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Quizlet

Quizlet: Story Elements Quiz 6th Grade Honors: Test

For Students 5th - 8th
Students will be assessed over 12 story elements on this test. Four fill-in-the-blank, four multiple choice, and four true/false questions appear on this assessment. A printable version of this assessment is also available.
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Centers for Disease Control: Bam! Your Life: Kabam! Comic Creator

For Students 6th - 8th
Students learn about making choices when dealing with bullies, peer pressure, and conflict, then create their own comics, using speech bubbles to write dialogue, in response to what they have learned. Requires Adobe Flash.
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Other

Raid on Deerfield: The Many Stories of 1704

For Students 9th - 10th
Experience the dramatic raid on Deerfield. You can read what the victims of the Deerfield Raid say in their stories through historical documents as well as see artifacts, find out about the assailants, and enter the conflict yourself.
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Other

Building Characters With Adversity

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Extensive and very interesting article advising the reader on how to develop characters through adversity.
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BBC

Bbc: News: Country Profile: Lebanon

For Students 9th - 10th
The BBC discusses the country of Lebanon which is at the center of much of the conflict in the Middle East. Gives an overview of its history, talks about its leadership, provides a timeline of key events, and links to other key stories.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Can You Solve the Problem?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
During this lesson, students will analyze ways in which the character(s) in stories solve problems encountered. In small groups, students will brainstorm possible solutions to realistic problems in order to enhance connections to...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Red Light, Green Light

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Building upon their understanding of forces and Newton's laws of motion, students learn about the force of friction, specifically with respect to cars. They explore the friction between tires and the road to learn how it affects the...
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BBC

Bbc: News: Country Profile: Eritrea

For Students 9th - 10th
An a brief overview of Eritrea's recent history with links to stories on recent political and economic problems. Also provides links to a timeline and related sites.
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The Washington Post

The Washington Post: Middle East

For Students 9th - 10th
The Washington Post covers the top stories occurring in the Middle East. PLEASE NOTE THAT A WASHINGTON POST REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED TO VIEW THESE ARTICLES.
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PBS

Frontline: Uganda: The Asian Backlash

For Students 9th - 10th
An April 2007 report from Uganda on the growing internal tensions between native Ugandans and the Asian population of that country. Also provides a forum for posting a response and links to related stories.
eBook
Open Library of the Internet Archive

Open Library: A Household Story of the American Conflict

For Students 9th - 10th
This ebook version of Mary S. Robinson's A Household Story Of The American Conflict has been made available in multiple formats by the Open Library. Editions of the full novel, organized by year of publication, may be accessed here.
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Quizlet

Quizlet: 3rd Grade Story Elements and Plot Vocabulary: Match

For Students 3rd Standards
In this set interactive game, students match story element terms with their definitions. These terms include the following: introduction, setting, characters, conflict, rising action, falling action, point of view, moral, plot, and...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Scheming Against an Adversary

For Teachers 4th - 7th Standards
Enemy Pie by Derek Munson makes readers think seriously about this question: "What if I had to spend an entire day with someone with whom I had a conflict?" This question presents young writers with a great launching pad for developing...
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Read Works

Read Works: Plot 3rd Grade Unit

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] A series of four lesson plans designed to teach students to predict problems and solutions in fiction text and to identify the relationship between problems and character conflicts within a story....
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Interpreting Characters, Setting, Plot, & Theme: Triangle...

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Students will view video documenting the real-life story of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in 1911. Students will complete a story elements graphic organizer. This organizer will help them distinguish various story elements and put...
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Read Works

Read Works: I Need Quiet!

For Teachers K Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a boy named Kahlil who figured out a way to eliminate noisy distractions so he could read. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works

Read Works: Plot 1st Grade Unit

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] A series of three lesson plans designed to teach students to identify problems and solutions in fiction text and to retell a story's problem and solution in sequence. Students learn to identify the plot...
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Writing a Letter Using the Book Mole's Hill

For Teachers K
In this instructional activity, students will engage in writing activities as extensions to Lois Ehlert's book, Mole's Hill. Students will generate soluntions to conflicts in the story, generate ideas for writing letters, write an...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Storytelling With Words and Pictures

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
In this interactive lesson, students learn the basics of how stories are structured, gain vocabulary about storytelling elements, and explore how the arts, specifically drawing, can be a valuable way for students to tell stories.By the...
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Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of American History: The Price of Freedom: Americans at War

For Students 9th - 10th
View comprehensive sets of artifacts that tell the story of America's wartime past and present. Artifacts from every major American military conflict, beginning with the American Revolution, can be closely examined. Full curatorial notes...
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Other

Texas Escapes: World War Ii

For Students 9th - 10th
A rich collection of stories and photographs covering the Texans who participated in World War II. Topics covered include many stories of individual men and women who took part in conflicts, training camps and prisoner of war camps in...
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PBS

Pbs: Pushing Boundaries: Science Fiction and Feminism: Ursula K. Le Guin

For Students 9th - 10th
In this series of videos from the American Masters film Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin, learn how Le Guin and her contemporaries pushed science fiction from a male-dominated genre into a more inclusive form. By redefining the parameters of...
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TES Global

Tes: Teaching Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This collection of resources addresses the themes of violence, friendship, and family obligation in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, a tragic story of star-crossed lovers and the feud between their...
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Other

Amnesty International Usa

For Students 9th - 10th
Amnesty International USA is a consciousness-raising organization for human rights. Its goals are lofty and may make many people uncomfortable as they read stories of grotesque crimes against human kind. This is an excellent site to...