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Activity
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: I Can Draw Conclusions: History Analysis [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Students can use these guiding questions as they complete two graphic organizers about a historical event. Students will then ask guiding questions about the historical event to draw conclusions about the historical event.
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Handout
Other

Shakespeare Resource Center: A Quick Guide to Reading Shakespeare

For Students 9th - 10th
A concise guide to how to understand Shakespearean English. Discusses word usage, grammar, wordplay, and versification.
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Unit Plan
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: I Can Classify and Infer When I Read [Pdf]

For Students 5th - 8th Standards
This site contains links to two graphic organizers to guide and assess the understanding of nonfiction text in science and social studies.
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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Reading Constructed Response Organizer [Pdf]

For Students 5th - 8th
This exercise provides guiding questions that will help students develop constructed responses.
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Handout
Able Media

Classics Technology Center: Guided Tour of Ancient Egypt: Pyramids at Giza

For Students 3rd - 8th
Read about the impressive pyramids at Giza, how they were made, and why they were placed the way they were.
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Website
Able Media

Classics Technology Center: For Oedipus the King

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides a study guide to aid in the reading of "Oedipus the King" by Sophocles. Contains questions for consideration, links to outside information, and footnotes to help enhance knowledge.
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Activity
Read Works

Read Works: Always Remember

For Teachers 5th - 7th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction piece discusses the bombing of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001 and how this tragendy is memorialized today. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces...
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Activity
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Evaluate the Strength of Evidence [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This resource provides a downloadable worksheet that will assist students after they read a piece of nonfiction. Students will answer guided questions to help them determine the strength of evidence used when supporting a claim....
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Primary
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: William Seward, Triumph of Nationalism: America, 1815 1850

For Students 9th - 10th
The National Humanities Center present a reading guide that links to a speech in the Senate by William Seward, one that expresses moral outrage over the compromises allowing the expansion of slavery.
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Primary
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Expansion: Harriet B. Stowe: Uncle Tom's Cabin, Ch. 1

For Students 9th - 10th
Discussion questions that guide the reading of Chapter 1 of Harriet Beecher Stowe's influential novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin. Hyperlink to the entire text.
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Activity
Read Works

Read Works: Always Remember

For Teachers 4th - 7th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passage describes the events of September 11th and the memorials established to commemorate this horrifying day in history. This passage reinforces essential reading comprehension...
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Professional Doc
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Student Center Activities, Grades 4 5

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
In 2006-2007, FCRR reviewed current research, collected ideas, and created materials for use in fourth and fifth-grade classrooms. The 4-5 Student Center Activities include three books and one DVD. The first two books contain Activity...
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Professional Doc
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Student Center Activities: Grades 2 3

For Teachers 1st - 4th Standards
In 2005-2006, a team of teachers at FCRR reviewed current research, collected ideas, and created materials for use in second and third grade classrooms. These included two books for students and a teachers guide with a DVD for...
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Handout
University of Wisconsin

University of Wisconsin Madison: Writing Center: How to Read a Poem

For Students 9th - 10th
Follow this easy guide to help you "own" a poem.
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Primary
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Gilded and Gritty: People: Assimilation and the Crucible of the City

For Students 9th - 10th
Collection of ten primary resources on the culture, economy and politics of the Gilded Age between 1870-1913, with reading guide for discussion, timeline and links to supplemental material.
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Article
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Teacher Serve: Foreign Missionary Movement in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries

For Students 9th - 10th
Article detailing the movement aimed at converting non-European populations to Christianity during an age of Imperialsim and Western Dominance. Discussion on who the missionaries were and how they went about their missions. Includes...
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Unit Plan
CommonLit

Common Lit: "9/11/2001" by Mike Kubic

For Students 9th - 10th
A learning module that begins with "9/11/2001" by Mike Kubic, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through free teacher and student...
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Activity
Read Works

Read Works: Aztecs, Incas, and Mayans Cuzco: City of Gold

For Teachers 4th - 6th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passage describes the ancient city of Cuzco, the center of activity during the Inca Empire. This passage reinforces essential reading comprehension skills. Opportunities for vocabulary...
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Primary
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Cult of Domesticity: Resource Menu

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of eight primary resources and reading guides focusing on women's issues in the 1800s including domesticity, slavery, and suffrage.
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Unit Plan
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Power: Taming the Octopus: The Image of the Octopus

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Six versions of the octopus, a pervasive image in late-nineteenth-century America, that illustrate the extensive and corrosive power held by corporations over American political and economic life. Reading guide with discussion questions.
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Website
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Power: Taming the Octopus: The Octopus in the West

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A reading guide and discussion questions for Frank Norris' novel, "The Octopus," which outlines the unbridled power of the American railroads.
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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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Graphic
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

Depaul University: Center for Urban Education: Evaluate Decisions [Pdf]

For Students 5th - 9th
A nonfiction graphic organizer is available to help students evaluate decisions of people. Students will analyze how characters interact and develop throughout the course of a nonfiction text.