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Open Ended Questions Introduction

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students answer open ended questions by filling out a packet. In this open ended questions lesson plan, students include details and a personal connection to provide insight to the reader of their answers.
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Eat Your Words!

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students make spelling words using cheese crackers. In this spelling lesson, students use Scrabble Cheez It crackers to make words before eating them.
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Transitioning Between Scenes

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students create a chart to reference when writing new scenes in fiction stories.  In this fiction writing lesson plan, students are exposed to various ways to transition between scenes in their writing.  There is a Word...
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Subject/Predicate Song

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students sing a song about the parts of a sentence. In this grammar lesson, students sing a song that defines both the subject and the predicate and how they make a sentence together. 
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Under Over By the Clover: What is a Preposition?

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders study prepositions in everyday writing. In this identifying prepositions lesson plan, 5th graders read the book: Over Under By the Clover and identify prepositions in the story. 
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Twitter Tweet Chapter Summary

For Teachers 10th - Higher Ed
Students use Twitter to complete a literature analysis. In this literature and technology lesson, students read chapters from a piece of literature and write summaries. Students use Twitter to communicate about the literature.
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The Rainbow Fish

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students read a story. In this diversity lesson plan, students read The Rainbow Fish, by Marcus Pfister, discuss sharing and uniqueness, and decorate their own scale with information about them using pictures or words.
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The Presidential Election Process

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students examine the presidential election process and discover that presidential elections are decided by the electoral college and not popular votes. They see that each state has a number of electors, and understand how this number is...
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Formal and Informal Letters

For Teachers 7th - 8th
In this formal and informal letters worksheet, learners change eighteen informal words into formal words. Students then complete one informal and formal letter with fill in the blank answers.
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Blues and Folk Music Workshop

For Students 6th - 7th
In these informational texts worksheets, students read the detailed flyer for the Blues and Folk Music Workshop. Students then answer 8 multiple choice questions about the text.
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A House for Hermit Crab

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Engage young marine biologists in a reading of Eric Carle's A House for Hermit Crab with a fun hands-on activity. Given a set of clipart images of the different aquatic animals that appear in the book, children identify each one...
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Future: Forms

For Students 2nd - 5th
In this future worksheet, students fill in the blanks to sentences about the future. Students complete 10 multiple choice questions total.
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Macbeth

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers examine patterns of imagery in Macbeth by using online resources. Students compare the patterns they see to those they've found in other Shakespeare plays. Then high schoolers draw conclusions about why Shakespeare might...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine patterns of imagery in A Midsummer Night's Dream by using online resources. Students compare the patterns they see to those they've found in other Shakespeare plays. Then students draw conclusions about why Shakespeare...
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Othello

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine patterns of imagery in Othello by using online resources. Students compare the patterns they see to those they've found in other Shakespeare plays. Then students draw conclusions about why Shakespeare might have used the...
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Merchant of Venice

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine patterns of imagery in Merchant of Venice by using online resources. Students compare the patterns they see to those they've found in other Shakespeare plays. Then students draw conclusions about why Shakespeare might...
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TO LOVE, HONOR AND OBEY (ONE'S PARENTS!)

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Pupils examine parent-child tensions regarding obedience and communication, in order to explain the conflicts in the opening scene of King Lear. They discuss ways in which expectations for studenT obedience were different in...
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The Macbeth Tango

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars examine how Macbeth and Lady Macbeth relate to each other in individual scenes and throughout the play. By taking elements of that relationship and making them physical, students analyze the Macbeths' marriage on many...
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Investigating Othello: Peeling Away Layers of Meaning

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Students analyze piece of literature by looking at it from one perspective and then by re-evaluating what they have discovered when other layers of meaning are added.
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Tongue Twisters--Improve Enunciation for debaters

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners practice tongue twisters to help reinforce enunciation during debate.
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Picture a Business

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students create helpful books about local businesses to show what resources are available to their community.
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"Music Be the Food Of Love": Found Poetry with Shakespeare and Hip Hop

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers create found poetry using lines from hip hop songs and Shakespeare's plays. They try to rewrite the words to music so that more people can explain Shakespeare's plays. They discuss the results of the activity.
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Words, words, words

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students discuss words that represent the big ideas in Othello and that recur throughout the play. They are assigned words to track throughout the text, recording which character says the word and in what context.
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Youth Voices: Fair Access to Resources and Quality of Life

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Student delegates conduct "United Nations" style session in which they are challenged to develop resolution or resolutions that address how to feed growing population, taking into consideration quality of life and impact on environment.