Lessons and Programs

Classroom Lessons and Programs

Elementary Schools Pre-Visit Ideas

Lesson Plan: Thomas Wolfe and Progress, Progress, Progress
Multiple Choice Questions with Readings 
Word Games and Artifact Worksheets 
Lesson Plan: Our Changing Community

Elementary Schools Post-Visit Ideas

Lesson Plan: Thomas Wolfe and Progress, Progress, Progress
Writing Prompts

Middle to High School Schools Pre-Visit Ideas

Lesson Plan: Thomas Wolfe’s Family, Friends, and Folklore
Lesson Plan: What I Came To Tell You
  • Lesson Plan What I Came to Tell You
  • This lesson plan combines an informational text about Thomas Wolfe and his family and a new youth novel, What I Came to Tell You by Tommy Hays. Consider visiting the Wolfe Memorial either before or after this lesson in order to truly make this exciting novel for young readers come alive in your classroom!

Middle to High School Schools Post-Visit Ideas

Lesson Plan: Thomas Wolfe, His Family and Look Homeward, Angel

Read and Write: Thomas Wolfe’s Short Stories

The Sun and the Rain
Gulliver: The Story of a Tall Man
The Far and the Near
Polyphemus

Traveling Trunks

Our traveling trunks can be checked out for a two-week period and can be picked up at the Thomas Wolfe Memorial. For more information, or if you would like to use one of our trunks, please call (828) 253-8304.

4th Grade Language Arts, 5 Day Lesson Plan

The Lost Boy

4th Grade Social Studies, 2 Day Lesson Plan

1904 Worlds Fair & Technology
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