General
- FreeBooknotes.com presents Cliff’s Notes-like help for many works.
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- Norton online quizzes — Western Literature
Unit 1 – Casting Off the Moorings
Week 1: Dawn of the Twentieth Century
- Call of the Wild, by Jack London
- Biography of Jack London
- Worldviews
Week 2: The Progressive Era
Week 3: Wilson’s Reforms & Europe’s War
- Read The Tales of Peter Rabbit, by Beatrix Potter
- Interactive site for Peter Rabbit
Week 4: Deadlock and Death
- The Railway Children, by E. Nesbit
- Anne of Green Gables, by L. M. Montgomery
- The Cherry Orchard, by Anton Chekhov
- Spark Notes: The Cherry Orchard
Week 5: America Mobilizes & Russia Revolts
- The Velveteen Rabbit, by Margery Williams
- The Railway Children, by E. Nesbit
- Anne of Green Gables, by L. M. Montgomery
- Spark Notes: All Quiet on the Western Front
Week 6: Winning the War & Losing the Peace
- The Wind in the Willows, by Kenneth Grahame
- Anne of Green Gables, by L. M. Montgomery
- Spark Notes: All Quiet on the Western Front
Week 7: Postwar America
- Biography of A. A. Milne
- Anne of Green Gables, by L. M. Montgomery
- Poetry by Robert Frost
- T.S. Eliot
- Alliteration, Allusion
Week 8: America’s Roaring 20’s & Russia’s Stalin
- Biography of A. A. Milne
- Peter Pan, by J.M. Barrie
- Animal Farm, by George Orwell
- Spark Notes: Animal Farm
- How to identify literary satire
Week 9: American Ballyhoo & Hitler’s Early Career
- In Which Pooh Goes Visiting and Gets into a Tight Place
- Biography of A. A. Milne
- Peter Pan, by J.M. Barrie
- The Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka
- Spark Notes: The Metamorphosis
Unit 2 – Depression and Destruction
Week 10: Bull Market and Black Market
- Spark Notes for Our Town
- The Great Gatsby E book
- Spark Notes for The Great Gatsby
Week 11: Crash! The Great Depression in America
- Madeline
- Mike Mulligan site with activities
Week 12: FDR and the New Deal
- Click here for all kinds of activities to use with Curious George books.
- Mr. Popper’s Penguins literature guide
- Spark Notes for The Red Pony
- Spark Notes for The Pearl
Week 13: Aggression and Appeasement
- Spark Notes for The Glass Menagerie
Week 14: Blitzkrieg!
- Biography of Paul Gallico, author of The Snow Goose
- Snow Goose
- The Hundred Dresses activity pages from Scholastic.
- Understanding Poetry
- The Hundred Dresses: Lapbook
Week 15: World-Wide War
- Spark Notes for The Lord of the Flies
- Spark Notes for The Old Man and the Sea
Week 16: Unconditional Surrender
- Glencoe study guide for The Chosen (.pdf file)
Week 17: Hot War to Cold War
- No links for this week.
Week 18: A Jewish Homeland
- The Little Prince book
- Spark Notes for The Little Prince
Unit 3 – Conformity to Counterculture
Week 19: India’s Independence
- Activities for One Grain of Rice
- The House of Sixty Fathers – Study Guide. This has overview, themes, questions and more.
- Homeless Bird – Study Guide
Week 20: China’s Revolution
- The House of Sixty Fathers – Study Guide. This has overview, themes, questions and more.
- Homeless Bird – Study Guide
- To Live movie
Week 21: Truman: Korea & the Red Scare
- Glencoe guide to So Far from the Bamboo Grove. This is a pdf file: 22 pages.
- Spark Notes for The Crucible
Week 22: Eisenhower’s Oasis
- Want some fun online activities for Dr. Seuss books? Click here.
- Old Yeller Study Guide Questions
- Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys Fun Site
- Glencoe guide to So Far from the Bamboo Grove. This is a pdf file: 22 pages.
- Waiting for Godot – Spark Notes
Week 23: Conformity and Change
- Two-page pdf file that will give you more helps for teaching Through My Eyes by Ruby Bridges
- Flannery O’ Connor Site
- Spark Notes – “Everything that Rises Must Converge”, by Flannery O’Connor
- Spark Notes – “A Good Man is Hard to Find”, by Flannery O’Connor
- A Good Man is Hard To Find
- Everything That Rises Must Converge
Week 24: Kennedy’s New Frontiers
- Where the Wild Things Are – Games and Activities
- The Snowy Day
- Preschool Activities for Winter
- The Phantom Tollbooth Activity Page
- Fahrenheit 451 – Spark Notes
- Fahrenheit 451 Novel Guide
Week 25: Camelot and Crisis
- The Berenstain Bears Website
- James and the Giant Peach – Activities
- Spark Notes for To Kill a Mockingbird
Week 26: Johnson’s Great Society
- Dragon Page Activities
- Dragon Coloring Pages
- Water Buffalo Days – Activities
- Review of The Lilies of the Field
- Spark Notes for To Kill a Mockingbird
Week 27: A Nation in Distress
- Water Buffalo Days – Activities
- Review of The Lilies of the Field
- Spark Notes for To Kill a Mockingbird
Unit 4 – The Postmodern World
Week 28: Nixon: Détente and Watergate
- Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day – Story time online
- James Herriot Unit Study
- Have Space Suit Will Travel Audiobook
- I, Robot – Study Guide
Week 29: Ford’s Integrity
- Listen to You Are Special, by Max Lucado, on YouTube.
- James Herriot Unit Study
- Have Space Suit Will Travel Audiobook
- Citizen of the Galaxy study guide
Week 30: Carter’s Malaise
- Miss Nelson is Missing read-aloud on YouTube.
- Berenstain Bears
- The Breadwinner study guide
- Citizen of the Galaxy study guide
Week 31: Reagan’s Revolution
- The Breadwinner study guide
- The Hobbit Sparknotes
Week 32: G.H.W. Bush’s New World Order
- Discussion questions for The Indian in the Cupboard
- Study guide for The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe (pdf file)
- Another study guide for The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe
- The Hobbit Sparknotes
Week 33: Clinton’s Lost Opportunity
- Discussion questions for The Indian in the Cupboard
- Study guide for The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe (pdf file)
- Another study guide for The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe
- The Hobbit Sparknotes
Week 34: George W. Bush: War on Terror
- Shel Silverstein website full of activities and ideas for teaching
- Raising Dragons is one of the books in the Dragons in Our Midst series. Check out their website!
Week 35: Obama: Hope and Change?
- Shel Silverstein website full of activities and ideas for teaching
- Raising Dragons is one of the books in the Dragons in Our Midst series. Check out their website!
Week 36: Reflections and Revelation
- Shel Silverstein website full of activities and ideas for teaching
- Raising Dragons is one of the books in the Dragons in Our Midst series. Check out their website!