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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Open Course Ware: Music and Theater Arts: Principles of Design

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Course homepage for "The Principles of Design." In this course, students will learn about the principles of theater design, emphasizing script analysis. Links lead to the course syllabus, calendar, readings, assignments, study materials,...
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Stanford University

Stanford University: Spatial History Project

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Several individual projects are going on under the umbrella of the Spatial History Project. These projects are developed and worked on by students, staff, and scholars as they expand studies within the humanities through spatial,...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Analyze Controlling Idea or Thesis, Purpose, and Textual Elements

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson focuses on how to locate the controlling idea and specific purpose in a text and analyze the roles they play in understanding what you read. You will analyze the...
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University of Maryland

Voices of Democracy: Sojourner Truth "Address at the Woman's Rights Convention "

For Students 9th - 10th
In a speech given before the Women's Rights Convention in Akron Ohio in 1851, Sojourner Truth argued forcefully for the rights of women, drawing particular attention to the position of women of color in the social and legal hierarchy of...
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University of Pennsylvania

The University of Pennsylvania: Martyrdom in Fourth Maccabees

For Students 9th - 10th
A doctoral article which discusses martyrdom in 4 Maccabees. Includes several quotes, textual analysis, and a bibliography.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Informational Text: Reading Response: Claim Evldence Reasoning [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This graphic organizer can be used with students when they read informational text. Students will identify a claim, list text evidence that supports the claim, and explain how the information can be used for their future understanding of...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Annotate and Analyze a Paired Passage: Practice 1

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson, you will read and annotate a pair of texts to make inferences, draw conclusions, and synthesize ideas and details using textual evidence. Prepare to get involved in a conversation between you and the two texts you will be...
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Harvard University

Harvard College Writing Center: How to Do a Close Reading

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A brief explanation of the tasks involved in doing a close reading in preparation for writing. This writer breaks the process into three steps which involve annotating the text, looking for patterns, and asking questions of the text.
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Read Works

Read Works: Explicit Information 1st Grade Unit

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A two-lesson plan unit in which students learn how to identify explicit information in both fiction and non-fiction texts. The lessons utilize the books Frogs by Gail Gibbons and Stellaluna by Janell...
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Read Works

Read Works: Compare and Contrast 3rd Grade Unit

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A three-lesson plan unit on comparing and contrasting through which students learn how to compare two items using key terms, compare and contrast two non-fiction texts on similar topics, and compare and...
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Read Works

Read Works: Figurative Language 3rd Grade Unit

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this three-lesson plan unit, students use the book If You Hopped Like a Frog by David Schwartz and some additional short texts to learn to identify and understand the use of simile and metaphor in...
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Read Works

Read Works: 2nd Grade Lesson: Compare/contrast Genres

For Teachers 2nd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson in which students use fiction and nonfiction books from a classroom library to identify the similarities and differences between fiction and nonfiction and to create a Venn diagram...
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Read Works

Read Works: Predicting 4th Grade Unit

For Teachers 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] A two-lesson plan unit focused on students making predictions using details from the text found in Marvin and the Meanest Girl by Suzy Kline, and making predictions within a historical context in the...
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Read Works

Read Works: Vocabulary in Context 4th Grade Unit

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students explore various strategies for using context clues to determine the meaning of unknown words. With free login, users have access to the passage and other teaching materials used in this lesson.
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Read Works

Read Works: Main Idea 1st Grade Unit

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students learn to use titles and supporting details in both fiction and non-fiction texts in order to identify the main idea of the book in this three-instructional activity unit. The lessons utilize...
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US National Archives

Docsteach: Integration of the u.s. Armed Forces

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars will draw upon the visual and textual data presented in photographs and documents to gain an understanding of the participation of African Americans in the U.S. Armed Forces and of changes in American military policy...
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Writing With Scientists With the American Museum of Natural History

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Follow this six-step method and you'll have a good understanding of what a good scientific research paper involves and how it is organized. There are plenty of samples for you to look at. This explanation is also very helpful for...

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