How do you teach ancient civilizations when there's so much to cover?  It can feel like: read, answer questions, move on.   Not my fav...

  Some novels are easy to read through with students. Others give you so much to talk about that you find yourself stopping every few pages ...

  Do you ever read something and think to yourself, "How did I not know about this?"  That's how I felt when I first heard abo...

  I fell in love with Salt to the Sea a while before I decided to create a unit for it.  Sixth graders love reading about World War II and t...

 I was looking for a good historical fiction book this summer and Impossible Escape  by Steve Sheinkin came onto my radar.  It is good.  Ve...