Elisa Carbone
Lesson plans and teaching resources

|Biography and Background| |Blood on the River| |Last Dance on Holladay Street| |The Pack| |Sarah and The Naked Truth and Starting School with an Enemy||Stealing Freedom| |Storm Warriors|

Biography and Background

Elisa Carbone
The author's home page, including a link to the correct pronunciation of her name.

Blood on the River

Blood on the River: James Town 1607
Summary, discussion questions and activities, and related links.

Blood on the River
On this page, a summary. Follow links on the right to discussion questions and extension activities.

Blood on the River
This digital booktalk, a short video, makes a good pre-reading activity.

Literature Circle Guide for Blood on the River
Literature circle questions and answers, suggestions for postreading projects. Access to this 5-page document requires Adobe Reader or compatible application.

Last Dance on Holladay Street

Last Dance on Holladay Street by Elisa Carbone
Author interview, pre-reading questions, comprehension and discussion questions, and suggestions for post-reading projects.

The Pack

The Pack Study Guide
Summary and 10 discussion questions.

Sarah and The Naked Truth and Starting School with an Enemy

Starting School with an Enemy and The Naked Truth
This teacher's guide addresses multiple intelligences. It also offers prereading and prediction questions for both books and discussion/writing questions based on Bloom's Taxonomy.

Stealing Freedom

Stealing Freedom
Pre-reading activity, thematic and interdisciplinary connections, vocabulary, and related titles.

Stealing Freedom
One prereading activity and 5 postreading writing tasks.

Stealing Freedom
Pre-reading role play and other activities, thematic discussion questions, post-reading cross-curricular projects, and vocabulary.

Storm Warriors

Storm Warriors
Pre-reading activity, thematic connections, post-reading projects, vocabulary.

Storm Warriors
Two book talks.