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Hemingway's Short Stories - Essay Questions
Ernest Hemingway is one of America's great writers. After reading one (or several) of his short stories, visit this list of 24 questions relating to at least 10 of his short stories. Some of the questions are basic recall questions, and...
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Let's Play Hide and Seek
Learners simulate dinosaurs. They discuss dinosaurs and listen to a story. They play a game of Hide and Seek simulating dinosaurs with their parents. They complete activity pages and draw pictures of dinosaurs. They discuss follow-up...
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African Stereotypes - Let's Be Fair
Students evaluate pictures and statements about Africa as "fair" and "unfair." They analyze that stereotypes are unfair and contribute to a bulletin board encouraging the stopping of stereotypes.
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10-20-30 Second Club
Young scholars participate in running exercises to accumulate points for their running team. They earn ten, twenty, or thirty points for improving their running time, then line up with their team to add up their team's total running...
Virginia Department of Education
Adding Specific Vocabulary
An exercise and activity tackle the struggles young writers have in expressing and adding details and specific vocabulary to their writing. The instructor guides the class with an example paragraph, where the learners discuss what...
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Quiz
In this online interactive reading comprehension worksheet, students respond to 12 multiple choice questions about Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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King Henry IV, Part 1 by William Shakespeare
In this online interactive reading comprehension instructional activity, high schoolers respond to 15 multiple choice questions about Shakespeare's King Henry IV. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
In this online interactive reading comprehension worksheet, students respond to 12 multiple choice questions about One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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Grammatical Items
In this grammatical items worksheet, students write a short sentence for each of the twenty terms listed and underline the particular grammatical item in each sentence.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Gulliver's Travels Quiz
In this online interactive reading comprehension worksheet, students respond to 10 multiple choice questions about Swift's Gulliver's Travels. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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The Light in the Forest by Conrad Richter
In this literature instructional activity, students respond to 10 short answer and essay questions about Richter's A Light in the Forest. Students may also link to an online interactive quiz on the novel at the bottom of the page.
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Nana by Emile Zola
In this online interactive reading comprehension worksheet, students respond to 15 multiple choice questions about Zola's Nana. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
In this online interactive reading comprehension worksheet, students respond to 12 multiple choice about Hinton's The Outsiders. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
For this online interactive reading comprehension worksheet, students respond to 15 multiple choice questions about Pygmalion. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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Comparing Michigan to Other States
Fourth graders work in groups of 2 or 3 and choose a state to compare with Michigan. They use the Internet to locate information on other states allowing students time to research how Michigan compare to their state and incorporate their...
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Circus Lesson
Students take part in group entertainment activities. In this circus instructional activity, students discuss their own memories of a circus and conduct several activities such as juggling scarves and creating balloon animals. Students...
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Banana Quiz
In this ESL worksheet, students answer 10 multiple-choice questions about bananas. For example, "Bananas are an excellent source of..."
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World Cup Quiz 2006
In this 2006 World Cup Tournament worksheet, students respond to 25 multiple choice and short answer questions regarding the teams, players, and locations of the 2006 World Cup.
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Black Music: Its Message and Meaning
Students develop an appreciation for modern black music from a historical, political and lyrical perspective. They examine the political and the historical surge of the civil rights movement of the 1960's and how this surge directly or...
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Place Value Lesson
Fourth graders use place value structure to construct and compare numbers that are up to the ten thousands. In this place value lesson plan, 4th graders explain and discuss numbers that are greatest in size according to the place of the...
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Using a Metric Ruler
Students explore measuring with metric rulers. In this math instructional activity, students measure two-dimensional objects using metric units.
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Long-Term Goals
Middle schoolers set long-term and short-term goals. In this character education lesson, students determine whether goals that they write for themselves are long-term or short-term.
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Caring Makes a Difference
Learners define caring. For this character education lesson, students examine the attributes of compassion as they read a folktale and discuss plans to help those less fortunate than themselves.
Clark County School District
Owl Moon by Jane Yolen
A thorough lesson plan takes your first grade class through Jane Yolen's beautiful Owl Moon. It crafts the unit with clear objectives, high-level guiding questions, cloze activities and sentence frames, and extension...