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\nReading Literature about Natural Disasters: Inferring about Human Impact through an Analysis of Eight Days: A Story of Haiti\n

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\nThis is a disaster. Scholars look through the book Eight Days: A Story of Haiti and discuss their wonderings about the text and natural disasters. They then complete a first read to determine gist and second read to answer...\n
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\nThrough the Eyes of the Big Bad Wolf\n

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\nImagine how the wolf would tell the tale of Little Red Riding Hood or The Three Little Pigs. Young writers re-imagine classic tales by adopting the point of view of another character in the story. After reading models like The True Story...\n
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\nWriting in First and Third Person\n

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\nExplore narrative writing by participating in a role-playing activity. In this perspective instructional activity, learners define first and third person in writing and discuss how it changes the mood of the reader. The first activity...\n
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\n\"Electricity\n\n
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\nElectricity and Circuits\n

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\nA sleepy-sounding narrator explains how batteries and circuits work. Simple computer animations display the movement of electrons through parallel and series circuits. Since the narrator speaks slowly and clearly, and the animations are...\n
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\nIntroduction to Electricity\n

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\nA sleepy-sounding narrator teaches about moving electrons, accompanied by video and simple computer animations. He explains what a circuit is, what voltage means, and what current and amperes are. Throughout the video, safety tips for...\n
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\n\"Literary\n\n
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\nLiterary Elements and Vocabulary: Mini Quiz\n

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\nReaders match five literary terms -- personification, narrator, tone, dialogue, foreshadowing -- with their definitions. They also spell, identify the part of speech, define, and write a creative sentence for each of five...\n
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\n\"Wish\n\n
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\nWish + Simple Past\n

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\nEveryone loves taking a trip to the computer lab! Bring your English language learners to this online resource to have them work with wish and the past simple tense. They read a few example sentences before jumping in! The first activity...\n
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\nA Child's Christmas in Wales Quiz\n

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\nExamine Dylan Thomas' poem \"A Child's Christmas in Wales\" with this quiz. This quiz refers to the narrator as the poet, which is largely agreed upon.\n
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\nQuote the Raven...'NeVeRmOrE'\n

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\nWhat does the raven say and do in the poem by the same name by Edgar Allan Poe? Test your readers' understanding of the raven and the narrator's thoughts and actions with this multiple-choice quiz.\n
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\nAnticipation Guide Teacher Copy: The Catcher in the Rye\n

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\n“You don’t have to think too hard when you talk to teachers.” Or so says Holden Caulfield.  Challenge his assumption by asking your readers to think about and respond to some of the assertions of Salinger’s narrator. Should a...\n
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\nSTEMbite: Charles' Law\n

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\nCharles' Law states that the temperature of a gas is directly proportional to the volume. Compressing a gas increases the heat, and giving it more space allows the molecules slow in speed and cool down. The narrator proves this concept...\n
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\nMysteries of Vernacular: Venom\n

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\nChoose venom as the word of the day and demonstrate the word's origins with a quick video. The narrator draws parallels between venom and its predecessors, briefly explaining history along the way. Check out the additional materials for...\n
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\nMysteries of Vernacular: Inaugurate\n

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\nThe United States inaugurates a president every four years, but where does the word inaugurate really come from? Watch the video to find out and then read a few famous inaugural addresses, which are linked in the Dig Deeper section...\n
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\nMysteries of Vernacular: Fizzle\n

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\nWhere do words come from? Watch this quick video to find out the origins of fizzle. The narrator mentions some amusing details about fizzle's past, describing a few changes in meaning that have happened over many years. Teach your class...\n
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\nWho Invented Writing?\n

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\nCuneiforms and characters, hieroglyphics and cartouches, Morse code and Pig Latin. Who invented writing? Why, the Sumerians and the Chinese, of course. Viewers watch as the video narrator details the development of writing from art,...\n
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\nMysteries of Vernacular: Quarantine\n

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\nThe word quarantine has origins in history that date back to the Black Death. The narrator explains how the current definition of the word quarantine came to be, with animation illustrating the concepts along the way. Useful for a...\n
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