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Words on Water

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students use books to find quotes about or related to water. They use the subject or the style of the quote to inspire them to create their own famous words and paint a watercolor picture to accompany it.
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Reported Speech 7

For Students 5th - 7th
In this online grammar activity, students read the example quotations and write a statement sentence reporting what was said. Students complete 15 exercises.
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The Melancholy Dane: Fun Trivia Quiz

For Students 9th - 12th
In a unique twist on the standard Fun Trivia Quiz, this 10-question quiz provides the test taker with famous lines spoken by Hamlet and asks him to identify to whom they were said. Content combines quote analysis, character analysis, and...
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Hamlet: Fun Trivia Quiz

For Students 9th - 12th
Consider this quiz on Hamlet for your class. It includes ten questions that cover characters and quotations from the play. Anyone can make a Fun Trivia Quiz, so look carefully at the content and relevancy of the questions provided....
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One-on-One with Hamlet: Fun Trivia Quiz

For Students 9th - 12th
Studying Hamlet in your class? This helpful resource provides ten questions on plot understanding and quote identification. While you might not use this quiz verbatim, you might use the given questions to create your own quiz. Keep in...
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Romeo and Juliet Quiz - Who said it? Part 2

For Students 9th - 12th
This Fun Trivia quiz tests readers' basic understanding of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet by requiring the identification of the speaker of 10 quotes. There are mechanical errors in the quiz, so you should only use this for ideas.
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All that Glitters...with William Shakespeare

For Students 10th - 12th
This Fun Trivia online interactive quiz could be useful if you teach a Shakespeare class; however, its use is limited given that it covers numerous plays and specifically requires identifying works based on quotes referencing gold and...
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King Lear: Fun Trivia Quiz

For Students 9th - 12th
This Fun Trivia quiz incorporates vocabulary, quote identification and character recognition questions for Shakespeare's classic play King Lear. As with all Fun Trivia quizzes, it may be necessary to review content for usefulness....
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Punctuating Direct Speech

For Teachers 4th
Have your class practice their punctuation by studying direct speech.  A rather convoluted but fun way to explain speech marks is explained, using sheep, and punctuation marks to represent their pen. Your class will see how each word is...
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Is That Legal? A Case of Acid Rain

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Develop an environmental case study! Elementary learners discover how a case study is used as an analysis tool. The goal of this activity is to show pupils how techniques of persuasion (including background, supporting evidence,...
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It's Your Opinion

For Teachers 3rd - 7th
Everyone has a different opinion about the characters they read about in books. Have your class explore forming an opinion and finding evidence to support it as they read and discuss what they think about a particular character. They...
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Triangular Trade

For Teachers 5th - 7th
This lesson plan has it all, primary source documents, an interactive trade game, clear teacher background information, and sailing to the West Indies chance cards. You will play, trade, and live out the experiences of early colonists in...
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Secrets of the Mummies

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
How did the ancient people of Egypt preserve their dead so well that their bodies are still recognizable today? Learn the painstakingly complex process they used for preservation. Young scholars read and summarize a narrative detailing...
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Famous Quotes and Mottos

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students read about the accomplishments of John Paul Jones and the Continental Marines. They explore famous quotes and mottos, i.e. "Semper Fidelis." Students discuss other quotes or mottos by famous people in history. They discuss...
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Interpreting Quotes from Native Americans and European Americans (1790s-1820s)

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine the relationships between Native Americans and Europeans. Using the War of 1812, they analyze quotes of each group and discuss how they are connected to the war. They discover how each group viewed the same situation...
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Speech Marks

For Students 4th - 5th
In these speech marks worksheets, students read the examples of dialogue and quotation phrases. Students study the placement of quotation marks.
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Speech Marks

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this punctuation worksheet, students copy the given sentences on a sheet of paper. Students add the correct punctuation for the quotes.
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My Antonia: During Reading Strategy

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Home in on the quote on this page to explore setting, the author's and character's voices, and plot in Willa Cather's My Antonia. Pupils draw a picture of what is described in the quote, discuss the content, and make connections to their...
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EngageNY

Writing and Argument Essay: Peer Critique with Rubric (Chapters 29-31, Including Synthesis of Scenes in Previous Chapters)

For Teachers 8th Standards
Hungry? Try a quote sandwich! Writers discover the concept of using a quote sandwich to introduce and analyze a quote in an argumentative essay properly. Additionally, pupils engage in peer critiques, analyzing each other's drafts and...
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Proofreading

For Students 1st - 3rd Standards
Do your second graders like riddles? Give them a giggle and a lesson about proofreading at the same time. After reading two riddles, young writers fix punctuation and capitalization errors. They write the answer to each riddle at the...
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Center for Civic Education

Martin Luther King Jr. and the Power of Words

For Teachers 7th - 12th Standards
It is easy to forget the power that written or spoken word can have in effecting change. Using quotations from such inspirational leaders as Maya Angelou, Mahatma Gandhi, and Martin Luther King Jr., encourage your class members to...
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EngageNY

End of Unit Assessment: Perspectives on Natural Disasters

For Teachers 5th Standards
Caption this! Scholars complete the end of unit assessment by rereading In the Middle of the Storm. Learners answer written response questions about the text, and then create drawings to accompany their work. To finish, they caption the...
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Discovery Education

Writing about Symbolism and Emotion in Huckleberry Finn

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
To complete a study of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, readers select a well-known quotation or symbol from the novel to use in an essay that analyzes how the quotation or symbol relates to the novel's themes.
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CTBS Mechanics Practice #1

For Students 6th - 7th
Use this CTBS mechanics activity to reinforce the correct use of commas, punctuation, italics, letter writing, and capitalization. Middle schoolers are given information on each of these areas and then answer a total of thirty multiple...

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