Calling Extra Teacher Handbook

With the release of Calling Extra, we will be proving a FREE PDF Calling Extra Teacher Handbook. The PDF will provide resources that will encourage and enable Teachers to use Calling Extra in their classrooms to promote a love for history, social sciences and creative writing. Below is a list of what it will include:

• History/Social Studies: An overview of the real historical events and how it relates in the novel:
  • Child Labor Movement
  • Child Labor Strikes
  • Women Rights Movement
  • Immigration, Poverty and Slums of New York at the turn of the 20th Century
  • Journalism in late 19^th Century
• Creative Writing Exercises inspired by the characters and events of the novel
• Numerous resources such as:
  • A comprehensive list of non-fiction reference books that support the historical facts listed in the novel
  • Real newspaper articles from the Newsboy Strike
  • Biographical stories written by newsboys during the turn of the 20th Century
  • Glossary of newsboy slang
  • Image gallery of the places and people depicted in the novel