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  • A lion - a character in African folk tales

    TEACHING RESOURCE

    African Folk Tales: Background Information

    Distribute an article that details the various types of African folk tales and gives examples of them. You can use this…

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    Activities for African Folk Tales

    Get the most out of reading African folk tales by using these worksheets. This is a great lesson plan to use during…

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    Teammates

    A wealth of resources, lesson plans, and activities that can be used with the story Teammates by Peter Golenbock.

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    Orphan Boy

    This African legend tells the tale of an elderly Maasai man who gets help from an unlikely source -- Venus!

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    Legends
    Multicultural Literature
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    In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson

    This literature guide includes enrichment activities and internet resources for In the Year of the Boar and Jackie…

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    Asian History
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  • Individual Room Temperature Controls Puzzle & Reading Passage

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    Individual Room Temperature Controls Puzzle & Reading Passage

    This article depicts the story of Alice Parker, an African-American woman who invented a gas furnace for central heating…

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    Social Studies and History
    Suffrage and Women's Rights
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  • Nonfiction Reading Warm-Up: Segregation

    DAILY WARM-UPS

    Nonfiction Reading Warm-Up: Segregation

    Help students master important nonfiction reading skills with an informational text on segregation and reading…

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    Language Arts and Writing
    Twentieth Century
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    Drylongso

    In this story a family facing drought turns to a stranger, Drylongso, for help.

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    Fiction
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  • REFERENCE

    Martin Luther King Jr, Civil Rights Leader

    Deliver a lesson plan that reviews Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's life, and use a pictorial depiction of his life. This is…

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    Literary Biographies
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  • A Guide to Teaching About Freedom Struggles

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    A Guide to Teaching About Freedom Struggles

    This teaching guide includes author interviews, discussion questions, cross-curricular activities, and reading…

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    Slavery in United States
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  • Educator's Guide to Barack Obama: Son of Promise, Child of Hope

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    Educator's Guide to Barack Obama: Son of Promise, Child of Hope

    Study the life of Barack Obama with the resources in this literature guide to Barack Obama: Son of Promise, Child of…

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  • Kwanzaa Terms Matching Activity

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    Kwanzaa Terms Matching Activity

    Kwanzaa terms and definitions are reviewed in this vocabulary matching activity. The quiz covers symbols of Kwanzaa and…

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    Readers Theater Script: The Drinking Gourd

    This Readers Theater script for The Drinking Gourd, by F. N. Monjo, deals with Tommy discovering runaway slaves hidden…

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    Historical Fiction
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    Top 10 Children's Books for Black History Month

    This gallery features 10 top children's books for Black History Month paired with a teaching guide for each book.…

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    African Americans
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  • Black History Month Profile: Young Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman

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    Black History Month Profile: Young Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman

    This themed packet of reading and writing activities focuses on America's youngest Poet Laureate, Amanda Gorman. It…

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  • 42 Is Not Just A Number Teaching Guide

    BOOK GUIDES

    42 is Not Just a Number Teaching Guide

    This teaching guide for 42 is Not Just a Number , a powerful biography of the life and courage of Jackie Robinson, is…

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    African-American History
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  • Schomburg: The Man who Built a Library Teaching Guide

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    Schomburg: The Man who Built a Library Teaching Guide

    This teaching guide for Schomburg: The Man who Built a Library , a biography of a man who wanted to increase the…

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    Minty: A Story of Young Harriet Tubman

    Find enrichment activities and Internet resources to enhance your teaching of Alan Schroeder's Minty: A Story of Young…

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  • LESSON PLANS

    African Storytellers

    Students will use the Internet to find out more about griots, or African storytellers. Their work will culminate in…

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    Storytelling
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  • I Have Heard of a Land Teaching Guide

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    I Have Heard of a Land Teacher's Guide

    Use the resources in this literature guide to I Have Heard of a Land (by Joyce Carol Thomas and Floyd Cooper) to develop…

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  • Teaching About the Civil Rights Movement with Picture Books

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    Teaching About the Civil Rights Movement with Picture Books

    Use Granddaddy's Turn and Seeds of Freedom to teach students about the civil rights movement in the United States. These…

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    Teaching about Racism, Prejudice & Discrimination in America
    Equality Struggles
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  • The Best Bad Luck I Ever Had Discussion Guide

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    The Best Bad Luck I Ever Had Discussion Guide

    Encourage critical thinking and discussion with comprehension questions for Kristine Levine's The Best Bad Luck I Ever…

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    Amendments to the Constitution of the United States

    The amendments to the U.S. Constitution.

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    Social Studies and History
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  • The Youngest Marcher Curriculum Guide

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    The Youngest Marcher Common Core Curriculum Guide

    This Common Core-aligned curriculum guide is designed to accompany The Youngest Marcher. This reading guide includes…

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