Food for Thought: Hunger???Around the Block, Around the World LESSON 2: Local Hunger and Malnutrition

Prepare your class for a unit on A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines with an excellent set of materials. The first activity of ten comes with an audio guide about the work as well as an interview of Gaines in a 30-minute video....

If you could build your own world from the ground up, what would you include? Ask your pupils this question, and have them write about their worlds and share with partners. Then, show the short film, which includes some impressive world...

Continue a thoughtful analysis of Sophocles' Oedipus the King with a discussion about the importance of dialogue within the play's structure. Ninth graders examine the ways that Oedipus speaks about himself, to his subjects, and to Creon...

The role that scholars at Jundi Shapur, "The World's First True University," played in the spread of sugar across the world is the focus of the second lesson in a unit about how writers develop their central ideas and use evidence to...

Put yourself in my shoes! Scholars work through the Outline Tool from the previous lesson to develop a claim before developing a counterclaim about the sale of human tissue. Learners also work to create supporting claims using an outline...

What do your words say about you? Scholars take a close look at the Duke's words about the Duchess in Robert Browning’s My Last Duchess. Readers talk in groups to determine how the words help them learn more about the Duke. Learners also...

For many children around the world, food scarcity is a painful reality of daily life. Help young scholars understand the seriousness of this global issue with with a reading of the book The Good Garden. After discussing food security and...

How can one person change the world? Scholars research and analyze the topic of world hunger. Using video clips, parodies, and primary source evidence, they uncover a current campaign to end world hunger. Collaborative groups openly...

11-year-old Birke Baehr describes what he calls "the dark side of the industrialized food system". Explaining everything from genetically engineered seeds and organisms to Confined Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs), Baehr encourages his...

Students examine World War I and its consequences. In this World War I lesson, students watch the Discovery video "World War I and Its Aftermath." Students then research how nationalism contributed to the spread of the war...