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This gallery walk allows students of all ages to browse books, discuss them with a partner, and guess their genre and add their reasoning. It is best done after a review of literary genres. If you want to do more than 4 stations, just copy more pages!

This four corners PowerPoint acts great as a review and/or introductory activity. Simply put four pieces of paper near the four corners of your classroom (labeled A, B, C, D), and you're off. After the four corners game, the rest of the .ppt goes through the definitions.

This poetry gallery walk template is great for upper elementary, middle, or high school students. You pick the poems to post around the room or in groups or stations. Number them and leave the titles off as one of the questions has kids create their own title. Then, the kids walk around the room like an art gallery to peruse the poems. They read the poems/analyze them/evaluate them. This activity gets the students out of their seats and thinking. Feel free to play music during the moving times b

This novel unit project offers student choice and differentiated products to go along with Lois Ruby's novel, Steal Away Home. Great for ELA or social studies!

Show your students photographs from www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org (or any other photos dealing with survival or I HAVE LIVED A THOUSAND YEARS). This handy table helps them analyze the pictures.

This ppt includes author, genre, point of view, and setting of I Have Lived A Thousand Years.

This novel project is centered around Karen Hesse's historical fiction novel, Out of the Dust. The dinner menu project format gives the students choice with guidance. Let your students have fun as they show what they know in creative ways!

This activity has students find examples of symbolism in I HAVE LIVED A THOUSAND YEARS. 2/page to save paper!

This reading interest survey has both rating scales and open-ended questions to get students thinking about their reading. It is a great activity at both the beginning and the end of the year. Teachers, students, and parents can all benefit from this reading survey.

This novel project can be applied to almost any novel. The dinner menu project format gives the students choice with guidance. Let your students have fun as they show what they know in creative ways!

This checklist for editing and revising can guide students through improving their writing of a survival narrative.

This activity has students find examples of irony in I HAVE LIVED A THOUSAND YEARS. 2/page to save paper!

This scavenger hunt for Lois Ruby's novel, Steal Away Home, is a great introductory activity to get students predicting what the novel might be about.

Have your students write a short letter to the students in the grade below them telling them what to expect for their upcoming school year. Easily add the grade and graduating year, and you're ready to go!

This map project about I HAVE LIVED A THOUSAND YEARS has students map Elli's journey to survival.

This weekly reading log gets your students thinking about text connections, analysis, and evaluation. Even better: You can totally revise it to fit your needs.

This table is a great way to get students to identify elements of an argument from any text you decide to pair with it. And, as a word document, it is easy to adapt to your specific circumstances. It can be used as practice or assessment, too. A great way to organize information about an argumentative text!

This simple web quest directions students to find definitions of and make predictions about a few basic historical connections to the novel Steal Away Home. Terms such as jayhawker, border ruffian, and underground railroad are used.

This PowerPoint introduces Lois Ruby's historical fiction novel, Steal Away Home.