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Washington University in St. Louis

Teaching Jazz as American Culture

For Students 6th - 12th
Jazz and the City, Jazz and the Civil Rights Movement, Jazz and Gender, Jazz and Literature, Jazz and the Arts, Jazz and Film. Here's a packet of unit plans organized around themes that reflect American culture. Each unit examines how...
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The Art of Violence

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
Violence and human suffering, as represented in art and film, are the focus of an investigation of the power of visual images and the moral implications of such representations. Class members examine “Guernica,” Pablo Picasso’s massive...
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University of Arizona

Language Registers

For Teachers 4th - 12th Standards
Do you speak to your parents the same way you speak to your friends? The differences between formal and informal language are highlighted in this exercise. Groups are asked to select a scenario and script different dialogues that might...
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New York State Testing Program English Language Arts Test Book 2: Grade 7

For Students 6th - 8th
In this New York State Testing Program English Language Arts worksheet, students listen to a passage and answer ten multiple choice questions to check comprehension.  Students then complete an essay response.
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New York State Testing Program English Language Arts Test Book--Grade 7

For Students 6th - 8th
In this New York State Testing Program English Language Arts worksheet, students read excerpts and answer comprehension questions.  Students read 5 passages and answer 26 questions and 2 short answer questions.
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New York State Testing Program English Language Arts Test Book 1--Grade 7 (2007)

For Students 6th - 8th
In this New York State Testing Program English Language Arts Testing Program learning exercise, students read passages and answer reading comprehension questions.  Students also write an essay using details from the story.
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New York State Testing Program English Language Arts Test

For Students 6th - 8th
In this New York State Testing English Language Arts worksheet, learners listen to an article, and answer comprehension questions. Students listen to the article twice and take notes. Then they answer comprehension questions.
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New York State Testing Program English Language Arts Book 2

For Students 6th - 8th
In this English Language Arts worksheet, students read an article twice and take notes.  Students may use the notes to answer multiple choice questions on reading comprehension.
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New York State Testing Program English Language Arts Test Book 1--Grade 8 (2008)

For Students 7th - 9th
In this New York State Testing Program English Language Arts Test worksheet, students listen to an article twice while taking notes.  Students then answer reading comprehension questions and write an essay using details and examples...
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New York State Testing English Language Arts

For Students 7th - 9th
In this New York State Testing English Language Arts instructional activity, students read passages and answer questions on reading comprehension. 
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New York State Testing Program English Language Arts Test Book 2--Grade 8 (2007)

For Students 7th - 9th
In this New York State Testing Program English Language Arts worksheet, students listen to an article twice, then answer reading comprehension questions.  Students then use details from the article to compose an essay.
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Using Process Drama in the Language Arts Classroom

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Using the tools of process drama to create authentic learning experiences for students.
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Smithsonian Institution

Water/Ways: The Poetry of Science

For Teachers 1st - 12th Standards
Water is the source of life. It appears in poetry in both peaceful and torrential descriptions; it appears in earth science in its liquid, gaseous, and solid states. Combine these interpretations of our planet's most precious and...
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Local Motives

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Investigate current local elections across the United States with this New York Times reading lesson. Using informational text, middle and high schoolers research local elections and create their own news reports about what they...
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Asking the Questions and Questioning the Answers

For Teachers 6th - 12th
What would you ask a presidential candidate if you had the chance? Bring politics to your language arts classroom with this instructional activity, in which young readers brainstorm questions they would have liked the presidential...
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Life Snapshots

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students create Inspiration webs using graphics or photographs that depict high and low points in their lives. This technology-based Language Arts lesson for the upper-elementary or middle-level classroom is excellent for improving...
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Kumeyaay Indians

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Useful for literary analysis, citing textual evidence, or summary skills, this lesson about the Kumeyaay Indians would be a good addition to your language arts class. Middle schoolers read novels and summarize the literature in their own...
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Strengthening Your Vocabulary

For Teachers 4th - 8th
A challenging worksheet is here for your learners of language arts. In it, they must find words that convey a more powerful, or more descriptive meaning than the guide word at the top of the list. There are 12 guide words, and nine more...
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What's In a Name?

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Introduce your language arts class to connotation, denotation, and diction. Middle schoolers identify and differentiate between the connotative and denotative  meanings of words by analyzing the fictitious sports team names....
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Scripting The Great Train Robbery

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Take writing prompts to another level in this activity, which allows pupils to create scenes of dialogue based on the 1903 silent film, The Great Train Robbery. Useful for a language arts/history cross-curricular activity, the...
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Test Review Sheet: Irony, Comma Rules, and Sentence Variety,

For Students 7th - 9th
Covering vocabulary, literary analysis, and grammar, this worksheet would be a great study guide or homework assignment for an eighth-grade Language Arts class. Though the five stories by Edgar Allan Poe, O. Henry, and Oscar Wilde are...
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One-Word Modifiers: Adjectives and Adverbs

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Introduce your students to adjectives, adverbs, and the differences between them with this helpful grammar presentation. Though it appears long at 79 slides, note that each slide is doubled, with the first slide asking a question and the...
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Symbolism

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Start your language arts lesson with this quick PowerPoint that defines symbolism. Following the definition is a sentence describing the American flag as a symbol to the United States. Tip: After reading these slides, have students write...
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Auxiliary Verbs

For Teachers 4th - 8th Standards
Auxiliary verbs are the focus of this language arts presentation. These types of verbs are very specific, and are taught quite effectively during the PowerPoint. Pupils are invited to do their own pieces of writing that use auxiliary...

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