Alabama Department of Archives and History
New York Times Co. v Sullivan: The Alabama Case that Changed Libel Law
Malice aforethought? Can the New York Times be held libel for false claims appearing in its ads? The Supreme Court case New York Times v Sullivan changed the interpretation of the First Amendment. Class members examine these changes and...
Curated OER
Count and Noncount Nouns Exercise 3
In this count and noncount nouns worksheet students are given a cloze passage and asked to choose between two verb forms in order to match the count or noncount noun subject.
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Ideas for Classroom Election Activities
This handout provides suggestion8s for exploring the elections process including making a party platform poster, writing a speech in the style of a famous politician, having a debate, planning a convention, and more! While some of the...
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Decision Idioms Exercise
In this grammar worksheet, students explore idioms and their uses. Students complete four matching and eight multiple choice questions involving the meanings of idioms.
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Oú suis-je?
Follow the monkey and learn your prepositions! This is such a great way to illustrate new vocabulary. Learners review the French words sous, sur, à coté de, devant, derrière, entre, au-dessus de, and au-dessous de. There's a short...
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Guess Who?
Your class is designing an online dating service, and they have to complete their members' profiles! Group your kids in pairs, and distribute this resource to get them speaking! As one partner describes a member, the other has to...
Museum of Tolerance
The Price of Personal Responsibility
A reading of Patrick Henry's "Speech in the Virginia Convention," Henry David Thoreau's "Civil Disobedience," and Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "Letter from Birmingham Jail" launch a discussion about the price one is willing to pay to...
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Birthday Verbs
Use this vocabulary development resource as flash cards or with an iPad. Autistic or special needs pupils can review birthday related vocabulary words. Each word is a verb and each associated image shows that verb as it is occurring at a...
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Challenging Stereotypes: A New Look at Old Age
Combine a lesson on the elderly with grammar instruction. Before viewing a series of provided video clips, class members brainstorm a list of words related to senior citizens and organize these words into categories that correspond with...
K12 Reader
Mark Antony’s Oration from Julius Caesar
"And Brutus is an honourable man." Or is he? Readers of Shakespeare’s tragic Julius Caesar are asked to identify the rhetorical devices Mark Antony uses in his funeral oration and to explain how these devices influence the...
Trinity University
Julius Caesar: The Power of Persuasion
"Friend, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears..." Those words begin one of the most persuasive speeches in literature. Explore the elements of persuasion in a series of lessons related to William Shakespeare's Julius...
Curated OER
Pendemonium: The Great African Surfari
Young scholars discover the importance of matching verbs to their subjects through a discussion of a whimsical video on verb agreement and a read aloud of the book, "To Root, To Toot To Parachute". They practice verb agreement in...
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Find the Main Idea in Romeo and Juliet
Finding the main idea in a text can be rather difficult! Work with your class and develop this skill. This resource contains an excerpt from Act II, Scene 2 of Romeo and Juliet, and the reader must identify the main idea of Juliet's...
K12 Reader
Shakespeare's Language: What's the Meaning?
You needn't be an actor to stage this exercise in reading comprehension. Kids examine Jacques's "All the World's a Stage" speech from Act II, scene ii, of As You Like It, and explain the literal meaning of the figurative...
Anti-Defamation League
Shirley Chisholm: Unbought, Unbossed and Unforgotten
A 13-page packet introduces high schoolers to a lady of amazing firsts. Shirley Chisholm was the first Black woman elected to Congress, the first Black woman to run for President of the United States, and a leader of the Women's Rights...
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Perspectives on Civil Rights
Students examine speeches of the Civil Rights Era. For this American history lesson, students listen to speeches delivered by Martin Luther King, Jr. and John F. Kennedy. Students respond to guiding questions as they listen to the...
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Marie Antoinette and the French Revolution
Students examine how the French and American revolutions influenced and emergence of free press in these countries. Students explore the link between government control of the press and the type of government. They compare and contrast...
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Matching Worksheet
In this verb and literary terms worksheet, students match thirteen key words, verbs or terms with their definitions for mastery.
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Hafta Do NAFTA?
Students examine the benefits and problems of U.S. participation in the North American Free Trade Agreement. In two groups, students represent the campaign team for a presidential candidate, one for and one against NAFTA, and research...
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Kite
In this language arts activity, students see 4 pictures of kites, with describing words such as :stuck, free, flying, diving. Students answer 4 questions about the kites.
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The Opinions Of The Public
Tenth graders discuss the importance of America's constitutional right to free speech, the difficulty of dealing with public opinion as an elected official and identify the importance of public discussion and the election process.
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"I Have a Dream" Shown in Pictures
Students demonstrate their understanding of Dr. King's dreams by drawing a picture representing one of them. In this Dr. King activity activity, students read the speech "I Have a Dream" and discuss the vocabulary. Students select one of...
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Mad Libs
In this grammar instructional activity, 3rd graders complete a Mad Lib. Students complete 8 fill in the blanks adding the requested part of speech into each creating a silly story.
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Nature Metaphors
In this metaphor worksheet, students read information about how to write a metaphor . Students are instructed to write some metaphors about nature in an unlined blank space.
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