General
- Here’s a great site to bookmark for all your graphic organizing needs and questions. What is a Graphic Organizer?
- If you would like to make personalized graphic organizers, click here.
- Quia can be used as you are teaching or reviewing the parts of speech. You’ll find matching, concentration, flash cards, and a word search.
- Or, click here for another grammar game.
- Make online crossword puzzles here or here. These are great for reviewing vocabulary!
- Daily Grammar. Excellent site!
- At the right is a picture one of our users sent in of the sentence pocket suggested in Marcia’s introductory notes. Click on the picture to see all the details up very close!
SAT Preparation:
- SAT online question of the day
- Go to this site to answer almost any question you may have about taking the SAT, PSAT, and more!
- Test Preparation site. Looks great!
- SAT Prep Plan: Take a practice test, which generates a free test report, then create your own SAT study plan. All for FREE!
- SAT Vocabulary Words
- 5000 Collegiate Words with Brief Definitions
Writing College Admissions Essays
- College Essays: Write Ones That Get You into Every School On Your List
- 5 Ways College Application Essays and High School Essays Are Different
- College Admissions Essay Prompts
Evaluations and Rubrics:
- Here is a great link for evaluating writing for grades 2-5. This is an interactive rubric for the student to use as a checklist.
- Click here to evaluate writing for grades 6-8. Another great interactive student checklist!
- Click here to develop rubrics automatically! Show your student his grading rubric (or better yet, have him develop one) before he starts his project or writing assignment!
Unit 1 – Napoleon’s World
Week 1: When John Adams Was President
- Level 1: Patriotic coloring pages of the Presidents
- Levels 1-3: The School House Rock song called “A Noun is a Person, Place, or Thing”
- Levels 3-6: Interactive review of the parts of speech.
- Levels 6-8: Simple definitions of the parts of speech to write in your notebook.
- Levels 9-12: More advanced explanation of “Steps in the Writing Process”.
- Levels 10-12: Review the parts of speech.
Week 2: Napoleon: The Man and His Career
- Levels 3-5: Your student may enjoy practicing combining words into sentences with this fun online activity.
- Levels 4-5: Want to use level-appropriate sentences from the Bible for dictation? Click here.
- Level 9: Transition words
Week 3: Early Industrial Revolution
- Level 2: Worksheet reviewing simple tenses in a pdf file.
- Level 2: Learn Parts of speech with Grammar.com
- Level 3: Review the parts of speech with this online game.
- Level 3: Learn parts of speech with grammar songs.
- Levels 3-8: Steps in the Writing Process
- Levels 4-8: Links to lessons about writing paragraphs
- Levels 10-11: Transition words
- Level 12: Writing an analytical essay
Week 4: Jefferson and the Louisiana Purchase
- Level 1: Thomas Jefferson coloring page
- Many levels: graphic organizers for prewriting
- Levels 10, 11: Taking Notes from Lectures
- Levels 10, 11: How to Take Book Notes
- Level 12: Persuasive Essay
Week 5: Jefferson and the Supreme Court
- Level 11: Informal Outlines
Week 6: Madison and the War of 1812
- Level 1: James Madison coloring page
- Level 8: Transition Words
- Level 9: Taking Notes from Lectures
- Level 9: How to Take Book Notes
Week 7: Reshaping Europe and South America
- Levels 4-8: Lecture Notes
- Level 9: Informal Outlines
- Level 10: Writing an analytical essay
- Levels 11-12: Helpful tips for a personal response to literature
Week 8: South America in Transition
- Level 3: Cluster diagram (pdf file)
- Levels 4-8: Informal Outlines
- Level 10: How to Start/Create Your Own Website
- Level 11: Writing an analytical essay
Week 9: Monroe and the American Hemisphere
- Level 3: Cluster diagram (pdf file)
- Level 9: Book Reports
- Level 10: How to Start/Create Your Own Website
Unit 2 – The Age of Industry & Expansion
Week 10: John Quincy Adams and Political Realignments
- Level 1: John Quincy Adams coloring page
- Level 3: Steps in the Writing Process
- Levels 4 and 5: Dictionary Activities
- Levels 4 and 5: Using a Thesaurus
- Level 6: Venn diagram
- Level 6: Compare and Contrast papers: click here and here.
- Level 7: The Book Report
- Level 8: How to Summarize: teachers and students
- Level 9: Writing a Research Paper
- Levels 10 and 11: Writing Papers of Literary Analysis
Week 11: Jacksonian Democracy
- Level 2: Steps in the Writing Process
- Levels 4-5: Writing Reports and Accompanying Rubrics
- Level 6: Various types of 5 W’s charts (scroll down just a bit)
- Level 6: Get your describing wheel here.
Week 12: Revolutions in Texas & Europe
- Level 2: Paragraphs
- Level 2: Cluster diagram (pdf file)
- Level 3: Use one of these graphic organizers for your prewriting this week.
- Level 6: Narrative Writing
- Level 8: Persuasive Writing
Week 13: Victorian England
- Level 1: Need more practice on capitalization or punctuation? Click here for more worksheets.
- Levels 4-5: Cluster diagram (pdf file)
- Level 6: Story map
- Level 9: A few notes on writing your first draft.
Week 14: Victorians at Home and Abroad
- Level 1: Good site for dictation.
- Level 2: Make a display board.
- Level 2: Examples of display boards
- Level 5: Write a compare and contrast essay
- Level 8: Story map
- Level 9: How to write a research paper.
Week 15: Manifest Destiny
- Level 2: Cluster diagram (pdf file)
- Levels 4-5: Very simple story map (pdf file).
- Level 9: Grading rubric for writing a research paper.
Week 16: Sea to Shining Sea
- Level 1: A practice page for name capitalization. You can use these same sentences for dictation also.
- Level 2: Cluster diagram (pdf file)
- Level 3: Venn diagram
- Level 11: Story map
Week 17: The Oregon Trail
- Level 1: A capitalization worksheet for days and months. You can use these same sentences for dictation also.
- Level 3: Write a Compare/Contrast essay.
- Level 9: Write an Analytical Essay.
Week 18: 1848: Gold Dust & Gunpowder
- Level 1: Practice capitalizing days of the week with this worksheet. You can use these same sentences for dictation also.
- Level 3: Write a Compare/Contrast essay.
- Level 7: Write an Informative essay.
- Level 9: Write a Descriptive essay.
Unit 3 – Nations Uniting & Dividing
Week 19: Westerners in Asia
- Level 1: Cluster diagram (pdf file)
- Level 2: Ladder Diagram
- Level 8: How to Write an Analytical Essay
- Level 10: Persuasive Essay Writing
- Level 11: Good site, with an example definition essay.
Week 20: Franklin Pierce & the Crimean War
- Level 1: Cluster diagram (pdf file)
- Levels 3, 6, 9: Learn how to write plays from the Scholastic website.
- Level 4: Cluster Diagram (pdf file)
- Level 5: How to Write a Book Report, Essay of Definition
Week 21: America Divides & Italy Unites
- Level 1: Cluster diagram (pdf file)
- Levels 3, 6, 9: Learn how to write plays from the Scholastic website
- Level 5: Scholastic has a good site for learning to write biographies.
- Level 11: Writing a process essay
Week 22: Lincoln and the Start of the Civil War
- Level 1: Cluster diagram (pdf file)
- Levels 3, 6, 9: Learn how to write plays from the Scholastic website
Week 23: Decisive Years of the Civil War
- Level 1: Cluster diagram (pdf file)
- Levels 3, 6, 9: Learn how to write plays from the Scholastic website.
- Levels 10-12: Informative site on debating
- Levels 10-12: Online Debating Tutorial
Week 24: Closing Years of the Civil War
- Level 1: Cluster diagram (pdf file)
- Level 3: Very simple story map (pdf file) and describing wheel (pdf file)
- Level 6: Story map
- Level 8: Create your own Venn diagram.
- Level 9: A Brief Guide to Writing Narrative Essays
- Level 10-12: How to Debate
- Debating, by Simon Quinn (214 page pdf)
Week 25: Andrew Johnson vs. Radical Reconstruction
- Level 1: Cluster diagram (pdf file)
- Level 8: Checklist for taking essay tests
Week 26: Ulysses Grant & the Plains Indians Wars
- Level 1: Cluster diagram (pdf file)
Unit 4 – The Gilded Age
Week 27: Technological Progress & the Unification of Germany
- Level 1: Cluster diagram (pdf file)
- Level 2: Very simple story map (pdf file).
- Level 2: Sample Aesop’s fables to print/show students before beginning their fables
- Great site: all the Aesop’s Fables you’ll ever need! All ages, but supervision is recommended. (We’ve not previewed this entire site, and it seems that stories from other sources are also posted.)
- Another source from which you can read/download/print a free copy of Aesop’s fables.
- Level 10: Essay of argumentation… this is a helpful website.
- Level 11: Review business communiques
Week 28: Introducing Africa and Reforming Empires
- Level 2: Very simple story map (pdf file).
- Level 6: Cluster diagram (pdf file)
- Level 8: Start using the online SAT question of the day.
Week 29: The Scramble for Empire
- Level 1: Simple instructions for writing friendly letters.
Week 30: Imperialism and Culture
- Level 1: Cluster diagram (pdf file)
Week 31: Waves of Immigrants
- Level 1: Cluster diagram (pdf file)
- Levels 3, 6, 8, and 10: For further helps on teaching your poetry unit, click here.
Week 32: Captains of Industry
- Level 1: Cluster diagram (pdf file)
- Level 4: Here is a cover that you can use for your state notebook. (pdf file)
- Level 4: Click here for a ready-to-use Table of Contents for your notebook. (pdf file)
Week 33: Labor Issues and the New South
- Level 1: Cluster diagram (pdf file)
- Levels 7, 9: Public speaking website
Week 34: Farmers, Populists, Gold Strikes and Gold Standards
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Week 35: Powerful Men and Inspiring Women
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Week 36: The Balkan Problem & American Imperialism
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