Download or read book My Brother Sam Is Dead written by James Lincoln Collier and published by Blackstone Publishing. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic story of one family torn apart by the Revolutionary War All his life, Tim Meeker has looked up to his brother. Sam is smart and brave, and is now a part of the American Revolution. Not everyone in town wants to be a part of the rebellion. Most are supporters of the British, including Tim and Sam’s father. With the war soon raging, Tim knows he will have to make a choice between the Revolutionaries and the Redcoats, and between his brother and his father.
Download or read book An Instructional Guide for Literature My Brother Sam Is Dead written by Suzanne Barchers and published by Teacher Created Materials. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Encourage students to make connections to historical events by completing fun, challenging activities and lessons provided in this guide created to support this novel about a family torn apart by the American Revolution. This instructional guide for literature is filled with appealing and rigorous cross-curricular lessons and activities that work in conjunction with the text to teach students how to analyze and comprehend rich, complex literature. Everything you need is packed into this guide and is the perfect tool to teach students how to analyze story elements in multiple ways, practice close reading and text-based vocabulary, determine meaning through text-dependent questions, and more. This is the perfect way to add rigor to your students' explorations of rich, complex literature.
Download or read book Teaching Banned Books written by Pat R. Scales and published by American Library Association. This book was released on 2001-06 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a standard-bearer for intellectual freedom, the school librarian is in an ideal position to collaborate with teachers to not only protect the freedom to read but also ensure that valued books with valuable lessons are not quarantined from the readers for whom they were written.
Download or read book Student Resistance written by Mark Edelman Boren and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historically, students have been a riotous bunch. Long before wild spring breaks, medieval students waged battles with bows and arrows at the earliest universities, while Russian students made assassination attempts against the tsars. The legacy of campus unrest continues at the cusp of the 21st century with a new wave of student rebellion at home and abroad. Student Resistance is an international history of student activism. Chronicling 500 years of strife between activists and the academy, Mark Edelman Boren unearths the defiant roots of the ivory tower. Whether through nonviolent protest or bloody insurrection, students have catalyzed educational reform, transformed national politics, and, in more than a few instances, spurred coup d'e; tats. These acts of rebellion are inherent features in the advancement of knowledge, Boren argues, and there is much to learn from students fighting for reform. Drawing on major incidents of student activism, including Civil Rights protests in the US, the 1968 student riots in Paris, and Tiananmen Square, Boren shows that student resistance is a continually occurring and vital social phenomenon, world-wide. For those concerned with the increasingly public and complex role that universities play in society, Student Resistance is essential reading.
Download or read book The First Christmas written by Georgie Adams and published by Orion Children's Books. This book was released on 2012-11-08 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early Readers are stepping stones from picture books to reading books. A blue Early Reader is perfect for sharing and reading together. A red Early Reader is the next step on your reading journey. The story of the birth of Jesus and the first Christmas re-told with delightful simplicity, and illustrated with charming soft watercolours. Both text and pictures are designed to make this the perfect introduction to the Nativity story for very young children.
Download or read book Number the Stars An Instructional Guide for Literature written by Suzanne I. Barchers and published by Teacher Created Materials. This book was released on 2014-09-01 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Use this guide to follow the story of ten-year-old Annemarie Johansen and her Jewish best friend Ellen who must move in with the Johansen family and pretend to be their daughter to escape the Nazis. Number the Stars: An Instructional Guide for Literature provides rigorous and appealing cross-curricular lessons and activities that work in conjunction with the text. Readers will learn to connect historical events to this story, analyze story elements in multiple ways, practice close reading and text-based vocabulary, determine meaning through text-dependent questions, and more. Add rigor to your students' explorations of this Newbery Medal-winning novel.
Download or read book A Guide for Using Johnny Tremain in the Classroom written by Jean L. Haack and published by Teacher Created Resources. This book was released on 1994 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teaching literature unit based on the popular children's story, Johnny Tremain.
Download or read book My Brother Sam Is Dead Leveled Comprehension Questions written by Suzanne Barchers and published by Teacher Created Materials. This book was released on 2014-06-01 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These leveled discussion questions about My Brother Sam Is Dead require students to read closely, make connections, and share their analyses. Included are leveled comprehension questions and suggested answers.
Download or read book The Complete Idiot s Guide to English Literature written by Jay Stevenson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book My Brother Sam Is Dead Close Reading and Text Dependent Questions written by Suzanne Barchers and published by Teacher Created Materials. This book was released on 2014-06-01 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Students analyze My Brother Sam Is Dead using key skills from the Common Core. Close reading of the text is required to answer text-dependent questions. Included are student pages with the text-dependent questions as well as suggested answers.
Download or read book My Brother Sam Is Dead Post Reading Activities written by Suzanne Barchers and published by Teacher Created Materials. This book was released on 2014-06-01 with total page 5 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These post-reading activities for My Brother Sam Is Dead allow students to share their understanding of characters, plot, and settings of the novel. They have opportunities to write, draw, and perform based on what they've learned.
Download or read book The Rock and the River written by Kekla Magoon and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-01-06 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coretta Scott King - John Steptoe Award winner In this “taut, eloquent first novel” (Booklist, starred review), a young Black boy wrestles with conflicting notions of revolution and family loyalty as he becomes involved with the Black Panthers in 1968 Chicago. The Time: 1968 The Place: Chicago For thirteen-year-old Sam, it’s not easy being the son of known civil rights activist Roland Childs. Especially when his older (and best friend), Stick, begins to drift away from him for no apparent reason. And then it happens: Sam finds something that changes everything forever. Sam has always had faith in his father, but when he finds literature about the Black Panthers under Stick’s bed, he’s not sure who to believe: his father or his best friend. Suddenly, nothing feels certain anymore. Sam wants to believe that his father is right: You can effect change without using violence. But as time goes on, Sam grows weary of standing by and watching as his friends and family suffer at the hands of racism in their own community. Sam beings to explore the Panthers with Stick, but soon he’s involved in something far more serious—and more dangerous—than he could have ever predicted. Sam is faced with a difficult decision. Will he follow his father or his brother? His mind or his heart? The rock or the river?
Download or read book Before We Were Free written by Julia Alvarez and published by Laurel Leaf. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anita de la Torre never questioned her freedom living in the Dominican Republic. But by her 12th birthday in 1960, most of her relatives have emigrated to the United States, her Tío Toni has disappeared without a trace, and the government’s secret police terrorize her remaining family because of their suspected opposition of el Trujillo’s dictatorship. Using the strength and courage of her family, Anita must overcome her fears and fly to freedom, leaving all that she once knew behind. From renowned author Julia Alvarez comes an unforgettable story about adolescence, perseverance, and one girl’s struggle to be free.
Download or read book Fever 1793 written by Laurie Halse Anderson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-08-16 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's late summer 1793, and the streets of Philadelphia are abuzz with mosquitoes and rumors of fever. Down near the docks, many have taken ill, and the fatalities are mounting. Now they include Polly, the serving girl at the Cook Coffeehouse. But fourteen-year-old Mattie Cook doesn't get a moment to mourn the passing of her childhood playmate. New customers have overrun her family's coffee shop, located far from the mosquito-infested river, and Mattie's concerns of fever are all but overshadowed by dreams of growing her family's small business into a thriving enterprise. But when the fever begins to strike closer to home, Mattie's struggle to build a new life must give way to a new fight-the fight to stay alive.
Download or read book My Brother Sam Is Dead Vocabulary Activities written by Suzanne Barchers and published by Teacher Created Materials. This book was released on 2014-06-01 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These vocabulary activities for My Brother Sam Is Dead incorporate key skills from the Common Core. The activities integrate vocabulary with a study of the text. Includes text-dependent questions, definitions, and text-based sentences.
Download or read book Fixing Babel written by Rebecca Shapiro and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We all think we know what a dictionary is for and how to use one, and go right to the words we wish to look up. Yet dictionary users have not always known how English 'works' and this book reproduces and examines important texts in which early dictionary authors explain choices and promote ideas. Fixing Babel provides authoritative transcriptions of documents from the front matter of major English dictionaries over a two-hundred-year period. It also provides commentary on, and annotation of, a wide range of lexicographical concerns.
Download or read book The Crossover An Instructional Guide for Literature written by Angela Johnson and published by Teacher Created Materials. This book was released on 2016-09-01 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Crossover: An Instructional Guide for Literature provides lesson plans and activities for this award-winning literary work. This valuable resource helps teachers add more rigor to their instruction with complex literature. Text-dependent questions help students analyze the text with higher-order thinking skills, with lessons focused on story elements, vocabulary, and more. Close reading activities throughout the literature units encourage students to use textual evidence as they revisit passages to respond more critically about the text. With various methods of assessing comprehension, this instructional guide offers strategies for cross-curricular activities as students build a greater understanding of this great literary work.
