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Don't Forget to Say Thanks
Students practice descriptive writing in a thank-you note format. For this descriptive writing lesson, students read the example letter and analyze the corrections in the letter. Students read the example thank you notes and focus on the...
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George Orwell's Essay on his Life in Burma: "Shooting an Elephant"
Students read George Orwell's essay "Shooting an Elephant" as an analysis for the historical context. In this historical analysis lesson, students analyze the main points in the essay to identify its cultural and historical context....
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Preparing for Poetry: A Reader's First Steps
Students complete poetry analysis using William Shakespeare's "Sonnet 130" as a part of a study of figurative language. In this Shakespearean language lesson, students define literal and figurative language and practice paraphrasing and...
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Shakespeare's Othello and the Power of Language
Students explore the basis of Iago's persuasive power by analyzing Shakespeare's use of rhetoric and figurative language. In this Othello lesson, students analyze Iago's rhetoric in monologues and dialogues with other characters....
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Microbiology Design Challenge
Young scholars discover dangers to human health by researching what's in our drinking water. In this water purification instructional activity, students discuss the conditions of water in undeveloped countries and why it is unsafe to...
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Archaeological Study
Learners analyze the difference between archaeology and anthropology while studying the evolution of different products. In this archaeology and anthropology lesson, students trace the progression of a certain tool or product and come up...
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Emergency Shelter Project: Empathy Unit
Students design emergency shelters. In this designing emergency shelters lesson, students discuss living conditions of people after a natural disaster. Students discuss the tsunami that struck East Asia. Students design collapsible...
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Elicit/Illicit
In this elicit and illicit instructional activity, students choose the correct word to complete sentences. Students complete 4 sentences with either the word elicit or illicit.
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Easily Confused Wrods: Insight and Incite
In this easily confused words: insight and incite worksheet, students read definitions and examples of both words, then interactively answer 4 questions as a test with immediate online feedback.
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Charmides
In this online interactive philosophy worksheet, learners respond to 10 short answer and essay questions about Charmides by Plato.
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Apply Post-Reading Skills and Discuss Persuasive Text
Students put their reading comprehension skills to practice. In this interpreting text lesson, students read "Chief Red Jacket's Reply," and then respond to questions that require them to reason, infer, and analyze the selection.
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Identify and Evaluate Problem-Solving Processes and Solutions
Young scholars identify a problem, the process by which it is solved, and the solution in a piece of literature. In this problem solving lesson, students read a nonfiction passage and use a think-pair-share strategy to identify the...
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Organizing One’s Thoughts
Students take a closer look at the organization of written pieces. In this writing skills lesson, students examine transitions, repetition, parallelism, and other organizational patterns in writing.
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Winterdance
In this chronological order instructional activity, students put story events in order that they are given. Students put 7 events in chronological order.
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Story Mapping
Students prewrite a story using graphic organizers. In this prewriting lesson plan, students create a story map before they start their writing.
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How To Identify Figurative Language
Young scholars investigate writing techniques by analyzing a chart. In this figurative language instructional activity, students define similes, metaphors and identify the difference between them and personification. Young scholars...
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Children's March Teacher's Guide, Activity 1
Students study how political movements involve students as well as adults. They discover that students of all ages have the power to make a difference in the world.
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Dr. Samuel Mudd
Fifth graders examine the circumstances surrounding Dr. Samuel Mudd's conviction on the charges of conspiracy and harboring an assassin, including the speculation that his conviction may not have been legal.
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A Reporter's Recovery of Place
Students read and write their own story about an artifact they find in their community.
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Imagery and Emily Dickinson
Seventh graders explore imagery, particularly in relation to figurative language.
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Anne Frank: Propaganda
Students discover techniques that are used to spread propaganda. They define what propaganda is and how it can be used in both a positive and negative manner. They produce an ad campaign for product.
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The Power of Words
Students research the power of words and the necessary teaching of tolerance. In groups, they research a particular word given to them about a group in society. They trace the origin of the word and form a stance on how they view the...
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Bless Me, Ultima - 1
Tenth graders consider the importance of setting in the Southwest-themed novel "Bless Me, Ultima". As part of a larger unit, 10th graders research the setting of New Mexico and work in groups to prepare presentations about the region's...
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Part One of Unit on Bless Me, Ultima
Tenth graders read and analyze the first two chapters of the novel, 'Bless Me, Ultima.' They respond to a partners journal entry, discuss the two major landscapes in the novel, and create a drawing/interpretation of what these landscapes...
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