Examples+of+Non-fiction+Texts

=__7th Grade--Unit 1 Middle Ages__= 1. //Sirs Discoverer//, search terms--MiddleAges, "Help Wanted: Middle Age Jobs" (Lexile 1070) 2. //Webpath Express//, [|"Overview: The Middle Ages, 1154 - 1485"]

=__9th Grade--Unit 2 The Novel__= 1. //Webpath Express//, [|Harper Lee.] 2. //Webpath Express//, [|To Kill a Mockingbird, Reader's Guide] by National Endowment for the Arts (this website also has a teacher's guide)

=__10th Grade--Unit 6 Latin and South America__= 1. //Webpath Express,// [|Isabel Allende (Chile, USA)] 2. //Webpath Express//, [|Isabel Allende] (text and video) 3. //Webpath Express//, [|The Nobel Prize in Literature, 1982, Gabriel Garcia Marquez]

=__12th Grade--Unit 1 European Literature: Middle Ages__= 1. //EBSCO Student Research Center//, search terms Boccaccio. "Boccaccio, Giovanni." By: Umberto Bosco //. Britannica Biographies //, 10/1/2010, p1, 2p; Reading Level (Lexile): 2. Webpath Express, [|Dante Alighieri]. 3. Webpath Express, [|Digital Dante]. (contains images, maps, background information, resources)

=__Other Examples:__=

**__Homeless Bird__**

 * 1) [|India Abortion of Girls on the Rise: Study] (Flesch-Kincaid 14.2)
 * 2) [|Shunned From Society, Widows Flock to City to Die] (Flesch-Kincaid 6.8)
 * 3) [|Dowry System and Women in India--personal narrative] (Flesch-Kincaid 12.0)
 * 4) [|India's Dowry Deaths] (Flesch-Kincaid 9.1)
 * 5) "India--Dating and Marriage," in Culturegrams in Pioneer Library

__**Witch of Blackbird Pond**__

 * 1) [|Salem Witchcraft Trials of 1692] (Flesch-Kincaid 12.2)
 * 2) [|Art--Images of Salem Witchcraft Trials]
 * 3) [|Online catalog category]--//Witch of Blackbird Pond//
 * 4) //[|Salem Witchcraft Hysteria]--National Geographic Interactive//
 * 5) [|Original transcripts of the trials of Salem witches]//[| (primary sources)"]//
 * 6) "Puritans" (L-970) and "Quakers" (L-1010)--[|WorldBook Advanced]
 * 7) [|Letter to the Editor 1899--]Puritans justifying attitudes and acts towards the Quakers (Flesch-Kincaid 15.5)

**__Watsons Go To Birmingham, 1965__**

 * 1) //EBSCO, Student Research Center//. Mills, Nicolaus. "Remembering Selma 1965." christian Science Monitor 21 Mar 1995:
 * 2) //EBSCO Student Research Center//. Heinz, W. C. and Bard Lindeman. “The Meaning of the Selma March: GREAT DAY AT TRICKEMFORK.” //Saturday Evening Post //, 5/22/1965, Vol. 238 Issue 10, p30-95, 9p.
 * 3) //EBSCO Student Research Center//. Wells, Bill, et al. "GREAT DAY AT TRCKEM FORK, Letters to the Editor.", 6/19/1965, Vol. 238 Issue 12, p4-6, 2p

__**Lincoln: A Photobiography**__

 * 1) [|Mr. Lincoln's Personality]

=__New Lexile Levels With Common Core__=





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