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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Discovering Angel Island: The Story Behind the Poems

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Poems carved into the wooden walls of the Asian immigrant prisons on Angel Island provide upper elementary graders an opportunity to study not only the story behind the poems but to also focus on the figurative language employed by the...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Paraphrasing

For Students 6th - 12th
In this paraphrasing instructional activity students are tasked to paraphrase five short passages. Students write their paraphrase and can then self check against sample answers.