A Buss From Lafayette Teacher's Guide

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Pub Date Apr 01 2018 | Archive Date May 01 2018

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Description

This guide is for A Buss From Lafayette, Dorothea Jensen's award-winning (Literary Classics, Purple Dragonfly, eLit Awards, etc.) historical novel for young readers. This guide contains bulletin board ideas, vocabulary exercises, varied student handouts, puzzles, games, reading comprehension quizzes, discussion questions, and both individual and class projects. Its cross-curricular activities include language arts/reading, social studies, mathematics, health/safety, art, music, dance, drama, recipes, and suggestions for real and virtual field trips. A full answer key is provided. The main topics covered are the American Revolution, Lafayette's role in our War of Independence, Lafayette's Farewell Tour of America in 1824-5, and everyday life and customs in rural America in the 1820s.

This guide is for A Buss From Lafayette, Dorothea Jensen's award-winning (Literary Classics, Purple Dragonfly, eLit Awards, etc.) historical novel for young readers. This guide contains bulletin...


Advance Praise

"This teacher's guide gives many wonderful suggestions of how to integrate subjects with the historical content of the novel, A Buss From Lafayette, and suggests questions that challenge higher level thinking." Susan Elliott, Ph. D., Associate Professor, Quinnipiac University, Literacy and Curriculum Development

"This teacher's guide gives many wonderful suggestions of how to integrate subjects with the historical content of the novel, A Buss From Lafayette, and suggests questions that challenge higher level...


Marketing Plan

Extensive outreach to the education community, including schools and homeschools; Presentations planned for schools, libraries, historical societies, New Hampshire Humanities Council, etc., Early ARC giveaways to teachers and librarians; media campaign, including NHPR and television

Extensive outreach to the education community, including schools and homeschools; Presentations planned for schools, libraries, historical societies, New Hampshire Humanities Council, etc., Early ARC...