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The Invisible People: American Art and Literature Represents the Marginalized and Disenfranchised

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students view various pieces of art and sculptures which demonstrates people who are marginalized and invisible. While viewing the art, they are read excerpts of different pieces of literature in which they determine why the author or...
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Ancient Egyptian History/African Literature Activity

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students gain a conversant knowledge of some aspect of ancient African literature of the eighteenth dynasty (1572-1315 B.C.) in Egypt. They choose either to make a crossword puzzle or a word search with at least 20 key words from their...
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PERCEIVINGT A CULTURE THROUGH ITS LITERATURE

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholarsexamine cultural values in literature, identify the cultural assumptions, prejudices, and purposes of authors and translators, use historical perspective to determine if the values and lifestyle depicted apply to...
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Numbers in Art

For Teachers K - 3rd
Young scholars choose a number from one to twelve and tell a number story about it. They listen to the teacher read "Numbers in Art" by Lucy Micklethwait. Students choose three numbers from one to twelve and view works of art while...
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Approaching Walden Curriculum Unit

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars engage in a literature study unit. They use various exercises to build reading comprehension using a wide variety of literature texts. While reading the books, students are encouraged to think reflectively in order to...
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Introducing Literature Circle Roles to Students

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Learners read a narrative selection and select a literature circle role. In this reading comprehension lesson, students work in groups to identify vocabulary, make text connections, or other reading comprehension strategies. Learners...
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Overcoming Censorship Through Art

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners examine and discuss government-imposed censorship of art and artists' methods for counteracting censorship. They view censored artwork, write a persuasive essay, and create an art piece.
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Puerto Rico . . . Its Land, History, Culture, and Literature

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students examine Puerto Rico's location and from its geographic location, reflect on its culture and people. They also read a play by a Puerto Rican author. This is an excellent cross-curricular unit, including history, geography, and...
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Virginia Woolf

For Students 8th - 12th
In this online interactive literature worksheet, students respond to 11 short answer questions about the life of Virginia Woolf. Students may check some of their answers on the interactive worksheet.
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Shapes in Art, Shapes in Body

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore body movement.  In this shapes and dance instructional activity, students demonstrate body movements and positions that resemble simple shapes.  Students read I Spy Shapes in Art by Lucy Micklethwait and choose...
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Science Fiction Literature

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students identify the elements of science fiction literature. They write and illustrate a science fiction story using real and exaggerated science. In addition, they read their stories aloud in small groups.
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Dolphins At Daybreak

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this reading literature comprehension learning exercise, students complete 35 questions. There is a short crossword puzzle, short answer responses, and matching. All pertain to Dolphins at Daybreak
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You Can't Judge a Book By Its Cover, But Can You Judge a Book By Its First Line? #2

For Students 4th - 6th
In this literature/book analysis activity, students read one sentence which is the beginning of a book. Students then answer 6 questions based on this one sentence, predicting what it will be about and other story elements. They then...
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Thank You, Amelia Bedelia Vocabulary Word Scramble

For Students 2nd - 4th
In these literature response worksheets, students complete activities which reinforce vocabulary in the book Thank You, Amelia Bedelia.
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Seventeenth Century Pick-up Lines

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students analyze passages from The Mysteries of Love and Eloquence, or the Arts of Wooing and Complementing, written in the seventeenth century. Students analyze the images, words and figures of speech the author used and compare the...
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Emotion in Art & Poetry

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders are introduced to famous works of art and begin to discuss the artist's work. Use art to explain and reflect their own emotions. The write about feelings in a work of art and make connections between art and other...
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Overcoming Censorship Through Art

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students create an art piece that expresses their opinions while circumventing hypothetical government restrictions in this lesson on art and government censorship. Emphasis is placed upon historical instances of censorship around the...
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Faces of the community (the): Art from the Heart

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students understand the selflessness of the artists Gauguin and Van Gogh. For this art lesson, students produce art work that reflects the diversity in the their school community. Students share their artwork to explain how they show...
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The Arts: Monster Transformation

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students discuss monsters in both film and literature. They examine the characteristics and methods of killing them. Using pastels on black construction paper, they create half-face/half-monster portraits of themselves. The creations...
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The Cotillion or One Good Bull is Half the Herd, a Black Arts Movement novel by John O. Killens

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students study late twentieth-century African American satirical literature as well as its cultural antecedents. they analyze and discuss, within the contexts of race and gender, the social criticism of the middle classes presented by...
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Literature Circle Reflections

For Teachers 6th - 7th
In this literature circle reflections worksheet, students answer yes, no, or somewhat to how they read a certain piece of literature. They identify the contribution they made to the discussion and an important idea someone expressed. ...
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Literature Circles: Art Director

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this literature circle activity learning exercise, students draw a picture that include details of the events from their assigned piece of reading. Students also explain why included certain details in their drawing.
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The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders use literature journals and discussion groups to summarize and improve their reading comprehension. In this reading skills lesson, 2nd graders discuss animals they've loved and read the story The Girl Who Loved Wild...
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Day Ten Lesson- The Whale Rider

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Readers respond to Chapters 17 and 18 of Whale Rider by Witi Ihimaera. Working in literature groups, they identify the climactic elements in the chapters, discussing the text and making inferences based on their reading.

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