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Neh: Edsit Ement: Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart
Three detailed lesson plans for high school students studying Chinua Achebe's novel "Things Fall Apart." Provides plenty of resources, such as links, lesson extensions, and more.
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Neh: Edsit Ement: George Orwell's Essay on Life in Burma: "Shooting an Elephant"
This is a lesson plan for George Orwell's Essay on his Life in Burma: "Shooting An Elephant." It provides five detailed activities for use with the essay. Other links to parts of the lesson plan including an introduction, guiding...
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Neh: Edsit Ement: The First Great Awakening
In the middle of the 18th century, a series of evangelical religious revival movements swept across colonial America. Known as the First Great Awakening, the movements were characterized by emotional religious conversions from a state of...
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Neh: Edsit Ement: Woodrow Wilson and Foreign Policy
In this curriculum unit, students will consider "Woodrow Wilson and Foreign Policy" in 4 Lessons. The unit also includes worksheets and other student materials that can be found under the resource tab.
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Neh: Edsit Ement: Mapping the Past
Students will examine European world maps from the Middle Ages, the Age of Discovery, and the period of New World exploration. They will then look at maps that record the early exploration of the American West and collect present-day...
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Neh: Edsit Ement: Not Everyone Lived in Castles During the Middle Ages
Forget the romantic view of the Middle Ages. What was it really like? Lesson plan focuses on exploring the lives of the peasants, craftsmen, and monks. Hyperlinks lead to great illustrations.
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Neh: Edsit Ement: Fairy Tales Around the World
This collection of activities gives young scholars a chance to discover and compare fairy tales from around the world. It provides a wealth of links to resources, printable diagrams, discussion questions and the like.
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Neh: Edsit Ement: Personal or Social Tragedy? Edith Wharton's Ethan Frome
This lesson plan will challenge students to weigh the textual evidence for and against the claim that Ethan's woes lay in staying in Starkfield-and not in the details of his personal relationships. In the process, students will close...
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Neh: Edsit Ement:portrait of a Hero
Discussing real life heroes and heroines and viewing their pictures will help students learn about reading and writing biographies. A writing rubric assessment is included in this series of activities designed to teach about heroes and...
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Neh: Edsit Ement: It Came From Greek Mythology
Lesson plans enable students to deepen their understanding of the true meaning of Greek mythology especially in the areas of the Greek hero and the presence of mythology in contemporary culture.
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Neh: Edsit Ement: The Aztecs Mighty Warriors of Mexico
Unit plan to teach about the Aztec civilization. Includes websites, worksheets, activities, and extending the lesson.
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Neh: Edsit Ement: Cultural Change
Exciting lesson plan teaching students about the social change in women's role in society that allowed women the right to vote. Students will learn about the process women went through to gain the right to vote by exploring various...
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Neh: Edsit Ement: Family and Friendship in Quilts
Quilts, in addition to being a great thing to have to cuddle up on the couch with, have historically been used to tell stories and bring friends and families together. This lesson plan leads students through a series of activities on...
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Neh: Edsit Ement: Presidential Inaugurations
This resource provides step-by-step lesson plans that detail the Presidential Inauguration. It offers links to superb primary sources (photos, poems, audio, etc.) that catalog past inaugurations. This resource will certainly help...
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Neh: Edsit Ement: Lesson 2: Responding to Emily Dickinson: Poetic Analysis
In this lesson plan, students will consider Lesson 2: Responding to Emily Dickinson: Poetic Analysis. Worksheets and other supporting materials can be found under the Resources tab.
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Neh: Edsit Ement: Go West: Imagining the Oregon Trail
A 2,000-mile trek across a continent-with no idea what awaits you on the other side. Tell your students to put on their traveling shoes and prepare for the journey of their lives! In this lesson, students compare imagined travel...
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Neh: Edsit Ement: Mapping Our Worlds
In this lesson, introduce your learners to the world of maps and discover a world of information online. Students learn how to identify different types of maps, comparing maps to the rooms of a house.
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Neh: Edsit Ement: Xerxes' Bridges Over the Hellespont
Xerxes used hundreds of ships to create two bridges over the Hellespont. This interactive activity walks students through the stages of the construction.
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Neh: Edsit Ement: Native American Diversity
Extensive lesson plans for students to become familiar with the traditions and customs of different Native American groups and compare them to each other. There are links included in more information needed in the lessons.
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Neh: Edsit Ement: What Is History? Timelines and Oral Histories
Lesson for teaching young historians to retell the past using timelines and oral accounts.
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Neh: Edsit Ement: Character in Place: Eudora Welty's "A Worn Path"
In this lesson plan, students will consider Character in Place: Eudora Welty's "A Worn Path" for the Common Core. Worksheets and other supporting materials can be found under the Resources tab.
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Neh: Edsit Ement:charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wall Paper" Writing Women
A close reading of "The Yellow Wall-paper" employing the analysis of such literary concepts as setting, narrative style, symbol, and characterization. Students will write an essay discussing what the story suggests about middle-class...
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Neh: Edsit Ement: Angkor What? Angkor Wat!
In this lesson plan, students will consider "Angkor What? Angkor Wat!." The plan includes worksheets and other student materials that can be found under the resource tab.
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Neh: Edsit Ement: Boston Tea Party: Costume Optional?
By exploring historical accounts of events surrounding the Boston Tea Party, students learn about the sources and methods historians use to reconstruct what happened in the past. It includes extended websites for further research.