Louisa May Alcott
Louisa May Alcott Activities and Lessons - Collection of lesson plans, web links, and texts of Louisa May Alcott from Read Write Think (Y, M, O, T)
Looking at Life in Concord - Lesson plan and worksheet download ()
NYT Obituary for Louisa May Alcott - Text of the obituary (which reads more like a news article than an obituary) for Louisa May Alcott from the New York Times ()
Portraits Visual and Written - Lesson plan on Samuel Clemens and Louisa May Alcott from Smithsonian in Your Classroom (M)
Critical Literacy: Women in 19th-Century Literature - Introduce students to fundamental ideas of critical literacy through a reading and critical analysis of two pieces of literature from the 1800s, focusing on each author’s intent and intended audience. Students first read and discuss two chapters from a story by Louisa May Alcott. Each student then chooses a literary piece for individual analysis from the online archives of a popular magazine from that era. After reading and studying the two selections, students write an essay in which they compare each author’s purpose and voice. (O)
Louisa May Alcott Memorial - Orchard House - Louisa May Alcott’s Orchard House - Home of Little Women is a historic house museum owned and operated by the Louisa May Alcott Memorial Association. The Louisa May Alcott Memorial Association is a private, not-for-profit corporation founded in 1911. The Association provides the financial and human resources required to conduct public tours, special programs, exhibits and the curatorial work which continue the tradition of the Alcotts, a unique Nineteenth Century family. (Y, M, O, T)
An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving by Louisa May Alcott, 1881 - Return to the perspective of giving thanks from a time before television, telephones, and the internet to keep us connected with the rest of the world (Y, M, O, T)
Louisa May Alcott: Her Life, Her Times And Her Literature - The subject of this unit is Louisa May Alcott with an emphasis on showing how her background shaped her writing and the similarities between her life and her best known novel: Little Women. Louisa May Alcott came from an interesting family and her tendency was to write books that borrowed their characters from her own relatives. She led a fairly colorful life for a woman born in 1832. She was a prolific writer, but also served as a nurse, teacher and suffragette. The classics are sometimes forgotten and this unit attempts to provide some strategies and ideas for bringing this author and her book alive to twentieth century students. (Y, M, O, T)