This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides a structure for an author study. Students will work in a jigsaw activity during a 9-week author study. Downloadable graphic organizers accompany this author's study.

This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides an exemplar of the expectations for an independent class project. Each student must study an author and meet the criteria listed on the page.

A teaching resource with free downloadable graphic organizers including Time Organizers, Learning Maps, Project Internet, Concepts and Characteristics, Vocabulary Charts, Project Author Study, Decisions and Goals, and more.

A teaching resource with free downloadable graphic organizers including Time Organizers, Learning Maps, Project Internet, Concepts and Characteristics, Vocabulary Charts, Project Author Study, Decisions and Goals, and more.

A teaching resource with free downloadable graphic organizers including Time Organizers, Learning Maps, Project Internet, Concepts and Characteristics, Vocabulary Charts, Project Author Study, Decisions and Goals, and more.

Southern Cultures is a quarterly magazine that has published over seventy issues, with articles by many well-known scholars and authors. It explores the history and cultures of the American South. If your library or educational...

This is an online study guide for the young adult novel Holes by Louis Sachar including author information, literary elements, chapter-by-chapter summaries/notes, study questions, and analysis.

This is an online study guide/notes for the novel The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne including author information, literary elements, chapter-by-chapter summaries/notes, study questions, and analysis.

This is an online study guide/notes for the novel For Whom The Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway including author information, literary elements, chapter-by-chapter summaries/notes, study questions, and analysis.

This is an online study guide/notes for the play Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence & Robert E. Lee including author information, literary elements, chapter-by-chapter summaries/notes, study questions, and analysis. The play is a...

This is an online study guide/notes for the novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey including author information, literary elements, chapter-by-chapter summaries/notes, study questions, and analysis.

This is an online study guide/notes for the novel Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy including author information, literary elements, chapter-by-chapter summaries/notes, study questions, and analysis.

This article discusses teaching vocational work ethics using various methods. Author includes notes on key concepts, the background, design, setting, subjects, findings, reflections, and conclusions of the study.

A wonderful resource on the lives and work of American authors, Louisa May Alcott and Samuel Clemens. You will get a unique look at them through the study of their portrait and their writing. Includes two great lesson plans.

Three detailed lesson plans for high school students studying Chinua Achebe's novel "Things Fall Apart." Provides plenty of resources, such as links, lesson extensions, and more.

John F. Kennedy's inaugural speech is one of the most famous speeches in American history. Teachers can use this instructional activity to teach Language Arts standards, as well as Social Studies standards. This lesson plan includes...

Click through biographical information about author D. H. Lawrence including Early years, School-teacher, A new life, War, Farewell to Europe, Round the world and back again, Struggle, and Dying game. An extended biography is also...

This site, from publisher Houghton Mifflin's online syllabus assistance for college instructors, provides helpful information for the study of Jen's works, including commentary on themes and style and questions for analyzing the works.

The objective of this site is to guide young scholars through a self-directed exploration of pioneer life in reference to the book, "My Antonio." Students will have an opportunity to work on combining the study of history and literature...

Lesson allows students to examine the various views of American perspective through studying three poems by diverse poets: "I Hear America Singing" by Walt Whitman, "I, Too, Sing America" by Langston Hughes, and "On the Pulse of Morning"...

Guide to Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, with historical information, author biography, discussion questions, and a ten-lesson unit of study including activities, homework assignments, project ideas, and essay topics....

This resource discusses the use of manipulatives in the study of Algebra. The author sees benefits in symbol manipulation to enrich understanding, in geometric interpretation strengthening the connection to other parts of mathematics,...

Excellent beginning page to begin your search for careers in psychology. The author divides the resources/links into eight sections that take you from undergraduate study to graduate school, opportunities, and types of jobs for...

Students can create, illustrate, and publish books for beginning readers, which are made available for the public to read. Authors must go through the free registration process in order to create a book.