Pupils view a PBS Nature program about big-wave surfing and participate in a class discussion about their experiences with surfing, body boarding, or body surfing. Students create a drawing based on a reading and post their art around...

Eighth graders research biographies of people who participated in the Lewis and Clark expedition using Internet resources. They role play characters while acting out a campfire scene from the expedition.

Each student will choose a former President of the United States to research and present to the class. Students will develop timelines based on biographical information found through search engines on the Internet as well as in books,...

This husband-wife team conduct an online workshop that teaches you how to research and write a biographical sketch--a story about someone's life that tells a lot about who that person is or was. Along the way, you'll find research and...

Students write a biographical sketch of an artist or athlete who lives on the edge, riding the gravity wave, to better understand how these artists and athletes work with gravity and manage risk. Note: The literacy activities for the...

This e-text is provided for by the University of Virginia. G.K. Chesterton contributed the biographical sketch for this collaborative volume on Tolstoy's life and work. Includes some page images and many illustrations from the original...

In-depth, 18-page teacher guide for "Persuasion" includes a lengthy introduction, overview of characters and historical background, and biographical sketch of the author. Also features lists of thought-provoking, pre-reading questions as...

Outstanding digital text collection. Begins with a biographical sketch and then gives numerous links to the works of Paul Laurence Dunbar.

This tutorial has students follow a step-by-step guide to write their very own biography using that of Frederick Douglass as a model.

Explore the life of Juan Farias. This site offers a catalog of works and studies, personal biographical sketch, chronology, a gallery of images and links of interest.

This biographical sketch of the English poet John Milton is very informative. It gives some basic information about his life, as well as some info on his writings.

This site is a thorough exploration of the North Shield's Air Raid Disaster, the most deadly air raid of World War in North East England. The story of the North Shield's raid is told with archival material, biographical sketches, photos...

Biographical sketch of Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935 CE), who was an early feminist writer who advocated economic independence for women in 1898. Site briefly discusses her ideas and suggests other sources.

This biographical sketch of Osamu Dazai focuses on how his personal life and experiences were reflected in his writing.

During this unit students will study the lives of famous African-Americans who have had an impact upon history or present day society. This interdisciplinary hands-on unit will incorporate the subjects of social studies, reading,...

A biographical sketch of the Japanese author Yukio Mishima with a description of his better known works. Also included is a selected list of his writings.

This website from Creative Quotations offers a lengthy list of quotations on various topics from Annie Dillard's writing. Also includes a very brief biographical sketch. An interesting site overall.

What type of poetry did Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894 CE) write? You can click on a sampling of titles to take a look at his work. This resource also provides a brief biographical sketch of this author.