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A Movie in Your Mind: Persuasive Text

For Teachers Pre-K - 9th
Students listen to a broadcast of War of the Worlds and illustrate what they hear. In this persuasive text instructional activity students prepare for making a movie poster intended to persuade a director to make a film based on a short...
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Eckstine, Stayhorn, and the Dorseys: Masters of Swing

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students explore the history of swing music. In this music history lesson, students research the Dorsey Brothers, Billy Eckstine, and William Strayhorn to learn about swing music. Students define swing, develop a timeline of events in...
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Adjectives in Dialogue

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders use adjectives to depict setting and reveal character and incorporate adjectives into dialogue appropriate for setting.
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"I Banish You": Using Visual and Auditory Imagery to Connect with Speech

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students analyze a monologue by Coriolanus in Shakespeare's play of the same name. In this literature lesson plan, students discuss and define betrayal and the events surrounding Coriolanus' banishment from Rome. 
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Disco - Voices of a New Generation

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students analyze lyrics of selected Disco songs for content, theme and vocabulary. They write an extended response citing specific lyrics in response to three general themes.
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ABBA - Lesson 2

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students identify and notate the musical device known as a "hook". They notate and perform rhythmic and melodic patterns in the ABBA song "Mamma Mia".
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VH1 Storytellers for Save the Music Starring Billy Joel

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students use a Billy Joel song to write a scenerio about it.
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Sentences- Parallel Structure and Paired Conjunctions

For Students 7th - 9th
In this sentence worksheet, students complete the first 10 sentences using a parallel structure format. They complete the last 6 sentences using paired conjunctions.
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Current Issues and Problems In Turkey

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students engage in a lesson which will focus on five main points: Kurdish nationalism and terrorism, Islamic fundamentalism, economic weakening and inflation, political corruption, and disputes with Greece.
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Top Ten Facts

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Learners, in pairs, complete research about an assigned person. One student does research in the library and the other on the Internet. They come back together, compare their research, and compile a list of 10 main facts about their person.
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Introductions

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Pupils participate in the introductions at the beginning of the semester. As a class, they brainstorm questions that can be asked to gain more information about their classmates. Working in pairs, the students interview each other and...
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Philadelphia's Important Contribution to the Lewis and Clark Expedition

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Learners analyze a primary source document (Jefferson's secret letter to Congress) and identify its objectives through the aid of focus questions. They complete a graphic organizer and write an article summarizing Philadelphia's...
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Sheryl Crow and Willie Nelson - Lesson 3

For Teachers 7th - 12th
students create song lyrics for two verses and one chorus. They compare their song writing process to the process described by ie Nelson and Sheryl Crow.
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Word of the Day

For Students 6th - 12th
In this vocabulary worksheet, students are provided an area to record new words they encounter during the day. Students record the word, definition, part of speech and use it in a sentence.