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Students identify prefixes, roots, and suffixes. In this grammar rules lesson, students analyze word parts to determine the meaning of unfamiliar words.
Students study the structure and artistry of Dante's, Divine Comedy. They examine how romantic love is interpreted in the episode of Paolo and Francesca while experiencing literary allusions.
Students brainstorm a list of countries in where pasta is one of the main staples of their diet. In an Italian class, they are introduced to the nouns of basic italian foods. They also discover the names for utensils and other types of food to end the instructional activity.
Learners translate an entire Internet page from English into a target language. In small groups, they create a short story or document in their native tongue or find an Internet page in their own tongue that they translate into English.
Eighth graders focus on the Shakespearian sonnet as a form and analyze the sonnet in terms of structure, the particular rhyme scheme of the quatrains and the rhyming couplet, the rhythm of iambic pentameter, as well as any figurative language.
Learners explore various Christmas traditions. In this traditions lesson, students review Hanukkah and Kwanzaa. They read The Legend of Old Befana: An Italian Christmas Story and create a power point presentation.
Students discover more about math with pasta. For this early childhood cooking lesson, students develop social studies, science, math, fine motor, and language skills as they learn about the making of pasta and cook some up to share.
Upper elementary learners define a list of commonly known words and compare these words to a list of more complex words with similar origins. They analyze similarities to determine common origins and meanings. These observations are used to decode the list of unknown words.
In this word search activity, students search for terms related to Italy and Italian culture. The words include important places, products and languages.
Pupils explore the structure and artistry of Dante's Divine Comedy.