Here are some activities, tests, and handouts I wrote and created myself or
copied and adapted from other people's ideas. ALL links are Word documents (except
webpages), and feel free to print them! Read them first though, I know there
are a few mistakes here and there!
- Reading 3 (low intermediate)
- Albert Einstein: Young Thinker (Childhood of Famous Americans
Series), by Marie Hammontree: about Einstein's youth. Great book and
very fun and easy!
- La Causa: The Migrant Farmworkers' Story, by Dana Catharine
De Ruiz: about Cesar Chavez. Difficult book discussing interesting issues
of immigration in the USA.
- Freedom Side, by Marcie M. Stadelhofen: easy and small
book about slavery.
- Laura Ingalls Wilder, by Megan Stine (?), and Sarah
Plain and Tal, by by Patricia MacLachlanl: two books about women
pioneers in the West.
- Martin Luther King: I Have a Dream. Easy book about Martin
Luther King's life.
- Number the Stars, by Lois Lowry: wonderful and easy to
read true story about Denmark and the Jews during WWII
- Text about Denmark
- Text about WWII
- Webpage
with activities and other teaching ideas
- Questions and vocabulary
- test 1 (also about names of country, people,
and languages)
- test 2 (also about names of country, people,
and languages)
- test 3 (also about names of country, people,
and languages)
- Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes, by
Eleanor Coerr: small and easy true story of a young Japanese girl facing death.
- Reading 5 (low advanced)
- October Sky (a.k.a. Rocket Boys), by Homer Hickam: the
wonderful true story from which the film was made.
- Hiding Place, by Corrie Ten Boom: an amazing true story
of the Netherlands during WWII. Relatively easy to read.
- They All Laughed . . . from Light Bulbs to Lasers: The Fascinating
Stories behind the Great Inventions That Have Changed Our Lives,
by Ira Flatow. Difficult to read but interesting and organized in short chapters.
- The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan: story of four Chinese immigrant
families.
- Reading 4 (high intermediate)
- The Giver, by Lois Lowry: intriguing and extraordinary
story of a "perfect world."
- My Left Foot, by Christy Brown: true story of an Irish
boy who can only write and paint with his left foot. Very touching.
- Seven Daughters and Seven Sons, by Barbara Cohen,
Bahija Lovejoy, Amy Cohn (Editor): fun and culturally very
rich story of an Arabic man who had seven daughters.
- Song of the Buffalo Boy, by Sherry Garland: the touching
story of the Vietnamese daughter of an American soldier.
- December Stillness, by Mary Downing Hahn: a book that goes
well with Song of the Buffalo Boy, telling the story of a young girl whose
dad faught in the Vietnam War.
- Freedom Train, by Dorothy Sterling: the true story of Harriet
Tubman .