Reading Presentations Library

‘Day of Infamy’ Speech

‘To Be or Not To Be’ Soliloquy

‘We Shall Overcome’ Speech

‘Why Sit Here and Die’ Speech

“Cornerstone” Speech

“Hope” is The Thing With Feathers

“The Last Class: The Story of a Little Alsatian” by Alphonse Daudet (1917)

A Bird, Came Down the Walk

A Dream Within a Dream

A Law for Regulating Negroes and Slaves in the Night Time

A New Nation (8th grade informational reading)

A Poison Tree

A September Night

Abigail Adams

Achilles

Address to Congress on Women’s Suffrage

Adolescent Cliques

Adolf Hitler

Adonis

African American History

Ain’t I a Woman

Alice, the Negro

Amanda Gorman’s “The Hill We Climb” Inauguration Day Poem January 20, 2021

Amazon’s Biodiversity (8th grade informational reading)

America

America and I

America the Beautiful

America’s Shifting Views on Immigration

American Revolution (7th grade informational reading)

An Abolition Traitor

An Act for Prohibiting the Importation of Negroes, June 1774

An Act to Authorize the Manumission of Slaves (1782)

An Excerpt from ‘A Woman Who Went to Alaska’

An Excerpt from Betsey Hull’s Wedding

An Excerpt from the The Jungle Book

An Incredible Job: Being America’s President

An Introduction to Communism

An Overview of the Great Depression

Anatomy and Physiology of Penguins (8th grade informational reading)

Ancient Egypt (6th grade informational reading)

Ancient Egyptian Civilization (8th grade informational reading)

Ancient Greece: The Birthplace of Western Individualism

Ancient Greek Architecture (7th grade informational reading)

Andromeda

Animal Crossing Characters

Annabel Lee

Antarctica – Geological History and Paleontology (7th grade informational reading)

Anteros

Aphrodite

Apollo

April Fool’s Day

Are Child Actors Exploited by the Film and TV Industry? (6th grade informational reading)

Are Green Technologies Worth the Investment? (9th & 10th grade informational reading)

Are kids responsible for stepping in to prevent bullying? (5th grade informational reading)

Ares

Ariadne

Army Code Talkers

Arriving at Emerald City

Artemis

Article 1, Section 9 of the U.S. Constitution

Articles of Confederation (8th grade informational reading)

Athena

Atomic Theory (8th grade informational reading)

Aztec Sacrifice

Because I Could not Stop for Death

Because I Could Not Stop for Death (11th & 12th grade informational and literature reading)

Beginning of Colonization (5th grade informational reading)

Black History Month

Budgets and Budgeting (9th & 10th grade informational reading)

Bullying in Early Adolescence

Capitalism

Carrots with Character

Casey at the Bat

Catacombe dei Cappuccini (9th & 10th grade informational reading)

Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

Cerberus

Challenges for Women and Children during the Industrial Revolution (9th & 10th grade informational reading)

Characteristics of an Empire (7th grade informational reading)

Charles Henry Langston, Freedom Fighter

Chemical Bond (9th & 10th grade informational reading)

Christmas

Clash of Cultures: Indigenous America and the Conquistadores

Climate change has finally caught up to this Alaska village

Climate of the United States (8th grade informational reading)

Coastal Pollution (7th grade informational reading)

Combating Climate Change (9th & 10th grade informational reading)

Commentary on “I Have a Dream” by Martin Luther King Jr.

CommonLit Mini Unit – Genocide – “Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide”

CommonLit Mini Unit – Genocide – “President Clinton’s Remarks in Kigali on the Rwandan Genocide”

CommonLit Mini Unit – Love – “A Respectable Woman”

CommonLit Mini Unit – Love – “To my Dear and Loving Husband”

CommonLit Mini Unit – Love – “What is a Dream?”

CommonLit Mini Unit – Love – Excerpts from “Romeo and Juliet”

CommonLit Mini Unit – Morality – “The Storyteller”

CommonLit Mini Unit – Values and Beliefs – “Federigo’s Falcon”

CommonLit Mini Unit -Values and Beliefs – “The Devil”

CommonLit Mini Unit – Education – “The Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass”

CommonLit Mini Unit – Education – “The Story of a Little Alsatian”

CommonLit Mini Unit – Education – “Village Schools and Travelling Soldiers”

CommonLit Mini Unit – Heroes – “If We Must Die”

CommonLit Mini Unit – Heroes – “Sonnet”

CommonLit Mini Unit – Improving Society – “An Obstacle”

Compromise at the Convention (8th grade informational reading)

Conformity

Conservation as a National Duty

Credit (9th & 10th grade informational reading)

Cretaceous–Paleogene Extinction Event (8th grade informational reading)

Cultures and Government – The Middle East

Daylight Saving Time

DC Character Lore for Middle School Readers

Death of a Remarkable Woman

Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions

Dedication to “The Barbarism of Slavery” Speech

Deep Currents (7th grade informational reading)

Demand, Supply, and Equilibrium in Markets

Demeter

Descriptive Words, Adjectives and Adverbs in Emily Dickinson’s “Because I Could Not Stop For Death”

Developing Civilization in Ancient Egypt

Development of the Cold War (8th grade informational reading)

Different Types of Government

Digital History Project for Gilded Age Plains City – “Gilded Age”

Digital History Project for Martin Luther King Jr. – “About Martin Luther King Jr.”

Digital History Project for Martin Luther King Jr. – “RFK’s Speech Following the Death of MLK”

Digital History Project for Race and Place – “Excerpt from Southern Horrors”

Digital History Project for Spacial History – “History of Chinese Americans”

Digital History Project for The Texas Slavery Project – “Speech on Slavery”

Digital History Project for The Texas Slavery Project – “The Emancipation Proclaimation”

Dionysus

Dolley Madison

Domestic Changes (8th grade informational reading)

Dust of Snow

Duty, Honor, Country Address at West Point

Early American Settlers (6th grade informational reading)

Early Signs of Civilization (7th grade informational reading)

Easter 1916

Echo and Narcissus

Eclipses (7th grade informational reading)

Economics (8th grade informational reading)

Egypt’s Pyramids

Egyptian Mummies

Egyptian Social Structure

Electoral College

Eleonora

Elizabeth Monroe

Emma Watson’s “HeForShe” Speech: Ethos

Emma Watson’s “HeForShe” Speech: Logos

Emma Watson’s “HeForShe” Speech: Pathos

Emma Watson’s United Nations: “HeForShe: Gender Equality is Your Issue, Too” Speech

Empowering the Black Power Movement

Eros

Erotes

Escape Artist (5th grade informational reading)

Eulogy of George Washington (1799)

Europe – Explorers Take to the Sea (5th grade informational reading)

Europe – Location & Climate

European Exploration (9th & 10th grade informational reading)

European Landforms

Eurydice

Excerpt from ‘The Story of Doctor Dolittle’

Excerpt from “Pride and Prejudice”

Excerpt from “Self-Reliance”

Excerpt from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

Excerpt from Black Beauty

Excerpt from Frankenstein: The Creature’s Request

Excerpt from Heidi

Excerpt from The Adventures of Buster Bear

Excerpt from the Jungle

Excerpt from The Secret Garden

Excerpt from The Tempest

Excerpts From Abraham Lincoln’s First Inaugural Address

Fashion in the United States

Fast Food

Feathers

Fighting Rebels With Only One Hand

Financial Literacy

First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1861

First Lady Barbara Bush’s Commencement Address at Wellesley College

First Lady Hillary Clinton’s Address to theUnited Nations Fourth World Conference on Women

Frank Abagnale

Frederick Douglass Describes Enslavers

Frederick Douglass: A Biography

Frida Kahlo

From ‘A Time for Choosing’ Speech

From Juneteenth to the Tulsa massacre: What isn’t taught in classrooms has a profound impact

From Log Cabin to the Pulpit, or, Fifteen Years in Slavery

Fugitive Slave Act of 1793

Georgia’s Natural Disaster: Nouns

Georgia’s Natural Disasters: Adverbs

Georgia’s Natural Disasters: Comparison Contrast Cues

Georgia’s Natural Disasters: Highlight Supporting Details

Georgia’s Natural Disasters: Prepositional Phrases

Georgia’s Natural Disasters: Proper Nouns

Georgia’s Natural Disasters: Sequence of Events

Georgia’s Natural Disasters: Verbs

Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death Speech

Grade 7: Rikki-tikki-tavi (Adjectives & Adverbs)

Graeae

Grum

Hades

Half-Life (9th & 10th grade informational reading)

Halloween

Hamilton Character Guide

Harpies

Health Care and the LGBTQ Community

Hebe

Helen of Troy

Helena by Benjamin Broke

Helios

Hephaestus

Hera

Heracles

Herd Behavior

Hermes

Hestia

High School Sports

Hold the Wind

How Jackie Robinson Changed Baseball

How the Last 5 Generations Have Changed Us

Human Rights in the United States

I am the People – The Mob

I felt a Funeral, in my Brain

I Hear America Singing

I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud

Ideas from Athens and Rome to Washington D.C. (7th grade informational reading)

If

Impact of Colonization

Importance of Oceans (7th grade informational reading)

Improving Society MiniUnit: Emma Watson’s “HeForShe” Speech

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

India Strives for Independence (9th & 10th grade informational reading)

Indian History (6th grade informational & literature reading)

Indus Valley Mysteries

Industrialization Spreads (11th & 12th grade informational and literature reading)

Insurrection in Currituck

International Women’s Day

Internet Celebrities

Is it ‘Autumn or Fall’?

Jack and the Beanstalk

JFK’s ‘Race to Space’ Speech

Jigsaw Activity for any Content Reading

John Brown’s Speech to the Court at His Trial

Kamala D Harris

Keeping Up with the Joneses

Kinetic Molecular Theory and Gases (9th & 10th grade informational reading)

Language Death (7th grade informational reading)

Laws of North Carolina (1822)

Leonardo Da Vinci (7th grade informational reading)

Letter From Birmingham Jail

Letter from E.A. Edwards to Z.B. Oakes concerning the sale of Tom

Letter From Frederick Douglass to Harriet Tubman

Letter to Ziba B. Oakes, February 1, 1855

Letter to Ziba B. Oakes, February 26, 1855

Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing

Louisa Adams

Love and Friendship

Malala Yousafzai’s Address to the United Nations (July, 2013)

Malala Yousafzai’s Address to the United Nations

Marie Curie

Martha Jefferson

Martha Washington

Marvel Characters for Middle School Readers

Massachusetts Body of Liberties (1641)

Medusa

Mending Wall

Mental Health

Mesopotamian Civilization (8th grade informational reading)

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (7th grade informational reading)

Middle East – Natural Resources (6th grade informational & literature reading)

Mirror Stage

Mixtures and Solutions (6th grade informational reading)

Mobile Phone Use in Schools

My Hero Academia

National Education Association

NATIONAL READ ACROSS AMERICA DAY (DR. SEUSS DAY) – March 2

Natural Resources in Europe

Nature

New Netherland (5th grade informational reading)

Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution

No Man is an Island

Nomophobia

North American Indians

Nothing Gold Can Stay

Nuclear Energy (9th & 10th grade informational reading)

O Captain! My Captain!

Obesity (9th & 10th grade informational reading)

Oceanids

Ode on a Grecian Urn (11th & 12th grade informational and literature reading)

Odysseus

Olaudah Equiano Recalls the Middle Passage

Olykoeks (5th grade informational reading)

On Being Brought from Africa to America

On Broadway

On Liberty and Slavery

On the Doctrine of Feeling Power

On the Education of Youth in America

On Tragedy

Orpheus

Our Countrymen in Chains

Oxidation-Reduction Reactions (9th & 10th grade informational reading)

Passages in the Life of a Slave Woman

Passive Transport

Paul Revere’s Ride

Penguins are Funny Birds (5th grade informational reading)

Persephone

Perseus

Phobos

Physical Geography of Russia (6th grade informational & literature reading)

Plate Tectonics (7th grade informational reading)

Politics and Privacy (7th grade informational reading)

Pollution in its Many Forms (9th & 10th grade informational reading)

Poseidon

Prehistoric Europe (6th grade informational & literature reading)

President Woodrow Wilson’s Four Points

Private Laws of the State of North-Carolina (1858-1859)

Proclamation on Read Across America day, 2021

Propaganda: Battling for the Mind

Puritan laws and Character

Pygmalion

Race and Place Digital History Project: “Learning to Read” by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

Relaxation (psychology)

Reminiscences

Rights to the Streets of Memphis

Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott

Rumpelstilskin

Running Away, Buying Freedom and Rebellions (5th grade informational reading)

Salt Worth its Weight in Gold The Kingdom of Ghana

School Meals

Seasons (7th grade informational reading)

Self-Driving Cars

Settlers and American Indian Conflicts (5th grade informational reading)

Sherman’s Special Field Order No. 15

Shirley Chisholm’s Presidential Announcement Speech Transcript

Shoe Factory Horror

Should there be a grade requirement to participate in sports? (5th grade informational reading)

Slaves’ Petition for Freedom to the Massachusetts Legislature (1777)

Snow White

Social Media and the Effects on American Adolescents

Sonnet 18

Southern Marseillaise

Star Wars Lore for Middle School Readers

Steve Jobs’ Stanford University Commencement Speech

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

Storm Ending

Story of an Hour

Story Telling

Strauss-Howe Generational Theory

Stress Management

Structure and Composition of the Cell Membrane

Struggles in Latin America (9th & 10th grade informational reading)

Styx

Sub-Saharan Africa (6th grade informational & literature reading)

Summer Vacation

Sweat

Teens March for our Lives

Teens Using Social Media for Good Deeds

Ten Stages of Genocide (11th & 12th grade informational and literature reading)

Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving Sermon

The Allegory of the Cave

The American Electoral Process

The American Slave Code in Theory and Practice (1853)

The Ants and the Grasshopper

The Assassination of the President

The Aztec Civilization

The Black Lives Matter Movement

The Black Man’s Burden

The Blind Man and the Elephant

The Blind Men and the Elephant

The Boy Who Cried Wolf

The Cask of Amontillado

The Cell Cycle

The Civil Rights Act of 1964

The Code Noir (1685)

The Confederate Spy: A Story of the War of 1861

The Constitution – The Preamble (8th grade informational reading)

The Constitutional Convention is Called (8th grade informational reading)

The Crow and the Pitcher

The Daisy Girl Ad

The Decision to Drop the Bomb

The Donkey, the Fox, and the Lion

The Ecchoing Green

The Emperor’s New Clothes

The European Union (6th grade informational & literature reading)

The Faith Cure Man

The Fall of the House of Usher

The First Americans (6th grade informational & literature reading)

THE FIRST AMERICANS: THE OLMEC

The First People of North America – Pacific Northwest American Indians (5th grade informational reading)

The Fisherman and His Wife

The Four Dragons

The Fox and the Horse

The Frog and the Mouse

The Fugitive Slave Bill

The Genome

The Gettysburg Address (9th & 10th grade informational reading)

The Gift of the Magi

The Golden Lotus: A History of Foot Binding

The Goose With The Golden Egg

The Great Barrier Reef (8th grade informational reading)

The Great Migration (7th grade informational reading)

The Gunpowder Empires (9th & 10th grade informational reading)

The Harlem Renaissance

The Holocaust

The Human Body (5th grade informational reading)

The Impact of the Slave Trade (11th & 12th grade informational and literature reading)

The Importation of Negroes Into Massachusetts

The Inca Civilization

The Indus Valley Civilization (8th grade informational reading)

The Interlopers

The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

The Journal of a Slaver

The Kidnapping Case: Narrative of the Seizure and Recovery of Solomon Northrup

The Lady of Shalott

The Land of Story-Books

The Last Leaf

The Lighthouse Lamp

The Lion and the Mouse

The Lion in Love

The Little Match Girl

The Lord of the Rings – Impact on Popular Culture (7th grade informational reading)

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

The Man of the Crowd

The Manipulation of the American Mind: Edward Bernays and the Birth of Public Relations

The Masque of the Red Death

The Maya Civilization

The Militia Act of 1862

The Missouri Compromise (1820)

The Moirai

The Muses

The Myth of Daedalus and Icarus

The Nature vs Nurture Debate

The Necklace

The New Colossus

The Ocean

The Old Oaken Bucket

The Pit and the Pendulum

The Plea for Eight Hours

The Plot of “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz”

The Princess and the Pea

The Princess and the Pea

The Princess, the Dragon, and the Very Bad Knight

The Ransom of Red Chief (6th grade literature reading)

The Raven

The Rich Man and the Bundle of Wood

The Rights to the Streets of Memphis

The Rise of Greek City-States: Athens Versus Sparta

The Rise of Mussolini (11th & 12th grade informational reading)

The Road Not Taken

The Road Not Taken (6th grade informational & literature reading)

The Rush of Immigrants

The Scientific Revolution (6th grade informational & literature reading)

The Second Coming

The Sit-In Movement

The Solitude of Self

The Southern Colonies (5th grade informational reading)

The Spanish Civil War- A Prelude to WWII

The Story of Prometheus and Pandora’s Box

The Story of Prometheus and Pandora’s Box

The Supreme Court’s Ruling on Brown vs. Board of Education

The Tell Tale Heart

The Three Little Pigs

The Tradition of Thanksgiving (5th grade informational reading)

The Transformation of Arachne into a Spider

The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire

The Two Travelers

The Tyrant Who Became a Just Ruler

The Umbrella Academy Character Guide

The Underground Railroad (1871)

The Vikings (6th grade informational & literature reading)

The War Prayer

The Water Cycle (6th grade informational reading)

The White Man’s Burden

The Yellow Wallpaper

There’s a Certain Slant of Light

Thinking like a Historian

Thomas Jefferson on Shay’s Rebellion

Thomas Jefferson on Shays’ Rebellion

To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time

Total Control in North Korea

Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade (11th & 12th grade informational and literature reading)

Travel

Tristan and Isolde

Turn, Turn, My Wheel

Types of Societies

U.S. Constitution: Articles I, II, IV, V

U.S. Constitution: Articles I, IV, V

Underwater Clues to a Buried Village (7th grade informational reading)

United States Independence Day

United States Presidential Inauguration

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Verses Written by a Young Lady, on Women Born to Be Controll’d!

Video Game Controversies

Virtual School

War With Mexico

Was Einstein a Space Alien?

Washington’s Farewell Address

We Grow Accustomed to the Dark

We Have Been Friends Together

We Wear the Mask

We’ll Soon Be Free