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Make full use of Greenwood's highly acclaimed Daily Life through History and bring history lessons to life with these 50 exciting new document-based lesson plans covering 7 key curriculum strands.

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Requires online subscription
This product could be great, but to access the information required for students to complete the tasks, you need a paid subscription to the publisher's online database. If you really wanted to use these activities I suppose you could compile your own resources for each one, web-based or otherwise, but that sort of defeats the purpose of these DBQ compilations in my opinion. Subscription requirement should have been in the product description. If your school already subscribes to Greenwood's Daily Life Through History, then this might be worth it. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Arts & Activities, published by Publishers' Development Corporation on October 1, 2010. The length of the article is 882 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: The skeletons' Halloween.
Author: Simone Bourque
Publication: Arts & Activities (Magazine/Journal)
Date: October 1, 2010
Publisher: Publishers' Development Corporation
Volume: 148Issue: 2Page: 36(2)

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As a busy teacher, you don t have time to waste reinventing the wheel. You want to get down to the business of teaching! With Secondary Solutions professionally developed teacher-written Literature Guides, you can address the English/Language Arts content standards while you teach the required core literature! Secondary Solutions has provided you with the answer to your time management problems, while saving you hours of tedious and exhausting work. Our teaching guides will allow you to focus on the most important aspects of teaching (the personal, one-on-one, hands-on instruction you enjoy most) and the reason you became a teacher in the first place!

This Secondary Solutions teaching guide for The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn contains 56 pages of student coursework, quizzes, tests, and teacher guides aligned with eighth through tenth grade English / Language Arts content standards. This Guide includes: Author Biography; Anticipation/ Reaction Pre-Reading Activity; Vocabulary List; Vocabulary Building Activities Including Acrostic, Crossword, Word Search, Context Clues, Matching, Spelling, and more; Comprehension Checks and Study Guides; Standards Focus Activities on Satire, Jargon and Slang, Setting, Narrator and Point of View, Tone, Character Types, Theme, and more; Quizzes; Final Test; Pre-Reading Ideas and Activities; Post-Reading Ideas and Activities; Essay/Writing Ideas and Prompts; Project Rubric; Response to Literature Rubric; Complete Answer Key ... Read more

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Useful worksheets - skip the quizzes
I used several of the worksheets from this book while teaching Huck Finn to my juniors. Each worksheet covers 3-4 chapters and one term or technique (satire, dialect, setting, narrator, tone, details, character, theme). It's a good way to introduce these, or to check for understanding. The worksheets also had enough detail that a sub used two with success while I was out. I gave it 4 stars because the questions on the quizzes and final test seemed like random facts, and most did not go deeper into analysis. There is, however, a good resource at the back with ideas for projects and essays. I would use this book again, and I would buy other products from Secondary Solutions.

Really great!
I have looked everywhere for materials to help me teach my 11th graders the novels that are required, but still meet the content standards for Florida.Everything from the vocabulary activities to the post-reading activites are great.I would recommend this guide to all teachers--much better than Teacher Created Materials. ... Read more

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As a busy teacher, you don't have time to waste reinventing the wheel.You want to get down to the business of teaching.Finally, you can address the content standards while you teach the required core literature!Our professionally developed, teacher-written, reproducible Literature Guides place the emphasis on the content standards, while providing you with the activities and materials you need to help your students understand and evaluate the novels and other literature that you are required to teach. Secondary Solutions® has provided you with the answer to your time management problems, saving you hours of tedious and exhausting work.No more researching, creating, writing, editing and printing your own educational materials.Everything you need has been done for you! Our Guides will allow you to focus on the most important aspects of teaching—the personal, one-on-one, hands-on instruction you enjoy most—the reason you became a teacher in the first place!Secondary Solutions® provides all the necessary worksheets and materials for complete coverage of the literature units of study, including author biographies, pre-reading activities, numerous and varied vocabulary and comprehension activities, study-guide questions, graphic organizers, literary analysis and critical thinking activities, essay writing ideas, sample rubrics, extension activities, quizzes, unit tests, alternative assessment, online teacher assistance, and much, much more.Each Guide is designed to address the unique learning styles and comprehension levels of every student in your classroom.All materials are written and presented at the grade level of the learner, and include extensive coverage of the content standards. As an added bonus, all teacher materials are included! ... Read more

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A Lifesaver!
I am very happy with my purchases.I got both Of Mice and Men and To Kill a Mockingbird and cannot believe all of the information, activities and ideas! Everything I need to teach my ninth graders the content standards, and the novels. I wish I had found these a few years ago--they would have been a lifesaver for me as a new teacher.These Literature Guides were recommended to me--and now it is my turn to do the same!Great product!VERY highly recommended.

Great Help
I teach 9th grade at a public high school in California.I am really pleased with the information and activities available in this guide.It really is helpful and challenging, unlike those others that call themselves "challenging" units. I would definitely recommend this guide for teachers, and would buy again. ... Read more

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Art Activities A to Z presents a detailed lesson plan format of open-ended art activities.It focuses on the art ?process? rather than the ?product?. Users will enjoy the activities as they explore medium beyond tempera paint and brushes. The activities are easy-to-understand and follow. Each section will assist users in finding art activities for a theme based curriculum, to incorporate a letter of the week, or provide a spur of the moment filler. ... Read more

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Full teacher resources and modules of work that have been developed to deliver entitlement to global citizenship for children and young people. Linked with the use of the pupil book The Commonwealth: a Family of Nations, these photocopiable resources provide active learning experiences through accessible, attractively presented, high quality information. They also offer training and practice in the skills of enquiry and communication, participation and responsible action. Lesson Plans and Teaching Resources for The Commonwealth: A Family of Nations provide ideal support for global citizenship curricula for 11-14 year olds. ... Read more

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This book, like "Stories of Early American History," follows somewhat closely the course of study prepared by the Committee of Eight, the present volume covering the topics outlined for Grade V, while the earlier one includes the material suggested for Grade IV. ... Read more

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"Without advancing any theory touching the progression of the mother''s song to her babe, other than declaring lullabies to be about as old as babies, a statement which recalls to mind an old story, entitled The Owl''s Advice to an Inquisitive Cat. " ... Read more

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This book, like "Stories of Early American History," follows somewhat closely the course of study prepared by the Committee of Eight, the present volume covering the topics outlined for Grade V, while the earlier one includes the material suggested for Grade IV.
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"Without advancing any theory touching the progression of the mother''s song to her babe, other than declaring lullabies to be about as old as babies, a statement which recalls to mind an old story, entitled The Owl''s Advice to an Inquisitive Cat. " ... Read more

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Without advancing any theory touching the progression of the mother's song to her babe, other than declaring lullabies to be about as old as babies, a statement which recalls to mind an old story, entitled "The Owl's Advice to an Inquisitive Cat."
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As a busy teacher, you don't have time to waste reinventing the wheel.You want to get down to the business of teaching.Finally, you can address the content standards while you teach the required core literature!Our professionally developed, teacher-written, reproducible Literature Guides place the emphasis on the content standards, while providing you with the activities and materials you need to help your students understand and evaluate the novels and other literature that you are required to teach. Secondary Solutions® has provided you with the answer to your time management problems, saving you hours of tedious and exhausting work.No more researching, creating, writing, editing and printing your own educational materials.Everything you need has been done for you! Our Guides will allow you to focus on the most important aspects of teaching—the personal, one-on-one, hands-on instruction you enjoy most—the reason you became a teacher in the first place!Secondary Solutions® provides all the necessary worksheets and materials for complete coverage of the literature units of study, including author biographies, pre-reading activities, numerous and varied vocabulary and comprehension activities, study-guide questions, graphic organizers, literary analysis and critical thinking activities, essay writing ideas, sample rubrics, extension activities, quizzes, unit tests, alternative assessment, online teacher assistance, and much, much more.Each Guide is designed to address the unique learning styles and comprehension levels of every student in your classroom.All materials are written and presented at the grade level of the learner, and include extensive coverage of the content standards. As an added bonus, all teacher materials are included! ... Read more

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In a Word, Wonderful
Make no mistake, this is a tremendous teaching resource. As a busy teacher I have little time to prepare such material. There are numerous exercises to be found in this teaching packet, all of which are relevantto a higher understanding of the novel. Kristen Bowers should be commended for her work at Secondary Sources. I forsee great things for the company.

The best I've seen!
This guide is really helpful.The Great Gatsby is such a tough book to teach and I have struggled to teach the novel without good materials.I have made up quizzes and tests for the novel that don't come anywhere close to these.Plus, the vocabulary reinforcement with worksheets throughout that give the students extra practice with test-taking skills is great!I cannot wait to start the year anew. ... Read more

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Florentine painting between Giotto and Michelangelo contains the names of such artists as Orcagna, Masaccio, Fra Filippo, Pollaiuolo, Verrocchio, Leonardo, and Botticelli. Put beside these the greatest names in Venetian art, the Vivarini, the Bellini, Giorgione, Titian, and Tintoret. The difference is striking. The significance of the Venetian names is exhausted with their significance as painters. Not so with the Florentines. Forget that they were painters, they remain great sculptors; forget that they were sculptors, and still they remain architects, poets, and even men of science. They left no form of expression untried, and to none could they say, "This will perfectly convey my meaning." Painting, therefore, offers but a partial and not always the most adequate manifestation of their personality, and we feel the artist as greater than his work, and the man as soaring above the artist. ... Read more

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"Excerpt from the book..."

The apology offered in the Preface to the first volume of this series
for the occurrence of repetitions, is even more needful here I am
afraid. But it could hardly be otherwise with speeches and essays, on
the same topic, addressed at intervals, during more than thirty years,
to widely distant and different hearers and readers. The oldest piece,
that "On the Educational Value of the Natural History Sciences,"
contains some crudities
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"These twenty-five short chapters on Jewish Literature open with the fall of Jerusalem in the year 70 of the current era, and end with the death of Moses Mendelssohn in 1786. Thus the period covered extends over more than seventeen centuries. Yet, long as this period is, it is too brief. " ... Read more

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Years have passed since the second edition of this book. But as most of this time has been taken up with the writing of my "Drawings of the Florentine Painters," it has, in a sense, been spent in preparing me to make this new edition. Indeed, it is to that bigger work that I must refer the student who may wish to have the reasons for some of my attributions. There, for instance, he will find the intricate Carli question treated quite as fully as it deserves. Jacopo del Sellajo is inserted here for the first time. Ample accounts of this frequently entertaining tenth-rate painter may be found in articles by Hans Makowsky, Mary Logan, and Herbert Horne.
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Of Ammianus Marcellinus, the writer of the following History, we know very little more than what can be collected from that portion of it which remains to us. From that source we learn that he was a native of Antioch, and a soldier; being one of the _prefectores domestici_--the body-guard of the emperor, into which none but men of noble birth were admitted. He was on the staff of Ursicinus, whom he attended in several of his expeditions; and he bore a share in the campaigns which Julian made against the Persians. After that time he never mentions himself, and we are ignorant when he quitted the service and retired to Rome, in which city he composed his History. We know not when he was born, or when he died, except that from one or two incidental passages in his work it is plain that he lived nearly to the end of the fourth century: and it is even uncertain whether he was a Christian or a Pagan; though the general belief is, that he adhered to the religion of the ancient Romans, without, however, permitting it to lead him even to speak disrespectfully of Christians or Christianity.
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As a busy teacher, you don't have time to waste reinventing the wheel.You want to get down to the business of teaching.Finally, you can address the content standards while you teach the required core literature!Our professionally developed, teacher-written, reproducible Literature Guides place the emphasis on the content standards, while providing you with the activities and materials you need to help your students understand and evaluate the novels and other literature that you are required to teach. Secondary Solutions® has provided you with the answer to your time management problems, saving you hours of tedious and exhausting work.No more researching, creating, writing, editing and printing your own educational materials.Everything you need has been done for you! Our Guides will allow you to focus on the most important aspects of teaching—the personal, one-on-one, hands-on instruction you enjoy most—the reason you became a teacher in the first place!Secondary Solutions® provides all the necessary worksheets and materials for complete coverage of the literature units of study, including author biographies, pre-reading activities, numerous and varied vocabulary and comprehension activities, study-guide questions, graphic organizers, literary analysis and critical thinking activities, essay writing ideas, sample rubrics, extension activities, quizzes, unit tests, alternative assessment, online teacher assistance, and much, much more.Each Guide is designed to address the unique learning styles and comprehension levels of every student in your classroom.All materials are written and presented at the grade level of the learner, and include extensive coverage of the content standards. As an added bonus, all teacher materials are included! ... Read more

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2bteachable
Teachers, Homeschoolers, ESE Teachers this is a must have ifyou teach Eng/Lit or reading. Everything you need and for an added bonus purchase the movie. Everything you need for teaching literature or reading is here. Background knowledge, above and beyond engaging activities and discussion materials. The Blackline Masters and extended activities including vocabulary, questions, assessments, writing exercises, literature/story elements and answer keys. Quality lessons for Eng/Reading classes both MS and HS. I used this with High Maintenance students (IEH) which included a mixture of low/high reading/writing levels not to mention emotional disorders. The students enjoyed this and we watched the movie. The students and I had fun naming the know actors:Tom Cruise,Patrick Swayze,Diane Lane,Rob Lowe,Matt Dillon, Ralph Macchio (Karate Kid), Emilio Estevez and S.E. Hinton(I didn't know this)played in this movie. Students were amazed of this books timeframe, the authors story and the relevance of this story in spite of it's era. Educators don't pass this up. Use it the first semester or end of the year and experience success! <><

A Must-Have For English Teachers
This literature guide really saved my life this year. My job switched just a week before the school year began, and I ended up teaching a different class and grade level than I expected. I had a rather "tough crowd" of students. Many of them had reached 8th grade without ever reading a novel. Since I had several at-risk students, The Outsiders was a natural choice of a book to teach, but I had NO lessons or activities to go with it. I used this for the vocabulary lessons, quizzes, and tests mostly, but it had additional activities. I wish it were a bit more extensive, with more ideas for projects and creative writing, but considering the price, I found it very beneficial. I've purchased literature guides for 3 or 4 times the price of this one, and they weren't nearly as helpful. I highly recommend this one! I've even recommeded it to colleagues and a couple of parents that are home-schooling their kids.

Not very useful!
I am disapointed with this, because I was expecting something a lot different.There was hardly any literary analysis - just a little on theme (1 page only), and characters.There were, however, good chapter questions, and LOTS of vocabulary work.Which was completely irrelevant.Overall - if you are intending to study "The Outsiders" in order to complete vocabulary type work, rather than a proper literary analysis, then this book would suit you.Also, I was annoyed to find out that additional material had been made since this book was published, but I had to download it from the internet, and print it myself.I think the publisher should have added this new material to a new edition.

A New Teacher's Heaven
What a great resource!From the author biography, to pre-reading activities, to literary analysis worksheets, to vocabulary activities, I am so pleased with my purchase.I am going to be starting school in a few weeks and cannot wait to use this with my students.It really makes me feel more confident entering my first year of teaching.I have lesson plans already done for me!What a gem!

The Perfect Resource
This literature guide was recommended to me after I had tried using the Teacher Created Materials version.Let me tell you--making paper dolls and recipes are NOT what my students are being tested on!Once I got this literature guide I threw all my other stuff away--this really has everything you need to teach the entire novel.My kids have always loved this book, but now that they have activities and things to really stimulate their thinking, they love it even more.VERY HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!In fact, I just purchased Among the Hidden--I will let you all know how that guide is when I get it.I can't wait! ... Read more

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We have undertaken to discourse here for a little on Great Men, their manner of appearance in our world's business, how they have shaped themselves in the world's history, what ideas men formed of them, what work they did;--on Heroes, namely, and on their reception and performance; what I call Hero-worship and the Heroic in human affairs ... Read more

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Thougtful Book
19th Century Social Thought is given in terms of heroes.
Thinkers like Carlyle are really rare.
Book is composed of his lectures about Paganism, Islam, Shakspeare, Puritanism etc. in 1840. ... Read more