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Urban Renewal

For Teachers 11th

Eleventh graders write down their best guess at the meaning of "urban renewal." students stage a Mayor's press conference announcing a new urban development plan for the Fillmore.

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Students study the example of the spread of Buddhism in Southeast Asia, assess the possible meaning conveyed by Borobudur, explore how ideas travel and the process of syncretism, and appreciate how and why Salindra leaders in Java...

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Animalopedia Poetry

For Teachers Higher Ed

Students reseach animals while working in groups. They write poems to be included in a class Animalopedia book.

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Lumen Learning

Lumen: Boundless Communications: Using Language Effectively

For Students 9th - 10th Standards

This lesson plan focuses on using language effectively in your speech including using clear words and phrases, defining key terms, writing descriptively, using vivid language, considering your style and tone, and determining and...

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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Polish Tone, Style, and Figurative Language

For Students 9th - 10th Standards

[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, you will learn strategies for evaluating and revising the tone, style, and figurative language in an essay. It also includes practice exercises.

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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Emphasis: Strong Language: Lesson 2

For Students 9th - 10th

This lesson introduces adding emphasis through the use of strong language.

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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Poetry and Music Fun With Chris Daughtry

For Teachers 9th - 10th

This language arts lesson grabs students' attention by incorporating a popular musician. The lyrics to "Over You" include vivid language that makes identifying figures of speech intriguing. The students will identify similes, metaphors,...

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National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: Poems of Tennyson and Noyes: Pictures in Words

For Teachers 9th - 10th

This is a great and informative site. This lesson uses Tennyson's "The Charge of the Light Brigade" and Noyes's "The Highwayman" to teach vivid imagery and figurative language. Don't miss out.

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Indiana Univerisity of Pennsylvania: Writing Center: Descriptive Writing

For Students 9th - 10th Standards

This website from the Writing Center at Indiana Univerisity of Pennsylvania focuses on descriptive writing. It includes discussion and examples of the following: Creating a dominant impression or mood, using sensory details, using vivid...

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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: My Adidas: Letting Your Possessions Tell Your Story

For Teachers 9th - 10th

For this lesson, young scholars will listen to Run D.M.C.'s classic, "My Adidas", then they will think about everywhere their shoes have taken them and the story they have to tell. Using literary devices such as personification, point of...

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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: American Passages: Becoming Visible: Grace Paley

For Students 9th - 10th Standards

Grace Paley is presented in this brief biography highlighting her contributions to literature for her vivid expressions of American local-color through her writings. See "Grace Paley Activities" for related materials.

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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Powerful Writing Description in Creating Monster Trading Cards

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards

Contains plans for two lessons that teach about descriptive writing by asking students to create their own monster trading cards with vivid descriptions. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to...

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Mc Graw Hill: Language: Vocabulary Acquisition: Shades of Meaning: Verbs [Pdf]

For Students 2nd - 5th Standards

Students learn about the differences among action verbs with similar meanings by acting them out with classmates in this fun verb game.

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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: She Did What? Revising for Connotation

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards

Did she walk, skip, amble, dance? In this minilesson, learners explore connotation by acting out and revising the simple sentence "She walked into the room."

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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Seventeenth Century British Literature: New Testament

For Students 9th - 10th

This lesson focuses on the New Testament including its contents, writers, parables, and the vivid imagery in Revelations. It features links to two parables, "The Sermon on the Mount," Revelations, Chapter 10, online King James Bible in...

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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Similes

For Teachers 6th - 8th

[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart will help students construct knowledge of similes and how the use of similes makes language more vivid. Beginning pages has plenty opportunities for an inductive lesson plan. There is...

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