphic
Curated OER

Illus., Alexander Barclay, the Ship of Fools, 1509, Poem

For Students 9th - 10th
Five literary responses to exploration and discovery-poems, fictional accounts, a play, and journal entries-that reflect European desire, frustration, and enchantment with the New World.