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Curated OER

Glencoe Literature Themes: Legends

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers prepare for and respond to literature selections. This package includes five lessons from the Glencoe Literature series, each covering a different reading selection. Pre-reading and response activities are included for...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Gun Debate

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students read a passage about the right to bear arms and complete a worksheet.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Sidney Poitier High School

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Learners research the life of Sidney Poitier and plan an hour-long dedication ceremony for a school that has just been renamed after him.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Carbohydrates, Proteins, and Fats

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students describe the properties of carbohydrates, proteins and fats. In this health science activity, students identify food sources where these nutrients can be found. They explain how they affect our body.
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Curated OER

Earth and Matter

For Students 9th - 12th
In this matter activity, students review the Earth's layers, write balanced equations, and compare the properties of different elements. This activity has 29 fill in the blank questions.
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Unit Plan
Other

Penguin Reading Guide: "The Secret Life of Bees"

For Students 9th - 10th
Reading guide for "The Secret Life of Bees" provided by the book's publisher, Penguin. Sections include an introduction, a short biography of Sue Monk Kidd, a much longer transcript of an interview with her, and eleven discussion...
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AdLit

Ad lit.org: Classroom Strategies: Reading Guides

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Reading Guides help students navigate reading material, especially difficult textbook chapters or technical reading. Students respond to a teacher-created written guide of prompts as they read an assigned text. Reading Guides help...
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Handout
Other

Geoscience Australia: Map Reading Guide: How to Use Topographic Maps [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
A topographic map can be challenging to read. This guide explains how to decipher one and how to use a magnetic compass to orient yourself to the landscape. It also explains how to use GPS coordinates.
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Website
Penguin Publishing

Penguin Random House: Penguin: David Copperfield Reading Guide

For Students 9th - 10th
A reading guide to the novel David Copperfield along with biographical tidbits about Dickens and discussion questions for reading groups.
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Penguin Publishing

Penguin Random House: Reading Guide for "Sleeping at the Starlite Motel"

For Students 9th - 10th
This site offers a reading guide for Bailey White's book "Sleeping at the Starlite Motel." A plot summary, 16 study questions, suggestions for further reading, and links to other useful sites are included.
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Website
Savvas Learning

Penguin: Reading Guide: A Room With a View [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
This reading guide provides a critical introduction, background biographical information, and a number of questions to spark discussion about the book. Requires Adobe Reader. [PDF]
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Other

Peguin: Reading Guide: The House Gun

For Students 9th - 10th
Besides the usual critical introduction, biographical information and discussion question; this reading guide includes an interview with the author.
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Handout
Academy of American Poets

Poets.org: Reading Guide to Langston Hughes

For Students 9th - 10th
This guide discusses Langston Hughes's body of poetry, as well as briefly analyzing characteristics in several individual poems. The site also offers an interview with writer Afaa Weaver regarding Hughes's works, discussion questions, a...
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Other

Harper Collins: "Parrot in the Oven" Reading Guide

For Students 9th - 10th
Reading guide for Victor Martinez's "Parrot in the Oven" provided by the book's publisher, HarperCollins. Sections include an introduction, short biography of the author (including a picture), and ten discussion questions.
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Activity
Scholastic

Scholastic Book Files: A Reading Guide to a Wrinkle in Time

For Teachers 4th - 7th
This teaching guide accompanies Madeleine's L'Engle's book, A Wrinkle in Time. Setting, plot, characters, and theme questions are included, along with guided reading questions for each chapter.
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Primary
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Reading Guide: Elizabeth Cady Stanton: "Seneca Falls Address"

For Students 9th - 10th
A powerful call for women's rights, particularly for suffrage, expressed in the "Declaration of Sentiments" and issued at the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention by Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Includes discussion questions.
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Primary
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Reading Guide: George Fitzhugh: Chap. 5, "Negro Slavery"

For Students 9th - 10th
A chapter in George Fitzhugh's apology for slavery in which he argues that slavery brings clear benefits to those who were enslaved.
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Unit Plan
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Assimilation and the Crucible of the City: Reading Guide to Yerzierska

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Two short stories from Polish immigrant, Anzia Yerzierska, about the challenges of Americanization that immigrants faced in the early-twentieth century. Includes questions for discussion.
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Unit Plan
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Assimilation and the Crucible of the City: Reading Guide: Two Stories

For Teachers 9th - 10th
An excerpt from Abraham Cahan's novel, "Yekl: A Tale of the New York Ghetto," and Charles Chesnutt's short story, "The Wife of His Youth," that describe challenges of assimilation into American culture for both European immigrants and...
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Activity
Department of Defense

Do Dea: Ap Us Government and Politics: Unit 2: Bill of Rights Reading Guide [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A 2-page worksheet where students fill in the blanks with information about the rights and protections embedded in the amendments in the Bill of Rights. They are also asked to explain the meanings of eight terms used in the Bill of Rights.
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Other

Penguin: Reading Guide: The Autobiography of My Mother

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This reading guide provides a critical introduction to Kincaid's novel, background information about the author, and a number of discussion questions suitable for reading groups or class discussion.
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Unit Plan
Other

Penguin: Reading Guide: The Gunslinger: The Dark Tower I

For Students 9th - 10th
This reading guide provides discussion questions, biographical information about King, and explanatory introduction to the Dark Tower novels.
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Activity
Other

Penguin: Reading Guide: None to Accompany Me

For Students 9th - 10th
The author talks about the main character, Vera, in this interview exceprt. The reading guide also includes a critical introduction and discussion questions.
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Website
Penguin Publishing

Penguin Random House: Reading Guide: Howards End

For Students 9th - 10th
A detailed critical introduction, biographical material and discussion questions make up this concise reading guide.

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