Lois Weber has been forgotten. So have Dorothy Davenport Reid, Gene Gauntier, and many others. High school sleuths use advanced search engines to investigate these women and discover clues to their disappearance from filmography and...

Students work in teams of two to introduce stage directions/ blocking into a basic dialog using the program Hollywood High.

Responding to blog posts can increase written communication skills, critical thinking skills, and the use of social media as a means for discussion. Kids will compose a blog post in response to the provided article related to famous...

Smile for the camera and find out how your English language learners feel about fame! Class members read three different points of view on fame and then discuss ten questions about the topic.

Historical events do not occur in a vacuum. Such is the case of the Dreyfus Affair, where the connection between Captain Alfred Dreyfus, Emile Zola, and Hannah Arendt is fused by the events of the early 20th century. The informative...

Pupils reflect on literature using multiple intelligences.  In this literature analysis lesson, students make creative visual representations of vocabulary terms from a speech in the play.  They work in small groups to analyze...

In this famous person worksheet, students read a passage about Nicole Kidman and then complete a variety of in-class and homework activities to support comprehension, including partner interviews, spelling, cloze, synonym...

In this famous person worksheet, students read a passage about Julia Roberts and then complete worksheets such as spelling, a listening gap fill, synonym matching, scrambled sentences, and more.

In this famous person worksheet, students read a passage about Quentin Tarantino and then complete a variety of in-class and homework activities to support comprehension, including partner interviews, spelling, cloze, synonym...

In this famous person learning exercise, students read a passage about Steven Spielberg and then complete a variety of in-class and homework activities to support comprehension, including partner interviews, spelling, cloze,...

For this verb tense worksheet, students fill in blanks with the correct tense of verbs in parentheses, using simple past, present perfect or past perfect. A reference web site is given for additional activities.

In this famous people worksheet, students read about Jennifer Lopez and complete a variety of comprehension activities including but not limited to synonym matching, sequencing, writing, spelling and vocabulary activities.

In this famous person worksheet, learners read a passage about Walt Disney and then complete a variety of in-class and homework activities to support comprehension, including partner interviews, spelling, cloze, synonym...

For this English worksheet, students read "BBC Nets Best Net News Award," and then respond to 30 fill in the blank, 25 short answer questions about the selection.