This lesson pairs a magazine article about the Edmund Fitzgerald shipwreck in 1975 with the Gordon Lightfoot song, "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald." After comparing and contrasting the elements of each text, students will choose a historical event and, using the song as a model, create a narrative poem about their chosen event. In addition, more contemporary songs and current events will also work for this activity.

In this lesson, students will reflect upon what they have learned about fisheries and proper management. They will choose a fishery, conduct additional research, and then write a research paper.

Students explore the workings of the FARC, a Marxist guerilla group in Colombia, as well as learn the basics of Marxism. Then, the class examines the discrepancies between Marxist theory and Marxism as it is actually realized in Colombia and in other parts of the world. The link for the article for this lesson can be found at http://www.nytimes.com/2000/07/25/world/colombia-s-rebels-keep-the-marxist-faith.html

In this cross-curricular lesson, students use Percy Shelley's poem, Ozymandias, as a jumping off point to learn about Ramses II, the Egyptian pharoah about whom the poem was written. Students read and analyze the poem and get some background information on the ruler before diving into research about his life and times.

Includes six text-dependent questions, one constructed response writing prompt, and explanatory information for teachers regarding alignment to the CCSS for Thomas Jefferson's 1801 Inaugural Address.

This literacy assessment includes two text excerpts and 13 text-dependent questions and explanatory information for teachers regarding alignment to the CCSS.

In this DBQ Project lesson plan, students will examine ten documents to explore the Mongols and determine how barbaric the barbarians actually were.

Inspired by the references to the 16th Street Bombing and the four little girls who perished that Sunday morning, students will study history, georgraphy, and writing through various discussions in relationship to bullying, sibling rivalry, growing up, and Civil Rights.

Students will explore the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah. They will then research various perspectives, discuss the events in context, and write statements from the perspective of a country or organization involved.

The spirited daughter of a Bohemian immigrant family plans to farm the untamed Nebraska land. Willa Cather's tale comes to us through the eyes of Antonia's childhood friend, Jim Burden. The Big Read Readers Guide deepens your exploration with interviews, booklists, time lines, and historical information. We hope this guide and syllabus allow you to have fun with your students while introducing them to the work of a great American author.

This lesson plan provides a selection of writing prompts for students to choose from, centered around baseball.

In this lesson on Toni Morrison's novel Beloved, students will do the following: represent a a secton of the novel visually; present and discuss their visual intepretations; analyze three connected sections of the novel, focusing on the relationship between language and meaning; and synthesize their understanding of those sections in a brief, written response. Focus questions and rubric materials available.

In this lesson, students discuss the meaning of “A More Perfect Union,” a speech about race made by then-Senator Barack Obama, during the 2008 Democratic primary campaign. Students will also examine and assess how textbooks position groups differently in our national historical narrative — and how this positioning affects our understanding of ourselves.

This lesson is inspired by the references to the 16th Street Bombing and the four little girls who perished that Sunday morning in The Watsons Go to Birmingham. In this lesson, the teacher travels back and forth from poetry to fiction to music to history to food and finally to writing. It is a good study of history and geography with regard to writing.

Students examine the impact of digital technology on print journalism and develop creative ideas for delivering news

In this lesson, students examine the impact of digital technology on print journalism and develop creative ideas for delivering news

In this lesson, students analyze three different news sources that describe the same event by comparing and contrasting the similarities and differences. They write an essay describing the main idea of the event, and the different methods used to develop the main idea.

In this mini document based question activity from the DBQ Project, students will examine four texts to discover the clues that foreshadow key events in author John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men.

In this lesson, students interview people from three different age groups about superstition including what they believe and why they believe it.

Since the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, Soviet leaders had been claiming that communism and capitalism could never peacefully coexist. Agreements regarding the postwar world were reached at Yalta and Potsdam, but the Soviets wasted no time in violating them. Harry Truman believed that the proper means of responding to an international bully was a credible threat of force.