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Common Core reading booklets
Reading and English teachers are now required to use more non-fiction. To meet this need, we have published TWO 60-page booklets full of fascinating non-fiction -- all about Tennessee!  One is called Journey of the Adventure and other stories of Tennessee history.
Although all students will enjoy it, it was primarily written for students in elementary and middle grades (with Lexile numbers between 710 and 850). Click here to learn more about it, here to order copies and here for its teacher's guide.   Also
* Click here to order Bloody Ground, Our Ground (the social studies booklet for 4th/8th grades) * Here to order Fight against such terrible odds (the social studies booklet for 5th/11th grades) * Here to order A Student's Guide to the Tennessee Senate  New on the web page:
Kings Mountain Virtual Tour The battle that turned the tide of the American Revolution. Click here to read it.  Speaker from our Past
An interview with William L. "Dick" Barry, Speaker of the House from 1963 until 1967. Click here.  The yellow fever epidemic
Click here to read about Episcopal nuns gave their lives tending to the sick in 1878  Henry Timberlake
250 years ago, a British officer changed our world forever, then died in debtor's prison! Click here for a virtual tour that comes with its own worksheet.  Highlander
A virtual tour that takes you to a forgotten birthplace of the Civil Rights Movement Click here |
—Brian Smith, Seventh Grade Teacher, Jefferson Middle School, Oak Ridge"My students and I enjoy your website and videos. We use them often to discuss Tennessee geography and history."