My Name Is Osama

Who is Asher Lev? After reading several chapters of My Name is Asher Lev, have your class write a biopoem to explore the character. This resource contains directions explaining the process, and a fill-in-the-blank guide to help everyone...

Instructors who want to use A Streetcar Named Desire as a core text need not rely of the kindness of other teachers to find engaging activities to support a study of Tennessee Williams' Pulitzer Prize winning drama.

Provided here is a short paragraph with 22 blanks from My Name is Asher Lev. The chapter is not specified, but you should be able to find it based on the context. After the class reads the selection, they attempt to complete the 22...

Designed specifically for lower elementary pupils, this is a great biographical research project in which students research a famous American, and then design creative poster boards to help them "become" the famous American they have...

Gay marriage is the topic for a structured, academic controversy discussion. The process begins with groups reading primary source documents and recording their responses to text-based questions on the provided graphic organizer....

If your writing classroom was the Wild West, what phrases would be "outlawed"? Here is one poster that every writing instructor, and really, any teacher of communication, should have in their classroom!

If you're planning on teaching grammar in your fifth or sixth grade class, take a look at a packet of language arts activities that would be perfect for any grammar lesson. Covering skills such as parts of speech, sentence and paragraph...

Ease into informational text with the lesson plan suggested here. Part of a unit series, the lesson plan draws from previous lessons and acts as a natural moment to add in informational text. Class members read one section of My...

In this online interactive literature worksheet, students respond to 8 short answer and essay questions about Chaim Potok's My Name is Asher Lev. Students may check some of their answers online.

Events in the My Name Is America book series provide the sentence clues for a word scramble worksheet. Links to the titles in the series, more word scrambles, a chapter from one of the books, and trivia games are included.