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One Pager
Students read the novel, Freak the Mighty and describe and illustrate the setting. They create a graphic organizer that demonstrates the major plot elements and character development.
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Novel Analysis
Students read the novel, Lord of the Flies, then write an essay analyzing the novel. They analyze, in small groups, characters, plot, setting, style, symbolism, theme, critical responses, and historical influences
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Reading The Great Kapok Tree
Students complete story frames to demonstrate understanding of plot development and conflict resolution.
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Reader's Review
Middle schoolers create booklets to provide information on elements of a novel, including plot, setting, character, major and minor conflicts and theme.
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Movie Analysis
Fourth graders discuss main concept, supporting details, plot, setting, major events, problems, conflicts, and resolution in two short stories. They apply these terms to a movie of their choice. They compare analysis of movies to...
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Where Is Your Story Set?
Students explore the concept of setting in literature by identifying their own current setting, and imagining what their ideal setting would be. They read a piece of literature, identify the setting and record the information on a chart.
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Break Down
Fourth graders apply their understanding of the elements of plot structure and conflict to cooperatively create storyboards and speak effectively as they present their products. They create storyboards for some of the classic Disney...
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Introducing Mythology
Students look closely at a poster of a Rembrandt painting and/or a transparency of a Greek vase, both of which represent the mythological story of the abduction of Europa. Studnets consider how two artists interpreted the same subject in...
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The Crucible
Twelfth graders use an Internet scavenger hunt, vocabulary, sample essay questions, and short answer questions suitable for study and review of the play, The Crucible.
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Creating a Comic Strip
Young scholars examine various comic strips for their elements of humour, plot, drawing style, and basic design; they then create their own comic strip.
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Egg Carton Stories
Students create stories with better structure when they are able to focus on its characters, setting, and plot. Teacher creates settings, character, and problem cartons with information written on strips of paper.
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The Bones of the Story
Young scholars describe the five elements of a story--setting, characters, problem, events, and resolution. They use the Clifford series of books, and a worksheet imbedded in this lesson to help them explain the five elements of a story.
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Story Blender
Fifth graders write a story with many paragraphs that include a plot, setting, and ending. In this writing lesson plan, 5th graders create stories as a class.
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Comprehension: Setting
Students discuss what setting represents. In this language arts instructional activity, students review the three elements of setting: where the story takes place, when does the story take place, and is it past, present, or future?...
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The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe
Students explore "The Fall of the House of Usher" by Edgar Allan Poe. For this literature lesson, students read the story and take notes. Students choose a literary element such as character, setting, or theme. Students write...
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Writing A Book Review of The Hobbit
Students explore The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien. In this book review lesson, students examine the elements included in a book review, such as author, opinions of the book, summary, character information, main points and plot summary....
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The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R Tolkien
Learners explore The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien. In this plot summary lesson plan, students read the book and take notes about the plot. Learners write a plot summary of The Fellowship of the Ring.
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And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
Students will explore And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie. In this analysis lesson, students read And Then There Were None and take notes about the book as they read. Students write a plot summary of the book.
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Gilbert Munger Lesson Plan Ideas
Students read the biography of Gilbert Munger and analyze art that reflects the beauty of nature. In this art analysis instructional activity, students view a realistic image of Salt Lake City and lake over 100 years ago.
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The Microscope
In this microscope lesson students explore the compound light microscope. Students discover techniques concerning cleaning, storage and proper use of the microscope. Students discover the working parts of the compound light microscope as...
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Sentence Pictures
In this matching sentences and pictures worksheet, students read the 7 sentences and then match them to the correct pictures.
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School-Home Links? Book Links 91
In this setting learning exercise, students select a book, note the title and author, read the book with a family member and then draw a picture of the story's setting. Parents or guardians must sign the learning exercise.
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Convolution Method
In this convolution method worksheet, students solve 4 different equations related to convolution methods. First, they create a combined plot of the three different solutions and the forcing function. Then, students use any method...
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Second Order ODE's
In this second order ODE's instructional activity, students solve 2 different problems that are related to determining the second order ODE's in each equation given. First, they set up an equation where the applied force is the cosine...