What are you reading?

Tell about what your are reading right now?

If you were Rosa Parks and the bus driver asked you to get off the bus, what would you do?

Early Inventions

We can learn about our country by looking at some of the early inventions during the Westward Expansion time period, like the cotton gin, steamship, railroad, and reaper. If you could create your own invention, what would it be and why would it help our country?

Civil Rights Books

How could you use the fiction book: "A Thousand Never Evers" or non-fiction book: "Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice" in your classroom to help students learn more about the Civil Rights Movement?

Westward Expansion

If you lived during the Western Expansion time period when we did not have electricity, what would you miss the most and why?

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne

Shmuel lived inside the fence during the Holocaust. Bruno lived on the other side. If you could change the end of the story, how would it end and why?

Who has encouraged you?

Phillis Wheatley was a former slave and was the first African American woman to publish a book due to the encouragement of her owners. Who has encouraged you in your life to be successful? What did they do?