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- 7th - 12th
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Students search primary documents for information about how infants and students died during the late 1850s and 1860s. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students develop an understanding of legal precedent associated with extending life or allowing individuals to die. They compare cases and debate the topic. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students read and analyze poems about death. They analyze the poems in small groups, listen to an audio clip, define key vocabulary terms, complete a worksheet and Venn diagram, and prepare a presentation of a poem comparison. Full Review »
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- 12th
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Students read and analyze John Donne's 'Holy Sonnet 10,' and examine their personal beliefs about death. They identify the nouns and adjectives in the poem, watch various video clips, and write a paraphrase of the poem. Full Review »
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- 7th - 12th
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Students watch and analyze a video dealing with the topic of death. They answer discussion questions, identify examples of how death is represented in popular media, write a poem, create a memory book, and write a letter to someone who has died. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students discuss various religious rituals and ceremonies surrounding death and dying. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students examine the time in which the Puritans lived in colonial New England. In groups, they research the Puritans view on life and death and discuss as a class. They read gravestones, diaries and other primary sources to discover more about their daily life. To end the lesson, they research the way contangious diseases made their way into New England and the effect on the population of the Puritans. Full Review »
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- 10th - 11th
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Students explore, analyze and study how to confront and grieve the loss of a young adult. They acknowledge their feelings of loss, communicate feelings of regret and plan to go on living in response to the death of a young person in Spanish. Full Review »
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- 8th
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Students explore the similarities and differences between the Black Death and HIV/AIDS. They write an essay answering which is the worse plague, the current spread of HIV/AIDS or the Black Death in the mid-fourteenth century. They research the Internet and evaluate websites to record information and read about both topics. Full Review »
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- 9th - Higher Ed
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Students explore the "death tax" and analyze statistical information about how the government taxes dead people. They research sources to determine the validity of a anti-tax group campaign and John McCain's claims about taxes. Students discover that by omitting crucial information on a topic may actually mislead the general public. Students participate in numerous activities and projects to discover the truth about the "death tax." Full Review »
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