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Gift of the Magi
While reading O Henry's "The Gift of the Magi," your class will define and identify situational irony and allusion. Use a study guide (not included, but easy to produce) to record and discuss examples of allusion as you read. Map the...
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Gift of the Magi Lesson Plan 3
Explore the literary concept of theme through the The Gift of the Magi. Starting with a class discussion, the concept of theme is explored through examples from famous stories and movies. Next, the class analyzes the possible themes of...
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Sonnets
Explore the concept of rhyme scheme within a Shakespearean sonnet. After writing out their favorite (appropriate!) rap song and explaining why they like it, middle schoolers define a rhyme scheme. Afterward, they examine a Shakespearean...
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Kamishibai Stories
Students explore kamishibai stories, Japanese stories told through illustrated picture cards, and become familiar with their form. Afterward, they develop their own illustrated kamishibai story. Students discuss the process of drawing,...
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Colons, Dashes, Hyphens, and Parentheses
When should you use a colon, dash, or hyphen? Middle schoolers insert different types of punctuation marks into given sentences. Rules for usage are included in each example.
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Dangling and Misplaced Modifiers
Practice grammar skills in this online interactive worksheet. Middle schoolers answer ten multiple choice questions regarding dangling and misplaced modifiers. They may submit their answers to be scored.
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The Popular Bully
Fifth graders investigate bullying and nonviolent ways to deal with bullies. For this conflict management lesson, 5th graders discover the definition for the word ahimsa and examine ways to incorporate that philosophy into their...
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The House of the Scorpion: Multigenre Research Paper
As the culminating project for a unit study of The House of the Scorpion, class members craft a multi-genre research paper to demonstrate not only their depth of knowledge of a topic of interest to them, but also their...
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Good and Bad Emails
In this ESL learning exercise, students read good and bad examples of formal and casual emails. Students cut apart emails into strips and assemble them. There are no logical directions for what to do on these five pages.
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Stating Your Position
Students make a formal effective presentation proclaiming the position benefits before a simulated governmental hearing. They objectively rate the accuracy and effectiveness of presentations given before a simulated governmental hearing.
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Exploring Photographs - Writing the Artist's Statement
Learners read an artist's statement by Dorothea Lange and write a statement based on their own photographs. In this photograph and writing lesson, students examine the relationship between photography and the artist's statement. Learners...
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Evaluating an Olympic Sport
Students research the political context of the Winter Olympics in general and within certain countries in particular. They read authentic, published articles on the topic from the Internet and add this information to the spreadsheet as...
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Debate: Oregon's Death with Dignity Act
Students hold formal debate on the Death with Dignity Act. After researching information in the library, they record it on index cards. They prepare construction, cross examination, and rebuttal speeches.
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Research Based Writing
Eighth graders practice researching and exploring given websites and writing a paragraph on the content of each. As a class, they determine the value of each site, discuss plagiarism, and the need for paraphrasing information. Students...
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Group Discussion
Young scholars participate in group discussion to problem solve. In this group discussion lesson, students exchange information, opinions and ideas in one of several types of discussion formats. Lesson format works for different...
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Who's In, Who's Out?
Students identify feelings they have when being included or excluded in a group. They develop a survey to give to different groups who feel excluded. They present the information they gather from the survey to the class.
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County Chronicles
Students review and use the information from previous lessons about their county. In groups, they write articles for various sections of a class newspaper. They review and edit each others work and publish their newspaper using a desktop...
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Words In the News EU Aid Increase
Students complete vocabulary building activities before reading an online article. They use the article to answer specific information questions and to discuss aid to different countries. They debate the issue of cancelling aid debt to...
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Writing a Criticism
Students view various paintings and write down the adjectives that come to mind. Using the painting, they use information from a previous lesson to write their own critique or point of view. They share their writings with the class.
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Subject Verb Agreement Lesson Plan
Ninth graders are introduced to the rule for subject and verb agreement. In groups, they discuss the differences between formal and informal English and identify situations in which one or the other is acceptable. To end the lesson,...
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Character Sketch
In this language arts worksheet, pupils use the chart of words as a tutorial for writing a formal character sketch. The words are meant to make the description more vivid.
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Dining and Reclining: a Greco-Roman Feast
Students acquire and discover what it was like to be the ancient Greeks and Romans at a feast. They identify the informal and formal Greek and Roman clothing styles,and basic information about ancient make-up and
hairstyles and the...
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English Vocabulary Skills: AWL Sublist 7 - Exercise 5b
In this online interactive English vocabulary skills worksheet, high schoolers answer 10 matching questions which require them to fill in the blanks in 10 sentences. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
Illustrative Mathematics
Make Your Own Puzzle
Puzzling over what geometry lesson to teach next? Look no further. This simple activity teaches young mathematicians how shapes can be decomposed into smaller figures, and how smaller figures can be assembled into larger shapes. To learn...