Take a closer look. Young academics become detectives in an engaging lesson on the American Revolution. Scholars work in groups to analyze documents to uncover whether the American colonists or British soldiers fired the first shot at...

Fourth graders demonstrate and evaluate the six traits of writing. They read and identify good writing and bad writing, utilize a rubric to self-evaluate their own writing, participate in a Reader's Theater, and publish a class book.

Ralph Waldo Emerson's lyrics to The Concord Hymn, sung at the completion of the Concord Monument, July 4, 1837.

[To hear audio, use Chrome browser.] This site offers the text and audio of the poem "Concord Hymn" by Ralph Waldo Emerson