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My Conflict Shield
Eighth graders discuss conflict. Working in pairs, they create lists of skills they have used in conflicts, skills they have seen used successfully but not used themselves, and skills they wish to develop. From their lists they identify...
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A Feature Presentation - Geographic Landforms
Students investigate, identify and compare the various geographic terms that can be used to describe the landforms occurring in the Hawaiian islands.
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Applying Principles of Civic Liberty
Third graders relate the everyday duties in the classroom and in the community. In this character education lesson, 3rd graders compare duties in the classroom to duties in the community and chart them on a Venn diagram. Students discuss...
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Do You Have a Prayer?
Students review the 1st Amendment and the clauses which deal with prayer/religion in schools. They discuss, in groups, the Equal Access Act, which gives students the right to practice/express their religion at school and take a quiz on...
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Civic Virtue in Democracy
Students identify and describe characteristics of civic virtue. Following a class discussion, they create their own definitions of civic virtue. They write essays based on their own definitions and formulate conclusions on the state of...
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Japanese American Baseball in the Camps
Students study Japanese American internment camps. For this American history lesson, students compare and contrast the camp internees' experiences with with team sports-related challenges students have encountered. Students discuss team...
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Dynamic River Model
Students develop the concepts of flood stage, levees, floodplain, and the dynamics of river flooding. They construct river models and test various flow rates and volumes. This lesson has an excellent experiment for students to do.
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Mc Graw Hill: Reading Literature: Craft and Structure: Point of View
This learning module focuses on point of view including the speaker or narrator, first and third person, perspective, and the thoughts and feeling of the speaker. It offers a model story with explanation and a practice story with questions.
BBC
Bbc Bitesize Revision: Point of View (Narrative Perspective)
This site goes over several tips involved in writing a particular point of view, or narrative perspective, including first person and third person.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Analyze Point of View in Literary Texts/fiction
This lesson focuses on identifying points of view and recognizing points of view in literature.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: How to Avoid Inappropriate Shifts
Watch out for inappropriate shifts in pronoun number and person! A shift is when there is a disparity between the perspectives, from first person, second person, and third person. It is important to maintain perspectives when referring...
E Reading Worksheets
E Reading Worksheets: Point of View Activities
This learning module provides assorted activities for teaching and reviewing the concept of point of view with students. The following activities are provided: point of view comic strip; point of view flash cards; point of view practice...
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Literature: Exploring Point of View
This page explains point of view by discussing examples of situations where mutiple people witness an event, but have different perspectives on what occured. It offers a link at the bottom of the page to information about types of point...
Quia
Quia: Point of View Quiz
This interactive activity assesses students' understanding of point of view. Students will read five brief narrative passages; after reading each passage, students will identify the point of view.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Elements of Literature: Analyzing Point of View
A resource for students in analyzing the point of view for a given piece of literature. Provides a short worksheet and important questions.