A three-lesson unit on the campaign and election of 1840. Links to many sites for more information, interactive worksheets, lesson objectives, and assessment. From EDSITEment.

Excellent lesson plan in which young scholars study and analyze the letters that Emily Dickinson wrote to Thomas Higginson and to her sister-in-law, Susan Huntington Gilbert Dickinson, as a method of understanding her poetry in a deeper...

A complete lesson unit on Hammurabi?s Code, for Grades 9-12.

The Black Death caused a radical alteration in population and dramatic changes in society. In this instructional activity, students will analyze maps, documents, and firsthand accounts to trace the effects of the Black Death in Europe.

This unit plan can be used as a whole, or any of its three parts. Plenty of resources for the context of the novel, and the literary concepts of realism and regionalism are provided.

This site offers two separate lesson plans which focus on the theme of "Courage," as portrayed in Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird," and court transcripts (and other primary source material) from the second Scottsboro Boys Trial of 1933.

Contemporary criticism of the novel, the conditions of Victorian women, and Bronte's decision to publish the novel under a male pseudonym form the focus of this lesson.

The decision of Britain's North American countries to rebel against their Mother Country was a risky one. The teaching unit is comprised of three lesson plans. Students explore the diplomatic and military aspects of the American War for...

This site shares a PDF worksheet for students to organize connotative and denotative meanings. Students will read "Shooting an Elephant" and then complete the chart with explanations of the denotative and connotative meanings. L.11-12.5b...