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Son of a Gamblin' Man: The Life and Art of Robert Henri

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students bring baby pictures of themselves. They discuss composition in art and compare these to their pictures. Students discuss mood, and ways an artist creates mood. They create a triptych using their baby picture, a recent photograph...
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Kolam: A Living Art of South Asia

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars will read the short story "Meenakshi's Magic Hands" by Santhini Govindan and view a slide show of photo images interspersed with the text to learn of the art form of Kolam. Students read and reflect upon a nonfiction...
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The Art and Science of Fractals

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students explore the world of fractal images and the mathematics behind them. They explore fractal sites on the Internet. They create their own fractal designs. They publish a calendar displaying their favorite fractal art.
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English: Level C Lesson 37

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
In this English test worksheet, students fill in the blanks in sentences with the correct word. Students complete 20 multiple choice questions.  
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Using Context Clues

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers receive a handout that lists the five types of context clues. The class divides up into groups of three or four, and each group chooses five unfamiliar words. They write a multiple-choice question for each of their five...
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Researching Information

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Give your junior high researchers a clear concept of how to go about starting their research paper with the resources available in this exercise. Students develop an idea to research, and spend time in the library or computer lab...
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Media Literacy in Presentations

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers study the three types of mass media messages: visual media, written media, and audio media. After a class discussion which has them list examples of each, learners get into pairs and work on analyzing the "Four A's" in...
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Breaking News English: Mobile Phones and the Bible

For Students 5th - 10th
In this mobile phones and the Bible learning exercise, students read the article, answer true and false questions, complete synonym matching, complete phrase matching, complete a gap fill, answer short answer questions, answer discussion...
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LANGUAGE IN CLASSROOM TEXTS

For Teachers 4th - 9th
Young scholars gain an understanding and awareness of the bias, stereotyping, and discrimination that is present in school materials. They review everyday printed materials and their textbooks for evidence of gender bias and/or...
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Art to Zoo: Memorials: Art for Remembering

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Young scholars examine how people from different societies and cultures remember those whom they have lost. In this lesson students analyze memorials from around the world, create their own, and find memorials that they have in their...
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The Holocaust in Art, Photography and Writing

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students explore paintings, photographs and writings about the Holocaust using the internet. Researching the various websites, they will discover different human experiences of Holocaust victims. After researching, students write about...
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The Relatedness of Languages

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students use Internet and library resources to select and examine the origins of phrases or words, particularly words that have origins in other languages.
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Potter and US English

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students examine the difference between US English and UK English by using Harry Potter as an example. Students analyze the two dialects by trying to think of word equivalents on an included worksheet.
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Emotive language

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students examine emotion-based language. Students read a news story to discover examples of emotive words. They develop a class list of examples of emotive language. As a class project, students select a news story and change it into...
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Ojibwa Arts

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students create a poem based on the Native American Ojibwa art that they read about. In this Ojibwa art lesson plan, students read captions and look at pictures of Ojibwa art and then make up a poem based on them.
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Art and Science

For Students 4th - 8th
In this art and science worksheet, students fill in the blanks to the sentences about art and science by choosing the correct word. Students complete 15 sentences.
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The Language of Shakespeare

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Young scholars write and perform a scene using Elizabethan language. They study the language of William Shakespeare.
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Figurative Language - Part Two

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students need to use their papers from Part One of this lesson plan. They then write a paragraph for each term. This exercise help them to use these terms in their writing. Using figurative language makes writing more descriptive and...
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The Lost Art of Letter Writing

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students discover the art of writing letters. In this writing lesson, students read letters written by President Harry Truman and then write a series of their own letters that would give insight into the times in which they live.
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British English vs. American English

For Students 4th - 10th
In this British vs. American English worksheet, students choose which American English words are the equivalent to the British English words. Students complete 10 multiple choice questions.
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Out of the Dust: Figurative Language

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students find examples of figurative language in "First Rain" in Out of the Dust.  In this Out of the Dust instructional activity, students takes notes on various type of figurative language and identify examples of each type in the...
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Daily Language Practice Builds Skills, Test Scores

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Pupils develop their proofreading skills. In this daily language practice lesson, students improve their writing skills as they edit passages. The editing work encompasses capitalization, punctuation, and grammar.
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Top 100 Misspelled English Vocabulary List 6: Blackout Worksheet

For Students 7th - 8th
In this top 100 misspelled English vocabulary list activity, student read the definition, then find the word hidden in a matrix of letters for 12 words.
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Identifying Figurative Language

For Students 5th - 10th
In this figurative language worksheet, students identify figurative language in the sentences and explain their answers. Students complete 10 problems.

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