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Quizzes
     History of Writing Quiz (Grades 9-12) review quiz - options for multiple pages, keys
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Short Reading Comprehensions
Very Quick Readers
     Samuel Johnson's Dictionary (Very Quick Reader; Grade 6 Readability)

Short Readers
     Samuel Johnson, Author of the Dictionary? (Short Reader; Grade 8 Readability)


Reading Comprehensions
Read and Color
            Who Is This Famous Author?

History of Books
     An Exciting Discovery: The Nag Hammadi Library (Grades 6-8)
     Ancient Picture Stories (Grades 9-12)
     Elegant Hieroglyphics (Grades 9-12)
     Classy Chinese Characters (Grades 9-12)
     The Phoenicians' Purple Passion (Grades 9-12)
     Greek and Roman Copycats (Grades 9-12)
     Magnificent Manuscripts (Grades 9-12)
     Slips of Salvation and Other Printed Miracles (Grades 9-12)
     Libraries - The Memory of Mankind (Grades 9-12)
     Unbirthday Parties and Other Celebrations from Children's Books (Grades 9-12)
     All the News That's Fit to Print - and Some that Isn't (Grades 9-12)
     Ebooks - Fad or Future? (Grades 9-12)
     Up, Up, and Away with Magazines and Comic Books (Grades 9-12)

History of Writing
     Arnold Lobel (grades 5-7)
     Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (Grades 6-8)
     Geoffrey Chaucer (Grades 9-12)
     Charles Dickens (Grades 9-12)
     Sid Fleischman (Grades 9-12)
     Ernest Hemingway (Grades 9-12)
     William Shakespeare (Grades 9-12)
     John Steinbeck (Grades 9-12)
     E. B. White (Grades 9-12)


Reading Comprehensions - Foreign Languages
Spanish: Reading Comprehensions
     Las Bibliotecas: El Recuerdo de la Humanidad (Grades 9-12)


Book Units
    The Canterbury Tales (Grades 9-12)


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