In the magazine article, “The Story of an Eyewitness,” Jack London describes the effects of the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906. His account describes its immediate aftermath and utter destruction of the city by the ensuing fire. The National Archives article provides a brief third-person account of the San Francisco Earthquake that can be used to compare and contrast first- versus third-person accounts of the same event. In this CCSS lesson, students will explore this history through text dependent questions, academic vocabulary, and writing assignments.

This resource is a multi-week assignment that has students creating their own anthology of poetry. Students will edit their collections, include relevant images, commentary, a table of contents, bibliography and glossary. The anthology is a personal collection that expresses each student's unique personality and taste.

Summarizing teaches students how to take a large selection of text and reduce it to the main points for more concise understanding. Upon reading a passage, summarizing helps students learn to determine essential ideas and consolidate important details that support them. It is a technique that enables students to focus on key words and phrases of an assigned text that are worth noting and remembering.

In this lesson, students will learn strategies and activities for learning about economics, civics and government, and U.S. history text through reading, taking notes, and composing a response about capitalism through a claims and evidence based approach.

A teacher's guide to Aldous Huxley's, A Brave New World. Included are chapter-by-chapter discussion questions, writing prompts, and activities.

A comprehensive teacher's guide to Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express. Included are chapter-by-chapter discussion questions, writing prompts, and activities.

A teaching guide for Harper Lee's classic To Kill A Mockingbird. Includes discussion questions, vocabulary, writing and discussion prompts and activities.

Students are invited to explore the cultural offerings around them "” from architecture to books, dance, fashion, film, food, music, theater, TV and video games "” and write reviews about what they experience. The New York Times models along with advice from current Times critics to help them through the process.

In this lesson, students study issues related to independence and notions of manliness in Ernest Hemingway’s “Three Shots” as they conduct in-depth literary character analysis, consider the significance of environment to growing up and investigate Hemingway’s Nobel Prize-winning, unique prose style. In addition, they will have the opportunity to write and revise a short story based on their own childhood experiences and together create a short story collection.

This lesson from the New York Times offers suggestions for making TheTimes a low-stress part of your classroom routine, followed by literacy strategies to help address the Standards before, during, and after reading Times content with your students.

Suggestions for making TheTimes a low-stress part of your classroom routine, followed by literacy strategies to help address the Standards before, during, and after reading Times content with your students.

This handout provides overviews and examples of how to use tone in business writing. This includes considering the audience and purpose for writing.

This teacher's guide for Totally Joe by James Howe contains discussion questions, activities, and research assignments.

Tips and tools to help students write for the appropriate audience when writing an essay.

Tips and tools to help students start writing a paper and continue writing through the challenges of the revising process. Brainstorming can help students choose a topic, develop an approach to a topic, or deepen understanding of the topic’s potential.

A handout/tutorial on how paragraphs are formed, how to develop stronger paragraphs, and how to completely and clearly express your ideas.

A handout/tutorial on what a thesis statement is, how thesis statements work in writing, and how students can craft or refine one for their own draft.

Tips and tools to help students with anxieties about writing and how to overcome them.