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Redesigning Resumes

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders identify the elements of resumes and then design a resume to be used by an eighth grader applying for high school. In this resume lesson, 9th graders define resumes and work in teams to use computer software to design a...
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Critical Consumerism

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students examine their own desires and values and complete a values inventory. In this values inventory lesson, students complete two quickwrites to identify their values.
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Critical Consumerism: Videos and Teen Culture

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Students analyze music videos as a study on teen culture. In this teen culture lesson, students view music videos and track a different aspect of the videos for male representation, female representation, racial representation,...
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Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students complete an Internet search to locate sources relating to Jung Chang's Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China. In this literary analysis lesson, students visit the website to research topics related to the reading. Students...
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Box O' Love

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Pupils create a Valentines Day poem using an empty cereal box as their canvas.  For this poetry lesson, students create their poems using rhyming words and create sentences. 
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Breaking News English: Zimbabwe's Homeless Ignored

For Students 5th - 10th
In this English instructional activity, students read "Zimbabwe's Homeless Ignored," and then respond to 47 fill in the blank, 7 short answer, 20 matching, and 8 true or false questions about the selection.
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What Do You Know About Norfolk?

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students explore life in a Norfolk town. In this English activity, students discuss life in Norfolk. Students view images of Norfolk and describe the images in English. Students listen to a resident speak about life in Norfolk.
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Map Making Exercise

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Learners complete a Web Quest in order to determine why Harlem was an attractive place for African Americans to live. They study a map of Harlem in the 1930's.
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Standing Woman

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore a Japanese science fiction story that deals with the dangers of technology, failed attempts at utopia, mind control, and loss of loved ones through the reading of Yasutaka Tsutaka's "Standing Woman."
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Writing a Mystery Story

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students examine the elements of mystery stories and read Rage in Harlem. In reciprocal teaching groups, they discuss the author's development of the story, and complete dialectical journals.
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Revising Your Mystery Story

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students edit and improve their short stories by examining character description, dialogue, and plot elements. In peer editing groups they correct gramatical and spelling errors. they read aloud their new story drafts.
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Let's Have a Lesson Within a Lesson

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students role-play the role of a student who does not comprehend the language the lesson plan is being instructed in. Using the internet, they research the characteristics, distribution and migration of human populations over time. In...
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Living Longer

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students practice strategies that can be applied to current and future reading materials. Using a matrix, students monitor which strategies they have mastered and which strategy needs more practice. Students read health related materials.
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Linking the Past with the Present

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders explore how Africans built South Carolina into an economic giant. They write an expository paper explaining how Africans and their descendants built the rice empire along the Carolina coastline. They write a persuasive...
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Prairie Settlement

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students make a decision for site selection for a farm during the 1840s in the Midwest. They build research and writing skills by recording the information used for analysis in a chart and as diary entries.
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The Impact of Disease on our Lives

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore infectious diseases. They analyze the effect of a disease on the community. Students develop a public health policy that addresses the containment of the epidemic. Students create a policy and present findings as part...
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The Civil War--Reading on the Internet

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Learners grasp how to read from text and retain it. They use reading comprehension strategies specific to the Internet. They search for answers to questions related to the Civil War.
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Looking Upwards: Greenroofing & Rooftop Gardening

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore the role of green roofing and rooftop gardening in contemporary architectural design. They then conduct collaborative research to learn about the history, process, science, and environmental impact of green roofing....
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Where will "Brave Irene" take us today?

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
The students listen to and discuss the book "Brave Irene." The students then participating in creating a class web about a snowstorm. The students then independently journal about bravery. They conclude the lesson by creating an...
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Summarizing the American Flag

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders brainstorm and write summary of things they learned about American Flag, edit another student's summary, rewrite their own summary, and conference with teacher before writing final copy.
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Emily Dickinson: Luminous Letters

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students analyze the dimensions of Emily Dickinson's poetry and persona. In this Emily Dickinson lesson, students read the example letters and analyze a chart of the poems. Students present their findings from the poems in a presentation.
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A Sense of West Virginia

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students consider their perceptions of the world through their 5 senses while visiting the West Virginia State Museum. In this West Virginia history lesson, students discover how knowing about the past helps with their understanding of...
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Breaking News English: Dubai Tower Tallest Building in the World

For Students 5th - 10th
In this English instructional activity, learners read "Dubai Tower Tallest Building in the World," and then respond to 1 essay, 47 fill in the blank, 7 short answer, 20 matching, and 8 true or false questions about the selection.

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