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I Can Be Happy for Hours Just Doing
Students explore leisure activities. In this leisure activities lesson, students define the topic and write a paper about a leisure activity they love. Students draw a cartoon illustrating the activity and write a poem or short story...
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The Three Perfections
Students discover the various styles, form, beauty, and grace of Chinese calligraphy by examining works of art from different eras in China's history. This lesson plan includes two possible enrichment activities.
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Depression
Students work together to develop a survey to ask people who lived during the Great Depression. Using the information from the survey, they write an essay or a poem describing why it was bad for one of their family members to lose their...
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Day Seven - Bible Love Makes the World Go Round - Corinth
Students examine passages in the Bible and identify characteristics of love. In this Bible study lesson plan students compose poems or narratives about love, complete a written activity and engage in discussions.
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From Commonplace to Mythic
Students examine a selection of paintings by Jean-Francois Millet to explore both the objective and subjective levels of art critique.
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Critical Stance Lesson 1: Which Style Fits?
Students analyze the elements of style for a work of art and compare it with the elements of style for a piece of writing. They read selections of the same story, and select the writing style that best fits the style of the painting,
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Blubber: Discussion Guide
Young scholars read Blubber by Judy Blume. In this Blubber discussion lesson, students answer pre-, during, and post- reading of the novel to assist them with comprehension. Themes addressed are problem solving, perspectives, leadership,...
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Peddling Puccini
Young scholars explore the art of the opera. They listen to examples of opera and conduct research to find out more about the opera world. Then they develop advertisements that focus on aspects that might interest young people about...
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Responding To Literature
Students prepare for and respond to literature selections. This package includes nineteen lessons, each covering a different reading selection. Pre-reading and response activities are included for each instructional activity as well as...
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Intro to Parts of Speech
Young scholars define eight parts of speech, classify words as specific parts of speech, describe their function, and explain how parts of speech help us to communicate more clearly.
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Silent Letters
Students know and apply methods to help learn and remember correct spellings. Students relate certain spelling of words to the Harry Potter knight bus story. Students express what exactly silent letters are and how to identify them.
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass Questions
In this reading comprehension learning exercise, learners respond to 9 short answer and essay questions based on Lewis Carroll's Alice’s Adventures Through the Looking Glass.
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Skating on Thin Ice
Students read an article describing a controversial new theory for treating anorexia nervosa, research other eating disorders, simulate case studies and suggest possible treatment for these cases.
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Writing with Writers
Students participate in Writing with Writer's, a step-by-step set of directions aimed at improving different genres of student writing. They identify the characteristics of different genres and follow a specified writing process to...
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Beginning Persuasive Writing
Young scholars identify elements of persuasive writing. Students discuss writing strategies and topics. They participate in pair and share activities. Young scholars write a persuasive letter.
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How To Use The Spell Check
Pupils use their editing techniques and use the spell check on their computers using writing techniques and any word processing programs. Then they type the paragraph found on the accompanying sheet full of mistakes. Students also go...