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)
Our new poetry trunk is now available! Following the success of our “Poetry in Motion” exhibit, we decided to “pack up” the educational elements and make them available in our trunk program. Educators will have access to beautiful posters of poetry, read aloud and accessible through QR Codes. Additionally, various elements of poetry are highlighted throughout the displays, along with definitions and worksheets. This trunk is easily adaptable for any elementary level student or group.
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.