Literacy Project and Traveling Trunks

Learning About Mrs. Aldrich, Enhancing Reading/Writing Skills, and Exploring the Homestead Movement

Trunks Available for Checkout

Up to Two Months (Free)

Educational Resources also now available on the website.

Letter to Educators From the Director

 Contents of the Traveling Trunks

 

Books

Writing Curriculum Notebook
Resource Notebook
Lantern in Her Hand
Journey into Christmas
Short Stories, 1907 to 1920
Short Stories, 1920-1954
Solomon Butcher

 

Games

Checkerboard, Checkers
Stake a Homestead Game
Jacks
Slap Jack/Wagon Wheel War
Jacob's Ladder
Button/Button
Marbles

 

Other Contents

Business Cards

A Mother's Gift DVD, Television Version of the A LANTERN IN HER HAND

The Gift of Love DVD, Television Version of "A Silent Stars Goes By"

Adventurous Mrs. Aldrich

Fun for all ages, you find Adventurous Mrs. Aldrich inside the prairie mansion,

and then you take one home to have your own adventures with!

Instruction Sheet Available for Download!

Have fun learning about her adventures, and then make some of your own!

Educational Resources

Letter from the Director
Traveling Trunk, Literacy Project
Aldrich Video Link
Suggested Activities for Trunk Use
Aldrich Website Referral
Then and Now Powerpoint Link
Aldrich Biography
Books by Bess Streeter Aldrich
Postcards (Portraits, Signage, House, Mural)
Nebraska Literary Heritage
Aldrich House Rack Cards
"I Spy" Activity, Aldrich House Activity
Tree Identification Handout, Aldrich House Activity
Aldrich House Pictorial Review
Short Story Contest Guidelines
Elmwood Walking Tour Handout, Aldrich Focus
Writing Camp Flyer
GAR Hall Rack Cards
Small Towns, Off the Country Road
Vintage Game Directions

 

Then and Now

The Elmwood-Murdock High School, Future Business Leaders of America team assembled a Video and also a Powerpoint Slide Deck of everyday items as people saw them in around 1900 versus modern versions of those same items. This video can be used on its own or with the accompaniment of a Traveling Trunk by making a request to the Director of the Bess Streeter Aldrich Foundation.