Reading Comprehension for High School

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  The True Story of Paul Revere

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  This is a downloadable copy of the book. (358 pages)

  About the book: Published in 1905, Gettemy writes of Paul Revere’s midnight ride, his arrest, court-martial plus his ‘useful public services’. Paul Revere ( December 21, 1734 – May 10, 1818) was an American silversmith, engraver, early industrialist, and a patriot in the American Revolution. He is most famous for alerting the Colonial militia to the approach of British forces before the battles of Lexington and Concord, as dramatized in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem, “Paul Revere’s Ride”. Revere was a prosperous and prominent Boston silversmith, who helped organize an intelligence and alarm system to keep watch on the British military. Revere later served as a Massachusetts militia officer, though his service culminated after the Penobscot Expedition, one of the most disastrous campaigns of the American Revolutionary War, for which he was absolved of blame. Following the war, Revere returned to his silversmith trade and used the profits from his expanding business to finance his work in iron casting, bronze bell and cannon casting, and the forging of copper bolts and spikes. Finally in 1800 he became the first American to successfully roll copper into sheets for use as sheathing on naval vessels.

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  Constellations in the Winter Sky – Northern Hemisphere

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  Explore the Northern Hemisphere’s Winter constellations with this resource! Students will learn…

  • What are the major constellations?
  • What is the Greek Mythology behind them?
  • What major stars will help guide them through the night sky?
  • How is Orion the ‘key’ to locating the main constellations?
  • What is the name of the North Star, and which constellation is it in?
  • What is the brightest star in the sky?

  Students will learn about the following constellations:

  • Orion
  • Canis Major
  • Canis Minor
  • Gemini
  • Auriga
  • Pleiades
  • Taurus
  • Draco
  • Ursa
  • Major
  • Ursa Minor
  • Cepheus
  • Cassiopeia

  They will learn the location of the following stars:

  • Pollux
  • Castor
  • Capella
  • Procyon
  • Sirius
  • Betelgeuse
  • Rigel
  • Aldebaran
  • Capella
  • Polaris

  They will also learn which constellations are called the Northern Circumpolar constellations PLUS the Greek Mythology behind these major constellations!

  Student activity sheets include:

  • Fill in the blank (constellation and star names for the ‘Winter Sky’)
  • Draw and name (the five circumpolar constellations and the North Star)
  • Crossword Puzzle (in which they will use the information within the resource to gather answers)

  Suggested follow up activities:

  • Assign students to go outside after dark, find and draw the constellations they see and can identify.
  • Visit a local planetarium

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  Biographical Memoir of Alexander Graham Bell

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  This is a downloadable copy of the book. (30 pages)

  Excerpt from the book: Alexander Graham Bell – teacher, scientist, inventor, gentleman – was one whose life was devoted to the benefit of mankind with unusual success. Known throughout the world as the inventor of the telephone, he also made other inventions and scientific discovers of first importance, greatly advanced the methods and practices for teach the deaf and came to be admired and loved throughout the world for his accuracy of thought and expression.

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  French Cookery by Margaret Brown

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  This is a copy of Margaret Brown’s French Cookery book – Publication date: 1886
  It includes a large variety of French recipes from the late 1800’s, written in very simplistic, paragraph form. Recipes from apple cake and corn bread to lobster fritters and rabbit fricassee!

  Here is an example of how recipes are written:
  Peach Sauce.
  Place the peach juice from the can into a small saucepan, add an equal volume of water, a little more sugar and 8 or 10 raisins, boil this 10 minutes, strain, and just before serving add 8 drops of extract of bitter almonds.

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