School Based Supplemental Resources

240 Daily Warm-ups with Answers (Joy Sexton)
Adopt Don’t Shop (Erin Cobb imlovinlit.com)
Alexander the Great (Teaching to the Middle)
Ancient Mesopotamia Interactive Map (Curriculum Hound)
Ashoka the Great (Creative Primary Literacy)
Athens (James Gasparo)
Back to School Escape Room (The Sparkly Notebook)
Bayard Rustin: A Champion for Equality (Caitlyn Meagher)
Best American Bike Trails (Jeff Wallach, ForbesTraveler.com)
Biography: Martin Luther King, Jr. (Rick’s Resources)
The Butterfly Problem (Shay Maunz)
Can DNA Editing Save Endangered Species? (Kathiann Kowalski)
Candy Corn: A Unique Treat (Shelly Rees)
Cause and Effect Informative Essay (Kim Barker)
Celebrate Freedom Week (OvertheMoonBow.com)
Cell Theory (World of Biology)
Central Idea Reading Comprehension (Teaching to the Middle)
Character Description Activity (EB Academic Camps, LLC)
Chinese Philosophies Lesson 6.4
Chocolate (Erin Cobb imlovinlit.com)
Color the Parts of the Microscope
Daily Reading: Central Ideas & Inferencing (Read Write Middle 2017)
Daily Reading: Mystery Passages (Read Write Middle 2017)
Daily Reading: Survival Stories (Read Write Middle 2017)
Daily Reading: Theme (Read Write Middle 2017)
Declaration of Independence: Primary Source Analysis (Mister Harms)
Digital Art Boom (Andrew R. Chow)
Distinguishing Between Eras/Putting Dates on a Timeline
Does TikTok Belong in School? (Scholastic Scope February 2020)
Early Humans (Tim Robinson Preparing Lifelong Learners)
Empires of Mesopotamia
Epic! School (getepic.com)
Ethos, Pathos, Logos: An Overview (May Pat Mahoney Just Add Students)
Exploring Ancient China: The Dynastic Cycle & the Mandate of Heaven
The Fifth Taste ( Cathryn Free)
The Five-Second Rule (One Stop Teacher Shop)
Food Tricks in Advertising (Norma Lewis Reading Past Bedtime)
Future Food (Rebecca Mordechai)
Geography of Ancient India (Instructomania)
Greek Mythology (www.mrdowling.com)
History of the cell: Discovering the cell (Newsela)
How to Study Math (Paul Dawkins)
How Video Games Are Getting Inside Your Head — And Wallet (Steven Henn)
Human Computers (Erin Cobb imlovinlit.com)
Human Computers: The Women of NASA (Adrienne Zembower)
Hypotonic vs. Hypertonic vs. Isotonic: Learn the Difference
I Have a Dream (Martin Luther King, Jr.)
In a Superhero Cape, He Feeds the City's Hungry and Homeless. And He's Only 4 (Mayra Cuevas, CNN)
Is Texting Killing the English Language? (John McWhorter)
The Latest Buzz – Caffeine (Valerie DeBenedette)
Let's Not Use Mars as a Backup Planet (Lucianne Walkowicz)
Marthin Luther King, Jr. Day (Teaching to the Middle)
Mesopotamian Achievements (C. Leonard Woolley)
My Guide to the River Valley Civilizations
New Horizon (National FFA)
No Zombies Five Reasons Why the Zombie Apocalypse Can’t Happen (Scott Fisher)
Nobel Prize Winner Malala and Novelist Discuss Building Peace with Words (Haiy Le)
Not Your Typical Mountain Biking Trail (American Bikers Association Magazine)
Ötzi the Iceman: Investigation
Paragraph of the Week (www.teachinginroom6.com)
Poetry Analysis: Mother to Son by Langston Hughes, Oranges by Gary Soto, If I Can Stop One Heart from Breaking by Emily Dickinson, Nothing Gold Can Stay by Robert Frost, Abandoned Farmhouse by Ted Kooser (Brain Waves Instruction)
Reading Comprehension and Writing with RACE Strategy (Emma Oliver)
Remembering September 11, 2001 A Day that Shook America (MiddleSchoolCafe)
Rhetorical Appeals Task Cards (Kelli Lovinglass)
The Rose That Grew from Concrete (Tupac Shakur)
Ruthless (William DeMille)
Scholastic Science World Current Science
Science News Explores
Science News Magazine for the Society for Science
Scientific Investigations
Scientific Method Controls and Variables (T. Trimpe sciencespot.net)
Sea Level Rise (from the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History)
Should We Bring Back Extinct Animals? (The Week Jr.)
Steamboat Geyser at Yellowstone Experiencing Unusual Eruptions (Washington Post)
Structure of Literary Text (Practice Made Purposeful)
Sumerian Achievements (The Boundless Teacher)
Summarizing Nonfiction (Norma Lewis Reading Past Bedtime)
Teach Central Ideas and Supporting Details (Darlene Anne)
Tiny Plastic, Big Problem (Alison Pearce Stevens)
To Christine Only (Suzanne Ford)
Too Much Sugar (Erin Cobb imlovinlit.com)
Toys R Us End of an Era (Erin Cobb imlovinlit.com)
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (ushmm.org)
Vampire Bats: Monster or Misunderstood? (One Stop Teacher Shop)
Why Dolphins Make Us Nervous (Robert Krulwich)
Why Good Advertising Works (Even When You Think It Doesn’t) (Nigel Hollis)
With E-sports on the Rise, Traditional Sports Need to up Their Game (Fred Bowen)
www.generationgenius.com
You Need a Chainsaw to Carve the World's Biggest Pumpkins (Smithsonian)

Poetry Analysis 1 & 2:
- Abbie Farwell Brown: “The Fisherman”
- Aimee Nezhukumatathil: “Are All the Break-ups in Your Poems Real?”
- Alfred Lord Tennyson: “A Farewell” “The Brook”
- Alice Walker: “Women”
- Audre Lorde: “Hanging Fire”
- Barbara Kingsolver: “Naming Myself”
- Billy Collins: “Today”“Litany” “On Turning Ten” “Introduction to Poetry”
- Carl Sandburg: “Knucks”
- Darren Sardelli: “My Doggie Ate My Essay”
- David Berman: “Snow”
- David Berman: “The Broken Mirror”
- Denise Levertov: “Pleasures”
- Douglas Mallock: “Be the Best of Whatever You Are”
- Dylan Thomas: “Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night”
- E.E. Cummings: “Maggie and Milly and Molly and May”
- Eavan Boland: “The War Horse”
- Edgar Albert Guest: “See It Through” “A Friend’s Greeting” “Only a Dad”
- Edgar Allan Poe: “Alone” “A Dream Within a Dream” “Annabel Lee”
- Edna St. Vincent Millay: “Recuerdo”
- Edward Hirsch: “Fall”
- Eileen Spinelli “First Saturday in June”
- Eleanor Lerman: “That Sure Is My Little Dog”
- Elizabeth Bishop: “One Art”
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox: “It Might Have Been”
- Emily Dickinson: “Hope Is the Thing with Feathers” “I Like to See it Lap the Miles” “I Died for Beauty, but Was Scarce” “We Never Know How High We Are”
- Eugene Field: “The Duel”
- Frank O’Hara: “Having a Coke With You”
- Gary Soto: “Saturday at the Canal” “Oranges”
- George Ella Lyon: “Where I’m From”
- Georgia Douglas Johnson: “Dead Leaves”
- Gwendolyn Brooks: “The Children of the Poor”
- Hilda Doolittle: “The Garden”
- Jack Prelutsky: “The New Kid on the Block”
- Jacqueline Woodson: “Group Home Before Miss Edna’s House”
- James Wright: “A Blessing”
- Jenny Joseph: “Warning”
- Jewel Kilcher: “Absence of Fear”
- Jimmy Santiago Baca: “I Am Offering this Poem”
- Judith Viorst: “Mother Doesn’t Want a Dog” “Since Hanna Moved Away”
- Kenn Nesbitt: “Lunchbox Love Note”
- Langston Hughes: “I, Too” “As I Grew Older” “Dream Variations” “Mother to Son” “Harlem”
- Lawrence Ferlinghetti: “Retired Ballerinas, Central Park West”
- Linda Hogan: “Predators”
- Louise Bogan: “Medusa”
- Margaret Atwood: “They Are Hostile Nations”
- Mark Doty: “A Display of Mackerel”
- Marsden Hartley: “Fishmonger”
- Mary Elizabeth Frye: “Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep”
- Mary Hunter Austin: “Rathers”
- Mary TallMountain: “The Last Wolf”
- Maya Angelou: “Caged Bird” “Life Doesn’t Frighten Me” “Phenomenal Woman” “Still I Rise” “Equality”
- Nancy Wood: “Animal Wisdom”
- Naomi Shihab Nye: “Famous” “Kindness”
- Nikki Giovanni:“Legacies” “Ego-Tripping (There May Be a Reason)” “Mothers”
- Octavia Paz: “Wind and Water and Stone” “As One Listens to the Rain”
- Pat Mora: “Ode to Teachers” “Old Love” “A Voice”“Gold”
- Paul Lawrence Dunbar: “Invitation to Love”
- Richard Brautigan: “All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace”
- Rita Dove: “Flirtation”
- Rita Joe: “I Lost My Talk”
- Robert Burns: “A Red, Red Rose”
- Robert Frost: “After Apple-Picking” “The Road Not Taken” “Nothing Gold Can Stay” “Design” “Acquainted with the Night”
- Robert Louis Stevenson: “My Shadow”
- Robert Peter Tristram Coffin: “The Secret Heart”
- Rudyard Kipling: “If”
- Rupert Brooke: “The Soldier”
- Sandra Cisneros: “Cloud”
- Sara Teasdale: “I Am Not Yours” “There Will Come Soft Rains”
- Sarah Josepha Hale: “Mary’s Lamb”
- Seamus Heaney: “Digging”
- Shel Silverstein: “Dirty Face” “Where the Sidewalk Ends”
- Sylvia Plath: “Mirror”
- TuPac Shakur: “And 2morrow” “The Power of a Smile” “Life Through My Eyes”“I Cry”
- Wallace Stevens: “The Snow Man”
- Walter Dean Myers: “Love that Boy”
- Wendy Rose: “Loo-Wit”
- William Blake: “A Poison Tree” “The Tyger”
- William Carlos Williams: “Danse Russe”
- William Ernest Henley: “Invictus”
- William Hughes Mearns: “Antigonish (I Met a Man Who Wasn’t There)”
- William Shakespeare: “Sonnet 29: When, in Disgrace with Fortune and Men’s Eyes”
- William Wordsworth: “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” “Surprised by Joy”
- Yusef Komunyakaa: “Pride”