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- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students examine artwork by such Cubist artists as Chagall, Picasso, Matisse and Paul Klee. They analyze the artistic elements, and recreate the original works into a multi-panel, free-standing assemblage using color and repetition of shape. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 11th
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Students use a song to evaluate the roles of legends in history. They study well-known legends to determine their historical accuracy and relevance. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 2nd - 5th
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Students create masks from the Italian Renaisance theatre and use them in one-act plays they write. they analyze the role and development of theatre in world cultures. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students examine the music used in films today. They define three ways in which the music is used to create meanings in films. They also examine how the images create meaning for the film. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 11th
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Students evaluate the role of legends in history after listening to the song, "Heebie Jeebies," by Louis Armstrong. They research well-known legends to determine their accuracy and explain their relevance in the history. There is a rubic included in this lesson for help in assessing the students' work. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 11th
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Students create a watercolor rendering of an urban image using prior knowledge and examples from artists Kirk Lybecker and Donna Steger. This lesson should be done with students who have experience using various painting techniques. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students improve their ability to listen to a pitch and match that pitch through singing. They try to overcome pitch intimidation. Students match an interval with a song. They access a hand held computer to assist them. Students pair up and work through five different intervals covered in class. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 4th
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Students silently read a copy of "Winter Embroidery" marking up the text. They circle the words they had trouble reading or did not understand. They discuss the circled words and identify all the expectancies learned so far. They underline the three most important words in each phrase and with partners, take turns summarizing each sentence using the keywords and their own words. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 6th
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Students study consonant digraphs in the phonics section of the lesson by examining lists of words and identifying the digraphs. They read the passage, "I Have a Dream" by Martin Luther King, Jr. while using the comprehension strategy, marking up the text. While reading they circle the words that contain digraphs, and choose the keywords from the passage to use in summarization. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 6th
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Students match examples of words using the "qu" expectancy and discover the meaning of the defender d expectancy. They give examples of words using the defender d expectancy and match them to the chart and discuss as a class why it is useful to use expectancies when reading and spelling. Full Review »

