This 25-page unit plan includes ELA resources and activities for use with Night of the Veggie Monster by George McClements   It includes: character traits and graphic organizers story maps vocabulary work comprehension...

Students will read and analyze an account of the completion of the transcontinental railroad in 1869 by answering 18 questions (text based, discussion, and image analysis). They will also label a physical geography map with 15 items and a political...

Students will read about the Bataan Death March from a selection of memoirs of fighting and being POWs in the Pacific Front of World War 2 (WW2, WWII). They will then answer 2 questions about a propaganda poster and 10 based on the text. The last...

Students will read and analyze excerpts from Ben Franklin's Albany Plan of Union by responding to 14 questions and creative tasks. The answers are included where appropriate and this would be great for a sub! The historical spelling and grammar has been...

This guide can be used for a week long unit on the rainforest, using The Great Kapok Tree by Lynne Cherry. It includes pre-reading and post-reading class activities. Included are: . reading comprehension . sequencing . visualizing ...

Students will read and analyze accounts of the First Battle of Bull Run, the Battle of Gettysburg, and the Battle of the Ironclads from the American Civil War by answering 32 questions (including comparing and contrasting the accounts). They can be...

This is an activity guide to use when reading Ira Says Goodbye by Bernard Waber to your class. It is a moving story of Ira who finds out his best friend Reggie is moving away. This teaching resource includes: . reading comprehension ...

This unit should be used with The Girl Who NEVER Made Mistakes by Mark Pett and Gary Rubinstein. It includes a video read aloud which can be used in class along with the book. It includes: . discussion and group interaction activities ...

Students will read about the sack of Constantinople and its effects on the Byzantine Empire at the hands of the Ottoman Empire and analyze it by answering 9 questions to get a first hand look at what happened in the city when it was razed and pillaged...

Students will read a primary source about America's entry into World War 1 and Wilson's decision to ask Congress to declare war against Germany. They will answer 17 questions, analyze 6 images, and complete a creative task involving 3 points of view. The...

Students will read and analyze an account from Pliny the Younger of the destruction of Pompeii by Mt. Vesuvius by answering 12 questions and completing 4 creative tasks. The tasks are about 6 types of people from Pompeii, "what if your town was frozen in...

Students will read and analyze a brief background on the Salem Witch Trials and an account of Martha Corey's trial for witchcraft by answering 10 questions and completing 3 creative tasks. They will then analyze 4 images according to 6 prompts. The...