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- 6th - 12th
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Students focus on Shakespeare's play 'Othello' and its screen adaptation 'O' to explore how modern adaptations of Shakespeare have the potential to both enhance the original text and detract from its meaning. Full Review »
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- 6th - 12th
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Students explore African-American art by researching, preparing and presenting reports on particular artists. They analyze what they have learned through the lens of modernism. Full Review »
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- 7th
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Students, Study the lives and works of Edward Hopper, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Andrew Wyeth; significant American artists. They chose one of the artists to emulate with their own painting. Full Review »
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- 5th - 8th
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Students analyze the techniques of modern dance choreography. They keep a journal as they observe the movement of people and animals. They use the movements to create a dance piece. Full Review »
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- 5th - 12th
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Students explore the nature of modern art while learning about the process needed to make an informed judgment. Working in two teams, they select and study works of art. Their selection is defined for the other team by focusing on the description. Full Review »
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- 10th
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Students participate in a lesson guided by an essential question: in what ways does choreographer, Mark Morris' work, "The Office," reflect Eastern-European traditional folk dance? During the lesson's first sessions, students physically learn two to three traditional folk dances from selected regions in Eastern Europe. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students participate in a warm-up activity by attending a football match writing an account of who won the game. They discuss how their account could differ from someone else's account of the game. They discuss how different people's interptretations compares to historiography. They read three different accounts about Boyle and answer questions about their similarities and differences. They follow up with studying Newton and comparing him to Boyle. Full Review »
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- 10th
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Students write an expository essay addressing the concept of the American dream. Srudents draft draft their essay in class under timed conditions,revise their essays at home for homework.Analyzes and compares texts that express universal themes characteristic of American literature across time and genre (i.e., American individualism, the American dream, cultural diversity, and tolerance) and provides support from the texts for the identified themes. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 10th
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Students, while being critiqued by a vigorous rubric, write, edit and perform a modern translation of Julius Caesar. All of the other students and the teacher watch the presentations and then critique them. Full Review »
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- 9th
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Students discuss the connection with Romeo and Juliet by translating selected scenes of the play into modern language and scenarios. They work in groups and are given a list of scenes to chose from. Students then decide what time period (past or present) they want to translate it into. They act out their scenes infront of the class. Full Review »
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