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.
- This site can be used as you are teaching or reviewing the parts of speech. You’ll find matching, concentration, flash cards, and a word search.
- Interactive Graphic Organizers
- 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 Prep Review: Great site for test preparation.
- 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:
- Lisa has contributed this 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!
- I recommend you show a student his grading rubric (or better yet, have him help you develop one!) before he starts his project or writing assignment. Click here to develop rubrics automatically from this site for most types of evaluations!
Unit 1 – Casting Off the Moorings
Week 1: Dawn of the Twentieth Century
- Level 1: Click here for some neat online activities as you are teaching nouns. Use next week too!
- Level 2: Parts of grammar
- Levels 3-7: For reviewing the steps in the writing process, click here.
- Levels 8-11: More advanced explanation of steps in the writing process.
Week 2: The Progressive Era
- Level 1: Coloring page of William H. Taft
- Level 2: Pronoun game
- Level 3: Your student may enjoy practicing combining words into sentences with this fun online activity.
- Levels 4-6: Describing wheel (pdf file), Cluster diagram (pdf file)
- Levels 7-8: Cluster Diagram for more middle level students (pdf file), describing wheel (pdf file)
- Levels 9-11: More advanced cluster diagram for oldest students, describing wheel (pdf file)
Week 3: Wilson’s Reforms & Europe’s War
- Level 1: Coloring page of Woodrow Wilson
- Level 2: Grammar Blast
- Level 3: Venn diagram, Cluster diagram (pdf file), describing wheel (pdf file), 5 W’s Chart (pdf file)
- Level 11: Taking lecture notes
Week 4: Deadlock and Death
- Levels 4-6: Want to use level-appropriate sentences from the Bible for dictation? Click here.
- Levels 4-12: If you are beginning to learn or review prepositions this week in grammar, click here for a crossword puzzle here that will reinforce this knowledge.
- Levels 4-12: Preposition Wordsearch
- Levels 5-8: Descriptive Writing
- Levels 10-11: More advanced cluster diagram for oldest students.
Week 5: America Mobilizes & Russia Revolts
- EZ School: grammar tutorials, worksheets, and games.
- Level 3: Very simple story map (pdf file)
- Levels 3, 6, 9: Learn how to write plays from the Scholastic website
- Levels 4-5: Use one of these graphic organizers.
- Levels 6, 9: Story map
Week 6: Winning the War & Losing the Peace
- Levels 3, 6, 9: Learn how to write plays from the Scholastic website
Week 7: Postwar America
- Level 1: Click here for instructions on making a game for learning prepositions. Looks like fun!
- Level 2: Daily Grammar
- Levels 3, 6, 9: Learn how to write plays from the Scholastic website.
- Levels 4-5: 5 W’s Chart (pdf file), Cluster diagram (pdf file)
- Level 7: Cluster Diagram (pdf file)
- Level 11: Christian Internet Code of Ethics: definitely worth reading!
Week 8: America’s Roaring 20’s & Russia’s Stalin
- Level 1: Coloring page of Warren G. Harding
- Level 2: For further help with learning the steps of the writing process, click here.
- Levels 3, 6, 9: Learn how to write plays from the Scholastic website.
- Level 11: Go to these sites for helps and practice college application essays:
- Princeton Review has loads of helpful information, and we found this very interesting page there.
- Interested in Business schools? Princeton Review has this article on writing essays for admission to them.
- AdmissionsEssays.com: Free step by step analysis, structure, and writing guide.
- College Application Essays: helpful hints. Written from a secular perspective, but with some helpful hints.
Week 9: American Ballyhoo & Hitler’s Early Career
- Level 1: Coloring page of Herbert Hoover
- Level 3: Cluster diagram (pdf file)
- Level 6: Cluster Diagram for more middle level students (pdf file)
Unit 2 – Depression and Destruction
Week 10: Bull Market and Black Market
- Level 1: Coloring page of Herbert Hoover
- Level 2: Describing wheel (pdf file)
- Level 10: Instructions for building your own website.
- Level 11: Cause and Effect
Week 11: Crash! The Great Depression in America
- Level 1: Need extra worksheets for working on capitalization? Click here.
- Level 2: Cluster diagram (pdf file)
- Level 3: Parts of Speech: Schoolhouse Rock songs!
- Level 6: Cluster diagram (pdf file)
- Level 7: How to write a report.
- Level 10: Instructions for building your own website.
Week 12: FDR and the New Deal
- Level 1: Coloring page of Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Levels 2-3: Very simple story map (pdf file)
- Level 3: Basic information about descriptive writing.
- Levels 4-5: Online thesaurus
- Levels 4-5: Using a Thesaurus
- Level 7: Use one of these graphic organizers for planning your research report.
- Level 11: Good site, with an example definition essay.
Week 13: Aggression and Appeasement
- Level 1: Need more practice on capitalization or punctuation? Click here for more worksheets.
- Level 3: Describing wheel (pdf file), sensory chart (pdf file)
- Levels 4-5: Cluster diagram (pdf file)
- Level 6: Venn diagram
- Level 9: Writing a Research Paper
Week 14: Blitzkrieg!
- Levels 2-3: Cluster diagram (pdf file)
- Level 4: Very simple story map (pdf file)
- Level 5: Biography Maker
- Level 6: Venn diagram
Week 15: World-Wide War
- Level 1: WWII Coloring Pages
- Levels 2, 5: Cluster diagram (pdf file)
- Level 3: Venn diagram
- Level 11: Story map
Week 16: Unconditional Surrender
- Level 1: Harry Truman coloring page
- Level 2: Cluster diagram (pdf file)
- Level 3: Venn diagram
- Level 3: Compare and Contrast! Diagram a story.
- Level 6: Cluster diagram (pdf file)
- Level 7: Describing wheel (pdf file), sensory chart (pdf file)
- Level 12: Great site for learning to build your own website.
Week 17: Hot War to Cold War
- Level 3: Venn diagram
Week 18: A Jewish Homeland
- No links for this week.
Unit 3 – Conformity to Counterculture
Week 19: India’s Independence
- Level 1: Cluster diagram (pdf file)
- Level 2: Samples of Aesop’s fables to show students in pre-writing phase
- 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.)
- Level 3: Narrative Writing Tutorial
- Level 9: How to Write an Analytical Essay
- Level 10: Narrative Essays
- Level 11: Argumentative Essay
- Level 12: Historical Fiction
Week 20: China’s Revolution
- Level 1: Cluster diagram (pdf file)
- Level 2: Samples of Aesop’s fables to show students in pre-writing phase
- 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.)
- Level 4: Journal Writing
- Level 6: Persuasive Writing
- Level 7: Book Reports
- Level 8: Compare and Contrast Essays
- Level 9: How to Write an Analytical Essay
- Level 11: Argumentative Essay
- Level 12: Historical Fiction
Week 21: Truman: Korea & the Red Scare
- Level 1: Cluster diagram (pdf file)
- Level 2: Samples of Aesop’s fables to show students in pre-writing phase
- 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.)
- Level 3: Story Writing
- Level 4: Journal Writing
- Levels 6, 10: Compare and Contrast Essays
- Level 7: Book Reports
- Level 8: Expository Essays
- Level 9: Narrative Essays
- Level 11: Argumentative Essay
Week 22: Eisenhower’s Oasis
- Level 1: Cluster diagram (pdf file)
- Level 2: Samples of Aesop’s fables to show students in pre-writing phase
- 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.)
- Level 3: Story Writing
- Level 4: Journal Writing
- Levels 6, 10: Compare and Contrast Essays
- Levels 7, 9: Persuasive Essays
- Level 8: Narrative Essays
- Level 11: Personal Response to Literature
- Level 12: Historical Fiction
Week 23: Conformity and Change
- Level 1: Cluster diagram (pdf file)
- Level 2: Samples of Aesop’s fables to show students in pre-writing phase
- 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.)
- Level 3: Story Writing
- Level 4: Journal Writing
- Level 6: Narrative Essays
- Levels 7, 9: Persuasive Essays
- Level 8: Story Writing
- Level 10: Argumentative Essay
- Level 11: Analytical Essays
- Level 12: Historical Fiction
Week 24: Kennedy’s New Frontiers
- Level 1: Cluster diagram (pdf file)
- Level 2: Expository Writing
- Level 3: Photo Essay – you have to scroll a little way down
- Levels 4, 7, 9: Speech Writing
- Level 6: Reports
- Level 8: Story Writing
- Levels 10-12: Debate
Week 25: Camelot and Crisis
- Level 1: Cluster diagram (pdf file)
- Level 2: Some graphic organizers to print to help with informative writing or directions
- Level 3: Photo Essay – you have to scroll a little way down
- Level 6: Reports
- Levels 7, 9: Speech Writing
- Levels 10-12: Debate
Week 26: Johnson’s Great Society
- Level 1: Cluster diagram (pdf file)
- Level 2: Descriptive Writing
- Level 3: Photo Essay – you have to scroll a little way down
- Levels 4, 7, 9: Speech Writing
- Level 6: Reports
- Level 8: Story Writing
- Levels 10-12: Debate
Week 27: A Nation in Distress
- Level 1: Cluster diagram (pdf file)
- Level 2: Descriptive Writing
- Level 3: Photo Essay – you have to scroll a little way down
- Levels 4, 7, 9: Speech Writing
- Level 6: Reports
- Levels 10-12: Debate
Unit 4 – The Postmodern World
Week 28: Nixon: Détente and Watergate
- Level 1: Writing a Friendly Letter
- Levels 2, 4, 7: Newspaper Writing
- Level 5: How to write a report
- Level 6: How to write a fiction story
- Levels 8-10: Literary Analysis
- Level 11: The Process Essay
- Level 12: How to write a Parable
Week 29: Ford’s Integrity
- Level 1: Writing a Friendly Letter
- Levels 2, 4, 7: How to Write a Summary Paragraph
- Level 5: How to write a report
- Level 6: How to write a fiction story
- Levels 8-10: Literary Analysis
- Level 11: The Process Essay
- Level 12: How to write a Parable
Week 30: Carter’s Malaise
- Level 1: Describing Wheel – printable
- Levels 2, 4: Writing a Newspaper
- Levels 2, 4: Newspaper Game for Kids
- Levels 2, 4, 7: Power Point Template for your newspaper assignment
- Level 5: How to write a report
- Level 6: How to write a fiction story
- Level 7: Writing a Newspaper
- Levels 8-10: Literary Analysis
- Level 11: Response to Literature
Week 31: Reagan’s Revolution
- Level 1: Describing Wheel – printable
- Level 2: Writing a Newspaper
- Levels 2, 4: Newspaper Game for Kids
- Levels 2, 4, 7: Power Point Template for your newspaper assignment
- Levels 3, 6, 8: 2 Word Poems
- Levels 4, 7: Writing a Newspaper
- Level 5: How to write a report
- Levels 8-10: Imagery in Poetry
Week 32: G.H.W. Bush’s New World Order
- Level 1: Describing Wheel – printable
- Levels 2, 4: Newspaper Game for Kids
- Levels 2, 4, 7: Writing a Newspaper
- Levels 2, 4, 7: Power Point Template for your newspaper assignment
- Level 5: Writing a Personal Narrative
- Level 9: Writing an Interview Report
Week 33: Clinton’s Lost Opportunity
- Levels 2, 4: Newspaper Game for Kids
- Levels 2, 4, 7: Power Point Template for your newspaper assignment
Week 34: George W. Bush: War on Terror
- Levels 2, 4: Newspaper Game for Kids
- Levels 2, 4, 7: Power Point Template for your newspaper assignment
Week 35: Obama: Hope and Change?
- Levels 2, 4: Newspaper Game for Kids
- Levels 2, 4, 7: Power Point Template for your newspaper assignment
Week 36: Reflections and Revelation
- Levels 2, 4: Newspaper Game for Kids
- Levels 2, 4, 7: Power Point Template for your newspaper assignment