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- 10th
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Students examine the origin and traditions of Halloween in America. They compare and contrast Halloween with the Lantern Festival and Ghosts' Day in Taiwan. They practice using new vocabulary as well. Full Review »
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- Higher Ed
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Students explore the history of Halloween and what people do at Halloween. Also, the compare Halloween with Lantern Festival and Ghosts' Day in Taiwan. Full Review »
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- 5th
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Students discover the many cultures of the Native Americans as they explore the frontier of North America in this eight lessons unit. Tribes of the Great Basin Region, the Northern and southern Plateau, the Plains, and the Pacific Northwest are probed. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students discuss sentence fluency and literary devices. They practice dividing sentences into clauses and phrases. They examine other sentences that show good sentence fluency and ones that do not. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 12th
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Students listen to a variety of Bahamian music. They sample story songs, religious music, goombay music and renowned Bahamian guitarists. Students are introduced to the historical and social context for each type of music. Full Review »
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- 6th - 12th
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Students sample several types of music from the Hawaiian Islands. They listen to mele chants, religious himeni music, slack-key guitar playing and falsetto singing. Students are introduced to the influence of immigrants on Hawaiian music and discuss the historical context for each. Full Review »
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- 11th
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Students explore the relationship between the United States and the Native Americans from after the Civil War to the early 1900's. They evaluate the actions of the United States towards Native Americans and compare the actions to those of Hitler in Germany. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students investigate the theory versus the reality of US government reservation policy in the mid to late 19th Century by watching a video. They design a time line that shows how the individual tribes surrendered to the reservation policy. They examine the Dawes Allotment Act. Full Review »
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- 12th
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Students write a summary of Wovoka and his influence on the Ghost Dance. They identify and describe in detail the following American Indian ceremonies: Ghost Dance, Wiwayan Wacipi, Hunkapi, and Hanbleceya. Students determine if Wounded Knee should be referred to as a massacre or battle. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students, after reading the book, "Dances with Ghosts," by Alice McLerran, discuss various literary devices used in the novel and stress the importance of sentence fluency. They divide several sentence to analyze clauses, phrases and the differences between short and long sentences. Full Review »
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