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El Education: Firefly Drafts

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
These drafts present evidence of critique and revision for two four-year-olds from a preschool in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, who were involved in a Learning Expedition on insects. Three versions of two student's scientific illustrations of...
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EL Education

El Education: Adolescent Anatomy and Disease [Student Project]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
10th grade students at Dayton Regional STEM School in Beavercreek, Ohio, created this book, Adolescent Anatomy and Disease. This project is the culmination of several months of student work and represents a collaboration between the life...
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Historical Thinking Matters: Rosa Parks: Textbook

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson, young scholars critique a standard textbook account of Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott. They read and analyze two primary documents and consider how this evidence specifically contests the textbook's account....
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University of Illinois

University of Illinois: Modern American Poetry: Hayden's Life and Career

For Students 9th - 10th
Mark A. Sanders writes a biographical critique on Robert Hayden and his poetry.
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Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore

Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore: Poe's Literary Criticism

For Students 9th - 10th
This site, part of the E. A. Poe Society of Baltimore, includes links to more than fifty different sites with literary criticism by and about Edgar Allan Poe.
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Arizona State University

Asu: Chicana and Chicano Space

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Provided by Arizona State University, this website is a comprehensive thematic, inquiry-based art education resource. Includes two interdisciplinary units of lessons.
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Bridging World History: Rethinking the Rise of the West

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Historical interpretation is subjective, and therefore views on particular movements, such as the western world's rise to power as covered in this unit, can be altered over time by historians.
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Michigan State University

Michigan State University: Lets Net: Global Connection: The Language of Art

For Students 9th - 10th
Art unit that integrates foreign languages. Students learn how to discuss and critique art in a foreign language and then write about a piece of artwork in that foreign language. Includes unit description, list of materials, and links to...
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History Tools

History Tools: Wm. Ellery Channing, Excerpts From Unitarian Christianity [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Historical writing by William Ellery Channing critiquing Calvinism and espousing the Unitarian Christianity Movement. Paragraph numbers have been added and some spelling has been modernized.
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Brookings Institution: Ending Oil Dependence: Protecting National Security

For Students 9th - 10th
A critique of America's dependency on oil, authored by Brookings scholar David Sandalow, with a six-part recommendation for solving the problem. Includes downloadable position paper and fact sheet. (Published Feb. 28, 2007)
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Teachers TryScience

Teachers Try Science: Where There's Light, There's Hot Food!!!

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This unit helps students learn to apply the concept of solar energy conservation. They are introduced to angles and their effect on the amount of light reflected, and they will also design, construct, manipulate, critique, evaluate and...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: An Author Study: Christopher Paul Curtis

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
This five-day lesson will introduce the students to the author of the novel as the beginning of a unit. The students will conduct research to obtain biographical information about the author and read/analyze summaries and critiques of...
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PBS

Pbs: Kid Vid: Dividing Mixed Numbers and Fractions

For Students 6th - 8th
Critique a peer's thinking about two division word problems, one with whole and mixed numbers and one with two fractions, in this interactive from KET. Students watch a video of a student thinking through two word problems that involve...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Math + Arts: Symmetry, Reflective Drawing, and Totem Poles

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson, students will create a colored pencil drawing utilizing symmetry and forms characteristic of Northwest Coast art and write a critique of their work. Media resources and teacher materials are included.
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Teaching Heart: Fairy Tale Lessons & Ideas

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Geared toward grades K-3--offers objectives, materials, procedures, discussion questions and evaluations. Online lesson plans for introducing and teaching basic literary criticism skills.
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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian American Art Museum: Director's Choice

For Students 9th - 10th
The director of the Smithsonian American Art Museum applies her analytical skills in explaining the formal and aesthetic qualities of her favorite American masterworks from the Smithsonian's collection of American art.
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Arizona State University

Chicana and Chicano Space: Inquiry

For Students 9th - 10th
Provided by Arizona State University, this website is a comprehensive thematic, inquiry-based art education resource. Includes two interdisciplinary units of lessons.
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PBS

Pbs: Culture Shock: Huck Finn in Context

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This site features information on themes from Huck Finn. You will find activities and discussion questions to accompany the different sections.
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Civil War Book Reviews

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides good examples of critical book reviews of Civil War literature.
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Lumen Learning

Lumen: Analysis: Critical Analysis

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on critical analysis including a definition, a discussion of the three types of structure for critical analysis, and a practice activity.
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Robert Fulford: Robert Fulford's Column About Irony

For Students 9th - 10th
Robert Fulford, an author from Canada, writes a column on irony in Globe and Mail, September 18, 1999. In this column, he critiques Jedediah Purdy's book called For Common Things: Irony, Trust, and Commitment in America Today and...

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