Will You Sign This Petition?

Geeta Kothari presents an honest and compelling account of trying to assimilate into American culture. After your class reads her short story "If You Are What You Eat, Then What Am I?," present your scholars with this two-page analysis...

Readers are asked to think critically about the events in the opening pages of Mitch Albom’s The Five People You Meet in Heaven.  Citing specific evidence from narrative, learners analyze, interpret, and critique the format of the...

Who will Eddie meet next? As your class moves through The Five People You Meet in Heaven, use this reading guide to help them stay focused. There are 10 reading comprehension questions, and three questions to help learners perform a...

Whether used as a reading guide, a reading assessment, or as the basis of a group discussion, the interpretative and evaluative questions based on The Five People You Meet in Heaven will cause readers to think carefully about Mitch...

If you're teaching The Five People You Meet in Heaven and wondering which vocabulary terms you'll need to teach, consider printing this novel dictionary (although no definitions are provided). It lists five to ten vocabulary words in...

Online, you can represent yourself in a completely different way than you do in real life, but there are benefits and risks to doing so. Expose your class to online personas by showing and discussing a slide show of online gamers and...

Ninth graders explore the purposes of petition. In this US history lesson, 9th graders research different petition documents and create a timeline that contains reflections of life in this assigned period.

Students examine different points in history and determine if petitions were the right course of action.

Imagine not being able to remember what day it is or what food you had for breakfast this morning. This nightmare was a reality for Henry Molaison, whose life story is the focus of this video explaining how different parts of the...

Learn to communicate with sign in this comprehensive series. It includes a video, images to help you sign, a quiz, and multiple practice sheets, all of which are intended to communicate wants, needs, and personal preferences. The video...