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Language Arts: Mississippi River Brochure

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students create brochures about recreational activities along the Mississippi River. Focusing on points of interest, they research attractions and create maps of the surrounding area. Once students write descriptions of their...
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Language Arts: Before-Reading Organizers

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders discover how to create graphic organizers using the titles and subtitles of informational texts. Following a teacher demonstration, they work in pairs to create their own organizers based on assigned texts. Upon...
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Reading/English Language Arts/ Instructional Strategies

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars are given a line drawing that only that students sees. They are asked to describe the drawings to the reset of the class to see if they can draw it as the teacher describes it. Young scholars work with a partner, and they...
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Figurative Language-Part 1

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers explore figurative language.  In this figurative language lesson plan, students look up, define, and give examples of a list of literary terms.
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A Walk Through the Past: A Grave Undertaking

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explore how historians construct a story out of fragments of the past; a discussion of nineteenth century poetry and art leads students to connect art and literature to their place in time.
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Story Telling with Black & White Photography

For Teachers 4th - 8th
4th-8th graders will explore Wright Morris' photography and create their own black and white photographs. They will then use the photographs to portray a message they want communicated by writing a narrative telling a story about the...
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Similes, Metaphors, and Symbols

For Teachers 4th - 6th Standards
Here is an outline of a lesson in which learners examine the use of similes, metaphors, and symbols in poetry. They define similes, metaphors, and symbols, complete a handout, and create a poem using types of figurative language.
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Having the Last Word

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students discuss the influence of foreign languages in their everyday speech after reading an article from The New York Times on language legislation in Brazil. Students are divided into 4 groups in order to research languages spoken...
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Learning through The Duke

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students examine the important contributions made by Duke Ellington to the field of jazz, as well as some of the factors that led to his involvement in the field. As they explore the language of the 1920's, connections will be drawn...
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Ageless Idioms

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students translate and define idioms between English and Spanish.  In this ageless idioms lesson, students discuss elements of expression and how a language's vernacular does not always make sense.  Students illustrate a...
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They Called Him Sequoyah

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers become familiar with George Gist and his life as a Cherokee.  In this Cherokee lesson, students research the ways people have communicated in the past and presently.  Middle schoolers recognize that better...
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Blanket the Plains

For Teachers Pre-K - 6th
Students discuss vivid imagery in a story.  In this figurative language instructional activity, students read samples of sensory language and then discuss the meaning of a piece of figurative language.  Students provide examples.
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A Way with Words or Say What?

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students examine Shakespearean language. In this word study lesson, students investigate the meaning of words that Shakespeare invented. Students draw and pantomime with the words prior to writing short stories that feature Shakespeare's...
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Hold the Presses!: Revising for Connotation

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers discuss the meaning of the sentence, The student asked to go to the office." Ask the class if the sentence gives the reader any information about the student. Can they visualize the way the student asked the question?...
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Chinese Ice Sculptures Melting

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Students examine, critique and study a newspaper article on a famous ice festival in China that is being affected by rising global temperatures. They complete three worksheets on the article that deals with comprehension questions, a...
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You're Special

For Teachers 2nd - 12th
Students utilize a new language to tell someone they care for them. In this complimenting lesson, students practice saying nice things to friends and strangers in their target language. Students react to the lesson afterwards and...
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Participating in a Class Birthday Party

For Teachers K - 12th
Learners celebrate a fellow peer in class by having a party for him or her.  In this foreign language lesson plan, students celebrate a classmate's birth using their target language to host a party.  Learners create a bulletin...
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CD-ROManticism and Computer Classicism

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students assess the many benefits and drawbacks of reproducing works of art, such as sculpture and paintings, on CD-ROMs and on the Internet, as well as explore art history via these computer technologies.
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Comic Renditions

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Learners explore the intersection between popular and high art by recreating comic strips in various artistic styles and then famous works of art as comics. Through this exploration, students come to conclusions about what art is and...
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Less Is More

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explore the underlying principles behind the Minimalist art movement. They create their own Minimalist works of art that explore specific philosophical questions.
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A Work Of Faith

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Young scholars study about different types of religious art; they then select representative works from different faiths to create their own exhibit. They research a specific religious art tradition and create an exhibit of works of art...
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Strong Verb Image Makers

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Learners use description language to clarify ideas and create vivid images in an essay focusing of strong verbs. They discuss weak verbs and explore that the better image the words create, the better the reader understands the text.
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To the Beat of a Different Drum

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students describe the sounds, moods and styles of two different types of music. After reading an article, they discover how a journalist uses language to describe and give feelings to the music. They review a type of music of interest...
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Transformation

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students discover visual arts by participating in a sculpting activity. In this artistic expression lesson, students examine some of the more famous sculptures in world history by utilizing the Internet. Students utilize clay, paper...

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