I retired from teaching after 33 1/2 years teaching 6th grade social studies. (World Cultures). I have been writting professionally for over 25 years and I have written six books for teachers and young people and write often for Scholastic News, Super Science, AppleSeeds, etc. and have written for most children's magazines, including Time for Kids, National Geographic Kids, Ranger Rick, Highlights, Girls' and Boy's Life Magazines, US Kids, Faces, Cobblestone, etc. Additionally, I write the monthly teaching guides for Cobblestone Publishing's Spider Magazine, Click Magazine and Ladybug Magazine and have just started doing a similar project for Studies Weekly's new current event magazine. I have done writing assignments and reading sidebars for Times Publishing , Education World, Have Scripts, Cottonwood Press, Teacher Created Materials , Scholastic Professional Books, ACT, New York State Department of Education(Social Studies testing materials) and Creative Services. I am also writing the Grade Six World Cultures newspapers for Studies Weekly. I have also written science sidebars for Time Publishing(middle school).

Since I retired from the classroom, I am also an adjunct professor with SUNY Cortland supervising student teachers who wish to become social studies teachers.

You can see my website for educators/young people: http://www.gailhennessey.com.

Arts & Humanities > Colonial & Early American American history: The Mayflower

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What Ever Happened to the Mayflower? Ever wonder what became of the Mayflower, the ship which took 102 Pilgrims over the Atlantic to North America in 1620? If you are expecting to find it docked to some pier, or in a museum, you'd be wrong. That's because the Mayflower most likely ended up as scrap wood and may have ended up in an old Quaker Barn in Great Britain! It was common practice many years ago in England to use unseaworthy ships' timber to build things. Dutch Elm disease had killed many of the trees of 17th century Great Britain and lumber was very scare. To preserve the number of ...

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