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Comprehensive, Cross-Curricular, Common Core-Aligned Unit Now Available for Use With How I Became a Teenage Survivalist

5/15/2014

How Has Technology Changed Our Lives

This is a comprehensive 3-4 week unit with the essential question: How has technology changed our lives. It includes the novel unit for the book: How I Became a Teenage Survivalist. There are quizzes, activities, worksheets, a final test for the unit as well as a plan and scoring guide for a final argumentative essay. It is completely aligned to the Common Core State Standards.

Subjects: English Language Arts, Literature,Informational Text
Grade Levels: 8th
Resource Types: Examinations - Quizzes, Lesson Plans (Bundled), Novel Study
Common Core Standards: RL.8.1, RL.8.2, RL.8.3, RL.8.4, RI.8.2,RI.8.3, RI.8.4, RI.8.6, RI.8.8, ...

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Review of Time Lost: Teenage Survivalist II

5/13/2014

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Feathered Quill says: A truly amazing story showing the perseverance of the human spirit!

Pre-Teen/TeenTime Lost: Teenage Survivalist II (Volume 2)

By: Julie L. Casey
Publisher: Amazing Things Press
Publication Date: March 2014
ISBN: 9780615986944
Reviewed By: Kristi Benedict
Review Date: May 2014

Living in a world without electricity was something Ben had never once thought about especially since his parent’s divorce occupied his mind at the time. However, when PF (Power Failure) Day comes, the power grids are completely wiped out by an electromagnetic surge from the sun forcing everyone to realize just what it is like to live without electricity. Chaos erupts everywhere as Ben and his father try desperately to find ways to survive, but the limited supply of water and food in the city is diminishing quickly, causing people to take desperate measures. As winter approaches, Ben’s father unfortunately becomes ill with the flu and Ben decides he has to go out and find food alone. Unfortunately, while he is gone, a fire erupts in their apartment building taking his father away in a sea of ashes.

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The Night the Sky Was Ablaze

5/13/2014

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The Night the Sky Was Ablaze

In the middle of the night on September 2, 1859, gold miners living in tents in Colorado were wakened by bright lights in the sky. They rose and began making breakfast, thinking it was morning. Even birds and other animals believed that the morning had come. A New Orleans paper reported that three unfortunate larks, which normally don’t emerge from their nests until morning, were shot in the middle of the night. In London, England, the lights were even bright enough to cast a shadow on the ground. People who were up late that night in the northeastern states of the USA could read books and newspapers with just the lights in the sky. They watched the eerie colorful lights dance in the northern sky with wonder and awe. 1

In the eastern and southern United States, the sky was blood red. Many citizens believed that the sky or neighboring towns were on fire. In some areas, fire trucks were even sent to help put out the huge inferno. Some people were filled with fear and dread. They thought the lights were an omen of bad things to come, like an epidemic, a revolution, or even the end of the world. Others were familiar with the Northern Lights, or Aurora Borealis as scientists call them, but wondered why they were appearing so far south. Normally, they appeared only over the far northern latitudes. However, on this night and for several nights thereafter, the lights could be seen as far south as Hawaii and the Bahamas. 1

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Comprehensive, Cross-Curricular, Common Core-Aligned Unit Now Available for Use With How I Became a Teenage Survivalist

How Has Technology Changed Our Lives

Review of Time Lost: Teenage Survivalist II

Feathered Quill says: A truly amazing story showing the perseverance of the human spirit!

The Night the Sky Was Ablaze

The Night the Sky Was Ablaze

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