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Soup to Nuts
Students explore the concept of idioms as they learn about philanthropy. In this literature and service learning activity, students read Uncle Willie and the Soup Kitchen and examine negative idioms. Students reflect on hurtful language...
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Valentine's Day Hearts
Learners consider idiomatic expressions that use the word, "heart". They illustrate an assigned idiom and present it to the class. They use the illustrations to guess which idiom is being represented.
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Ancient Rome
Students complete pre reading, writing, during reading, and interdisciplinary activities for the book Ancient Rome. In this reading lesson plan, students complete journal entries, go over vocabulary, answer short answer questions, have...
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Valentine's Day hearts
Young scholars use Valentine's Day to use figurative language in English. This is a great activity for ESL students (who may not have much experience with this holiday), to engage in social conversation with their peers.