Students identify and describe the influence slavery had on Mark Twains writing, and then determine the status of race relations and ethnic differences in contemporary life.

Students explain and use verbal directions, recognize the prepositions used in a conversation, explore Italian art, and acquaint themselves with tourist services in Italy.

Students, while listening to a tape on the story The Wreck of the Zephyr, complete several assignments as the week progresses. Special note is placed on all written assignments.

Younger and older ELL students could benefit from an exploration of how to change a statement to a question. Using this 8 question activity learners can practice writing questions after being given pertinent information.

Learners investigate their family history through pictures and writing. In this family history lesson, students research family, culture, food, music, religion, and clothing. Learners gather pictures of their family and events. Students...

Students utilize a new language to tell someone they care for them. In this complimenting lesson plan, students practice saying nice things to friends and strangers in their target language. Students react to the lesson plan afterwards...

Learners celebrate a fellow peer in class by having a party for him or her.  In this foreign language lesson, students celebrate a classmate's birth using their target language to host a party.  Learners create a bulletin board...

In this online interactive reading comprehension worksheet, students respond to 15 multiple choice questions about Dickens's Oliver Twist. Students may submit their answers to be scored.

Class members select a science fiction novel for independent study. To verify they have completed the reading, they write a summary, a critique, and an outline of the plot for a sequel or prequel. They then deliver a five-minute...

Students read, analyze and critique a newspaper article about an Elvis fan who stole from her employer to buy Elvis memorabilia. They assess how to understand a short news report and discuss the use of present perfect tense in the article.

Who has been messing with my trampoline? Young writers choose local events as the basis for their own “Who Did It?” mystery. They then devise a plot, problem, and cast of characters and write an introduction explaining the problem and...

High schoolers engage in daily spelling and vocabulary practice of workplace-related terms with definition matching exercises, word scrambles, dictation, sentence writing. Finally, they compose a short essay in which they use the words...

Rating prospective teacher candidates based on sample resumes opens this discussion of effective business communication. After generating a list of interview candidates based on their resumes, pupils justify their choices. A study of...

HUH? WHAT? YES! Peers are prompted to label parts of a peer's writing where they find information inadequate, confusing, or effective.

In this verb tense activity, students read about 5 different verb tenses: simple present, present progressive, simple past, past progressive and future. This activity contains no questions.

Using a short answer format, students answer 18 questions in order to practice writing sentences that begin with 'who.' This worksheet provides a comprehensive review of this topic.

For this time words and verb tenses worksheet, students respond to 42 questions that require them to correct the verb tense and time word mistakes in the 42 sentences.

In this adjective clauses worksheet, students learn about 6 common problems with adjective clauses. There are no questions on this page, but the explanations are very thorough and provide examples.

In this adverb clauses worksheet, students fill in the blanks in 15 sentences with adverb clauses or words to complete adverb clauses.

Students read and discuss an article about the environment, identifying the past participles in the article. They write questions about the article and interview other students.

Students read a newspaper article about Alexander Litvinenko, a former Russian KGB officer who was mysteriously poisoned in 2006. They discuss and define vocabulary words, complete comprehension worksheets and analyze the grammar and...

In this sentence reduction worksheet, learners create shorter sentences by using one of three types of reductions. Students use either a time adverb clause reduction, a cause/effect adverb clause reduction, or an adjective clause...

Students compare and contrast various forms of transportation. Comparisons are based on the the distance traveled and the student's personal experiences with that form of transport. This lesson is intended for students acquiring English.

For this question writing worksheet, students choose a verb from the word bank at the top of the page to write 6 questions that correspond to the given statements. They use interrogatives from a second word bank to write original...