Teaching Themes
World War II: Everything You Need
Eyewitness interviews, lesson plans, and other resources help students discover the history of World War II and the conflict's lasting impact
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Lesson Plans, Book Resources The Good Fight Lesson PlanGrades: 6–8 Complete with personal eyewitness accounts, black and white photos, and key campaign and battlefield maps, this history brings the horrific and... |
Booktalks The Boy Who Dared BooktalkGrades: 6–8 Booktalk for The Boy Who Dared by Susan Campbell Bartoletti |
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Discussion Guides, Book Resources Number The Stars Discussion GuideGrades: 3–5 Ten-year-old Annemarie and her best friend Ellen often think of life before the war. It's now 1943, and their life is filled with school, food... |
Book Resources Number the Stars Vocabulary BuilderGrades: 3–5 Ten-year-old Annemarie and her best friend Ellen often think of life before the war. It's now 1943, and their life is filled with school, food... |
 Extension Activities, Book Resources Anne Frank: Beyond the Diary Extension ActivitiesGrades: 6–8 Use these activities with Anne Frank: Beyond the Diary to expand students' understanding of the major themes in the diary and help them... |
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Discussion Guides, Book Resources Torn Thread Discussion GuideGrades: 6–8 Discussion guide for Torn Thread by Anne Isaacs |
Lesson Plans, Book Resources Dear Miss Breed Lesson PlanGrades: 6–8 The letters which are at the core of the book Dear Miss Breed provide readers with an eyewitness account of the Japanese American incarceration.... |
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Discussion Guides, Book Resources A Boy No More Discussion GuideGrades: 6–8 Discussion Guide for Harry Mazer's A Boy at War |
Extension Activities, Book Resources A Boy No More Extension ActivityGrades: 6–8 Extension Activity for Harry Mazer's A Boy at War |
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Extension Activities, Writing Prompts, Writing Activities Hitler's Daughter Extension ActivityGrades: 3–5 When Anna starts her story about Heidi, ten-year-old Mark thinks that it is just going to be another one of Anna's tales. Mark is gripped by the... |
Booktalks Elly: My True Story of the Holocaust BooktalkGrades: 3–5 Booktalk for Elly: My True Story of the Holocaust by Elly Berkovits Gross |
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Lesson Plans, Writing Activities Introduction to a Study of the HolocaustGrades: 3–5 Students create questions they want answered while they read quotes and listen to passages from books about the Holocaust. |
Lesson Plans, Online Learning Activities, Writing Activities Hermeneutics: Teaching Students Author's PurposeGrades: 3–5 Students learn how to examine sources. Gives the teacher an opportunity to guide the students through such examination with light literature. |
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Discussion Guides, Extension Activities, Readers Theater Scripts, Writing Activities Discussion Guide for The Boy Who DaredGrades: 6–8, 9–12 Discussion Guide for the Boy Who Dared by Susan Campbell Bartoletti |
Writing Activities, Book Resources, Lesson Plans and Unit Plans Lesson Ideas to Enrich Student Inquiry into the HolocaustGrades: 3–5 Offers an inquiry-based lesson on author's purpose, current events, strong vocabulary, and the role a bystander plays in conflict. |
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Discussion Guides, Online Learning Activities, Writing Activities, Book Resources The Journal of Ben Uchida Discussion GuideGrades: 3–5 A discussion guide to The Journal of Ben Uchida: Citizen 13559, Mirror Lake Internment Camp, California, 1942 by Barry Denenberg, in the My Name... |
Discussion Guides, Book Resources The Journal of Scott Pendleton Collins Discussion GuideGrades: 6–8 A discussion guide for The Journal of Scott Pendleton Collins: A World War II Soldier, Normandy, France, 1944, by Walter Dean Myers in the My Name... |
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Articles, Book Lists Books For Teaching the HolocaustGrades: 3–5 Suggests books for support of student inquiry into the Holocaust. |
Discussion Guides, Book Resources Early Sunday Morning Discussion GuideGrades: 6–8 A discussion guide to Early Sunday Morning: The Pearl Harbor Diary of Amber Billows, Hawaii, 1941 by Barry Denenberg in the Dear America... |
