Ga Virtual Learning: Scholastic: Nonfiction [Pdf]

This is a one-page PDF outling a Book of Wisdom project which requires students to write two 300-500 word original fables with all of the characteristics of a fable including a moral or lesson. The second part requires students to find...

This one-page PDF is a rubric for the "Book of Wisdom Project," which requires students to write two original fables and locate and compile a list of proverbs/sayings, catagorize and illustrate them, and write about the authors. Search...

This is a nine-page PDF on poetic devices; it includes four sections: The Sounds of Words, The Meanings of Words, Arranging the Words, and The Images of Words. Each section includes the poetic devices that fit the topic complete with...

This is a PDF Fable Chart designed for students to complete as they read a fable; it includes the title and author, the animal character, human characteristics, the individual elements of a short story, and the moral or lesson.

This is a four-page PDF on how to cite images including photographs, maps, charts, slides, and more. It also explains copyright laws for images.

This is a three-page PDF of an alphabetic list of literary terms focusing on nonfiction.

This is a five-page PDF of the introduction to The Way to Rainy Mountain by N. Scott Momaday, a book about Momaday's Kiowa ancestors' journey from their ancient beginnings in the Montana area to their final war and surrender to the US...

This is a six-page PDF of prefaces to A Thousand Miles Up the Nile by Amelia B. Edwards, an Egyptian travelogue published in 1877, which described Edwards's 1873-1874 voyage up the Nile River.

This is an eleven-page PDF of "Chapter I: Cairo and the Great Pryamid" from A Thousand Miles Up the Nile by Amelia B. Edwards, an Egyptian travelogue published in 1877, which described Edwards's 1873-1874 voyage up the Nile River.

This lesson focuses on the elements of nonfiction including types of nonfiction such as biographies, autobiographies, memoirs, newspaper editorials, speeches, and essays. It features links to a chart of the types of nonfiction and an...