John Mark Kuhns provides a list of fourteen easy-to-identify trees, including sugar maple, red maple, silver maple, and others, and highlights trees to avoid, such as catalpa, spruce, and hickory, with reasons for each. This information can help students identify trees in their surroundings. This Word document is formatted to print three sets of the list for distributing to the class.

John Mark Kuhns provides a set of instructions for an Ecosystem Writing Project. It outlines the requirements for researching and describing an ecosystem, including both biotic and abiotic factors, threats to the ecosystem, and its importance. The project includes specific grading criteria for the overview, biotic and abiotic factors, threats, conclusion, and organization.

In Manitoba, students need 30 credits (17 compulsory + 13 electives) to graduate. The province has frameworks for Student Initiated Projects and Credits for Employment. We decided to combine them into what we call "Work Studies" and allow students to earn up to 4 work study credits to replace book/class-based electives. They can do these during the summer or after school.

We have kept our process quite streamlined and simple, trying to give as many of our students opportunities as possible. This helps make graduation more attainable for those less academically inclined, and recognizes that much learning takes place outside of the classroom.

This document outlines IMF's expectations for enrolling a child in kindergarten, and ways parents can prepare their child for enrollment.

A worksheet that walks high school literature students through a poetry analysis. The assignment is adapted from Helen Vendler's Poems, Poets, and Poetry: An Introduction and Anthology (2nd ed.).

This PowerPoint introduces students to several early American poets: Anne Bradstreet, Edward Taylor, and Phillis Wheatley.

This evaluation sheet is meant to be a companion to Ralph Waldo Emerson's poem "Self-Reliance." Students are asked to compare statements in the poem with Biblical truth.

This assignment provides guidance to students as they watch a short documentary: https://www.learner.org/series/american-passages-a-literary-survey/regional-realism/. Students are asked to summarize and interact with the material in the video.

This assignment provides guidance to students as they watch a short documentary on the American South's literary renaissance: https://www.learner.org/series/american-passages-a-literary-survey/southern-renaissance/. Students are asked to summarize and interact with the material in the video by answering several questions.

This is the first journal prompt for students as they read The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain.

This document contains discussion questions for chapters 13-14 of The Chosen by Chaim Potok. It also includes a final reading journal prompt so that students can reflect on the book.