The Story of My Life Lesson Plans

The Story of My Life Response Journal (Prestwick House)

By reflecting on what they've read, students develop new ideas and link these ideas to their lives. To facilitate this process, we offer reproducible Prestwick Response Journals in the tradition of the response-centered teaching movement. Each... More »

Helen Keller

This unit on celebrating diversity presents a two-page biography of Helen Keller, who became blind & deaf following a fever. The unit includes four skills activity pages on answering comprehension questions, defining & using root words, comparing... More »

Helen Keller

Guided by Time Magazine's list of 100 most influential people, this series of 64-page biographies focuses on the leaders, scientists, and icons who shaped our world. These people, many from very humble beginnings, changed how the world works.We... More »

The Story of My Life Response Journal

By reflecting on what they've read, students develop new ideas and link these ideas to their lives. To facilitate this process, we offer reproducible Prestwick Response Journals in the tradition of the response-centered teaching movement. Each... More »

Helen Keller Teacher's Resource Guide

This 16-page Teacher's Resource Guide includes research-based, reproducible activities which extend key reading strategies including decoding, vocabulary skills, activating prior knowledge, fluency and more - developed around the essential... More »

The Graduate

Students will learn about the achievements of Helen Keller. More »

10th Grade Project Options - short story unit

These are project options I designed for my sophomres to accompany our short story unit. One option ties in silent/subtitled films, one uses the film "Life is Beautiful," one allows students to select their own short story reading, and another... More »

Helen Keller/Helen Keller

A biographical article about blind and deaf Helen Keller, who learned language from a special tutor, Annie Sullivan, and became world famous for her concern for others. Presented in both English and Spanish, the unit also includes three language... More »

ANECTODES IN THURBER'S THE DOG THAT BIT PEOPLE

The Dog that bit people is an humorous short story extracted from Thurber's "MY Life and Hard Times". The story is full of autobiographical notes and is an exemplar of Thurber's vivid portrayal and characterization. He also uses several... More »

Helen Keller (Enhanced eBook)

Guided by Time Magazine's list of 100 most influential people, this series of 64-page biographies focuses on the leaders, scientists, and icons who shaped our world. These people, many from very humble beginnings, changed how the world works.This... More »

Helen Keller Teacher's Resource Guide (Enhanced eBook)

This 16-page Teacher's Resource Guide includes research-based, reproducible activities which extend key reading strategies including decoding, vocabulary skills, activating prior knowledge, fluency and more - developed around the essential... More »

Character Life Box project

This project was originally made to accompany the study of a Shakespearean play for my Regular and Honors classes, but I have used it for lots of other texts (including novels and short stories). You can also combine it with a creative writing... More »

Jesus, My Best Friend (Enhanced eBook)

Each unit includes a Bible story, memory verse, bulletin board idea, and activity pages that will help youngsters learn about Jesus' life and teachings.This enhanced eBook gives you the freedom to copy and paste the content of each page into the... More »

Light in a Dark, Silent World

This two-page reading on celebrating diversity is a biographical sketch of blind/deaf Helen Keller & how Annie Sullivan taught her to communicate through sign language. The unit includes four activity pages on answering comprehension questions,... More »

Cross-Curricular Building Blocks: Grades 1,2 (Enhanced eBook)

This unique selection of articles and non-fiction stories can be used in a wide variety of teaching situations and can be easily integrated into existing classroom studies. Including 12 educationally-based articles and 36 reproducible activities,... More »

Cross-Curricular Building Blocks: Pre K

This unique selection of articles and non-fiction stories can be used in a wide variety of teaching situations and can be easily integrated into existing classroom studies. Including 12 educationally-based articles and 36 reproducible activities,... More »

Cross-Curricular Building Blocks: Grades 1,2

This unique selection of articles and non-fiction stories can be used in a wide variety of teaching situations and can be easily integrated into existing classroom studies. Including 12 educationally-based articles and 36 reproducible activities,... More »

"The Necklace" Short Story Analysis

This is a graphic organizer that I created to help my students locate and analyze the important literary elements of a short story. I tailored this handout to the short story "The Necklace". More »

My Heart

Students will understand basic functions of the heart. More »

The Butterfly's Story

Students will culminate their study of butterflies by writing the life story of a butterfly and making a butterfly book using their data sheets. More »

Cross-Curricular Building Blocks: Pre K (Enhanced eBook)

This unique selection of articles and non-fiction stories can be used in a wide variety of teaching situations and can be easily integrated into existing classroom studies. Including 12 educationally-based articles and 36 reproducible activities,... More »