Unit Plan
CommonLit

Common Lit: Book Pairings: "The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne

For Students 10th - 12th
Selected (9) reading passages (grades 10-12) to pair with "The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne. After being forced to wear a scarlet "A" and live on the outskirts of the colonial Puritan settlement, Hester Prynne struggles to...
Lesson Plan
Free Reading

Free Reading: Sound Toss Game; Letter Sound Accuracy

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A letter sounds game that students will love! They toss a bean bag onto a poster board with pictures on it, and tell what the first letter and sound is of the picture that the bean bag lands on. This site includes a link to printable...
Handout
ibiblio

Ibiblio: Web Museum: Vermeer, Jan

For Students 9th - 10th
This site offers brief biographical information about Vermeer but emphasizes his works. Over 20 paintings are featured as enlargeable images so you can get a close look at each one. Several works have in depth description and analysis...
Professional Doc
AdLit

Ad lit.org: Reading Discussion Guide: Love, Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Stargirl Caraway explores her new neighborhood with an eye for the unusual. She notices the agoraphobic neighbor, the seemingly homeless young boy, and others who do not fit in easily. Stargirl, never one with an inclination to conform,...
Article
New York Times

New York Times: The Letters of Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] The reviewer characterizes "both, in their own ways, curmudgeons and snobs" with a relationship that is "poignant and full of love. And Bile." The review from "The International Herald Tribune" will be...
Website
Harry S. Truman Library and Museum

Harry S. Truman Library & Museum

For Students 9th - 10th
Everything you wanted to know and more about Harry S. Truman, from biographical information to love letters.
Website
Patrick McSherry

Spanish American War Centennial: Ben Love: First Texas Volunteer Infantry Writes Home From Cuba

For Students 9th - 10th
Letter from Ben Love to Charles Johnson written from Cuba during the Spanish-American War, explains how days of the men in service were spent during the occupation.
Article
Smithsonian Institution

National Postal Museum: Letter Writing in America

For Students 9th - 10th
Article from the National Postal Museum on letter writing in America and how it became important as a tie between people exploring or settling in the new world and the sponsors or loved ones they left behind. With primary source material.
Interactive
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Sesame Street Story Book Builder

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Early readers will love building their own story book with Elmo, Abby Cadabby, or Cookie Monster! A perfect tool for helping identify feelings and emotions, word and letter recognition, and letter sounds.
Article
Love To Know Media

Your Dictionary: Valentine's Day Word Games

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This article focuses on Valentine's Day word games including providing a word list for Valentine's Day, and suggesting activities such as writing love letters and playing Valentine charades.
Graphic
Curated OER

Web Gallery of Art: The Love Letter

For Students 11th - 12th
An image of "The Love Letter", created by Francois Boucher in 1750 (Oil on canvas, 81 x 75 cm).
Graphic
Curated OER

Web Gallery of Art: The Love Letter

For Students 11th - 12th
An image of "The Love Letter", created by Johannes Vermeer from 1667-68 (Oil on canvas, 44 x 38,5 cm).
Graphic
Curated OER

Web Gallery of Art: The Love Letter

For Students 11th - 12th
An image of "The Love Letter", created by Jacob Ochtervelt from 1670-72 (Oil on canvas, 91 x 64 cm).
Graphic
Curated OER

Web Gallery of Art: The Love Letter

For Students 11th - 12th
An image of "The Love Letter", created by French Family of Artists Fragonard during the 1770's (Oil on canvas, 83,2 X 67 cm).
Handout
Other

Liberty Letters: Filing Cabinet Resources: Nancy Harkness Love

For Students 9th - 10th
A biographical profile of pilot Nancy Harkness Love.
eBook
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: "The Letters" by Lucy Maud Montgomery

For Students 9th - 10th
Text of a touching love story, "The Letters" by Lucy Maud Montgomery. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Lovely Ll

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a Kindergarten flipchart introducing the letter Ll, its sound, Ll picture recognition, and Ll writing.
Primary
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center

Yad Vashem: On the Edge of the Volcano

For Students 9th - 10th
"I am writing this letter before my death," wrote a young Jewish girl in a letter to her sister and brother in 1942. These last letters from the Holocaust can only be described as heart-wrenching. Letters written to parents and loved...
Primary
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center

Yad Vashem: We Shall Meet Again

For Students 9th - 10th
These last letters from the Holocaust can only be described as heart-wrenching. Letters written to parents and loved ones show the depth of suffering and anxiety the Jewish people faced in 1941. Each letter has a short biography of the...
Primary
Library of Congress

Loc: Poetry 180:gee, You're So Beautiful That It's Starting to Rain

For Students 9th - 10th
In this poem, a love letter is devoted to a girl named Marcia and is told of wonderful things the poet hopes she learns.
Primary
Other

Immortal Beloved

For Students 9th - 10th
Letters from Beethoven to the "Immortal Beloved" who was supposedly Antonie Brentano. The girl with whom Beethoven was madly in love.
Lesson Plan
TES Global

Tes: Teaching Shakespeare: Sonnet 130 Year 7

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson plan for Shakespeare's "Sonnet 130" asks students to mark the rhyme scheme and highlight similes and metaphors, to respond to a modern letter with a message similar to the sonnet, and to...
eBook
Project Gutenberg

Project Gutenberg: Books by Anton Chekhov

For Students 9th - 10th
Project Gutenberg provides the full text to over 20 books by Anton Chekov. Select the title of the book, and then choose the best way in which to view and read it in its entirety.
Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: A Literature Inspired Writing Lesson: I Never Knew That!

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In To Kill a Mockingbird, Scout and Jem discover that their seemingly "feeble" father has an astonishing ability with a rifle. For this assignment, writers will compose a letter to a parent or loved one, asking for a return letter that...

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