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- Grade Range
- 3rd - 5th
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Students use Rudyard Kipling's "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi" as a lens to examine Victorian India as a social and geographical context for the story. They explore Kipling's use of plot, characterization and personification. Full Review »
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- 4th - 8th
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Students develop comprehension by listing plot developments and arranging them sequentially. This lesson begins with cooperative learning groups and ends with an individual manipulative activity of cutting and pasting strips of events. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 2nd - 4th
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Students listen to two famous stories about people who do not like Christmas, and then create a Venn diagram to compare and contrast the main characters. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 7th - 10th
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Students explore the Project Gutenberg website and conduct a webquest to answer questions about well known literature and authors. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 6th - 8th
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Students study a scientific phenomenon while determining author's purpose in several selections. They publish their research on a website, and write a newspaper to be shared with the class. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students trace the rites of passage from the 1940's through the present in literature. They review some of their favorite expressions first and compare some of Holden's speech with their own. They discuss initial reactions to the book and the similarities or differences between Holden and self? Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 6th - 12th
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Students sample music made by women around the world. They are introduced to and discuss traditional gender discrimination in music from a variety of cultures and explore the ways in which women have continued to make music in spite of these sexist norms. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 11th
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Students deliver descriptive presentations that use concrete images and sensory details. They use precise language, action verbs, and sensory details in descriptions of a chosen place. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 8th - 12th
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Students explore the idealistic expectations of the industrialists who financed and built mills in Lowell, Massachusetts. They research how the expectations of Lowell mill founders compared to the reality of life in the textile mills for the young women who comprised the factory's principal work force. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students work in groups to complete a chart on a reading selection of a popular work containing stereotypical portrayals of Jews. They write journal entries comparing these stereotypes from five selected readings. Full Review »

