Great Gatsby Primary Sources
One of the most iconic books in American literature, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s tragic tale The Great Gatsby remains the quintessential literary depiction of the 1920s. Published in 1925, Gatsby explores Americans’ increasing disillusionment...
Time Period and Writers and Novels… OH MY!
This year we have read many interesting novels by various authors, each in a different time period and geographic location. Below is the list of novels available for this...
USC Shoah Foundation and Discovery Education #strongerthanhate
Stronger Than Hate Challenge Promo from Discovery Education on Vimeo. Do you have what it takes to recognize hate AND to try to stop it? The Stronger Than Hate...
Beyond the Bubble
The Stanford History Education Group is an award-winning research and development group that seeks to improve education by conducting research, working with school districts, and reaching directly into classrooms...
C-SPAN: Cram for the 2020 AP Exam
This year C-Span is offering two “Cram for the Exam” sessions on Saturday, May 9, 2020. For both segments, C-SPAN’s panel of experts will provide study strategies and discuss...
Visual Literacy
School librarians everywhere have tirelessly ravaged the internet looking for free ebooks, audible books and pdf’s to support their teachers and curriculum. Teachers and students have spent endless hours...
C-SPAN Classroom Resources
C-SPAN Classroom is a free membership service for social studies teachers. Their mission is to enhance the teaching of social studies through C-SPAN’s primary source programming and websites. With...
Throw Back to Then
Realtor, John Patrick Schutz writes “Harvesting of ice for storage purposes and meal enhancement at restaurants began commercially in the USA in 1805 and demand skyrocketed as modern convenience...
Author’s Craft
Day Three: In a recent School Library Journal article, Holding History in My Hands: Authors, Illustrators and Artifacts by Daryl Grabarek, author Tonya Bolden shares how old newspapers, photographs,...
Primary Sources & Character Traits
Day Two: Character traits are distict features of a person’s behavior. Character traits are often labeled with descriptive adjectives such as patient, unfaithful, or jealous.The old expression that actions...