This PBS site provides images of all pages of the original Louisiana Purchase, with a transcript.

A summary of one of the largest land purchases in history, the Louisiana Purchase.

This online library exhibit features the city, culture, people, and institutions of 19th Century New Orleans, Louisiana. The text is available in English and French.

A complete discourse on the incorporation of black soldiers into the Union Army during the Civil War. The 54th Massachusetts Regiment is discussed in regard to the recruitment and the attack on Fort Wagner.

A guide to support parents as they work with their students in using geometry.

A guide to support parents as they work with their students in statistics and probability.

A guide to support parents as they work with their students in percent and proportional relationships.

A guide to support parents as they work with their students in expressions and equations.

A guide to support parents as they work with their students in rational numbers.

A guide to support parents as they work with their students in ratios and proportional relationships.

Publish your final work to express understanding of Romeo and Juliet compared to film adaptations.

Draft the culminating task essay including the thesis statement. Review the prompt to check your work.

Review a writing prompt with a partner, and ask questions to further your understanding.

Build your knowledge of the teen brain and its impact on behavior by demonstrating your level of agreement. This will help you prepare to read "The Teen Brain: Still Under Construction."

Ninth graders read National Geographic's "Teenage Brains" by David Dobbs and various informational texts about the development of the teenage brain to understand the factors that ultimately dictate teens' decision-making and behavior.

Engage in a whole-class discussion to demonstrate your understanding of adaptations of Romeo and Juliet and West Side Story.

We will answer questions about the information in the first section from "The Teen Brain: Still Under Construction" to deepen our understanding. Review claims from chart paper as a class.

Ninth graders read three informational texts to gain an understanding of how adolescent brain development influences teen behavior.

This activity can be used as an introduction or for a closer study of the Lewis & Clark Expedition. Students will learn that the United States purchased the Louisiana Territory in 1803 and President Thomas Jefferson sent Lewis and...

Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans on August 29, 2005. Report discusses the devastation, the mandatory evacuation of New Orleans, and damage estimates.

A guide to support parents as they work with their students in integer exponents and scientific notation.

An image of the USS KIDD (Destroyer).

An image of the Shadows-on-the-Teche.

An image of the Homeplace Plantation House.