Students engage in a character study of the numerous figures created by Charles Dickens in A Tale of Two Cities. Students first compare and contrast several forms of communication: email, text message, and telephone. They then complete a character study chart that breaks down physical background, character traits, social status/background, unanswered questions about the character, and a final judgment about the character. Next, students will create text messages between numerous characters that show the relationship between the characters, their background, and plot points that they are involved in. The lesson concludes with students sharing their text messages and a discussion of the rationales behind their choices.

In this lesson, students read primary and secondary source documents about the Supreme Court case Taylor v. Louisiana and the 6th and 14th amendments. Students then answer analysis questions about the case. There is a teacher answer key included in the lesson.

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

A teacher's guide to American Tapestry, Michelle Obama's biography. 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 teacher's guide to Laura Hillenbrand's Unbroken. Contains discussion questions, research and writing prompts and background information.

This resource provides stems that align with all the RI and RL standards for grades 9 and 10.

*This remix combines a primary source set on "American Indian Boarding Schools" from the DPLA with an open-source 9th grade literature unit plan on Identity and Culture from Match Fish Tank. In this remix, students are first engaged in inquiry-based examination of a set of primary sources before more closely examining the relationship between identity, society, and schooling in the literary texts links below.For this remix, I have combined two open educational resources to create a text set that enables students to explore the concepts of identity, assimilation, and acclimation in the context of schooling.

In this lesson, students read an excerpt from "A Raisin in the Sun" and a 2013 news article on the persistence of the problem of housing discrimination. Graphic organizers are provided for students to use as they read and discuss the two texts.

This lesson focuses on the pairing of one NY Times article about the Holocaust with a powerful literary passage from the 2005 novel "The Book Thief.' The novel, set during WWII in Germany, is the story of a girl who shares her stolen books with neighbors during bombing raids as well as with the Jewish man hidden in her basement before he is marched to Dachau. The pairing of the book and article leads students to address the question, "How should the story of the Holocaust be told to young people today?"

Students are presented with a paired critical reading activity uses excertps from Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird and a New York Times article "˜History of Lynchings in the South Documents Nearly 4,000 Names"™ to exlplore the deep and painful history of racial injustice in the south. Included are close fiction/non-fiction analysis, varied media resources, and writing assignments.

In this resource from the New York Times, a paired critical reading activity uses excertps from Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird and a New York Times article ‘History of Lynchings in the South Documents Nearly 4,000 Names’ to exlplore the deep and painful history of racial injustice in the south. Included are close fiction/non-fiction analysis, varied media resources, and writing assignments.

Students explore the commercial roots of the American Dream and analyze a historical or literary text that supports this philosophy in conversation with an Op-Ed column.

In this lesson, students explore the commercial roots of the American Dream and analyze a historical or literary text that supports this philosophy in conversation with an Op-Ed column.

In this lesson, students learn about reoccurring historical and geographical themes by working together in groups to identify these themes through interpreting historical passages.

Students will understand the problem of sanitation in North Carolina communities and will be able to make comparisons with current issues and problems facing our state and local communities. This lesson utilizes documents from the North Carolina State Government Publications 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.

In this lesson, students read primary and secondary source documents about the Supreme Court case Tinker v. Des Moines and freedom of speech. Students then answer analysis questions about the case.

This lesson focuses on the concept of the afterlife and the importance of pleasing the gods and goddesses, the significance of tombs and tomb building, and the burial customs and traditions of the ancient Egyptians. After learning about all of these concepts, students will design a tomb, create a model of it, and complete a short written assignment explaining the design and contents of the tomb.