In this lesson, students will use primary source materials to investigate significant events in Post-Civil War American History of the 19th century.

This resource provides a lesson designed to assist learners with acquiring skills needed to differentiate between real and fictious, possibly malicious, websites. Students will evaluate hoax sites prior to outlining and designing one of their own. It is expected that this lesson will help students to better recognize trustworthy sites for online reading and research.

This study of Hobbes, Locke, Montesquieu, and Rousseau is designed to give students an understanding of the ideas of these four philosophers and is also an opportunity for them to reflect on humanity's need for order and efforts to create stability within the social community. In the first part of the unit, activities focus student awareness on the nature of government itself and then progress to close reading and writing centered on the specifics of each philosopher's views. Large-group and small-group discussion as well as textual evidence are emphasized throughout. In the second part of the unit, students are asked to engage in creative writing that has research as its foundation. Collaboration, role-playing, and a panel discussion
are fundamental parts of the culminating activity. Options for further writing activities and assessments close the unit.

A teachers guide for Hole in my Life by Jack Gantos, including a summary of the book, a pre-reading activity, discussion questions, and ways to relate the story to other aspects of education and deepen understanding.

This Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide includes an introduction, questions, and suggestions for further reading designed to enhance student discussion of A Hologram for the King, Dave Eggers' wry and moving novel about the human costs of our new information economy.

Students will make a book of homographs using pictures as definitions in order to have a visual connection of the multiple meanings one word can have.

Students write which version of (there, their, they're) that best completes each sentence.

Students write which version of (to, too, two) that best completes each sentence.

This Random House for High School Teachers teacher's guide includes historical background, plot summary, questions, discussion topics, comparison to other texts, and an author biography designed to aid students in exploring Louis L'Amour's novel, Hondo.

This Random House for High School Teachers reader's guide includes questions designed to enhance student comprehension of Jamie Ford's Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, a tale of conflicted loyalties, devotion, as well as a vibrant portrait of Seattle's Nihonmachi district in its heyday.

In this Penguin Classics guide to Edith Wharton's novel House of Mirth, students will learn the background of the book as well as the author, and deepen their understanding of the text through indepth discussion questions. Students will explore on one level a satire of a world devoid of moral scruples, but also discuss how the book is a stringent critique of the restrictions and limitations such a world imposes on women.

This webpage contains theme-based discussion prompts for each vignette in The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, as well as a selection of follow-up activities.

This guide to The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros contains an overview of the book and author, discussion and writing prompts for comprehension, language, characters, and themes, and follow-up activities to extend learning.

In the TED Ed lesson focused on language, students will explore the history of English and why semantically equal phrases can evoke very different images. Discussion questions and additional resources are linked in the sidebar.

In this lesson, students will learn about registering and voting in North Carolina, particularly focusing on North Carolina's preregistration law, which allows 16 and 17 year-olds to pre-register to vote. The law was originally effective January 1, 2010 but was repealed in 2013 by NC's Voter Information Verification Act. In July 2016, the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a number of VIVA's provisions and reinstated pre-registration for 16 and 17 year-olds. Students will also explore the importance of registering and voting, as well as the reasons for voter apathy. This lesson will culminate with students creating a commercial to encourage North Carolina’s 16 and 17 year-olds to pre-register to vote.

In this lesson, students will read articles related to a misstatement of future glacier health in the Himalayas that was reported in the 2007 United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Assessment Report 4. The class will discuss the articles and ramifications of inaccuracies in scientific literature as well as the importance of validating sources as peer-reviewed. As this topic is complex, the students will need guidance in the form of an introduction to peer-reviewed literature, which is outlined here. Furthermore, the objective of this lesson is not to vilify the IPCC or any other well-intentioned group, but rather to elucidate the use of proper references and procedure when summarizing a contentious scientific issue with broad geopolitical implications.

This resource explains how Prohibition backfired and gave America an era of gangsters and speakeasies.

In this lesson, students work, in groups or individually, to research the life and ideas of a person involved in the development of a scientific theory which faced opposition from the society in which it was developed.

This presentation is intended for use with the lesson plan "How and Why Did the Holocaust Occur?: Exploring Action and Inaction through the Survival Story of Esther Gutman Lederman." In this lesson, students will closely examine the various categories and actions (or inactions) of people during the Holocaust, including the perpetrators, collaborators, bystanders, resisters, rescuers, victims, and survivors. Students will explore each category in an attempt to gain an intricate understanding about how something as unfathomable as the Holocaust occurred. Students will then identify these categories of people while viewing the incredible story of Holocaust survivor, Esther Gutman Lederman. Esther spent 22 months hiding in a home owned by a Christian family in Poland. She is alive because this Christian family risked their own lives to save her and 4 other Jews. Students will culminate their exploration by focusing on the incredible actions of victims and survivors (such as Esther), resisters, and rescuers, as they create a medal of honor to bestow on a person or group of their choice.

In this Penguin Classics guide to E. M. Forster's Howard's End, students will learn the background of the book as well as the author, and deepen their understanding of the text through indepth discussion questions. Students will explore themes of how to maintain human connection in an increasingly depersonalized society and how to find a spiritual home in the world.