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To Kill a Mockingbird

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students participate in a layered curriculum unit in order to give them opportunities to master objectives. Students pick the activities and this allows a differentiated instructional activity to occur with many opportunities for...
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Author Study - Mo Willems

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
  Students listen to books written by Mo Willems each day and discuss the story elements of each.  In this reading strategies lesson, students decide after reading through the whole series of books, what their favorite book is...
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Romeo and Juliet Newspapaer

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students create a newspaper based on their reading of Romeo and Juliet.
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Romeo and Juliet Newspaper

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students design a newspaper after reading the play "Romeo and Juliet." They include an appropriate title, wedding announcement, an advice column, an obituary and classified advertisements.
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It's in the Paper! (Newspaper In Education Unit)

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders brainstorm a list of the kinds of information found in newspapers, present examples, and state how reading a newspaper is useful to them and people they know.
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What's in the News?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this analysing articles worksheet, students read two newspaper articles about the issue of radon and answer six questions that allow students to reflect on how the articles were written and what is left unknown to the readers.
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Painters as Musicians-CD Cover Design

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students create CD cover art to project the image of the artist or what those artists might sing about.
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Wondrous Water

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Young scholars explore the different properties of water. They experimenting with different activities, each one explaining a different property of water. Students read an article "Small, Ues, But Might: The Molecule Called Water."...
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Macbeth

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Pupils engage in a variety of activities in order to complete a unit about the Shakespeare work of Macbeth. The lessons are part of a layered curriculum. The objective is to create a portfolio to create more layers.
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Unit 3 Cell Structures: Cell Theory & Organelles

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students examine cell structures in depth. They decide what grade they want to work for and do the assignments for that grade. They complete various assignments on cell theory and organelles.
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Alphabetical Order- By First, Second and Third Letters

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this language arts worksheet, students learn to put words in alphabetical order by first, second or third letters. There are 12 exercises on the page.
Worksheet
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Primary History Extension Activity- Stories and Pastimes

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this Anglo-Saxon stories worksheet, students choose one or more of the 4 possible extension activities pertaining to the storytelling and pastimes of the Anglo-Saxon period.
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Native American Stereotypes

For Teachers 11th
Eleventh graders examine Native American stereotypes. In this Native American history lesson, 11th graders complete an activity about generalizations as they analyze the provided political cartoons regarding the portrayal of Native...
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Adjectives or Adverbs

For Students 3rd - 5th
For this adjectives or adverbs worksheet, students fill in the blanks to the sentences with either the adjectives or adverbs. Students complete 35 problems total.
Interactive
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Picture Story

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this story worksheet, students put pictures in order to tell a story and fill in the blanks to 2 different stories to complete them. Students complete 3 stories total.
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Birthday Presents: How to Give and Receive

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students discuss giving and receiving presents at a birthday party. In this social skills lesson, students practice using manners when giving and receiving gifts. This lesson also has other interdisciplinary activities that can be used...
Worksheet
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Kitano Takeshi

For Students 4th - 8th
In this Kitano Takeshi worksheet, students read a passage about Kitano Takeshi and then complete worksheets such as spelling, a listening gap fill, synonym matching, scrambled sentences, and more.
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Read Write Think: Book Report Alternative Comic Strips and Cartoon Squares

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Contains plans for two lessons that provide an alternative to the traditional book report: using comic strips and cartoon squares to respond to a written text. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains...
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Comic Master: Graphic Novel Creator

For Students 9th - 10th
This site allows students to create their own comic strips. Students will pick the characters, write their own dialogue, and develop a plot. Students can click and hear music as they are creating their comic strips. This site is...
Unit Plan
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Centers for Disease Control: Bam! Your Life: Kabam! Comic Creator

For Students 6th - 8th
Students learn about making choices when dealing with bullies, peer pressure, and conflict, then create their own comics, using speech bubbles to write dialogue, in response to what they have learned. Requires Adobe Flash.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Understanding Comics

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Using the book Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art by Scott McCloud as the primary resource, this unit focuses on comics as a tool for communication. Students participate in activities which include journal and essay writing, a...
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Read Write Think: Comics in the Classroom

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This lesson plan explores the use of comics in the classroom as a gateway to genre study. Included in the lesson plan is an overview, practice, objectives, resources, preparation, and more.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Comic Makeovers: Examining Race,class,ethnicity,and Genderin Media

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students explore stereotypes in the media and representations of race, class, ethnicity, and gender by analyzing comics over a two-week period and then re-envisioning them with a "comic character makeover."
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South Carolina Educational Television

Know It All: Sequencing Using Comics

For Teachers 5th Standards
Fifth graders will use comics in order to discover the importance of sequence while writing narratives.