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Curated OER

Test-Driving Computers

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
A new form of standardized testing? Learners evaluate arguments for and against the use of computer-based standardized tests in schools. They express their views through discussion and explore the views of others through the creation and...
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Lesson Plan
Penguin Books

An Educator’s Guide to Gayle Forman

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Sometimes a novel is the best way to tackle a tough topic. A helpful educator's guide for the novels of Gayle Forman discuss tough topics such as teenage suicide. Discussion questions and writing activities encourage readers to think...
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Lesson Plan
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Maryland Department of Education

The Concept of Diversity in World Literature Lesson 6: Culture Clash

For Teachers 10th - 11th Standards
To prepare for a Quickwrite on the question, "How do different points of view create cultural conflicts?" class groups draw examples of religious, cultural, and political conflicts from Things Fall Apart and The Poisonwood Bible to use...
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Organizer
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Student Handouts

Graphic Organizer: Reference Citations

For Students 3rd - 11th Standards
Pupils practice researching sources and logging citation information with this graphic organizer. After posing a general topic, groups of students are asked to devise general questions about that topic, and to research sources that they...
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Lesson Plan
Japan Society

Japan in the World Since 1945

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
What have US-Japanese relations been like since the conclusion of World War II? Why do some commentators identify Japan's postwar years as a subordinate independence? Invite your young historians to research Japan's status in the world...
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Lesson Plan
Southern Nevada Regional Professional Development Program

Focus: Writing a Brief Research Paper

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
If you are planning on working on a research paper in your class, take a look at this resource first. Starting off with information about plagiarism, the series of activities briefly described here should give your pupils a general idea...
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Activity
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Shmoop

ELA.CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.9-10.9

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Encourage your pupils to support their claims with textual evidence, whether is is from literary texts or informational texts. You might use the assignment example, which suggests an assignment on what it's like to be an immigrant in...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Interpreting Data, Facts and Ideas from Informational Texts - A Different King of Fuel

For Teachers 8th - 10th Standards
Why do we need renewable energy resources? Discuss the energy crisis with your middle and high school classes through interpreting informational texts. An engaging video and a worksheet accompany this plan. 
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Environmental Scrapbook and Podcast

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
High schoolers collect newspaper and magazine articles about the environment and construct a scrapbook using construction paper, glue, and scissors. To make it even more environmentally friendly, groups can create an online scrapbook...
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Website
Absolute Shakespeare

Absolute Shakespeare: "Coriolanus"

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The entire text of Shakespeare's "Coriolanus" divided by acts and scenes with a summary introduction of the play. With links to other Shakespearean plays, sonnets, biographies, poems, and more.
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Lesson Plan
National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: Introduction to Modernist Poetry

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Understanding the context of modernism is important for students before they analyze modernist texts themselves. To that end, this is a three-lesson curriculum unit: 1."Understanding the Context of Modernist Poetry;" 2. "Thirteen Ways of...
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Primary
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is an electronic source from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for Shakespeare's complete works. Table of Contents is easily read, as well as all of his works.
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Activity
Kids' Wings

Little Red Schoolhouse: "Shakespeare & the Globe"

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Here is a website full of ideas to enhance your study of Shakespeare! There are many student activities and lesson plan ideas.
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eBook
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare: Twelfth Night

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The full text of "Twelfth Night" by William Shakespeare.
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Article
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: The Tempest by William Shakespeare [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a three-page PDF providing background about the play The Tempest by William Shakespeare.
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Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Analyzing Poetry [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This resource explains how to analyze a poem for its subject, narrator, tone, diction, and more. "Open" and "closed" poems are defined. Explanation are provided for "metrical feet" and "rhyme scheme" in poetry. William Shakespeare's "My...
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Unit Plan
Folger Shakespeare Library

Folger Shakespeare Library: Study Guide: The Winter's Tale

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A teaching guide for The Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare, which can be used before or after a live performance, or on its own. Includes plot synopsis, activities, and discussion questions. Information about Shakespeare's life and...
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Primary
Shakespeare Online

Shakespeare Online: The Winter's Tale

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Access lines and staging prompts for scenes from William Shakespeare's comedy The Winter's Tale. The scenes are displayed according to act with the setting included. Helpful resources are found at the end of each scene. Related articles...
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Primary
Shakespeare Online

Shakespeare Online: Twelfth Night

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Access lines and staging prompts for scenes from William Shakespeare's comedy Twelfth Night. The scenes are displayed according to act with the setting included. Detailed explanatory notes can be found at the conclusion of each scene. A...
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Unit Plan
Shakespeare Online

Shakespeare Online: King Lear Study Guide

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An extensive resource for William Shakespeare's tragedy King Lear. Resources include but are not limited to: play overview, play analysis, character analysis, famous quotes from the play, and pronunciation. Exam questions and scene by...
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Primary
Shakespeare Online

Shakespeare Online: Coriolanus

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Access lines and staging prompts for scenes from William Shakespeare's tragedy Coriolanus. The scenes are displayed according to act with the setting included. A list of related articles can be found on the landing page.
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Unit Plan
University of Pennsylvania

English Renaissance in Context: King Lear

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Multimedia resource that examines the historical sources Shakespeare used when writing King Lear. Using primary source material, excerpts from the play are compared to its source documents. Questions are scattered among the material to...
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Website
Shakespeare Online

Shakespeare Online

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A wealth of information and analysis of Shakespeare's plays, background, themes, and other topics of interest to those students of Shakespeare. The site also offers the complete texts of all of Shakespeare's plays and sonnets, quotations...
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Website
Luminarium

Luminarium: Anthology of English Literature

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site provides a selection of major authors and works associated with English literature, ranging from Geoffrey Chaucer to Sir Isaac Newton. Each author's page contains online texts of the author's works, essays about the author and...