Learners put themselves in the shoes of students who integrated Little Rock High School in 1957-58. Note: The primary resources in this activity provide powerful and poignant descriptions of what those students faced.

Encourage your middle and high schoolers to share their memories of a recent event. After reading a New York Times article, they discuss Elie Wiesel's memoir, Night. They write their own memoir about a significant event that affected...

After listening to a story about Martin Luther King Jr., first graders answer questions about the text. They discuss the importance of the illustrations, identify the beginning, middle, and end of the story, and complete a writing...

Showing how folk poetry keeps alive national heritage is the stated goal of this proposal for a unit on the poetry of the Balkans.

In this reading comprehension learning exercise, students examine the meaning of twenty eight words and identify where those words might be encountered.

In this grammar worksheet, students participate in a Verb Patterns Pellmanism Game (Advanced) in teams of four. Students match up as many verb patterns from the thirty-nine verbs listed as they can.

This SHSU site provides an excerpt from Goss's "Recollections of a Private" entitled "Going to the Front". An illustration is also included.

A poem from Emily Dickinson, "If Recollecting were Forgetting", is provided on this site. Students may listen to this poem read aloud by Lauren Schaffel and can access a printable version of this piece.