Activity
Library of Congress

Loc: Summer on the Lakes E Text

For Students 9th - 10th
Here is a short biography and a analysis of "Summer on the Lakes" by Margaret Fuller. It also contains links to the online text for this essay describing her trip to the Great Lakes in 1843. Text can be viewed on a page-by-page basis in...
Unit Plan
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: The Train [Pdf]

For Teachers 4th
"The Train" is a one page, fictional, reading passage about a child's first train trip to Grandma's for the summer. It is followed by constructed-response questions which require students to provide evidence from the story; it includes:...
Activity
INTERNET Red 2000

All About Spain: Cantabria

For Students 9th - 10th
Take a virtual trip to the place where bears, wolves, and eagles still roam freely in Spain Cantabria, which also offers a variety of landscapes and microclimates.