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Lihitraot Lot! Avraham and Lot Separate -1

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students study Bereshit 13:5-11, in preparation for acting out the texts' events in the next lesson.
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Al Mercado

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students investigate the concept of a market. They produce a dramatization to simulate the daily activities found inside. Students ask questions about the price, location, and use of items. The acting strengthens communication skills and...
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What is Hamlet Thinking?

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Students explore Hamlet's character. In this Shakespeare lesson, students read the selected lines from Hamlet and write any unusual or difficult phrases. Students highlight the names of characters who speak the lines and underline words...
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Creating A Different Point Of View

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers explore Indian marriage customs and culture.They connect and compare their own experiences with the experiences of characters from the short story Diamond Dust and rewrite a scene from the story from another point of view.
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Who says I can't be Sherlock Holmes?

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students create a "crime scene" in their classroom and have to tell what's out of place. The class is given a set of cards that are all face down and have to play concentration. If they get a matched pair, they get both cards. Whoever...
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Bridge to Terabithia

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students read Katherine Paterson's book, A Bridge to Terabithia, and select small groups to complete a project based on a chapter of the book. They create a story web for the chapter, summarize it, design a brochure or advertisement,...
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"Set Your Heart At Rest" Word Plays

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Learners read Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream." They create a dramatic reading of Titania's monologue in Act II by randomly assigning words of the monologue that are demonstrated using sound and movement, not the actual words. ...
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Othello's Father of the Bride

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars read and analyze Act one of the play Othello. They examine the themes of love and marriage and interpret Brabantio's words by using different subtexts.
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Mapping Shakespeare

For Teachers 12th
Twelfth graders read a Shakespearean play focusing on a character. They create "Mind Maps" of their characters and act out a selection of the play.
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Coping with real situations

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students practice the skills of coping with real situations. They act out and role play various sceanarious dealing with real life situations. Students access how to protect their skin from the sun as well.
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Energy Activity: Energy Picture

For Students 4th - 5th
In this energy worksheet, students analyze a detailed realistic picture of a rural farm scene during a thunderstorm. Students identify all the ways that energy is being used and discuss them as a class.
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What Did You Say?

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students investigate how the Indians and Europeans first met and their first interactions using spoken language. Before speaking the class warms up to the idea with the use of body language and gestures. Then the teacher sets the scene...
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Spirit of Enquiry

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
The lesson includes guided questions to help students to think about their own behavior and purpose in life. They do this through a quiet time of reflection that can include the writing of ideas. Then students act out a play to...
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Introduction to "As You Like It"

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore the character relationships and their connection in the play "As You Like It." Working in groups, students act out the various scenes from the play and discuss the characters and their actions in the scene. Students...
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Folktales: Uncle Cricket, the Soothsayer Lesson Ideas

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students read the Nicaraguan folktale, "Uncle Cricket, the Soothsayer," prior to participating in various activities. Among the ideas presented here are completing story maps, analyzing characters, summarizing the plot, writing...
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Who's Who In Black History

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders examine the life and achievements of promident African-Americans. As a class, they participate in acting out various scenes of a play which represents the Civil Rights era. They discuss how the world might be different...
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Activity Sheet: What Do You Do? Forest Ecologist

For Students 5th - 6th
In this ecology instructional activity, students read an interview with a forest ecologist before they act as an ecologist and spot the difference between two forest scenes on a black and white instructional activity. They circle the...
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Shakespeare Literature Circles Role Sheets

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Tired of those blank stares after your class reads a particularly complex passage from a Shakespearean play? Help high schoolers untangle that prose with a literature circle activity. Ten different roles prompt class members to focus on...
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Close Reading

For Teachers 11th
Eleventh graders read and study Hamlet. Then they are introduced to close reading as a means of understanding what is being read--not only understanding the printed word, but also the nuances and connotations of language as it is used by...
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Enter an Enchanged Wood with Shakespeare

For Teachers 5th
Students research William Shakespeare and his literary works. They study a variety of literary terms and different elements of his plays. They also research the Globe Theatre and different elements of the theatre in general.
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Literature Through Silent Movies

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students participate in an engaging, alternative assessment activity: making a silent film of an Edgar Allen Poe story. This project offers them an additional way to demonstrate their mastery of the topic. 
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Sports Safety Role Play

For Teachers K - 8th
Students role-play sports situations and determine the actions needed to stay safe from injuries. They define the term sports safety, develop short skits about situations involving sports safety, and work together in cooperative groups.
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Theatrical Economics

For Teachers K - 3rd
Read then role-play the characters from story of If You Give A Pig a Pancake. Young actors use improvisation and characterization to create the characters from the story. They will also write and role play original version of the...
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Women’s Roles in As You Like It

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
“There is nothing that becommeth a maid better than soberness, silence, shamefastness, and chastity, both of body & mind.” This line, from Thomas Bentley ‘s The Monument of Matrons published in 1582, typifies the way women were...

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