Dancing Into History from Dance in America: Acts of Ardor: Two Dances by Paul Taylor

In this Walk Two Moons comprehension check worksheet, students respond to 10 short answer questions covering chapter 14 of Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech in order to help them better understand the chapter and the novel.

Play vocabulary bingo with your class. Here is a creative way to engage your pupils as they find the definitions to vocabulary words in the book A Tale of Two Cities. They put the vocabulary words on a bingo card and mark them off when...

Class members assume the role of one of the characters in Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities. Writing as that character, they defend a decision he/she made. Groups then are presented with problematic situations that  parallel those of...

"That man is not truly one, but truly two." The Strange Case of  Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde offers readers a change to craft a poem combining words and phrases from Robert Lewis Stevenson's novella to create a poem for two voices. The...

A Tale of Two Cities begins with one of literature's most memorable paragraphs; see if you can complete it, sentence by sentence, in this quiz! Most questions are fill-in-the-blank, but the juxtaposition makes this easier.

Readers of A Tale of Two Cities are asked to draw connections between Book III, Chapter Nine of Dickens’ story and The Gospel of John 2:1-43. The Biblical text and discussion questions are included with the worksheet.

Discover the experience of being Muslim in America. For this diversity lesson, watch "9/11 Backlash: Being Muslim in America," and research how Muslims are portrayed in American television and movies. Debate the media portrayal of Muslims.

What was the most beneficial policy for nineteenth-century African Americans: to stay in the United States and work for freedom, or to immigrate to a new place and build a society elsewhere? Your young historians will construct an...

Here's a must-have resource for anyone reading To Kill A Mockingbird or using Harper Lee's award-winning novel in a classroom. The packet contains Miss Hollace Ransdall's first-hand, factual account of the trials of the Scottsboro Boys,...

Are you working on a Charles Dickens unit? Ten multiple-choice questions from A Tale of Two Cities will do the job checking reading comprehension. Use this resource as a quick diagnostic tool after reading the novel as a class.