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University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Chatterbox Junior by R. Worthington

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Chatterbox Junior by R. Worthington (1883), a book of illustrated poems, children's stories, birds, games, and historical information. Includes both fiction and...
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Encyclopedia Britannica

Encyclopedia Britannica: American Literature by Morris Dickstein

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This article by Morris Dickstein traces the history of American poetry, drama, fiction, and social and literary criticism from the early 17th century to the late 20th century. It includes a section for each century providing historical...
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Bibliomania

Bibliomania: Simonds History of American Literature

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site presents the full text of the "Simonds History of American Literature." This detailed reference book explores the literature in early colonial times, the eighteenth century, the beginning of the nineteenth century, the New...
Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: The Adventures of a Penny by Mrs. Perring

For Students 3rd - 5th
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book The Adventures of a Penny by Mrs. Perring (1865), a fictional account of the life of a penny as told by the penny itself.
Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne

For Students 3rd - 8th
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's novel Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne (1888), a fictional account of travelling around the world.
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Paul Yee

For Students 9th - 10th
Paul Yee is a Chinese-Canadian children's writer who has written books about Chinese experiences of coming to Canada. Some of his stories are set in the 1800s. His website provides information about his life and his books, as well as...
Unit Plan
Other

Enjoying "Hamlet"

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Introduction to Shakespeare and "Hamlet." Includes introduction, scene by scene synopsis with elaborate illustrations. Also background information concerning historical Hamlet, Saxo Grammaticus. "Historia Danica," Belleforest's...
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AdLit

Ad lit.org: Why Teach the Holocaust?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Teachers often find the Holocaust to be an overwhelming subject to approach with their students. While the Holocaust offers important lessons to today's students, it can be a difficult to find the appropriate amount of information to...
Unit Plan
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Lexington [Pdf]

For Teachers 8th
"Lexington" is a one page, historical fiction, reading passage about soldiers fighting in the Revolutionary War. A soldier describes the feeling of being an American. It is followed by constructed-response questions which require...
Handout
Reading Is Fundamental

Reading Is Fundamental: Meet the Authors and Illustrators: Pam Munoz Ryan

For Students 3rd - 6th
This site includes an interview with Pam Munoz Ryan, a famous author of many children's picture books and historical fiction books. Read reviews of some of Pam Munoz Ryan's books by chidren.
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Read Works

Read Works: The British Are Coming!

For Teachers 4th - 6th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passage gives a historical fiction depiction of a family's perspective of the Revolutionary War. This passage is intended for guided practice and is designed to reinforce essential...
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Biography: Angela Shelf Medearis

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Read this biography to learn about historical fiction author Angela Shelf Medearis. Links to a list of her books, an interview, and an author's visit kit are provided.
Handout
Scholastic

Scholastic: Biography: Michael Malloy

For Students 9th - 10th
Read this biography to learn about historical fiction author Michael Malloy. A link to a list of his books is provided.
Lesson Plan
Read Works

Read Works: Drawing Conclusions 3rd Grade Unit

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] A two-lesson unit on drawing conclusions through which students learn how to recognize the difference between implicit information and drawing conclusions. Students also learn to draw conclusions in...
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Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: Count Magnus by Montague Rhodes James

For Students 9th - 10th
Classic Reader provides a number of historical fiction pieces from famous authors. One work is a ghost story, Count Magnus, which was first published in 1904. It is part of the "The Ghosts of Antiquary" series written by Montague Rhodes...
Lesson Plan
HotChalk

Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: A Thousand Paper Cranes

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This historical fiction lesson plan is for young scholars reading Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes by Eleanor Coerr, in which they can discuss the tragedy of Hiroshima and its impact as well as other themes.
eBook
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: Dear Annie by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

For Students 9th - 10th
Classic Reader provides a number of historical fiction pieces from famous authors. One work is the novelette "Dear Annie," which was first featured in Harper's Weekly on September 24, 1910. This work was written by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman.
eBook
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: A Deal on Change by Robert Barr

For Students 9th - 10th
Classic Reader provides a number of historical fiction pieces from famous authors. One work is a story, "A Deal in Change," which was first published in the late 1800's. It was written by Robert Barr.
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Battle to the Death: Adding Integers

For Teachers 6th - 8th
The goal of this lesson is for students to use manipulatives to add integers, creating concepts rather than memorizing rules. This lesson will be related to the 300 Spartans who battled the invading Persians at the Battle of Thermopylae,...
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Library of Congress

Loc: Stephen Crane

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This Library of Congress site provides a brief description of Crane's life as a war correspondent during the Spanish-American War and then provides some excerpts from some of his war correspondences. A bibliography of related works of...
eBook
University of Virginia

University of Virginia: The Blue Hotel

For Students 9th - 10th
This University of Virginia Library site provides the text of Stephen Crane's "The Blue Hotel".
Unit Plan
abcteach

Abcteach: Book Report Forms

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Teachers will find several blackline masters for primary, elementary and middle school students for use when doing various types of book reports such as fiction, biography, fairy tales, historical...
Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Arcturus or the Bright Star in Bootes by Catharine M. Sedgwick

For Students 3rd - 5th
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Arcturus, or, The Bright Star in Bootes by Catharine Maria Sedgwick (1865), a fictional story based on factual scientific information.
Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Hans the Painter by Mary C. Rowsell

For Students 2nd - 5th
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Baldwin Library: Hans the Painter by Mary C. Rowsell (1888). This book is a fictional biography of Hans the painter.

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