Literacy Design Collaborative
The Lottery
Shirley Jackson's short story "The Lottery" provides middle schoolers with an opportunity to hone their close reading and literary analysis skills. After annotating their copy of the story, writer's craft an essay in which they analyze...
TES Global
Tes: West Side Story (1961) Film Guide
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a film guide for the film West Side Story (1961), the musical adaptation of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, which is set in 1950s New York and incorporates themes around street crime,...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Reading and Writing About Miss Moo
Lesson for early elementary and special education students utlizing the book Miss Moo Goes to the Zoo by Kelly Graves and graphic organizers to identify elements in a story (title, author, setting, characters, etc.). Students participate...
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: "A Bivouac of the Dead" by Ambrose Bierce
This is the text of the short story "A Bivouac of the Dead" by Ambrose Bierce, a story with an ironic twist set in the Allegheny mountains, in Pocahontas county, West Virginia.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Discussing "The True Story of the Three Little Pigs"
In this lesson plan, 1st graders will work with "The True Story of the Three Little Pigs" Jon Scieszkaby. They will describe the characters, setting, and key details in the story and help the teacher record the details on a circle map.
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Here's Your Chance to Make Millions in the Stock Market (Part 1)
For this lesson, students will learn about the impact that efficient markets have on attempting to correctly time the stock market, as well as how investing in stocks should have long-term investment goals. Part I begins by having...
Yale University
Yale University: Elements of the Short Story
This unit from the Yale University on elements of the short story is designed to develop student comprehension skills, particularly making inferences and generalizing. It also involves students in reading a number of short stories to...
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Yad Vashem: A Time to Heal
After the war, many children who survived had no home or family to return to. Children's homes were set up to meet the needs of these children. View one of these homes in Otwock, Poland. Read stories and examine artifacts, pictures, and...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Speaking, Listening and Writing Compound Contrasting Sentences
Students will be answering text-dependent questions in which they will have to describe the differences between the different characters, settings, and major events in our stories using complex contrasting sentences. The students will...
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: With Moore at Corunna by g.a. Henty
Read the full text of the short story "With Moore at Corunna" set in Portugal during the Peninsular War.
Other
Teachers Network: Writing a Short Story Based on Kindred
For this lesson plan, students will engage in the technology, social studies, and language arts standards as students engage in reading by Octavia Butler's book entitled Kindred. Students will research tslavery. Students will keep a...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Scheming Against an Adversary
Enemy Pie by Derek Munson makes readers think seriously about this question: "What if I had to spend an entire day with someone with whom I had a conflict?" This question presents young writers with a great launching pad for developing...
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: "The Water Baby" by Jack London
This short story by Jack London departs from his usual setting in the Yukon and takes place in tropical Hawaii. A young man and older man are fishing and telling tales in "The Water Baby". Read the full text on this site.
PBS
Pbs: Frontline World Story: Kenya Run, Lornah, Run
This PBS Frontline world story is about a Kenyan world class runner. The runners name is, Lornah Kiplagat, and she uses her prize money to fund a high altitudes training center in Kenya. Her facility provides women with an opportunity to...
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: "Boule De Suif" by Guy De Maupassant
This is the text of the short story "Boule de Suif" by Guy de Maupassant. The story is set in the Franco-Prussian War and follows a group of French residents of Rouen, recently occupied by the Prussian army. The 10 travelers sharing the...
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: "Bulger's Reputation" by Bret Harte
This is the text of the short story "Bulger's Reputation" by Bret Harte, a classic western set in Rattlesnake Camp.
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Yad Vashem: Using Testimony in Holocaust Education
When teaching a unit on the Holocaust, the use of eye-witness testimony is crucial. These documents allow students to personalize the stories of those that suffered and enhances the learning process. This article walks you through...
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Jason and the Golden Fleece
Explore characterization, plot and setting and compare these elements in mythology and modern works of literature, film and television. Retell myths in modern settings or modern-day stories using a mythological Greek setting. While this...
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: Auld Licht Idyls by James M. Barrie
Read the full text of the novel "Auld Licht Idyls" by the creator of the character Peter Pan, James M. Barrie. This story is set in a small town in Scotland in the late 19th century.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: "King Bemba's Point" by J. Landers
Text of a short story set in West Africa called "King Bemba's Point" and written by J. Landers. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)
Other
History of African Americans of Delaware and Maryland's Eastern Shore
A site covering the story of African Americans living in Delaware and on the Eastern shore of Maryland. Just click on one of the stories to learn about their triumphs and struggles. Includes a set of lesson plans.
Digital Public Library of America
Dpla: Beloved by Toni Morrison
Beloved is a novel inspired by the true story of Margaret Garner, who escaped with her family from slavery in Kentucky to freedom in Ohio in 1856.
National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Community and the Folk, Making of African American Identity: V. 3
A story that examines African American community in a rural setting. Zora Neale Hurston's (1891-1960) brief tale "Spunk" is provided within this resources and documents the expressions of southern black "folk."
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Money Comes and Goes
Learners read two online stories that introduce them to the elements of a budget and show that a successful budget balances money coming in (income) with money going out (expenses and savings). Follow-up activities point out the value of...