Up from Slavery Lesson Plans

Up from Slavery Teaching Unit (Prestwick House)

A teaching unit and individual learning packet from Prestwick House. Includes the following: Comprehensive chapter-by-chapter study guides for students Questions suitable for essay topics or discussion Vocabulary lists Muliple-choice and... More »

Grammardog Guide to Up From Slavery

Grammar, Style, and Proofreading Exercises designed to teach grammar in context. These reproducible exercises use sentences from the literature. Each literary work is analyzed for 12 of the following 14 elements: parts of speech; proofreading... More »

Up from Slavery Teaching Unit

A teaching unit and individual learning packet from Prestwick House. Includes the following: Comprehensive chapter-by-chapter study guides for students Questions suitable for essay topics or discussion Vocabulary lists Muliple-choice and... More »

Primary Source Readers: Biografias de estado unidenses: George Washington (Spanish Version)

George Washington Carver was born a slave. When he grew up, George became an important scientist and inventor. Why was he called the "plant doctor"? What did he invent from peanuts? Come along and explore his life and discoveries! 32 pages More »

US History Readers' Theater Grd 5 & up

Why use Readers' Theater in history classes? The format gives students a sense of involvement with the human dramas that make up history. Performers can relate to the tension of a young married couple escaping from slavery to freedom. They can... More »

World History Readers' Theater Grd 5 & up

Why use Readers' Theater in history classes? The format gives students a sense of involvement with the human dramas that make up history. Performers can relate to the tension of a young married couple escaping from slavery to freedom. They can... More »

Ancient History Readers' Theater Grd 5 & up

Why use Readers' Theater in history classes? The format gives students a sense of involvement with the human dramas that make up history. Performers can relate to the tension of a young married couple escaping from slavery to freedom. They can... More »

Primary Source Readers: Biografias de estado unidenses: George Washington (Spanish Version) (Enhanced eBook)

George Washington Carver was born a slave. When he grew up, George became an important scientist and inventor. Why was he called the "plant doctor"? What did he invent from peanuts? Come along and explore his life and discoveries! 32 pagesThis... More »

US History Readers' Theater Grd 5 & up (Enhanced eBook)

Why use Readers' Theater in history classes? The format gives students a sense of involvement with the human dramas that make up history. Performers can relate to the tension of a young married couple escaping from slavery to freedom. They can... More »

Ancient History Readers' Theater Grd 5 & up (Enhanced eBook)

Why use Readers' Theater in history classes? The format gives students a sense of involvement with the human dramas that make up history. Performers can relate to the tension of a young married couple escaping from slavery to freedom. They can... More »

World History Readers' Theater: Grades 5 and up (Enhanced eBook)

Why use Readers' Theater in history classes? The format gives students a sense of involvement with the human dramas that make up history. Performers can relate to the tension of a young married couple escaping from slavery to freedom. They can... More »

Slavery in the United States Pop-up Book

Create a pop-up book. More »

Challenges to Slavery Power Point

Pre Civil War Unit, Power Point covers some of the main issues leading up to Civil War. Notesheet for GT/REG/REM level is also uploaded on this site with the same title. More »

George Washington

Students will create a pop-up book about George Washington. More »

Up Close and Personal with George Washington (Biography)

A one-page biographical sketch containing facts about George Washington's appearance, his poorly-fitting teeth, and the false tale about chopping down a cherry tree. Useful in building fluency, learning more about George Washington, and similar... More »

George Washington's Barn

This unit contains a two-page nonfiction article about a special barn that George Washington designed and built. Also includes eight follow-up activities to practice grade-level skills in phonics (sounds of ea, the -alk family), comprehension... More »

Dig It Up! (counting)

A one-page skills practice in which young learners connect the dots from one to twenty to see what Fido dug up, plus an answer key. More »

Thumbs Up/ Thumbs Down from the Emperor

Students will understand the shifts in the political and social framework of Roman society. More »

Addition Strategies, Grade 3: Count Up

This grade 3 math fluency unit provides practice in counting up from a larger number when adding on 1, 2, 3, or 4. (9 + 2 [count up 10, 11] = 11) More »

From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler Power Pack

Each ready-to-use Prestwick PowerPack is full of reproducible, skills-based activities created especially for students in grades 5-8. From identifying and writing figurative language to seeing the world through the eyes of a character, your... More »

Subtraction Strategies, Grade 1: Count Up

This Gr. 1 math fluency unit provides four subtraction activity pages in which students count up to find the difference between numbers (If the problem was 11-9=?, the student counts up from 9 to get 2 as an answer.) An assessment page asks... More »