Introduce "The Inn of Lost Time" by Lensey Namioka to your middle schoolers with a reader's resource page. It includes links to different activities, including a creative writing prompt about losing fifty years of your life, and a...

Students demonstrate the ability to draw vertical, horizontal, and diagonal lines, recognize the difference between inside and outside, and create a picture of themselves.

Young scholars translate the print based content of the play by utilizing mixed media skills to communicate an argument. In this play translation lesson, students analyze and translate the play A Raisin in the Sun and explore themes from...

This online interactive quiz on quotes from Shakespeare's Richard III may be useful as an extension activity, but it does not adequately assess understanding of the play.

Famous novelist Pat Conroy is profiled at this site. Along with biographical information, it includes a brief discussion of his work. A suggested reading list follows.