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Curated OER

Pieces of the Past

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders compare and contrast the way of life of Native Americans in Texas and around the country. As a class, they brainstorm about the uses of pottery today and use broken pieces of pottery to create an artifact. In groups,...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Nationalism and Conflict-Two Fronts, Two Perspectives!

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Young scholars examine the major conflicts of the 20th century. After watching a video, they discuss the various types of technology and how they were used in World War I. They watch excerpts from films covering different wars and view...
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway:analyze How Author's Style and Syntax Support Meaning

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this learning module, students will learn and apply the concepts of author's style and syntax.
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Analyze How Author's Style and Syntax Support Meaning

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on understanding an article or essay by looking past mere words on a page to the choice and arrangement of those words in order to analyze the way writers express themselves. The choice and arrangement of words make...
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Analyze How Author's Style and Syntax Support Meaning: English I

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Explore and practice the analysis of author's style and syntax to support meaning.
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Analyze How Author's Style and Syntax Support Meaning

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson, we will discuss how an author's syntax reveals meaning and makes ideas stay with the reader. Practice exercises are included.
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Analyze How Author's Style and Syntax Support Meaning

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Analyze how an author's style and syntax support meaning in a text. RI.9-10.3 author unfolds. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.L.3
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Analyze How Author's Style and Syntax Support Meaning

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Analyze how an author's style and syntax support meaning in a text. RI.9-10.3 author unfolds. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.L.3
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Unit Plan
Other

Wisewire: Grades 9 10 Playlist: Analyze How an Author Unfolds an Argument

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is an example of how to analyze how an author unfolds an argument. It provides an example and links to use for practice. RI.9-10.3 author unfolds
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Handout
Other

Univ. Of West Georgia: Analyzing the Leadership Behavior of School Principals

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This academic document describes various methods of measuring a principal's leadership behavior. The authors developed a new survey instrument that can be used to analyze the leadership behavior/style of a principal.
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Lesson Plan
Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Unit: Politics

For Teachers 11th - 12th Standards
Students explore the impact language has on politics and social beliefs. They explore the evolution of language (drawing on the knowledge gained through previous research), consider how language evolves, and explore who controls language...
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Lesson Plan
Utah Education Network

Uen: One True Story, Told Two Ways

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Analyze the different perspectives presented by two authors telling the same story.
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Unit Plan
Cengage Learning

Gish Jen (B. 1955)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This site, from publisher Houghton Mifflin's online syllabus assistance for college instructors, provides helpful information for the study of Jen's works, including commentary on themes and style and questions for analyzing the works.
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Activity
E Reading Worksheets

E Reading Worksheets: Text Structure Worksheet 8: Smart Phones

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a PDF worksheet that provides six reading passages related to smart phones to help your students master text structure (patterns of organization) in informational text. RI.9-10.3 author unfolds
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PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Rhetorical Analysis of "So This Was Adolescence"

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This PDF lesson plan prepares students for multiple portions of the AP Language and Composition exam (specifically, the multiple choice section and the rhetorical analysis prompt) by analyzing a brief text which students will be able to...
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Website
Other

On "Paul Revere's Ride" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

For Students 9th - 10th
Acclaimed literary critic Dana Gioia analyzes Longfellow's classic narrative poem, "Paul Revere's Ride," encouraging readers to see beyond the story into the rationale for the structure and style of the poem.
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Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Teachers: On Stage at the Kennedy Center: 2001 Mark Twain Prize: Twain and R

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Use this activity to study the lives of Mark Twain and Will Rogers. Analyze the writing styles of both authors, and identify the men as humorists who reflected and changed American culture.