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Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center

Yad Vashem: Here Their Stories Will Be Told

For Students 9th - 10th
Each Jewish community during WWII had its own individual story to tell. This online exhibit highlights 12 of these communities. Select a community and read about life before, during, and after the Holocaust. Testimony from survivors is...
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Milly and the Macy's Parade

For Students 3rd - 8th
Resource guides the reader through this great book. Choose from different categories in before, during, and after you read. Take a quiz, create a story map, and write a book report.
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McGraw Hill

Glencoe Literary Library: "Canterbury Tales" Study Guide [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
An extensive, printable study guide for Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales" from the Glencoe Literary Library. Includes biography, background information, and Before, During, and After Reading Activities using graphic organizers, literature...
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PBS

Pbs: American Experience: Golden Gate Bridge

For Students 9th - 10th
The perfect site on the Golden Gate Bridge! PBS provides bridge math, great pictures of before, during, and after the construction of the bridge, and a special section called "Balancing Forces," that demonstrates how the "tension" of the...
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Companion to Gary Paulsen's Hatchet

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] The flipchart is meant to be used before during and after reading Hatchet by Gary Paulsen. It includes introduction material as well as discussion topics during reading and assessment questions after...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Interpreting Documents on the Ahsge

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Students will explore the documents that were used in shaping the United States, before, during, and after its creation. While studying these documents, students will use reading skills to interpret and analyze documents. By the end of...
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Penguin Publishing

Penguin Random House: A Teacher's Guide to "Measure for Measure" [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A rich resource for teaching this complex play, these 17 pages in .pdf format offer background, teaching suggestions for before, during and after reading the play as well as other features. Requires Adobe Reader.
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Penguin Publishing

Penguin Random House: A Teacher's Guide to "A Midsummer Night's Dream" [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Detailed discussion and study questions are a major feature of this 11 page teacher guide. Suggestions for classroom activities before, during and after reading are also included. Requires Adobe Reader. [PDF]
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Penguin Publishing

Penguin Random House: A Guide to George Orwell's "1984" [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Before, during and after reading activities and suggestions are features of this .pdf guide. Includes a number of class discussion questions.
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Other

Stratford Hall Plantation: General Robert E. Lee

For Students 9th - 10th
This biography of Robert E. Lee is part of a larger site about the Lee family plantation, Stratford Hall. Read about his personal life before and after the war. Included are links to his farewell address and information about the horses...
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Freak the Mighty Storia Teaching Guide

For Students 5th - 9th
A detailed teaching guide for the Rodman Philbrick novel, Freak the Mighty. The guide includes activities for before, during, and after students read the book.
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University of Virginia

Miller Center at Uva: u.s. Presidents: Ronald Reagan

For Students 9th - 10th
President Reagan (1911-2004) was the oldest president elected to office. Read essays, interviewa and facts about Reagan's life before, during and after his administration.
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Kansas Historical Society

Kansapedia: Alfred M. Landon

For Students 9th - 10th
One of the few progressive Republicans to hold state office during the presidency of Franklin Roosevelt, Landon was tapped to run against him in 1936. Read about the life of this interesting Kansan both before and after his run for the...
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TES Global

Blendspace: Lord of the Flies

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] A learning module that includes twenty-six links to images, websites, videos, audio files and activities for use before, during, and after reading Lord of the Flies by William Golding.
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TES Global

Blendspace: Dante's Inferno

For Students 9th - 10th
A learning module with twenty-one links to images, videos, maps, and assessments to use before, during, and after reading Dante's Inferno.
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TES Global

Blendspace: Ch.1 Lesson 1: A Long Walk to Water

For Students 4th - 8th
A learning module with eighteen links to images, videos, maps, and activities to use before, during, and after reading chapter 1 of A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park.
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TES Global

Blendspace: Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech

For Students 6th - 8th
A learning module that includes thirteen links to images, websites, videos, and activities for use before, during, and after reading Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech.
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Other

Historic Information: Johnstown, Pa

For Students 9th - 10th
Historic information on the town of Johnstown before the flood, during the flood, and after. Click on "A Roar Like Thunder, May 31, 1889" to read an account of the flood itself.
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NASA

Nasa: Detailed Chronology of Events Surrounding the Apollo

For Students 9th - 10th
How would you like to experience what was actually said during the Apollo 13 accident? At this site read recorded NASA information from 2.5 minutes before the accident to about 5 minutes after.