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The Twelve Months: A Slavic Cinderella Variant
Students locate Slavic countries and identify a few characteristics of those countries. They read and/or listen to the Slavic tale, "The Twelve Months," and compare this version with another Cinderella story.
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Concert Ettiquette
Students investigate the concept of social ettiquette. They complete exercises that are targeted at finding the right kind of behavior to display while performing in a concert setting. They make a list of the most desirable behaviors for...
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New england (1780-1820): Dress, Dance and Games
Pupils examine and discuss nineteenth century clothing and compare it to contemporary styles. After writing paragraphs describing the clothing styles, they play games from the period. For homework, they create their own games to play the...
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Arrange the Words
In this adjectives instructional activity, students categorize adjectives given into 3 categories and read passages that include adjectives. Students complete 5 activities.
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African American Presence in Deerfield, Massachusetts (1680-1720)
Eleventh graders explore primary and secondary sources involving "everyday life" of individuals living in Deerfield at the four turns of the centuries. They learn what these characteristics reveal since the town's beginning as an English...
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Complete Each Sentence With a Word From the Word Pool
In this sentence completion worksheet, students use the words in the word list to fill in the blanks in 10 sentences. There is no theme or connection between the words.
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Placing Deerfield in a National Context
Eleventh graders understand that world events brought important changes that impacted Deerfield. Students use information gained from this and other periods to develop a continuum showing the growth of the Deerfield community.
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Cinquain
Students create an original Cinquain (five-line poem) and choreograph movement to their poem, performing movement for class and video. This lesson addresses standards in the arts and requires a video recorder.
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Writing A Resume
Young scholars practice the skill of writing a resume that reflects professional presentation. They use a worksheet that is used for writing guidelines. The tool is effective for the scaffolding of different ability levels. Then students...
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It Is All About Love
Students engage in a lesson that is concerned with developing the social skills of loving others in constructive ways. They participate in the reading of a story that illustrates the concept of love and its application. Then questions...
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Treasure, Part III
In this reading comprehension learning exercise, students read the third part of a story about a troll. Students answer 5 multiple choice questions.
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Yes, Thank You!
Students explore public signage and create positive message signs. In this social interactions instructional activity, students explore their own neighborhoods for examples of positive, negative, and neutral signage and use this...
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Dogs
In this reading comprehension worksheet, students read an article about different breeds of dogs and service dogs. Students answer reading comprehension questions about the article.
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Montreal Drivers: A Negative View
In this negative verb forms worksheet, students complete a 15 question multiple choice on-line interactive exercise. Students read a sentence about bad drivers in Montreal. Students change the verb in bold type to the negative form.
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Intermediate Sentence Completion Exercise 22
In this online interactive grammar skills learning exercise, students examine 10 sentences that are missing words and select the appropriate words to complete each of the sentences and match them to the sentences. Student ...
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Using Illustrations to Deepen Understanding of Text
In this illustrations in text worksheet, studetnts view illustration in texts on specific pages and answer mutliple choice questions about them. Learners complete 8 problems.
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Express Yourself
Students practice reading with expression and improved fluency. After discussing how reading with fluency and expression can enhance the text, students listen as their partner reads a story with expression. Individual students read...
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Express Yourself
Students practice reading with expression and improved fluency. After discussing how reading with fluency and expression can enhance the text, students listen as their partner reads a story with expression. Individual students read...
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Reading: Youth In Ancient Greece
In this reading for information worksheet, students read a short passage written by an elder who is complaining about youth in ancient Greece. Students answer 10 true and false questions.
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Letters of Recommendation
Students write letters of recommendation. They discuss uses for letters of recommendation including jobs, colleges, scholarships, and internships. They discuss who to ask for letters of recommendation and obtain two to three letters of...
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Reality Ethics
Students suggest ethical decisions to problems and determine the basis and authority for them as ethical decisions.
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Positive Comment Walk-A-Long
Students find a partner, take a walk, and tell their partner something nice they had done or seen during the day or the week.
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Look Who's Talking To Me
Students listen to and evaluate other student speeches. They record their evaluation on a T-chart, and compare/contrast the effective and ineffective speaking behaviors.
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Helmet Safety/ Travis's Story
Fourth graders investigate the concept of walking and riding a bicycle as necessary forms of transportation. They watch a video about bicycle safety and write a reflection about notes taken from the video. Students conduct an experiment...