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Something is Rotten in Denmark!

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students identify a key line from a Shakespearean play and create a poem based on the imagery evoked by the dialogue.
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THE LIGHT HOUSE KEEPER

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders interpret historic images to develop empathy with individuals who lived in the past. They imagine what life in coastal Alabama was like at the beginning of the twentieth century and work on writing skills.
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Additions Incorporated

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students fill out a graphic organizer to prewrite about additions they would make to a school building. In this writing lesson plan, students do this as a start to a persuasive paper.
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Chinese Pictograms

For Students 6th - 12th
In this Chinese writing worksheet, students identify what and how to write Chinese pictograms. They explain in what ways each pictogram represents and how the combinations of symbols create a word or idea represented. Then students...
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Incredible Excuses

For Teachers 7th - 12th
In this activity, children will use their imaginations, personal experiences, and a sense of humor to write some creative excuses.
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Can I Tell You Where I am?

For Teachers K - 4th
Students participate in a lesson that is concerned with the factors of describing a neighborhood. They follow a set of target questions in order to obtain information about individual neighborhoods. The information is used The write...
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Back to the Future

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students imagine what it would be like to travel back in time. In this creative writing activity, students watch parts of the film Back to the Future and examine artifacts from the past. Students write a short story in which they travel...
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Warriors Don't Cry

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Learners write a journal depicting a day in the life of a character and a newspaper article.  In this Warriors Don't Cry lesson, students summarize the main events of integration and find out about the life of Melba...
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Rich Worksheet

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this future worksheet, students answer short answer questions imagining they are rich in the future and answer questions based on what their life is like and as if they were a journalist. Students complete 2 sets of questions to...
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Vikings

For Students 4th - 8th
In this Vikings worksheet, students read a passage on the Vikings, answer short answer questions, draw, and research the internet. Students complete 4 activities.
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Fearlessness and Confidence

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students develop confidence to face up to problems and fears in order to deal with them safely. They recognize that family and friends should care for each other. Students go through a series of activities that they interact with,...
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Fantastic Pictures

For Teachers 7th - 12th
This activity gives students the opportunity to review nouns and adjectives while creating imaginative works of art.
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Amazon Rainforest: You Won't Find George in This Jungle

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Students identify locations of rainforests, compare/contrast layers of the rainforest, construct and interpret maps and graphs, recognize relationships between man and the environment, and write about an imaginary walk in the rainforest.
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October's Lesson Plan

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students listen to poetry about crocodiles. After discussing the relationship between humans and crocodiles, they make a list of ways humans hurt crocodiles and then write Prelutsky's poem from the crocodile perspective.
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Main Idea and Supporting Details

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders identify the main idea and supporting details in paragraphs. In this language arts lesson, 8th graders review organizational patterns in paragraphs and determine which pattern is best for a given situation. Individually,...
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More Rules, Consequences and Procedures

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders list the four classroom rules and turn them in for an assignment grade. They give examples that break the rule and explain what happens when they break a rule in the classroom. They imagine that they are a wonderful cook...
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Don Quixote

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers examine the use of metaphors in literature. In this literary devices instructional activity, students read poems that feature extended metaphors and compare them to the metaphors used in Don Quixote. High schoolers then...
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Islam - Hajj and Eid-ul-Adha, Hajj Script Guidesheet

For Students 7th - 10th
In this script guide sheet, students imagine, plan, and write a transcript of an interview with a Muslim family for a imaginary television show. The content of the transcript interview illustrates the student's knowledge of the Islamic...
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Harry Potter Alive and Well In the Sorcerer's Stone

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students brainstorm author's purpose, and use their imagination to draw pictures that illustrate what the purpose is. In this literature and writing lesson, student's use Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone as a guide from which to work.
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Personification Stories

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars create a clay object in which they are to personify. They use their own personal experiences to help the viewer imagine what it would be like to be that particular object. They also watch videos of fables to help them with...
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Teaching Sequence of Activities

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students develop their skills at writing poetry by listening to poetry and using a model to emulate and write a poem. In this poetry writing lesson, students listen to Louis MacNeice's poem 'Prayer Before Birth' and use it to model their...
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Poetry

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Learners write a poem. For this language arts lesson, students discuss what they hear and see in a garden. Learners write a poem about the sights, sounds and smells of the garden.
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Fantastic Fishing Contest

For Teachers 7th - 12th
In this activity, children will have fun using their imaginations and what they've learned about fish to create their own entry in a fishing contest.
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Being Friendly

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
In this technology worksheet, young scholars practice writing e-mails that are focused upon using friendly language in the context of communication with good friends.