Unit Plan
Colby College

Spanish Language & Culture: Preterites Irregular Meanings

For Students 9th - 10th
Practice using verbs that change their meaning in the preterite tense: conocer, saber, querer, tener, and poder. Complete translations from English to Spanish by choosing the correct form of a verb in the preterite or imperfect. Answers...
Unit Plan
Colby College

Spanish Language & Culture: Subjunctive Verbs of Emotion

For Students 9th - 10th
With the English translation as a guide, the student completes the Spanish equivalent by conjugating the verb of emotion into the present indicative and the verb in the noun clause into the present subjunctive. Good practice for spelling...
Unit Plan
Academy of American Poets

Poets.org: Poetry in Translation

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Wonderful multicultural/diversity poetry unit created by a Queens high school teacher. Students explore poetry from different cultures, including their own (in English and/or their native language).
Article
BBC

Bbc Newsround: New App Translates Phone Calls

For Students 3rd - 5th
A new phone app launched in Japan will let people speaking different languages chat to each other. This article explains how.
Activity
Other

Kids Search: Kid's Translator

For Students 9th - 10th
Translate one language into another launguage.
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Other

The Official Peanuts Website: Foreign Language Strips

For Students 9th - 10th
This section of the official Peanuts Web site contains classic Peanuts comic strips in German, French, Russian, Spanish, Japanese, Portuguese and other languages. The strips can also be translated into English.
Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Beowulf: Background of the Epic

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on the definition of the epic and how Beowulf fits the definition. It provides links to a variety of translations of Beowulf, commentary on the translations, the complete text, an abridged text, and an audio version...
Primary
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Trans Jessie L. Weston[pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a 22-page PDF of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight translated by Jessie L. Weston.
Primary
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: "Gawain's Dream" From the Quest for the Holy Grail [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a two-page PDF of "Gawain's Dream" and it's interpretation from The Quest for the Holy Grail translated by E. Jane Burns.
Primary
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Anglo Saxon and Norse Poems [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a 232 page PDF book of Anglo-Saxon and Norse poetry which was published in 1922 by Cambridge University Press. It was edited and translated by N. Kershaw.
Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Anglo Saxon: The Dream of the Rood

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on the Early English poem "The Dream of the Rood" which tells the story of the crucifixion of Christ from the cross's point of view. It features a video of the Ruthwell Cross that is inscripted with a section of the...
Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Middle Ages: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on Middle Age literature focuses on Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. It features links to the work both in prose and poetry format and an audio clip of lines 1-19. It also offers links to information of King Arthur,...
Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Chaucer: Background: The Canterbury Tales

For Students 9th - 10th
This page provides the background for Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, a series of 22 short stories from 29 pilgrims traveling from Canterbury to Kent. It begins with a prologue that sets up the frame story and introduces the characters....
Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Beowulf: Reading the Epic: Prologue and Grendel

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on the Prologue of the epic poem Beowulf and the character Grendel, a monster of a giant race. It features links to several translations of Boewulf, cpmplete text, audio, and abridged versions. This lesson focuses on...
Website
Harvard University

The Geoffrey Chaucer Page: Main Page

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from The Geoffrey Chaucer Page provides materials for Harvard's Chaucer classes. It provides a wide range of texts and translations of Chaucer's works along with critical articles from various perspectives and general...
Unit Plan
CommonLit

Common Lit: "What Love Isn't" by Yrsa Daley Ward

For Students 7th - 8th
CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story or article is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words to see...