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I Am . . .
Eighth graders read Eloise Greenfield's novella, 'Sister'. They write their personal responses quickly, foregoing concern about usage, spelling, and punctuation at this point. They write about their day, or may write about any...
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Breaking Free From Conformity: A study in modern day Transcendentalism
Students begin with a journal entry on the topic "Why does Ralph Waldo Emerson advocate self-reliance?" They listen to Gavin Degraw's "I Want to Be." Students write their interpretation of the song. Students write an essay about Liars...
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Falling Leaves: The True Story of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter
Students read the novel Falling Leaves. They evaluate the repeated story lines which compose the history of narration. They analyze and defend reasons why self-esteem affects the success or failure of characters.
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Oral History and Multiculturalism
Students observe the human or personal side of history by assessing the background to the people in the community who are basically "living" historians. They compare the histories of different ethnic groups to identify areas of patterns...
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KG Lesson Plan
Eighth graders explore the four major components of an autobiography. As they discuss the major characteristics of an autobiography, 8th graders list the advantages and disadvantages of traditional, word of mouth, tales. Individually,...
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The Name You Once Gave Me, by Mike Phillips and The Dying Wish by Courttia Newland
Students read, analyze, critique and study the novels, "The Name You Once Gave Me," by Mike Phillips and "The Dying Wish," by Courttia Newland. They evaluate an extract from each novel and consider how a theme can provide a framework for...
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My Spelling Words- Spelling List #52
In this spelling instructional activity, students learn to spell 10 words. All words seem to be stages of human life. Students write each word, alphabetize them and write a brief definition for each.
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Clauses and Conjunctions
For this grammar worksheet, students read about clauses and conjunctions. Students read about the different kinds of clauses, such as dependent and independent.
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Question Jumbles
In this sentence structure practice activity, students rearrange jumbled words to form 16 questions and then create their own.
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Identify and Values
In this online Australia worksheet, students learn state emblems, flags, famous people, immigration facts, and important days for Australia.
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Webquest - Westward Ho!
Students investigate life on the trail West. In this Oregon Trail lesson, students collaborate to research the pioneer life and then role play a family's life on the trail. Students author an essay regarding their research finding and...
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Lesson on Ethnic Discrimination
Students study ethnic discrimination. In this discrimination lesson plan, students define ethnicity and ethnic discrimination in the global community as well as steps against it. Students examine their own ethnic backgrounds...
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Mistaken Identities, Misrepresentations, and Changes of Mind
Students study a play and then discuss the mistaken identities, misrepresentations, and changes of mind that occur. In this discussion of plays lesson plan, students learn new vocabulary words and discuss and differentiate between...
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Music and Lyrics
Eighth graders analyze lyrics from songs from a variety of genres. In this musical analysis lesson, 8th graders write an essay about their life plans in which they discuss the lyrics of U2's song, "One." They tell how the writings of Dr....
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Stephen Crane - Surrealism and the Antihero
Learners analyze the work of Stephen Crane as a lesson plan on surrealism and an antihero. In this surrealism lesson plan, students complete discuss activities for the topic. Learners then analyze Crane's poetry, his use of surrealism,...
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Oregon Trail Diary
Students write a diary. In this writing and creativity activity, students pretend they are moving west and keep a diary about their adventures. Students study real-life scenarios about families who made the trip out west before writing...
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Olympic Mascot Lesson
Pupils investigate the 1968 Olympics by identifying their mascots. In this Olympic history lesson, students participate in a group activity where they match countries with their representative mascots. Pupils analyze the...
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Talking About Photographs
Young scholars ask questions and make predictions about photographs that they are shown. In this asking questions and communication lesson plan, students do this with teacher provided photographs and photographs they have brought in...
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Role Models
Third graders create posters of heroes and present their findings and what they think it means to be a hero. In this role models lesson plan, 3rd graders compare heroes and describe their characteristics.
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Party, Party, Party!
High schoolers explore social situations by participating in a role play activity. In this student psychology lesson, students identify the different social situations they will enjoy as they grow older including weddings, housewarming...
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Questions
In this reading comprehension worksheet, students respond to 5 short answer questions about Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
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Age of Iron Questions
In this reading comprehension instructional activity, students respond to 5 short answer and essay questions based on Age of Iron by Coetzee.
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The Whipping Boy Chapters 7-8
In this reading comprehension worksheet, students answer 7 short essay questions about chapters 7 and 8 of The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleishman.
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Preserving History
Middle schoolers discuss how writing is an important historical tool. They read writings from individuals and note how they have preserved history. They describe what those stories say about the communites they came from.