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Handout
Yale University

Arabic - English Glossary

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Designed to accompany Focus on Contemporary Arabic by Shukri Abed, this document provides 41 pages of Arabic terms with English translations. The words are organized alphabetically in Arabic and include notations that indicate colloquial...
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Curated OER

Online —On Stage—and Action

For Teachers Pre-K - 5th
Use your tablets to participate in a culture-sharing project with a class in a foreign country. Your class can communicate and share ideas with a class in another country, swapping information regarding language and culture. Together you...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Sor Juana, la monja y la escritora: Las Redondillas y La Respuesta

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Sor Juana, considered one of the first feminist writers and a great Latin American poet, is the topic and inspiration for this excellent lesson. Use the introduction, guiding questions, and learning objectives to lead your class into a...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Author Study Worksheet

For Students 6th - 9th
What book are you currently reading? If you want your class to delve into the life of the author, give them this author study worksheet. Basic questions like where the author lives (or lived), what hardships the author encountered, and...
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Teaching with Europeana

Who Was Don Quixote de la Mancha?

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd Standards
Scholars take part in five learning sessions with the novel Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes as the resource's anchor text. Participants watch videos, perform jigsaws, ask and answer questions, write summaries, read...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Un Petit Cochon

For Students 8th - 11th
In this translating worksheet, students translate a French nursery rhyme to English. Students have 7 lines to translate in this nursery rhyme.
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Lesson Plan
National Endowment for the Humanities

Charles Baudelaire: Poète Maudit (The Cursed Poet)

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
After learning the main ideas of the Decadent movement, learners work in small groups to read and translate poems by the French poet Charles Baudelaire using basic etymology skills. They then read the accurate English translations to see...
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Curated OER

Leyendas and Children's Literature

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners in high school read books to elementary students. They also examine cultural writings and legends from Latin America. They complete projects over the information they have found and give one of them to the elementary student.
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Handout
Curated OER

Beginner's Guide to Arabic

For Students 9th - Higher Ed
Introduce your language learners to Arabic. The most useful portion of this resource is the detailed information on the Arabic alphabet. Each letter is placed in a grid that shows the various ways to write it based on the situation...
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Curated OER

Critic's Choice

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers read two opposing types literature. In groups, they role play the role of a critic to show they comprehend the material. They are introduced to new vocabulary and practice speaking the words in the foreign language.
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Curated OER

An Exploratory Approach to the Teaching of French in the Middle School

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students review the most recent vocabulary list of French words. Using literature by Victor Hugo and Guy de Maupassant, they discover the history and culture of France. Using a map and the text, they locate the cities and regions of...
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Curated OER

Forming Plural Nouns

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Everyone knows that a noun is a person, place, thing, or idea - but what happens when you have people, places, things, or ideas? Use this SMART board activity to guide your class through plural nouns. Several activities, including making...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Le cigale et la fourmi

For Students 9th - 11th
Explore French literature by reading the short poem "La cigale et la fourmi." On the second page, there's a literal translation of the poem (into English), but consider having your learners try to translate it on their own before showing...
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Curated OER

Mexico: Introduction to History and Literature

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Young scholars study the geography of Mexico (i.e. major cities, surrounding countries and bodies of water, mountain ranges, rivers, volcanoes), They take turns reading aloud information provided (xerox copies) about Mexico. After each...
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Curated OER

Piercing the World of Silence

For Teachers 8th - 9th
Students explore the sign language alphabet. They examine the difficulties faced by handicapped persons, and are introduced to Helen Keller, Anne Sullivan and The Miracle Worker.
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Lesson Plan
National Endowment for the Humanities

Sor Juana, la poetisa: Los sonetos

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Examine two of Sor Juana's sonnets in depth. Learners first listen to an audio recording or a reading of the sonnets and then analyze the structure and form, paying attention to elements of the Baroque and el gongorismo. Assess student...
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Curated OER

Foods and Languages of the World

For Teachers K - 1st
Students explore cultures around the world. In this cross-curriculum geography lesson, students listen to This is the Way We Go to School , a Book about Children around the World , and locate various countries on the globe and a map....
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Movie Genres

For Students 7th - 11th
In this grammar activity, students match twelve movie genres with their appropriate definitions and examples from two answer banks and then translate the titles into Chinese. Students answer six questions regarding personal movie...
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Curated OER

American Deaf Culture: A History of Language

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Pupils examine the relationship between language and culture in the Deaf Community. They discover the history of sign language and how it has been viewed in the past. They examine the Deaf community's beliefs and values.
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Curated OER

Outline of a Legend/Folk Tale

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students create outlines of folk tales and legends. They read a folk tale or legend in the target language. They complete an outline of the key events of the story including the main characters, plot, story elements and theme or moral.
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Curated OER

French Connections

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars use Internet links to plan a 3-day tour of France. They role-play a typical encounter that may be experienced during their trip.
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Lesson Plan
University of New Mexico

César Chávez: Migrant Farm Workers and Their Leader

For Teachers 6th - 8th
During the first week of instruction, middle schoolers research biographies on Cesar Chavez and make a pictorial collage of his life. For the second and third week, they maintain a seven-day diary of a farmworker and write a poem. For...

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