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Students use Xpedition Hall's interactive feature Paris Scope to research the history of Paris by visiting sites at Metro stops. They practice map-reading skills by tracing the route to take on the Paris Metro to get from one site to another.
This simple overview of famous buildings in Paris could be used as part of a social studies exploration, or could be used as a precursor to a writing or research assignment. While short and sweet, this presentation provides an attractive and informative look at Paris.
Everyone dreams of going to Paris! Challenge your advanced French speakers to really get to know the city of lights. They use the plethora of worksheets provided to really explore the monuments, museums, and shops of Paris. They use a comparison chart to record prices for various activities and they decide which places they'd visit. They research flights, hotels, etc. A fun twist would be to assign each person a different budget. Then, when each person presents his or her trip, the rest of the class could see what kind of trip one would take under several different financial constraints.
In this Five Days in Paris quiz worksheet, high schoolers take a seven question online quiz about the book. Page has multiple ads and links to answers, additional resources and Facebook.
A reading of Panic in Paris launches a review of the elements of narrative writing. Class members work in groups to find narrative devices in the book and record their findings on a provided worksheet. Using the completed pages, emergent writers craft their own autobiographical incident. Associated worksheet is not attached.
Fashioned in a simple format, the subject of this presentation is the Eiffel Tower in Paris, and could be a model for future projects. Even if your class does not do a unit on famous sites in European cities, this could be used a a way to generate discussion and provide ideas for non-fiction writing projects. This presentation is not comprehensive, but provides some interesting facts. There are links to websites.
Tenth graders deliberate about what to do with the Alsace-Lorraine. In this World War I lesson, 10th graders analyze documents about the future of the Alsace-Lorraine at the Paris Peace Conference. Students collaborate to decide what to do about the piece of land and submit written proposals that they compare to the Treaty of Versailles.
Take your class to Paris! Use the ideas behind this resource to research monuments, churches, museums and other common tourist attractions around Paris. This plan is missing vocabulary development and a clear outline of the unit, but use the bones to offer a glimpse of Parisian life.
Students engage in a lesson that discusses the Treaty of Paris in 1783 while using various resources to find information for a writing project. They are asked to reflect upon certain key questions and answer them. The lesson includes a writing prompt that is used to create a writing project.
In this famous person instructional activity, students read a passage about Paris Hilton and then complete a variety of in-class and homework activities to support comprehension, including partner interviews, spelling, cloze, synonym matches, and scrambled sentences.